Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Timelines


  • October 11, 2002: The United States Senate passes Public Law 107-243, more commonly known as the Iraq War Resolution, with a vote of 77-23. Senator Paul Wellstone, involved in a re-election campaign against challenger Norm Coleman, votes against the measure.

  • October 25, 2002: Sen. Wellstone dies in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota.
  • October 29, 2002: A memorial service honoring Sen. Wellstone is televised throughout Minnesota. It turns deeply partisan, with speakers including Rick Kahn and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) openly campaigning for replacement candidate Walter Mondale.
  • The backlash against the memorial service proves costly to the Democrats as Norm Coleman wins election. Polling suggests that the tone of the event may have cost other Democrats running in elections elsewhere in the country.
  • January 7, 2006: a helicopter crash kills Maj. Stuart Anderson near Tal Afar, Iraq. Seven other soldiers and four civilians are killed as well. Major Anderson is survived by his wife, two daughters and his parents. "He was very proud of being in the military,” his father, Claremont Anderson, of Hoffman, Minn., said earlier this month.
  • September 16, 2008: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee runs an ad featuring Maj. Anderson's parents, including the aforementioned Mr. Anderson. In the ad, the grieving parents blame Sen. Coleman for voting for the war. As noted in the timeline, when the war was authorized, Sen. Coleman was a private citizen.

Cross-posted on True North

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Win at all costs, truth be damned....There is absolutely no honor left in politcs, perhaps in our entire country. If we as citizens continue to accept these untruths and buy in to them, quite frankly we have no one to blame but ourselves

Brad Carlson said...

As noted in the timeline, when the war was authorized, Sen. Coleman was a private citizen.

I believe it was John Adams who said "facts are stubborn things".

W.B. Picklesworth said...

That's just disgusting. Where did shame go and when is it coming back?

Anonymous said...

Check out Newsweek this week. It features a quote from Matt Damon saying effectively that he had heard that Sarah Palin thought Dinosaurs were on the planent 4,000 years ago, and that he needs to know whether or not she thinks that's true as she'll be one step away from the nuclear codes.

Damon is entitled to his opinion, but his opinion is based on the false writings of a blog. Newsweek neither mentions this FACT, or does anything else to clarify. The quote is there by itself implying that Palin said things that were not true.

Gino said...
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