Take that Mr. President.

He always has some good things to say, but it would be a lot easier to digest if he cut 80% of the "sir"s.

"it would be a lot easier to digest if he cut 80% of the "sir"s."

Boy, do you have THAT right, stewf. I can't fault his content, but his style and delivery make him hard to watch.

somebody assassinate bush please. Ill start believing in god if it happens.

bravo though keith, bravo.

Aside from the fact that advocating assassination in a public forum is stoopid, it would also backfire. You want President Cheney? Mr. Unitary Executive? Better that the entire administration is prosecuted, tried for high crimes and war crimes, here and in the Hague. Maybe then the US will learn that we are not above the law. Doubt it, but we can hope, eh?

But write to us from Guantanamo, brian. I'm sure they have wireless there.

somebody assassinate bush please. Ill start believing in god if it happens.

You don't wise up, dummy, you'll believe in the FBI soon enough.

John has it right - the imprisonment of the bastards would do vastly more to restore my faith in the nation's character - and that's a kind of faith I wouldn't mind having.

Assassination would deprive him of his rightful place in history: being remembered as the nation's worst president ever. People who are assassinated are almost always remembered more fondly for it.

Say it with me in Comic Book Guy voice... "Worst...President....Ever."

You know, everyone keeps saying that we shouldn't impeach Bush because then we'd have President Cheney, which is generally taken to be worse.

Aside from the obvious solution of impeaching both simultaneously, since both are easily convictable on numerous counts, I'm not really sure it would be worse. Not that Bush has responded in the slightest to his approval ratings in the 20s, but say what you will, the man has a certain charisma for a certain subset of the populace. Cheney, on the other hand, has a charisma value near nil. It seems to me he might be able to do less damage, as he would not even have the support of the fundamentalist right, which likely translates into less Congressional cooperation among his own party.

Speculative, to be sure, but that's my hunch. My recommendation would be to impeach (and hopefully convict) them both, but failing that, we should at least try to impeach Bush. Anyone else have thoughts on the matter?

Bush is probably the most democratic president of the last 30 years...he gave the conservative base exactly what they wanted, ruin followed. As I see it, we deserve Bush, we deserve him for our own apathy and stupidity. And who pays? Well we all do, but the biggest price is piled up on the poor, the people who become soldiers and are patriotic enough and stupid enough to actually think they are serving a country of the free and the brave instead of the greedy and the incompetent.

I'm hoping Keith reads this, just like he assumes that Bush watches his show. Here's information to contact the President at the White House: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500. Telephone: 202-456-1414 Fax: 202-456-2461. Now Mr. Olbermann you can tell Bush to his face.

Telephone: 202-456-1414

That's just the switchboard - I doubt you'd get past the receptionist.

Does anyone know the president's DDI?

I think Olbermann almost nailed it - the current wars are perpetual, but not just because of Bush.

The wars will certainly continue through to the next Presidency, and whoever becomes the next President will certainly prolong the existing wars and provoke or instigate yet mote conflicts.

This is what Bush meant.

It is the Empire that is rotten, its military industrial complex. The Democrats are in cahoots with the Republicans.

James Madison said, "The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

In terms of the bigger picture there is only one fix in the US, and that is to start from scratch - a virtual coup d'et tat:

A concerted effort by the people to undermine the Democrat and Republican party racket, to elect genuine representatives - to fill both houses with independents.

This would bring you closer to having a true democracy.

The internet could enable this to happen. But who's going to start the revolution?

"But write to us from Guantanamo, brian. I'm sure they have wireless there."

Made me sneeze water out my nose.

"Bush is probably the most democratic president of the last 30 years...he gave the conservative base exactly what they wanted, ruin followed."

That simply isn't true. The conservative base had to be brainwashed into thinking Iraq attacked us on 9/11 to agree to going to Iraq - they didn't demand it. That was cooked up by the neo-cons Bush pays fealty to.

Out of all of the liberals who get air time, I think Keith is the best. He is passionate about his arguments but does not cross over into the zealotry that is Bill O'Reilly. He's also infinitely more intelligent and well-spoken.

Wow! Keith is so articulate and has hit the nail on the head again. Bush must be confronted on his lies in the media. The Media needs to see through Bush's transparent intentions. People forget to quickly. Bush was just buying time with his troop surge. The Republican presidential candidates are all about extending the war (except congressman Ron Paul) and it looks like the Democrat candidates might do the same with the exception of Dennis Kucinich & Mike Gravel.

Those that say that the country does not have what it wanted are mistaken. I was not fooled by Bush ever- i could see him for what he was before he was first elected but most voters were fooled. But here is the meat remember the disasters of the first administration? apparently the 64 million Americans that voted for him the first time couldnt see those disasters or the continuance of them to come but others did- remember the london Times front page? "How could 64 million be so stupid?" Well billions around the world saw through Bush's fakery but 64 million dumbass Americans keep voting against America. You see this voting pattern over and over and over again. There are just a large multimillion population of middle class whites in the USA that continually vote against their own interests and Americas best interests just because they "like the guy and would rather have a beer with him"- rather than can rationally pick someone capable and willing to do what is RIGHT FOR AMERICA. And these same damned fools will vote in all coming elections in the same exact way. We are at war in America with people that are not critical thinkers. i always wondered how the Nazi party tricked million in Germany back in the 30's and 40's to do the evil that they did- and I'm seeing that exact same Fascism growing in our own USA. It truly astounds and appalls me that so many of our fellow countrymen are as easily led as sheep- but then why should it urprise me they call themselves sheep/flock of the shepard. Fall of the Roman Empire took longer that it will take America to Fall- look how far we have fallen in 8 short years- it's mindblowing.

nods

When a president believes in his mission, and wants to save the world - that's patriotic and laudable. When troops and civilians are dying, and the constitution is shredded - well, "that's just politics".

You know, I used to think it was funny to hear people like that speak. Not any more.