KO CALLS FOR "A NEW MAN OR WOMAN"!!!

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I wish I could frame this Special Comment and hang it on the wall!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Ditto!!!! Righteous anger and well worded.

[Hissyspit]

16. VIDEO Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x532922

[snappyturtle]

2. Sorry not near a teevee....a new man or woman for what? The presidency? nt

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4. Yes. I suggest

Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO. He might not be interested. But he is already a good leader who fights for people.

[snappyturtle]

20. Thank you. I'm not familiar with Mr. Trumka so I'll start paying attention

when I hear his name in the news.

[bagimin]

9. Yes ..presidency..

I just think the president put the highest priority on extending unemployment benefits, while most of us were trying to draw a line on the wealthy tax cuts.
Note that Keith has no viable candidates to even mention.

[glitch]

11. Extending the tax cuts means no new jobs stimulus. And the UE extension will only

apply to one third of the unemployed.

Two thirds of the unemployed get nothing from this deal.

[snappyturtle]

21. Like KO said this evening, the President would have gotten the

extension on UE benefits regardless because the repukes don't want to be saddled with unkindness reflected in the voting booth for not voting for the extension(s).....he (KO) said even boner agreed earlier to this.

[AndrewP]

I wish I was recording it tonight

[slay]

3. Probably his best Special Comment

certainly very strongly worded for a network tv show host. And spot on. Keith did a great job of expressing how so many of us are feeling right now.

[snappyturtle]

22. As far as I am concerned, KO just keeps getting better and better.

Can't tell you the number of times after listening to his Special Comment I have said, "That was his best."

[asdjrocky]

5. Honestly, I think we need a new system.

With Citizens United (gawd what a joke name) I don't see much hope for a new President or Congress to make any real change for the better. Not for the working and the poor anyway.

[Donnachaidh]

6. someone at the WH Christmas party has a shiny new Orifice tonight!

Courtesy of Keith Olbermann!!!!!

[Loge23]

7. Yes, it's time to start that process

Less than two years to go until the next Presidential election.
It's way time to start gathering names for this.
We will need to mobilize for the primaries to get out the vote.

If it gets to the point where we have no other choice between a repuke and Obama, we'll have essentially neutered ourselves.
(by ourselves, I mean those of us who left the Obama building - probably for good)

[Cant trust em]

8. Olbermann for President. Surely he would be able to get things done in Washington. nt

[bigtree]

10. really?

dipshit idea (if true).

So now, I presume, he'll spend his time railing against our Democratic president? Maybe he should have just gone to FOX.

[NuclearDem]

12. When our Democratic President betrays our principles and totally ignores us

Yes, he can rail against him all he wants. Nice false equivalency though.

[bigtree]

13. Keith can do any dipshit thing he wants. Yes he can.

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15. Yea, because as a voter he doesn't have a right to criticize the President...

:eyes:

[bigtree]

18. that's a joke of a deflection

. . . he has a right to say and do any idiotic thing he wants. You too.

[CakeGrrl]

23. He votes now? News to me, because he's on record as having NOT done so.

[AzDar]

14. Howard Dean! Howard Dean!

:woohoo:

[NuclearDem]

17. +10000

Dean 2012!

[young but wise]

19. Keith needs stfu because he don't even vote.

[underseasurveyor]

24. "he don't"

:eyes:

[dreamnightwind]

25. Kick, too late to Rec

but I'll Rec it here anyway. Getting the wheels in motion for a primary challenge is exactly what we need to do. At the very least, we'll drive Obama back to the left a little.

But I don't see how I could ever support him unless he cleans out his corporate advisers and cabinet and replaces them with servants of the people.

We need some kind of Open Source campaign, where we all work on the platform, and all of the funding sources are revealed. We should also give the presidential project some authority when it comes to selecting staff and cabinet. Time for a distributed, organic, public, open approach.