Olbermann’s stand-in (a very appealing gal who doesn’t hit every news bit with a verbal sledge hammer as does Keith) said last night, that Dubya went wild-eyed, thumped his chest while proclaiming three times “I am the president!”
He further announced that the war in Iraq would continue past his presidency for future Commanders In Chief to handle as part of this country’s destiny.
Did anyone see this last evening? There’s nothing in the Times, or the local paper or online that I can find about the story. (And, :smack: I erased the tape!)
Anyway, if the account is true, would you consider such behavior of the POTUS as worrisome?
Hadn’t heard about that. It’s certainly consistent with his peevish “I am the decider!” pronouncement, just weeks before he gave Rumsfeld the boot after saying Rummy was doing a great job and should stay.
The lovely and sassy Alison Stewart, who last night introduced a piece on Michele Obama this way:
“People in public life consider it rare to encounter a strong, intelligent Black woman - in my family we call that normal.”
Did they show The Decider do the chest-thumping routine, or just talk about it? If the latter, it may well have been editorial comment. (I just checked and the transcript of Thursday’s Countdown has not been posted yet. I also nosed around White House press releases a bit and found nothing of an “I am the President” nature.)
It’s absolutely no surprise that he expects to bequeath Iraq to whomever follows. I decided awhile back that for Bush, pulling out of Iraq would be an admission that he had screwed the pooch somewhere, and Old Fartbrain is psychologically incapable of admitting significant errors of judgment.
Her columns can be expected always to take a liberal viewpoint. She’s quite reliable that way.
Still, she is a legendary and fearless journalist, one with a good bit of time in her profession and an awful lot of hard earned respect over the years.
Why? If it “has legs” and they’re the “right-wing media”, wouldn’t they try to suppress it? If they don’t suppress it, then they aren’t doing their jobs!!!
Oh, I guess that argument about the “right-wing media” gets to be used whenever it supports the argument a person is trying to make.
I think the point is that if even the right wing media can’t ignore it, then it must have legs. This is a creepy story, it’s beginning to sound as if either Bush is going nuts or is off the wagon.
I know what he was getting at. But also note that it wasn’t an actually link to the original source (which, again, were both editorials) but gives some link to CaptiolHillBlue’s editorial about those editorials. At the very least, we’ve lost a wee bit 'o context, as they say in the old country.
