Pathological Presidential Liar or Idiot-in-Chief?

We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole — or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked — at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so — whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.

A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.
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A bright man, or an honest man, would have realized no later than the McConnell briefing that the only true danger about Iran was the damage that could be done by an unhinged, irrational Chicken Little of a president, shooting his mouth off, backed up by only his own hysteria and his own delusions of omniscience.

Not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr Bush.

The Chicken Little of presidents is the one, sir, that you see in the mirror.

And the mind reels at the thought of a Vice President fully briefed on the revised intel as long as two weeks ago — briefed on the fact that Iran abandoned its pursuit of this imminent threat four years ago — who never bothered to mention it to his boss.
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Today, as evidenced by this latest remarkable, historic malfeasance, it is inescapable, that Dick Cheney is either this president's evil ventriloquist, or he thinks he is.

What servant of any of the 42 previous presidents could possibly withhold information of this urgency and this gravity, and wind up back at his desk the next morning, instead of winding up before a Congressional investigation — or a criminal one?

Mr Bush — if you can still hear us — if you did not previously agree to this scenario in which Dick Cheney is the actual detective and you're the Remington Steele — you must disenthrall yourself: Mr Cheney has usurped your constitutional powers, cut you out of the information loop, and led you down the path to an unprecedented presidency in which the facts have become optional, the intel is valued less than the hunch, and the assistant runs the store.

The problem is, sir, your assistant is robbing you — and your country — blind.

Not merely in monetary terms, Mr. Bush, but more importantly, robbing you of the traditions and righteousness for which we have stood, at great risk, for centuries: Honesty, Law, Moral Force.

Mr. Cheney has helped, sir, to make your administration into the kind our ancestors saw in the 1860's and 1870's and 1880's — the ones that abandoned Reconstruction, and sent this country marching backwards into the pit of American Apartheid.
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We are to believe that the Intel Community, or maybe the State Department, cooked the raw intelligence about Iran, falsely diminished the Iranian nuclear threat, to make you look bad?

And you proceeded to let them make you look bad?

You not only knew all of this about Iran, in early August, but you also knew it was all accurate.

And instead of sharing this good news with the people you have obviously forgotten you represent, you merely fine-tuned your terrorizing of those people, to legally cover your own backside, while you filled the factual gap with sadistic visions of — as you phrased it on August 28th: a quote "nuclear holocaust" — and, as you phrased it on October 17th, quote: "World War III."

My comments, Mr. Bush, are often dismissed as simple repetitions of the phrase "George Bush has no business being president."

Well, guess what?

Tonight: hanged by your own words and convicted by your own deliberate lies...

You, sir, have no business being president.

Good night, and good luck.

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[bigglesz06]

The Idiot in Chief. That may be too kind. Never in my lifetime did I expect to see this once great country in this condition, and led by a man who is patently schizophrenic. It's a nightmare.

[KMac1972]

I clicked on this when I saw the title, but clicked it off as soon as I saw Olber-woman's smug face.

He's a sports announcer for godsakes. And he's a liar and likes to embellish things to fit his leftist slant.

[foamulator]

The left / right blame game is a total sham. This idiot is just the left wing equivilant of Hannity. I HATE THEM ALL.

[padude64]

@redsoxnation011 No way inch high!

[avideoadvantage]

Bush is so evil it is amazing!

FU Bush! you POS

[musicross]

The fact that you clicked it off proves you have a shallow mind. Olberman is not a liar. He merely reports the lies from the far right. Pricks like Limbaugh, hannity, Beck et al. Get your head out of your ass, dude.

[plntlg]

Where is all the commentary about Obama? The policies are the exact same. Olbi-whine should going after Obama's policies too, but he's too busy on his knees worshipping.

[holder2k]

How's that "hope and change" working out for ya? Same policies, just a new face.

[AtlasShruggery]

Uh, no, we're in trouble because your hero, George W. Bush, and his fellow Republican boobs and chickenhawks were asleep at the wheel on 9-11, let Osama bin Laden get away and then lied us into an idiotic unnecessary war in Iraq. They raped the middle class to pay off the trust fund babies who fund their party and nearly destroyed the US economy.

[Sjms13]

Now we have an even WORSE Pathological Liar/Chicken Little of a President who is a puppet for others and can't speak on his own without his PROMPTERS! Now we are in danger because he doesn't have the guts to stand on Americas strength and wants to appease the 'global' governments! God Help Us!!!!

[chngdwrld]

We love the truth and Olberman speaks it! Thank you Olberman!