2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPaul Wellstone quote
"Sometime the only realists are the dreamers."
What a tragedy that he is gone, but perhaps his words can inspire a new generation!?
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bbmykel
(282 posts)Thank you for the link!
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)he was taken
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)A friend of mine was co-piloting the plane carrying Norm Coleman to the Duluth debate that day. Her plane was within ten air miles of Wellstone's plane.
A few weeks after the crash she made this bone-chilling comment to me: "It's like that plane was swatted out of the sky. There was absolutely no reason for it to crash. None." Her opinion was that there were only two possible explanations, as the weather was nothing special - just drizzly, with no snow, ice or unusual winds: the pilot flew the plane straight into the ground or it was deliberately knocked out of the sky. And she's neither very political nor given to conspiracy theories. She was badly freaked out by that crash and had no plausible explanation for it.
It has always stunk of Cheney to me.
valerief
(53,235 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)there was no politician I admired than my wonderful Senator Wellstone.
I was devastated by his death.
"Some men see things as they are and ask "why?' I dream of things that never were and ask 'why not?'"
- Robert F. Kennedy
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)What a huge loss to us all.
speaktruthtopower
(800 posts)I met Paul Wellstone on a plane shortly after he won his first election. Very friendly, regular guy, not an ounce of pretension. Could have used his voice in the Senate during the post 9/11 hysteria and the Iraq War vote.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)pleasure until Cheney showed up. That statement,better watch your back son,will always haunt many of us who were in ear shot. Ask my neighbor who was with me,did he really say that,you got to be kidding,yes he did.