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Countdown Friday: Loose Change

Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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War Crime and Misdemeanors: The trouble with running as a change candidate...With presenting your candidacy as a vessel to wipe clean the abuses of the previous administration...Is that -- upon taking office -- people are going to be expecting change... substantial change... with the urgency of now. Our fifth story on the Countdown: On the one hand, President-elect Obama again promising today that his administration will not torture... On the other... picking as his top adviser on counter-terrorism... a CIA veteran under fire for his past statements about... torture.
 
Spare the Rod:  Over the generations, the governors of Illinois have managed to corrupt everything from the choice of Senators... to the Visiting Nurse Association. Yet in our fourth story on the Countdown, Rod Blagojevitch today became the first of them... ever impeached. And not only is he still refusing to resign. He's claiming that he's the victim here.

ODDBALL: Baby Mangini, a weather cat and a electric.

Bush The Liberator:  President Bush yesterday told the Dallas Morning News that the Freedom Institute at his presidential library won't be the "George Bush is a Wonderful Person Center" or the "Center for Republican Party Campaign Tactics"... because it'll be a place of "debate" and "thought." Unlike, say... the Bush White House. Our third story tonight, Freedom, and the George-Bush-is- a-Wonderful-Person legacy.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Glenn Beck, Alberto Gonzales and a couple of high schoolers that stole a car vie for tonight's top honors.

She's Back:  Governor Sarah Palin is consistent, to a fault, on this central point. Regarding her shortcomings, it is never her... but us. Even if she has to stretch the definition of us to include a right-wing propagandist who once boasted he had sketched out a plan to assassinate O-J Simpson. Once again, in our number one story, Governor Palin claims the media is guilty of taking her comments out of context. Even though it was her new conservative champion, John Zeigler, who posted more than nine minutes of an interview with her on the internet, and provided all the context there is... And even thoughher answers to his questions -- many of which we played in full, here, yesterday -- were clear. Or as clear as they could be, in Palin-speak. Like what she said about Caroline Kennedy.

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I think I have heard one of the greatest statements this year-That Sarah Palin is an "endless salad bar of political comedy" (or something like that)
Keith is the greatest-i'll be lol'ing for days...
thanks Keith....

rooster (Sent Friday, January 09, 2009 10:10 PM)

If BUSH is a wonderful person does that make me as evil as Keith? I'd like to be that evil. I need to work on my laugh, but I'm sure that I can be that evil if Bush is really that good.

At least he wasn't saying he was smart. If so I might have to join MENSA against my will...I mean, I'm already a geek but COME ON!

Felicia M, Ukiah CA (Sent Friday, January 09, 2009 10:47 PM)

As painful as it is, here is 'the Bottom Five': 1. Caroline is ten times the Hockey Mom Sarah is. 2. Torturous, all the way around. 3. So, is Dubya gonna call the Gaza Strip what it should be called, 'Warsaw Ghetto, the Second'. 4. In the context of Illinois Politics, he's probably innocent. 5. Make all of the CIA operatives watch 'the Trial of Billy Jack'.  Now THAT"S Torture.

Steve Turner Cedar Falls Iowa (Sent Friday, January 09, 2009 10:59 PM)

Hi Keith, you are just amazing and I love your sense of humour especially!

I am just amazed also at the David Schuster interview with that freak wack job John Zeigler.I wrote to the Alaska pit bull and told her to run with Ziegler in 2016 for Pres/VP.

I hope she can see Canada from her window also! You know that third country in North America Sarah pit bull!

She really needs her own reality show maybe filmed live at the turkey slaughter place.She is seriously emotionally and mentally disturbed as she does not realize that the election has been over for more than two months and Obama won in a landslide unprecedented in modern day history!

Dan Davidson White Rock BC CANADA (Sent Friday, January 09, 2009 11:07 PM)

What? ANOTHER Sarah Palin story, and not one word on the Dalmation puppies???

Mary Guzzy, Corning, NY (Sent Friday, January 09, 2009 11:24 PM)

So glad for your updates on the War Crimes and Misdemeanors issue.  Hope you will continue reporting on this issue.

Mike and Lillie Sekerak, Marshall, Illinois (Sent Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:08 PM)

 What will victory in...Afghanistan loke like?

I'm a conservative, but I see trouble for NATO
and the propped-up government in Afghanistan.
 
It would probably be better for America to send
its troops into Gaza [instead of Afghanistan], wipe out Hamas, and get ruthlessly criticized by the EU
and the UN for the 'collateral damage', then leave and hope and pray that Hamas never returns top Gaza
to bother Israel again.
 

Jacob Samorodin, living in a city north of Montana. (Sent Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:52 PM)

I say to President Bush, no thanks for the memories, and you really did it your way,sir.  As far as SP goes, I see she has someone tutoring her now.  She can use big words like "salacious," and she's expanding her attack to include bloggers.  She and Ann Coulter-geist are two scary minds on the loose.

Simmy J., Chicago, Illinois (Sent Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:20 PM)



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