Keith Olbermann did another Special Comment last night and directed his anger at McCain (video below). As I watched, I had a random thought.
If McCain implodes before the convention, could Republicans get a new candidate or are they stuck with him no matter what?
It just seems like he's getting deeper and deeper into the muck - and while that is obviously excellent for Democrats, it's hard to imagine the Republican Evil Machine sitting by and saying, "Oh well, f*ck it. We'll get 'em next time."
Could they pull a rabbit out of the hat?
Joe's traveling, but I managed to get his input on the run:
I think we are seeing the real McCain. This is who he is. They are stuck with him. Unless, for some reason, John McCain develops an 'excuse' to get out. But he has the delegates. He won them. So the GOP is stuck with him.
He's a smarty, that Joe. McCain...lately, not so much.
Here's Keith on the Incredible Shrinking Candidate:
Olbermann's special comment about Bush having "given up golf" to show his solidarity with the troops, best read in its entirety. And apparently Keith has proof that Bush in fact golfed after he claimed he gave it up.
Speculation is that it will be about Ferraro's racist eruption against Obama, and the larger issue of the Clintons' race-baiting in this campaign. Find out tonight on MSNBC. More from Huff Post:
"Countdown," Keith Olbermann announced that tonight he'd be delivering another of his "Special Comments" — his impassioned, angry monologues fueled by outrage and usually addressed to President Bush and the Bush administration. Tonight, his special comment will be directed at Hillary Clinton — and, for the first time, his special comment will be directed exclusively at a Democrat....
It's a significant moment, because it marks the first time a full-throated special comment will have been directed exclusively at a Democrat. Not just the Democrats, whom Olbermann accused along with the Republicans last May for failing to do anything to get the country out of Iraq, but one particular Democrat — a Democrat whom, incidentally, he did a special comment defending in July after the Defense Dept. sent her a letter accusing her of facilitating anti-U.S. propaganda by demanding to know whether the administration had conceived of an exit strategy from Iraq. He also defended her husband, Bill Clinton, in Sept. 2006 after his controversial interview with FNC's Chris Wallace. I wouldn't expect either of them to get much defending this time around — though something tells me this one will get a lot more than 100,000 views.
Tonight on his show, Keith Olbermann eviscerated Hillary Clinton for a good ten minutes for promoting John McCain's presidency over her fellow Democrats. He compared her to Joe Lieberman. He asked "is she equating her time in the East Wing with McCain's time in the Hanoi Hilton?" You have got to watch these videos. They're devastating in only the way that Keith can be. (Hat tip to Al Rodgers' DKos diary.)
Olbermann says enough already. Bush and Cheney should just resign:
It is nearly July 4th, Mr. Bush, the commemoration of the moment we Americans decided that rather than live under a King who made up the laws, or erased them, or ignored them—or commuted the sentences of those rightly convicted under them—we would force our independence, and regain our sacred freedoms.
We of this time—and our leaders in Congress, of both parties—must now live up to those standards which echo through our history: Pressure, negotiate, impeach—get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our Democracy, away from its helm.
For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9th, 1974.
Resign.
And give us someone—anyone—about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, “I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”
Think Progress also has the video. And hat tip to JFM in Maine for the heads up.
It's a site to behold. Watch this. Then tell your friends to watch it. (You can also read the transcript via the link above).
A snippet:
You may trot out every political cliché from the soft-soap, inside-the-beltway dictionary of boilerplate sound bites, about how this is the "beginning of the end" of Mr. Bush's "carte blanche" in Iraq, about how this is a "first step."
Well, Senator Reid, the only end at its beginning... is our collective hope that you and your colleagues would do what is right, what is essential, what you were each elected and re-elected to do.
Because this "first step"... is a step right off a cliff....
That's what this is for the Democrats, isn't it?
Their "Neville Chamberlain moment" before the Second World War. All that's missing is the landing at the airport, with the blinkered leader waving a piece of paper which he naively thought would guarantee "peace in our time," but which his opponent would ignore with deceit.
The Democrats have merely streamlined the process.
Their piece of paper already says Mr. Bush can ignore it, with impugnity.
