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Coleman's father cited for lewd conduct

Come on! I'm sure that Al set Norm Senior up. 81 and having sex in a car outside a pizza joint? It had to be a set up!

"The 81-year-old father of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman was cited for lewd conduct and indecent exposure Tuesday for allegedly having sex in a vehicle with a 38-year-old woman, according to police reports.

Police responded to a call early Tuesday evening and arrested Norman Bertram Coleman Sr. and the woman, Patrizia M. Schrag of St. Paul, outside a pizza joint on the eastern edge of downtown.

Sen. Coleman issued a statement this afternoon that said:

"I love my father dearly. I do not condone his actions or behavior, and I am deeply disturbed by what I have learned. He clearly has some issues that need to be dealt with, and I will encourage him to seek the necessary help."

The elder Coleman was a fixture on the campaign trail four years ago when Coleman defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale after Sen. Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash.

Sen. Coleman often held up his father as a hero, a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. "He's the smartest man I know," the senator said in 2002."

I ran across this via Kennedy Vs. The Machine: 101 Reasons for Change.

Now, I was just browsing through, not really paying much attention, just seeing how many reasons were actually posted when I came upon these entries:

"#20: "I have 55,000 reasons to change Washington, after serving in AmeriCorps two years my loans from 4 years of college will be over $55,000." Paul C. Grove City, MN"

Paul, Paul, Paul. Comrade Paul: You sniveling, whining, commie bastard. I wish you had the male body parts to put your last name out there so I could call you and personally inform you of some facts, the most obvious that you didn't learn anything in college other than to be a sponge off of society. Must have some sort of liberal arts major and spent your time in the Americorps proping up a communist dictator or trying to over throw a democracy somewhere.

You went to college so you could learn a skill or trade that will help you get a job and make money. You obviously were interested in moving beyond McDonald's. After all, college grads tend to make much better money that the folks who do the Fast Food thing. So who benefits from your education, Comrade? Why, you do, you ignorant schmuck.

So why do you expect other to pay for your education when you are the one who is going to benefit from it.

You should have taken an economics class, and Marxism doesn't count.

Commies,
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