10/30/2007

Why Are We Not Surprised?


Norm Coleman protesting the Vietnam War in 1970 as an undergrad at Hofstra University. [AP Photo]

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), described by the Associated Press as "a former long-haired, anti-war student activist," who once worked as a roadie for Ten Years After and attended the Woodstock festival in 1969, led the charge against a $1 million earmark sponsored by New York senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton to benefit the Museum at Bethel Woods aka the Woodstock Museum.

"I was at Woodstock. I have been to the site of the Woodstock museum," Coleman said last week. "It's a wonderful museum. That doesn't mean the government has to pay for it."