October 28, 2002
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I have an awful lot ot say.
First, and definitely most important, is to mention the incredibly sad and distrubing death of Paul Wellstone on Friday. My ever-sharp media watchdog sister Mandelicious writes:
"'m guessing that some of you might have expected that I'd have something to say about the Wellstone tragedy. I'm guessing some of you might have guessed that I wouldn't be so sure it was an accident. But it looks like I'm not the only one:
Gary Ulman, assistant manager of the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, where the plane was scheduled to land, said tree damage around the crash site indicated the plane, which should have been landing from the east on an east-west runway, was actually turning away from the airport, traveling from northwest to southeast about 2 miles south of the runway, when it crashed.
Paul Wellstone was a champion of liberal ideals, standing up for universal health care, reversing welfare reforms, prekindergarten education, raising the minimum wage, and campaign-finance reform. That's eh, saving the world, in a nutshell. Throw in International labor laws and electric cars, were brinking on a Utopia. Is the republican party willing to kill a man for his Senate seat? Find out...or maybe not."
And then there's http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/10.26Ab.Paul.Wellstone.htm "...no one can help but recall the death of Democratic Senatorial
candidate Mel Carahan in 2000. Locked in a tight senate race against now
Attorney General John Ashcroft, Carnahan too was killed in a similar plane
crash. That crash coming, as this one, just days prior to the election.
Carnahan's wife Jean stood in for him as allowed under Missouri state law
and defeated Ashcroft to become senator."
Um, conspiracy theory or deathly plot to destroy democracy? You be the judge. Stay sharp! I'll write more about the rest of the weekend shortly.
Comments (4)
If it is a conspiracy, it's an incredibly stupid self-defeating one. Didn't Jean Carnahan win? Isn't the likely Wellstone fill-in, Walter Mondale, very likely to win? Besides, a sensible conspirator doesn't go after someone because they disagree with them, they go after someone who looks likely to take away their power. Wellstone was pretty much a voice in the wilderness among the Senate's plutocrats, inconvenient perhaps, but not a threat. That's why Clinton was far more hated by the right than say, Ted Kennedy. Slick Willie stole their thunder and occupied their White House. Teddy, after Chappaquiddick, never had a chance (maybe he was lucky at that, Bobby had a good chance to be President and look what happened to him).
It's a really tight senate race, and there's only one democrate holding it for the democrat side. And it said, unfortunately I can't cite it exactly, but somewhere in that truth out thing, that all the republicans have been wanting to get rid of Wellstone for awhile, as he's constantly pushing for these ultra liberal ideas that don't work for anyone in politics (like campaign finance reform.)
Not to mention the coincidence with the Calahan accident. Wellstone's wife can't run, she's dead. Mondale will probably be dead soon.
Then there's the circumstances of the accident, and the media response, which I don't have time to go into right now. All's I'm saying is, there should be an investigation. And if there isn't, I smell a rat and MAN does it stink.
Mondale will probably be dead soon.
Is this statement based on anything? He's 74, it's true, but shows no signs of ill health, and there are quite a few other senators in their 70's.
I think its just part of the spiraling conspiracy theory, not Mondale being in ill health, more Mondale being at risk of "accidents".
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