Senator Al Franken

I think he gets it:

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) put his acting skills to work Saturday as he took President Barack Obama’s favorite campaign analogy to a new level.

Franken, speaking at a Democratic rally at the University of Minnesota, said Obama’s much-used car-into-a-ditch campaign metaphor is “just a little too static.”

“Here’s my analogy,” Franken said, warming up for his monologue. “It’s both more kinetic and, frankly, far more accurate.”

In Franken’s version — delivered at a Democratic rally at the University of Minnesota — Republicans didn’t just drive the car (the economy, in Obama’s metaphor) into a ditch, causing a recession. They flipped it over, rolled down a river bank and dropped it off a 2,000-foot cliff.

“We, the American people, were in the back seat, and the Bush administration removed all the seatbelts,” Franken yelled as he leaned over the top of the podium, clutching a stack of paper in his hand. “So we were all flying around the interior of this car.”

I guess I can only hope his shrillness was over-the-top, frankly.

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