PAUL WELLSTONE: Tapped
A COLD DAY. Paul Wellstone was a friend, not just to progressives and the working people in this country, but to this magazine and its staff. More than any other senator, he spoke truth to power. He spoke it eloquently, with a passion and conviction that often transcended the phony echoes of sound-bite politics. He never stopped, despite his physical pain, despite the exhaustion of his seemingly endless hours. He made decisions according to his moral values, not his desire to please the pundits or the party leadership. He was a fighter, and we must now fill his enormous void.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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