Wow! LinkTV has a show on "Wellstone"

[liveoaktx]

I never knew who the guy was that I've read so much about, but he's a fiery, passionate guy. WHERE ARE THE DEMS LIKE HIM?

[frankly_fedup2]

1. He was rumored to be thinking about running for President one day.

His plane crashed with him, his wife, and their daughter. Their two sons held a memorial service that both Democrat and Republican Senators as well as Representatives attended. It turned into a Democratic Party Rally that was LED by their sons. The Republicans made it out to be the most disrespectful thing they had ever seen.

Paul Wellstone never held back and was not afraid of anyone. Little guy with a big mouth and no fear. Now he is dead.

[liveoaktx]

3. I would vote for someone like him in a heartbeat-what an

amazing guy. He truly was a populist.

[MI Cherie]

5. Repukes were the disrespectful and despicable ones ...

They turned it into a fund raiser for themselves.

[katinmn]

2. Paul Wellstone, his wife, & daughter, died in a plane crash on 10./25/02

two weeks before what was certain to be election to his second term as Minnesota's senator. Three campaign workers were also killed in the crash.
http://www.wellstone.org/archive/
To make matters worse, a neocon Bush lapdog, Norm Coleman, currently holds the seat once held by Wellstone.

There aren't any more Dems like him.

His legacy lives on though.

[melody]

7. his death was awfully fortuitous for the neocons

One of those things that makes you say "hmmm".

[shance]

10. The Republican Neo conservatives had he and his wife killed.

Just like JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X.

It's time to take back our leaders and call the abuse and killings for what they are.

And fiecely protect the ones we do have.

[melody]

14. I'd be stunned to find out they *didn't* have him killed

The royals/elite have been having each other killed for generations. They continue through to this day.

Someone once gauged that the average life expectancy for an average American male (at the time) was 75.5 years. For a Kennedy man, it was 55.5. Methinks that's telling.

I'd imagine that the good people like Wellstone who've come to such an end have a similarly "oddly short" lifespan.

[frankly_fedup2]

11. If I turn on CSPAN, the news, whatever, and Coleman is on, I turn

to something else immediately. I cannot stand that man. It's like looking at Tom DeLay. I swear he makes me sick to my stomach with the way he acts. He is very feminine to me as well (not coleman but delay). Tom DeLay looks like he use to be female and had a sex change. No offense to anyone that has had that done, but DeLay looks that way to me. He looks like he could be the sister of Ashcroft. Ashcroft offended me as well. He was suppose to be this big religious leader, yet he sat with a sneer on his face all the time. He was always red faced (like some heavy-duty alcoholics).

I know that I'm being very superficial here; however, I cannot help but look at these men in disgust. I have a lot of friends who on first glance are no great looking people (like me as well); however, once I got to know them and the great people they were inside, their outward appearance, as far as judgment, didn't even come into play.

These men; however, do not seem to hold anything good inside themselves though.

[Lifelong Protester]

4. He was a great great man

and it was a sad day for all of us when we lost that feisty guy who really was a friend to the poor and downtrodden.
We need to honor his memory, IMHO, and remain TRUE democrats.

[liveoaktx]

6. Documentary is showing again a few times more

I'm going to record the one that is coming on at 4 in the morning. Amazing guy.

If you have LinkTV, watch it.

[liveoaktx]

8. 'Nother comment "You always know where he stands"-he

knew that it might cost him his campaign race against Coleman but made a speech against the Iraq War.

[Cleita]

9. When I first found DU, Wellstone was alive and well and DU was

alive with Wellstone support, then the tragic airplane accident happened. I think "they" did it and no one can convince me otherwise.

[frankly_fedup2]

12. In these times we live in, and the way politicians and political campaigns

are run, the first thing that comes to anyone's mind is conspiracy. I don't feel 9/11 was as big a surprise as they try to claim. I don't believe our government as far as what they say they will do and what they actually do. I don't trust our own party to stand up for what they say. Like the hearings on the Supreme Court and Roberts. Biden, Kennedy, and the other one I cannot remember his last name, have really put up a lot of disagreement with the way this man will not answer a question. But when it is time to vote, they will vote him in.

I honestly do not think the Democratic Party has anything to fear with Roberts as far as abortion is concerned. He has already stated that a previous court had set the precedent, and none of the various courts that followed had ever overturned a previous courts decision (meaning different supreme courts who have held hearings over the last 50 years or so and with 2 or 1 new justices being changed).

[spuddonna]

13. There are some... Conyers, Boxer, we've made so many lists...

But yeah, I miss Paul... :( I remember seeing a report on him on 60 Minutes. They were talking to members of Congress about the lavish 'perks' that they could get, such as chauffeurs, etc. Paul would drive around in this old beat up car... I fell in love with him at that very moment...