I am totally bummed! Though being a Greenie, Paul Wellstone was the closest thing that those of us in the Green Party had as a Senator. He was a 60's activist who always put mankind ahead of money and politics. He was a sole spokesamn in the Senate for the woking class, the folks who get up at 4:30 in morning, grab their lunch boxes and have at it. He never, never gave into the corporations in the way he voted. He fought the good fights. He voted his heart. And he represented most what the Founding Fathers could have envisioned for democracy in our times. There won't be another Paul Wellstone in the Senate in our life time. An honest Senator. A man of courage and principle and a man with a sense of humor. He had that green school bus that he would speak from. I mean, that was Paul Wellstone. That was not corporate slick but real. I mean real.....

The political realities for out times were scarey enough before today but now.... oh, but now... Talk about unfettered access to the souls of the working class by Boss Hog. Yeah, they'll say all the right things but we're gonna have to buckle up our bootstaps now, 'cause a big Boss Hog is lickin' his chops.

(Can't think like that tonight, Bobert...) Yeah, my deepest heartfelt for Paul and Sheila's surviving children, as well as their friends and other members of the Wellstone's family.

But before I sign off for the night, I'd just like to say that I'm purdy f**king mad that somehow or another, during my life time, that one spokesman for humanity after another gets killed while every redneck right wing jerk gets to flail their anti-human crap. Yeah, and we end up with a Senate packed with rednecks while folks with compassion, like Babby Kennedy, like Malcolm X, like Martin Luther King and like Paul Wellstone's voices of love, compassion and the betterment of the human condition are silenced. Sure this might have been an accident but as sad as I am, I am no less angry tonight. It's not fair. Why *our* best? Why?

Peace be with you, Paul, and Sheila and Marsha. We'll carry it on from here...

Bobert