Al Franken Quotes
I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
Franken, Al. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. Delacorte Press, 1996.
He was criticizing the George W. Bush administration for attacking Iraq, a country which had not attacked the United States or Americans abroad while America did not attack those terrorists and countries which had killed Americans. For example, Hezbollah which blew up the Marine Barracks in Lebanon and the naval ship Cole.
He was referring to his Presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton. What makes this quotation noteworthy is that many observers at the time felt that this statement gave an insight into the very unusual personality of Trump. He was so hyper competitive and machismo that he even tried to be better than his opponent in everything including negative things like being nasty. He could not abide being second in anything, even things that made him less fit for the presidency.
Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live. After decades as a comedic actor and writer, he became a prominent liberal political activist, hosting The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio.
