Taking Issue with “Just a Comma”

Jack Cafferty picked up on the "just a comma" comment that George Bush made on Sunday.  And he has some…issues with the phrasing.

To say the least.

Crooks and Liars has the video — and they also have the clip of the Olbermann commentary from yesterday evening.

…After five years of skirting even the most inarguable of facts — that he was President on 9/11 and he must bear some responsibility for his, and our, unreadiness, Mr. Bush has now moved, unmistakably and without conscience or shame, towards re-writing history, and attempting to make the responsibility, entirely Mr. Clinton’s.

Of course he is not honest enough to do that directly.

As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he is having it done for him, by proxy.

Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News, Friday afternoon.

Consider the timing: The very same weekend the National Intelligence Estimate would be released and show the Iraq war to be the fraudulent failure it is — not a check on terror, but fertilizer for it!

The kind of proof of incompetence, for which the administration and its hyenas at Fox need to find a diversion, in a scapegoat.

It was the kind of cheap trick which would get a journalist fired — but a propagandist, promoted:

Promise to talk of charity and generosity; but instead launch into the lies and distortions with which the Authoritarians among us attack the virtuous and reward the useless…

Watch both videos. Get yourself up and running for the day. Then spend some time with me brainstorming on what sorts of Get Out the Vote efforts you’ve been making in your community. It occurs to me that it is football season — wonder how a voter registration drive at the games would go over? November is coming…are you doing all you can?

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