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    <title>Franken: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Minnesota is ready for a gentile in this seat&#8221;</title>
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    <description>Two Jews running against each other for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota? It&#8217;s not unique, it&#8217;s tradition, says Democratic candidate Al Franken. After noting to JTA that the three previous elections for the seat have also matched two Jews &#8211; Rudy Boschwitz vs. Paul Wellstone twice, then Wellstone (before he died in a plane crash a week before Election Day) vs. current incumbent Norm Coleman. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Minnesota is ready for a gentile in this seat,&#8221; he quipped.

Franken, best known for his tenure as a writer and performer on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; told the same story a few minutes later to the crowd at the National Jewish Democratic Council&#8217;s Washington Conference. And it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s not leaving his sense of humor behind while campaigning.

Asked by JTA about the importance of NJDC to his campaign, he replied, &#8220;Being Jewish myself, it&#8217;s a natural constituency. And being a Democrat myself, and liking committees &#8211; and national ones at that &#8211; it&#8217;s a perfect fit.&#8221;

In his remarks to NJDC, Franken criticized Republican Coleman for his &#8220;100 percent rating by the Christian Coalition.&#8221;

&#8220;I can&#8217;t figure out how a Jew is for school prayer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The only way I&#8217;d be for school prayer is if it were the Sh&#8217;ma.&#8221;

Franken said the difference in his race &#8211; which is currently a dead heat &#8211; would be the question: &#8220;Who is your senator going to work for?&#8221; Coleman, he said, is the &#8220;largest recipient in Minnesota political history&#8221; of donations from the pharmaceutical, oil and insurance industries.&#8221; Is he &#8220;working for the special interests,&#8221; asked Franken, &#8220;or the people of Minnesota?&#8221;</description>
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      <link>yonaton770@hotmail.com</link>
      <description>DON&#8217;T LET FRANKEN PULL HIS SHATNEZ OVER YOUR EYES


See here....

http://www.frankenlies.com/lies/index.htm


and here....

http://www.frankenlies.com/truth/index.htm


It&#8217;s not &#8220;Lashon Hara&#8221; if you NEED to know, especially for self protection.&amp;nbsp; And with the damage someone like that can do, we&#8217;ll need all the protection we can get.</description>
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See here....
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<a href="http://www.frankenlies.com/lies/index.htm">http://www.frankenlies.com/lies/index.htm</a>
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and here....
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<a href="http://www.frankenlies.com/truth/index.htm">http://www.frankenlies.com/truth/index.htm</a>
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It&#8217;s not &#8220;Lashon Hara&#8221; if you NEED to know, especially for self protection.&nbsp; And with the damage someone like that can do, we&#8217;ll need all the protection we can get.
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    <dc:date>2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00</dc:date>
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