I know Stuart Smalley was just one character that Senator Al Franken played during the short time span that SNL was actually funny. I liked his reporter role more, with the big antenna on his head while he was broadcasting. But that was a long, long time ago on a planet far far away. This is 2009 and now that loveale character who had to look at himself in the mirror to confirm that he really was "good enough, smart enough" and that "doggone it, people like him" is a Senator. And there really could not be a better time in this nation's history for him to be one.
You see, we all are looking for that one shining ray to stand beside President Obama. Biden is great, but Biden has work to do. So who else do we have? Senator Frank? Well some think so, others not and that is the case with most everyone except Senator McCaskill, she is really the only Senator that I have read and seen that is any good at pushing an agenda even when the tradmed wants to push something else. Senator Kerry is good also, but he has a history that is not really favorable. Senator Schumer maybe? Sometimes it seems like he has his own agenda. Representative Wasserman Schultz is a fighter, no doubt, but she is MIA at the moment for some reason. Would be nice to see her fighting like she did for Hillary during the primaries and for Obama during the general, but we have to fight with what we have right now. The other senators either have a cat attached to their tongue or are just not who need out front, Senator Feinstein this means you. We need someone who will be asked to come on a sexy bobble head's show, someone whom the producers know will draw ratings. And I can think of only one man, and that is Franken.
Al Franken is really my dream senator, outspoken, funny and smart at the same time. He has worked with the elites in Manhattan, California and everywhere inbetween. Now he is a senator from Minnesota, think about this a former SNL writer/actor who is now a senator from Minnesota, heck he could be minutes away from Lake Wobegon. Being a senator from Minnesota, you have to be one with the people, you have to get down in the dirt with them before they will respect you. Yet he has soemthing else, something invaluable to our cause: He knows how teevee land works. He knows how to get on shows, to give a statement in the press and have it repeated and talked about and discussed over and over till you think you will puke if you hear it one more time. He knows how to make Chris Mathews laugh, he knows how to get on Lou Dobbs's show, piss him off, then get himself invited back to Dobbs's show. And he is not afraid of O'reilly and the rest of fixed noise. This show of, I guess the best term is spine, is 180 degrees from the majority of our senators that we have now.
So we need Senator Al Franken, the problem is he is not really a senator yet. Hopefully this will be resolved today, for the good of our nation we need Senator Al Franken.