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Baby Bites Al Franken

James Joyner
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Waiting at DC’s Reagan National Airport yesterday evening for a flight to Minneapolis, we caught a photo of this baby biting Al Franken’s nose:

Okay, so it was our baby.

Franken was very gracious and accommodating. One of the joys of being a United States Senator, apparently, is that one can not read a magazine — or for that matter, sit down — when flying back to one’s home state because fifty people are lining up to chat with you about one thing or another. Ditto the lavoratory line on the airplane. Thus far, at least, Franken is taking it all in stride.

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36 responses to “Baby Bites Al Franken”

  1. lunacy Avatar
    lunacy

    I sure hope your lovely baby is up to date on her shots.

    …to protect her from over exposure to Franken.

  2. Michael Reynolds Avatar
    Michael Reynolds

    Does that baby have an original birth certificate? Can she prove it?
    Because I don’t think foreign babies should be biting US Senators.

  3. Steven Taylor Avatar
    Steven Taylor

    That’s hilarious!

  4. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    I know you’re a Republican James, but do you really think you should be teaching your child to attack Democrats at such a young age?

  5. floyd Avatar
    floyd

    The baby is expecting milk from this big boob and will only get snot.
    The American people are in for a similar suprise!

    http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/wp-content/uploads/franken4.jpg

  6. RileyB Avatar
    RileyB

    Do you know all of the “bugs” that are carried inside the nose and
    on the skin?
    Not to mention that this is Al Franken whose nose is being gnawed
    on.
    Watch for staph and strep…seriously.

  7. An Interested Party Avatar
    An Interested Party

    Judging from the few comments here…apparently there is nothing that cannot be politicized into a partisan issue…

  8. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Judging from the few comments here…apparently there is nothing that cannot be politicized into a partisan issue…

    It took this to make you realize that?

  9. floyd Avatar
    floyd

    Aip,
    You mean like politicians kissing babies?
    Never seen that before…[lol]
    However; you’re observation is astute!

  10. An Interested Party Avatar
    An Interested Party

    It took this to make you realize that?

    Not really…it’s just a shame that a pleasant encounter between James and his family and Senator Franken can’t be just that–a pleasant encounter…

  11. Rick Almeida Avatar
    Rick Almeida

    Your little girl is adorable, James.

  12. Herb Avatar
    Herb

    That’s awesome. Twenty years from now, it’ll be even more awesome. The memories!

  13. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Not really…it’s just a shame that a pleasant encounter between James and his family and Senator Franken can’t be just that–a pleasant encounter…

    I think all the comments so far have been pretty light hearted and tongue in cheek.

    Except for the fact that noses are gross, and you shouldn’t let your baby chew on someone else’s. As a parent, that does kind of make me cringe.

  14. Franklin Avatar
    Franklin

    A few germs are good for kids. The lack of them in today’s hygienic society is one possible explanation for the sudden rise in severe food allergies.

    Anyway, this has already naturally become a caption contest. But I’ve got nothing …

  15. markm Avatar
    markm

    NEW CAPTION CONTEST

    James to daughter: “NOOOO’no…ka ka”

  16. markm Avatar
    markm

    Daughter to Franken: “I’m smart enough and doggone it, people like me…but you taste like poo-poo”

  17. markm Avatar
    markm

    🙂

  18. Mithras Avatar
    Mithras

    Extremely cute.

  19. sam Avatar
    sam

    Well, it coulda been worse photo-op-wise. My daughter liked to bite the end of folks’ noses. I think most babies would do it–after all, it does look something like a breast…. Anyway, the kibosh was put on the nose-biting the day she clamped on the tip of my nose with a newly erupted and theretofore unseen front tooth. Yeoooow!

  20. fern st albert Avatar
    fern st albert

    Great pictures – the baby is adorable – Al Franken not so much! Cheers.

  21. ynot4tony2 Avatar
    ynot4tony2

    I wonder how long it will take the baby to get the taste of political corruption and obscenity out of her mouth after taking that dreadful taste of Franken.

    More than likely, this baby was registered to vote by ACORN, and is a Franken voter. But seriously, speaking of Franken’s electoral “victory”, why are the people of Minnesota and the rest of the country for that manner not speaking out against Franken’s theft of the election?

    Whenever there’s a recount, conveniently the votes ALWAYS increase for the Democrats (magic? I think not). And in Franken’s case, not only were several boxes of ballots “found” after the election was over, there were many precincts that reported MORE VOTES THAN REGISTERED VOTERS! WTF? People are taking this sitting down?!?

  22. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    He should be kissing her. it was probably her vote that put him over the top.

  23. skatz51 Avatar
    skatz51

    What a smart baby!!

  24. erp Avatar
    erp

    D*mn that Rove really is good.

  25. Nate255 Avatar
    Nate255

    This confirms what everyone suspected. Franken is a boob. Also, I question the parenting ability of someone who would expose their child to that filth. – Disgusting

  26. Triumph Avatar
    Triumph

    Well, Franken is a yellow-bellied liberal; however, if you are going to have an oral encounter with a senator in an airport, I’d rather have it with him than Larry Craig.

  27. Aye Chihuahua Avatar
    Aye Chihuahua

    Don’t bite that nose.

    You don’t know where it’s been.

  28. Aaron Avatar
    Aaron

    You got her well trained. Maybe next time she’ll draw blood.

  29. Captain Jean-Luc Picard Avatar
    Captain Jean-Luc Picard

    Let’s hope Franken change from pro-death to pro-life. He might get more love bites from little angels like this one.

  30. An Interested Party Avatar
    An Interested Party

    Wow, what a bunch of sore losers…here’s hoping the senator sticks around for a good long time to annoy the hell out of certain people…

  31. Franklin Avatar
    Franklin

    Triumph – good call!

    ynot4tony2 – might want to check your facts.

  32. Liberal cutie Avatar
    Liberal cutie

    You people are ridiculous. Please read your own comments, and see how mean-spirited they are.

    Sore losers, much?

    This is cute, and James says Senator Franken was gracious about it. Give it up, dudes.

  33. TM Avatar
    TM

    It is disgraceful the little bitter comments by people on an overall innocent encounter. Personally it may be wise to block further comments because of the disgusting turn they seem to be taking.

    Adorable shot, a slice of life, and then the political blood hounds jump in – really where is the sense?

  34. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Personally it may be wise to block further comments because of the disgusting turn they seem to be taking.

    Better solution: How about people who are offended by partisanship stop whining about finding politics on a political blog and go waste their time on LOL cats instead.

  35. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    For the record, there are now more comments complaining about the “all the mean comments”, than there are actual mean comments.

  36. Dem4life Avatar
    Dem4life

    I saw Franken at a baseball game, and he was very friendly and put up with a lot of people talking to him. The crowd cheered when he left and gave us a wave.

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