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May.14.2008

The president's ludicrous war narrative


An Olbermann Special Comment


"Mr. President, the war isn’t about you — or golf"

Special comment: Bush’s unforgiveable interview
Olbermann: Bush's claim he gave up game to honor dead GIs is ludicrous - May 14 - Countdown’s Keith Olbermann denounces President Bush for suggesting that electing a Democrat as president means “another attack on the United States.” Olbermann also questions Bush's claim that he gave up golf out of empathy for fallen U.S. soldiers.
President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and John McCain lurk.

Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could "eventually lead to another attack on the United States." This ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong statement came during a May 13 interview with Politico.com and online users of Yahoo....

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