I was disappointed (but not surprised) he didn't emphasize more his complicity in harming his victims. And the 'remembering it differently' and 'some of it didn't happen' I found especially galling.
Looks like it devolved to the Dem women in the senate in showing him the door, and he still doesn't get it.
I won't burn his books I bought (Big Fat Idiot, Lying Liars, Giant of the Senate) but I'm remain grossly disappointed. Giant of the Senate especially. He clearly has some innate talent for the presidential office, but damn he fucked up.
I can't advise any one to read Giant of the Senate at this point as it's a political dead end now, but that entire book was a good read and explained carefully his (honorable) motives for running for Paul Wellstone's senate seat, and the 'pub chicanery played against him in the seemingly endless recount battle he eventually won.
That election episode, and his greatly delayed seating in the senate was a particularly galling cluster fuck, and now Franken no longer has the senate seat (or the imprimatur of respectability) to pursue any remediation.
Also of considerable annoyance, had the Minnesota voters known of his groping that had occurred prior to his campaign, it's clear his <1000 vote victory would not have been possible without the silence of those women in that time frame.
These events (and his extremely non-unique attitude about it once exposed) has been a huge jolt of disillusionment to me.
Looks like it devolved to the Dem women in the senate in showing him the door, and he still doesn't get it.
I won't burn his books I bought (Big Fat Idiot, Lying Liars, Giant of the Senate) but I'm remain grossly disappointed. Giant of the Senate especially. He clearly has some innate talent for the presidential office, but damn he fucked up.
I can't advise any one to read Giant of the Senate at this point as it's a political dead end now, but that entire book was a good read and explained carefully his (honorable) motives for running for Paul Wellstone's senate seat, and the 'pub chicanery played against him in the seemingly endless recount battle he eventually won.
That election episode, and his greatly delayed seating in the senate was a particularly galling cluster fuck, and now Franken no longer has the senate seat (or the imprimatur of respectability) to pursue any remediation.
Also of considerable annoyance, had the Minnesota voters known of his groping that had occurred prior to his campaign, it's clear his <1000 vote victory would not have been possible without the silence of those women in that time frame.
These events (and his extremely non-unique attitude about it once exposed) has been a huge jolt of disillusionment to me.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
