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If Pro Wrestlers and Murderous Cyborgs Can Do It...

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Tags: Al Franken, 2008, Senate, Minnesota

Al Franken, comedian and alumnus of the fabled funny days of Saturday Night Live, will run in the 2008 Minnesota Senatorial Race. He continues a proud tradition of older celebrities running to become older statesmen, like Ventura and Schwarzenegger before him.

Franken, who will run as a Democrat, enjoys great popularity for his comedic career (in spite of--or more likely because of--being an occasional target of various Fox News fuckwits, most notably Bill O'Reilly). However, his popularity alone likely will not be enough to win over the voters of Minnesota.

Franken faces major challenges, said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota. Besides needing to establish himself as a serious candidate, Franken has staked out left-wing policies that make it questionable whether he can win independent voters, Jacobs said.

And yes, I did have to look up Schwarzenegger to find out how to spell his name.

Comments

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN

July 2003

FEB 01, 2007 10:03 AM

If you're referencing The Terminator, terminators are robots, not cyborgs. Cyborgs must have at least some organic component - a brain, perhaps. So far as anything I've seen's shown, the terminators are all machine. And I've seen all three Terminator films. In the case of the third, unfortunately.

Franken would make a good senator, I think. I'll have to vote for him.

Vestril

Coronado, CA

February 2003

FEB 01, 2007 10:10 AM

malkav11 said:
If you're referencing The Terminator, terminators are robots, not cyborgs. Cyborgs must have at least some organic component - a brain, perhaps. So far as anything I've seen's shown, the terminators are all machine. And I've seen all three Terminator films. In the case of the third, unfortunately.

Franken would make a good senator, I think. I'll have to vote for him.

What about the living tissue that surrounds them? Or at least the earlier models.

KingMike

Westfield, NY

October 2006

FEB 01, 2007 10:11 AM

technically, the arnold model, the t-800 series, are cyborgs. "living tissue over metal endoskeleton." The t-800 series has actual skin, and the skin is an organ.

Science NetLinks: Skin as an Organ

Ascanius

USA

October 2006

FEB 01, 2007 10:23 AM

Well, at least according to this map:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

If he's got a chance anywhere, he's got one in MN. And why not? Unlike other celebrity politicians he's actually political. That should count for something, right?

p.s. You've got to expand that image. Scarriest moment in American history. Fuck the Cuban Missile Crisis.

saltonsea

Toronto, ON

July 2004

FEB 01, 2007 10:43 AM

hahahaha, you've got to be kidding.....

not only are you wrong, but in a very out-of-place way.

madbax

Nome, TX

March 2005

FEB 01, 2007 11:22 AM

Franken is too reactionary and devisive. He has about as much chance of gettiing elected as Rush Limbaugh.

PogMoThoin

Jamaica, NY

January 2004

FEB 01, 2007 11:56 AM

I was waiting for this. Finally he'll put his money (well someone else's money most likely) where his mouth is. Don't care much for some of his views but he's got more guts than Bill O'Reilly or Limbaugh.