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Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - Randalls - 07-04-2007
When you don't have to play by the rules...there are no rules. Happy 4th everybody!
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - Carthaigh - 07-04-2007
That was one of the best speeches I have heard in a long time. I hope our entire government resigns. Where is V when you need him?
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - vision63 - 07-04-2007
Spot on.
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - PeterB - 07-04-2007
Yeah, simultaneously, my mom just emailed me that article. Very well said.
“I didn’t vote for him,” an American once said, “But he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”
-- Where are men like this in today's day and age? We could use a few more John Waynes in the world.
"It was far too late for it to matter then, but as the decades unfold, that single final gesture of non-partisanship, of acknowledged responsibility not to self, not to party, not to “base,” but to country, echoes loudly into history. Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign."
-- How incredible is it that Nixon will-- in the long run-- be viewed as more of a patriot than GW.
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - JoeH - 07-04-2007
Yeah, that's history for you. Nixon was seriously flawed, but he did many of the right things hat needed doing such as opening up relations with mainland China. That leaves the big question to history, how good would he have been as President if he had not developed that insecurity and paranoia about those outside his inner circle. And in the end he knew when it was time to leave.
Have a bit of a soft spot for Nixon since he ended the draft just as I became eligible with a draft lottery number in the low 30's. Looking at what has come since, he may end up deserving that bit of recognition as not being among the very worst, just bad.
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - Carthaigh - 07-04-2007
My huge revelation doesn't go back as far as Nixon, but I distinctly remember the feeling of not being able to imagine an American leader worse than Clinton. How very wrong I was. Clinton now seems downright Presidential (almost...).
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - Carthaigh - 07-04-2007
By the way, Keith Olbermann is now an American hero IMHO.
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - spearmint - 07-04-2007
Keith is a sportscaster. Hero? Yuk!
Where does he get off becoming a political critic? Libby should have been pardoned not commuted. There was no crime.
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - JoeH - 07-05-2007
12 jurors and a judge thought differently. If Martha Stewart can be tried, convicted and go to jail for lieing, so can Scooter. In addition he was found guilty of obstruction of justice. You should not get a free pass just because you work for the President or Vice President.
Re: Conscience of America_Thank you Keith Olbermann. - Randalls - 07-05-2007
Correction JoeH: You mean King Dubya and the great and powerful OZ (Evil Dick).