SassyBlonde

I had a very similar experience to Aimee's over at greeblemonkey last night. I've gotten to the point that around July 4th, rather than being proud of our nation and unabashedly patriotic, I feel vaguely sick and don't want to look at the news. Something is wrong and has been wrong for a long time.

I used to be outraged. I was angry and outraged even when it wasn't "patriotic" to do so and we were encouraged to support our president. At this point I'm just tired. Exhausted. Too tired and sick to even make fun of a racist and ignorant email forward I've seen in my inbox more times than I can count sent to me by intelligent people who should know better.

I feel like the outrage I feel toward the Bush administration is pointless, because there are far too many people who would rather vote for a man whose morality they base on his church attendance and pro-life status rather than his commitment to honesty and the good and intelligent stewardship of the control of our nation. Generally I try to stay away from political rants on here, but here I'd like to pass on the statement from Keith Olbermann which so many people have been sending around, simply because it was so much a relief to hear someone articulate what's been running around in my head since 9/11. Enjoy. (Watch the video here)

Keith Olbermann:

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.

I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons, and sisters and daughters, and friends and neighbors.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but to stifle dissent.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.

I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents.

I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to Grand Juries and Special Counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.