Republican Senate candidate Norm Coleman has filed an appeal to overturn the lower court's ruling that declared the Democrat Senate candidate Al Franken the winner of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race. Currently, due to legal proceedings, Minnesota has only one active Senator. The lower court has considered various absentee ballots to determine the winner of the close election.

The only reason why this is still news is because Norm Coleman has and will continue to drag this Senate race by exhausting all possible legal appeals. He has even hinted that he might appeal this case to the Supreme Court of the United States to make his case that the lower court's ruling was wrong and that the election was not conducted in a lawful manner. Unfortunately, even if I give Coleman a benefit of a doubt that the procedure of counting and recounting of absentee ballot was indeed unjust, it does not give Coleman the right to say that the entire election process was wrong. My problem with the Coleman camp is the misusage of the language to cause more drama than there actually is. He can appeal his ruling all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I do not have a problem with that. But if Coleman thinks he is justified in using misleading language to draw a different picture of the election process,  then he has some problem following the moral imperative of "do not lie".