MN: Columnist says Franken's comic roots prove troublesome
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National political columnist Michael Kinsley writes for Slate that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate "[Al] Franken's problem is that he spent three decades as a professional comedian before turning to politics and has a large inventory of potential gaffe material to explain away."
Kinsley is no fan of incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, who he calls "a man of no interest, a run-of-the-mill political hypocrite who started out as a standard-issue long-haired student rebel leader on Long Island in the 1960s" before turning into "a standard-issue pro-war, tax-cut Republican."
In the end, Kinsley says, "If the voters of Minnesota would rather be represented by a hack like Norm Coleman than laugh off a few jokes that didn't work, then they should stop complaining about being stuck with professional politicians."
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