Coleman v. Galloway -- oil for food scandal

[DanS]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Plus, he's Jewish and appears to be a moderate Republican, while the Republicans show no signs of wanting to nominate moderates.

Coleman's jewish? Didn't know that.

Despite the pitiful showing here, I think he's on a track to be an influential senator. He's a good rhetorician.

[Odin]

Just the thought of a Republican president from here, a supposed bastion of progressivism, is enough to make me nauseous.

[DanS]

A presidential candidate? He's the junior senator from MN. Way too early.

Besides, rhetoricians haven't made the best presidential candidates.

[Agathon]

I saw Coleman claiming that Galloway was bent on Lou Dobbs. Typically, no-one was allowed to defend Galloway.

I loved it how Galloway refused to fall for their questioning tactics.

[notyoueither]

More bull**** double speak by a politician.

I've only been to Iraq twice... Mr Aziz is a friend, but I would not say dear, dear...

[notyoueither]

I was against Oil for Food that cost 1,000,000 Iraqi children their lives, but I am also against the solution to that problem so that starvation of infants does not continue.

What a ****trumpet.

[notyoueither]

I was against the UN. I was against the US. If you have a U in your name, I'm against ya. Oh wait...

[Agathon]

Your side got owned... badly. End of story.

[notyoueither]

Really?

I'm against anything that would involve removing Saddam.

I didn't agree with the UN. I don't agree with the US or the UK.

I am just going to sit here and hold my breath!

I'd say he self owned, if you actually think about what he was saying.

[techumseh]

Caught Galloway on CBC news tonight, then the end of his interview on Charlie Rose. He kicked butt. The American Senators just aren't in the same league. Or the US media.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Odin
Really, I am having a hard time trying to figure out what he is ideologically, He used to be the DEMOCRAT mayor of our state capital (St. Paul).

Ah, so idealogically pro-Winning then.

Ownage is mostly style over substance anyway. If he could have got up there and talk about the contents of his underwear drawer in a convinving enough tone of voice, he'd still have owned. The fact that he brought up a whole load of irrelevant issues doesn't really matter. In the long run, people will remember that he utterly demolished the evidence against him, and the senator came off looking a bit foolish.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by Odin



Really, I am having a hard time trying to figure out what he is ideologically, He used to be the DEMOCRAT mayor of our state capital (St. Paul).

The Democrats are totally compromised in Iraq. They represent the left wing of imperialism.

[Dinner]

I"m still laughing about how the Republicans built this up, had the man fly all the way from England, months spent writting dossiers, and then... this.

10 minutes tops of testimony in which Coleman (along with Levin) were beat like red headed step children on international television. Those guys couldn't end that hearing and run away fast enough.

[Ted Striker]

It was hilarious to hear Coleman go through all his "evidence," without any spirit or emotion whatsover. I thought I was listening to some annual statistics report. I can't remember a damn thing he said.

Then Galloway comes in and starts RIPPING into him with alot of emotion.

Levin was clearly rattled, and very angry, after his plan backfired on him.

[Dinner]

I do wish we had a law requiring the President and members of Congress to have open public question and anwser sessions at least once a month. That Bush has only had one or two press confrences per year is a travisty. Even those press confrences amount to nothing more then Bush reading a pre-written speech and anwsering questions which were all submited in advance. Saddam did that.

Even Bush's "Town Hall" are coriographed and have only people who will gush over his every idea and utterence. That's not a healthy democracy nor is Bush using governent funds to promote his partisan political ideas like phasing out Social Security.

To compare the British have a very wide open system and the politicians get put on the spot with hard ball questions while a camera is stuffed in their face. That's a real press confrence.