Countdown: Special Comment

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by ecthompson

It has been a little while since Keith Olbermann had a “Special Comment.” Olbermann has four major points about an interview yesterday that President George Bush gave to Politico.com and the users of Yahoo.

  • The election of a Democratic President could emboldened the enemy. This, of course, is nonsense. It is fear-mongering. It is so 2004. The country has moved past this.
  • I was told they had Weapons of Mass Destruction, said Bush. This is the “It wasn’t my fault” defense that Bush has used in the past. Olbermann is not letting him get away with that weak answer because the buck stops at the President’s desk. The President is the one that appointed those knuckleheads. He was the one that didn’t ask for objective opinions.
  • Finally, there was that great quote: “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander in Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.” President Bush has said some painfully uninformed things over the last 7 years, but this may be the worst. It seems that he gave up golf not for Lent but not for the Iraq War.  Olbermann really lets Bush have it on this one, and he should because the idea is more than condescending. Oh, but, is this just another spin job? The Associated Press has photos of President Bush playing golf after the death of the UN envoy.

Olbermann’s “Special Comment” might of been a little over the top but he was correct. Bush isn’t sprinting to the finish line like he said. He is limbing. If he were a boat he would be listing to one side. I guess the one thing that is clear is George W. Bush is the worst president in the last 50 years. In fact, he maybe the worst president, ever.

 
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  • margaret
    Huffington Post had the same video clip and it was one of the comments from a blogger.
  • margaret
    Huffington Post had the same video clip and it was one of the comments from a blogger.
  • M-

    Do you have a link to that Huffington Post article? I would love it.

    Thx
  • ecthompson
    M-

    Do you have a link to that Huffington Post article? I would love it.

    Thx
  • margaret
    I love the reply on Huffington Post to rename the quagmire in Iraq" The George W. Bush Memorial War" For his legacy and rightfully give the Bush family full honors.

    You know the only people who still support Bush must not read newspapers or watch the news. My mom who is high up in the Republican party in Texas and had just returned from a trip to the White House. was outraged that i am a democratic delegate for Utah. She wanted to know how i could do such a thing. I said I read the papers, online news, and watch tv. She said that was the problem they all lie and that Bush is saving the country.....So the 27 percent must not be listening, watching or reading anything. They are probably holed up in their bomb shelters waiting for the democrats to cause another attack.
  • margaret
    I love the reply on Huffington Post to rename the quagmire in Iraq" The George W. Bush Memorial War" For his legacy and rightfully give the Bush family full honors.

    You know the only people who still support Bush must not read newspapers or watch the news. My mom who is high up in the Republican party in Texas and had just returned from a trip to the White House. was outraged that i am a democratic delegate for Utah. She wanted to know how i could do such a thing. I said I read the papers, online news, and watch tv. She said that was the problem they all lie and that Bush is saving the country.....So the 27 percent must not be listening, watching or reading anything. They are probably holed up in their bomb shelters waiting for the democrats to cause another attack.
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