pardon us for interrupting your precious golf game, you putz

every once in awhile, that brain-dead guy in the White House who neither I nor anyone I know voted for manages to surprise and shock me with one of his ridiculous comments. but this – what’s the phrase – takes the cake? actually it goes far beyond taking the cake… it grabs the cake and runs a marathon with it.

in answer to this question from an interview on May 13 with Politico.com and Yahoo online users, “you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?” that guy who has access to the Doomsday Machine has the temerity to respond: “Yes. It really is. 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 as — to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

YA THINK??????

there’s a lot more to this incredible interview and i highly recommend reading Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment from last nights Countdown, available here on the Huffington Post. Video clip there as well.

God Bless Keith Olbermann

God bless Keith Olbermann, and God bless America for being a democracy where we can question our leaders and take them to task when necessary and freely state our opinions. On last night’s show, Olbermann shone the bright light of truth into Bush’s squirrely press conference yesterday where everyone except himself and his policies were scapegoated for the economic shape this country is in.

‘the candidate’ – it’s like ‘american idol’ only more nights a week

it occurred to me that this white house race is more like American Idol than anything else. every night i tune in to watch hours of MSNBC and CNN and network analysis of the day’s happenings in McCain, Obama, and Clinton World. i’ve gotten to the point where if i am not home, i TAPE Countdown because i need my Keith, the light that cuts through the darkness.

THE CHARACTERS:

Obama is like the slim, handsome superhero who can smash atoms with his bare hands (okay – he’s not a great bowler, but can save the world nonetheless). he’s smart, he’s well spoken, he’s calm, he’s – what’s the word – oh yes, presidential.

Hillary is looking more and more like an educated, conservatively-dressed (albeit in bright colors), helmet-headed version of Britney Spears we gaped at a few months ago when every night was a new drama illuminated by the bad camerawork of TMZ. in news rubbernecking, she has actually replaced Britney for me. she’s like the Terminator – tear off a limb, she’s still not down and out! she refuses to die! in a way i have come to admire this, even though i think we’re wasting valuable time and money this way. and the Bosnia thing, well, that was just embarrassing beyond belief.

and then there’s McCain. now here’s a guy who looks like something out of Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford. Crawford ended every show with a homily, my all-time favorite being ‘the clowns in the circus they’re real funny. but on the highway they’re murder.’ McCain is not the brightest bulb according to recent news stories, but looks like a Rhodes scholar next to GWB.

ugly, ugly, ugly

Dear Geraldine,

You were a hero to so many of us for your formidable place in history. It is with horror and deep sadness that I now have to think the polar opposite of you. How could you make such a tasteless and horrendous comment that the only reason Barack Obama is achieving the success he’s getting is because he is a (lucky) black man. What year is it?? Is this 2008 or 1928? I’m sure it’s news to black men everywhere that they’re lucky. Last time I checked (being neither black or a man) it seemed kind of a detriment to the achievement of great success. And, to make matters worse, when you’re called out on this comment, you cry reverse racism!

And as for you, Hillary. Every day you make me angrier. Not coming out to immediately denounce Ferraro’s comments is unforgivable. You’re running this campaign into the ground and wasting so much valuable time for those of us who want to see a Democrat in the White House next January. I refer you to Mr. Olbermann, who says it all better than I ever could.

keith don’t go

all hail MSNBC for the cojones to have Keith Olbermann on their channel. you don’t see news delivered like this nohow or nowhere else. he’s alive, he’s passionate, if it smells he wrinkles his nose, he’s not your freeze-dried blow-dried anchorman by a long chalk. when you see a broadcast like this you know democracy ain’t dead no matter how hard the dark forces try to keep it down.

. . . A free press is . . . one of the foundations of a democratic society, and as Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, “A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society.”
- from “Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights,” website of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs