Ottumwa: Al Franken Pulls Same Size Crowd as Cheney
By Linda Thieman
Well, in
the national competition of whose crowd size is bigger than whose, it
was a draw, with Al Franken and Dick Cheney each pulling in 250
supporters in Ottumwa on Sunday and Monday, respectively.
Franken’s supporters attended his event voluntarily while Cheney kept
his roped in with sharpshooters trained on them so they wouldn’t run
away.
Franken, who the Des Moines Register describes
as “left-leaning” (oh, come on, for heaven’s sake – if this guy leaned
any further to the left, he’d fall off the planet), worried aloud that
Cheney was going to threaten Ottumwa with nuclear holocaust if Kerry
were elected. Not that there isn’t some precedent for that kind
of idle threat, mind you.
Cheney,
on Monday, for his part, talked about boring stuff and made up a lot of
lies, so he didn’t really say anything new like that whopper he let
loose with last week in Des Moines. However, he did continue to
talk out of the side of his mouth, and sometimes, he even talked out of
both sides at the same time. That was a particular crowd pleaser.
One wishes the junta would not come through Iowa so very often. It’s really messing with the vibes of the state.
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ha ha… I love the “Cheney kept his roped in with sharpshooters trained on them so they wouldn
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