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Thursday, January 22, 2009

News There Is Support Out There for Sam Adams

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18 AM

The Support Sam Adams page on Facebook currently has 349 members. Who'd like to be the 350th?

Also, some advice for Sam Adams: Get the hell out of your house and go to work. Borrow a page from Bill Clinton—who blew a presidential load on a White House intern—and go do your job. The media pronounced Clinton politically dead, insisted that he had to resign, that there was nothing else he could do, the media Clinton couldn't possibly be an effective president after the public learned about the blue dress and the cigars and analingus in the Oval Office. But the public wasn't as prudish or vindictive as the media insisted. People saw Clinton doing his job, people contemplated the sexual mistakes they themselves had made, and they backed Clinton.

You've already apologized for having consensual sex with an adult, you've apologized for lying. It's time to be done apologizing. Go to work. Tough it out. Face 'em down.

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Billy got his salad tossed? I thought it was just a BJ. link that if you can prove it!?!

Posted by Dear Penthouse.... on January 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM

OMG the dress?!

Posted by r on January 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Thank Jebus for Dan! Can you come down here and spread some reasonable thinking around? It's in pretty short supply just now.

Posted by BGJ in PDX on January 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM

350 signatures on Facebook! Holy shit, it's a whole new political ballgame!

Posted by not even sure what Facebook is on January 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM

I just googled the Starr report and did a search for "anus." If there was analingus going on in the Oval Office (or a hallway leading into the Oval Office), then you can bet it'd be in there. And it wasn't.

Posted by TVDinner on January 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM

Oh 4, you poor thing. Unaware of the century in which you are living.

Posted by Rob on January 22, 2009 at 10:39 AM

He should get back to work, all righty. He canceled this PSU student ethics conference keynote, or as a spokesman aptly put it, "he just pulled out." The speech coulda been a classic.
http://wweek.com/wwire/?p=19937

Posted by tomasyalba on January 22, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Pretty good advice. I still think he should resign, but if he wants to keep his job, staying home is not the way to do it...

Posted by fluteprof on January 22, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Send him a letter directly, Dan. Seriously, he responds.

He spent most of 2008 and part of 2007 cleaning up after Potter, but now is not the time to get complacent and take a breather. First order of business: new regulations to prevent abuse of LEED status (think Vulcan's ENSO development and its dubious LEED Silver designation). Seriously. Portland is about to get slapped in the face for puffing its chest out over LEED and has been cutting so many corners to be the number one in the country, something they may not deserve with all the questions. It's getting noticed. Oh, and bike lanes, streetcars and potholes. Back to the fundamentals, Sam.

Posted by AJ on January 22, 2009 at 10:43 AM

I just joined the Facebook group, and as of 10:45 it's up to over 450 members. Give him some love people so he can buck up & move on with the job we elected him to do!

Posted by shawnzorPDX on January 22, 2009 at 10:47 AM

Sitting around isn't going to help him.

Posted by kim on January 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM