Dan Sweeney: Lou Reed for Senate

[BurtWorm]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/lou-reed-for-senate_b_151503.html

I was talking with a friend of mine the other day who maintained that Caroline Kennedy was far and away the best choice to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate.

"I mean, who else is there?" he demanded. "Who would be better, and why?"

I rattled off a few names that came immediately to mind -- Gregory Meeks, maybe, or Malcolm Smith or Steve Israel. He rolled his eyes and responded, "I've never even heard of any of them."

Now, the fact that he hadn't heard of a couple of New York congressmen and New York's state Senate Minority Leader is perfectly understandable. Hell, I imagine most New Yorkers aren't familiar with all those names, much less a sometime-political junkie out of Florida. But his reason for backing Kennedy (i.e. that he had heard of her) made me realize that, for many people, Kennedy's potential as a candidate is based solely on name recognition.

And once you allow for the fact that fame is an important qualifier in determining a Senate appointment, it opens all sorts of doors that were previously shut, barricaded, and under 24-hour armed guard. Which is why I'm officially calling for Gov. David Paterson to name Lou Reed as the next junior Senator from New York.

The former lead singer/songwriter of the Velvet Underground and occasional genius is, to me, the quintessential New Yorker. His soul is that of the city, so who better to represent its many millions of inhabitants?

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[Dammit Ann]

1. YES!

[Dennis Donovan]

2. I like it, but NY isn't only NYC...

;)

[BurtWorm]

3. Lou's got LI covered too.

Or is that Candy I'm thinking of...?

[Dennis Donovan]

4. .

:spray:

There's another part of NY besides the city & the island. Granted, it's more like New Yorkabama...;)

[Runcible Spoon]

11. talk shit about upstate again and I'll piss in your drinking water

It's not all hicks and cow manure up here, ya know. If you metro NYers don't like it, stop building huge weekend houses up here!

[Dennis Donovan]

12. .

:rofl:

You're right - it's NOT all hicks and cow poop. I forgot the banjo-playing yokels:


(P.S. I'm originally from Auburn, NY - seriously podunk!:hi:)

[Runcible Spoon]

14. Well there is another thing we have a lot of...

I'm from Delaware County, where there's 2 rocks for every dirt!

[Lance_Boyle]

5. Why not Letterman?

He's as much a NY resident as Hillary Clinton was.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. He's much too smart...

...to take amulti-million dollar pay cut.;)

[BurtWorm]

7. I thought he lived in Greenwich.

I think you at least have to live in NY.

[cali]

9. Nope. He lives in NY. Used to live

next door to my parents on N. Wilton Rd in New Canaan, but moved quite a few years back.

[Dennis Donovan]

13. Doesn't he live in Westchester now?

I remember the remote shoot he did at his New Canaan, CT house on his old Late Night show (he was home all day waiting for the cable guy to show up).:rofl:

[fla nocount]

18. I'd vote for either. Here's both of them together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJV0MljEcTk

[KamaAina]

8. Hmmm... gotta wonder about this Sweeney fellow...

who on Earth could he be? :shrug:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4661451&mesg_id=4663107

[RB TexLa]

10. Who the hell is Lou Reed?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. Musician and singer for The Velvet Underground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground

[slampoet]

15. "I'll take manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin writ on it that says,..

'it's hard to give a shit these days.'"


The words of Lou Reed.

[BurtWorm]

17. We need that kind of attitude from our senators.

:patriot: