Andrew is still shocked at the news of the death of man who was becoming one of the great Senators of the '00s.
September 30, 2002
1990s: As Golden Age?: I'm trying to find the great economy everybody was talking about in the 1990s...
Clean Gene is Dead: Some passing memories on the death of Euegene McCarthy.
Clinton in Coxscakie: Hillary came to town to ralley Democrats around Gillibrand.
Cuomo on the Mohawk: The man from Guy Park Place has yet to decide to run.
Dick Cheney: Shotgun Bandit: What Cheney's shotgun accident means to all Americans, gun owning or not.
Getting Health Insurance: How many desire to get low-cost insurance changed my plans.
Governing with Accountablity: Andrew has two visions on what accountablity is really about.
It's Time to Honor America: Beyond politics, there is a lot to like about America.
NO to Impeachment: Impeaching the President is a waste of time.
Ohio: Updating Neil Yong's lyrics for contemporary events.
On Car Insurance and Autobody Shops: The system that keeps you paying without getting anything in return.
On National ID Cards: Discussing the evil national ID cards.
Our Cowboy President: You don't have to like the President's policies to respect his sense of moral responsiblity.
Poem: Bureaucratic Memorandum: Trying to make sense of the memorandum and corporate decision making process.
Poem: It's 2006: The future seems not to come for man.
Respect President Bush: Not agreeing with the President doesn't make him evil.
The Blackout Blame Game: In continuing my series on blaming the right people, I try to look beyond the hype and mistakes of the media in covering the blackout.
Those Extra Twenty Hours: Brought to you by the same people who denied you national health care.
Undocumented Immigrants and Farms: Why the real solution to the illegal immigration is changing how we subsidize our farmers and not criminalizing or legalizing guest workers.
What is the Political?: The neological word I often use for describing aggregated political forces.
Why Modern Politics are Ill: Commentary on the ills of politics, and the need for activism.
Why the Democratic Stimulus Package Works: The proposed tax cuts by Republicans fail to provide adquate stimulus for sectors of the economy that need it the most.
Sometimes news events shock you, they change your perspective on things on life. It's too bad sometimes truly great men seem to find there lives cut short, like Paul Wellstone.
If Paul Wellstone had lasted another term, and had continued to work his way up in the Democratic party ranks, he probably would have become one of the greatest senators of the '00s.
He cared, he gave a damn. He was a liberal, and was damn proud of it too. He made his own choices, and was not always tied to what his party or what his constituents went, he often played the role of the trustee.
But that's not to say he was ignorant to his consitutents concerns, he touched many of their hearts. He followed in the traditions of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.
He may not have lived long enough, or gained enough power, to be in grained in history like names as Fullbright, HHH, LBJ, McGovern, or Sam Rayburn. But he did a lot for his country.
35 years ago, on July 5th, the cries across the nation were, Bobby's Dead. Robert Kennedy was assinated while running for President, and we never would have known what would have happened if he had lived. The Prince of Peace was dead.
Maybe Wellstone wasn't a Kennedy, but his death is nothing short of tragitic. It may be remembered as one of worst events of the '02, as part of some of the worst things that happened in the '00s.
Bobby probably didn't have a lot of fans in the Keating Republicans in NYS, but that didn't stop from the tragity of the events of his death.
Nor will people probably remember all the bad things Wellstone had done. He did a lot of good things, and well, certianly was liberal.
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