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I thought Columbia University was an institution of higher learning and not a political mouthpiece. Obviously I was wrong.

I like so many other people tuned into CNN to listen to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University this afternoon hoping to get a feel for the man who claims the Holocaust did not happen, among other issues. Instead what I heard was a blistering, insulting and embarrassing introduction by Columbia President Lee Bollinger.

Bollinger didn’t waste any time during his introduction of Ahmadinejad to insult him. Calling him a “petty and cruel dictator” right off the bat, I knew that nothing constructive was going to come of the event. It only got worse from that point on.

“When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous,” Bollinger said. “The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history.”

I expected to hear what Ahmadinejad had to say, and then listen to the objections and insults fly, but to start out by welcoming him to a country that supposedly embraces free speech, and is a supposedly tolerant society then lambastes him before he even says one word is to say the least childish.

I can only wonder who may have gotten to Bollinger to write his introductory speech for him. But I would have expected more from a professor of higher education in this country.

Is Ahmadinejad an asshole? Sure he is. One in a long line of assholes in this world. He’s not the first, nor will he be the last, but everybody in this country has the right to say what’s on his mind, asshole or not, then we have the right to offer objections. That’s the way it works!

Bollinger’s introductory speech showed the world that we are not as democratic as we want the world to see us.

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Keith Olbermann tonight on MSNBC’s Countdown took President Bush to the mat and gave him a well deserved verbal beating. Actually a good ol’ fashioned ass kicking would be a better description.

In response to the President’s less than inspiring press conference, Olbermann took him to task about his evasive side stepping of the issues, and cowardly use of General Petraeus as his personal spokesman.

After several uppercuts and body shots, Keith leveled a blinding right hook to the President’s chin, which succinctly sums up Bush’s pathetic rein as President:

“But Mr. Bush, you have hidden behind the General’s skirts, and today you have hidden behind the skirts of “the planted last question” at a news conference, to indicate once again that your presidency has been about the tilted playing field, about no rules for your party in terms of character assassination and changing the fabric of our nation, and no right for your opponents or critics to as much as respond.”

“That, sir, is not only un-American , it is dictatorial.

This special comment on Countdown is without a doubt his best observation of the man known as George W. Bush.

This clip should be mandatory viewing by all those in Congress and the Senate.

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Which village is missing its Idiot? Seriously. There is an idiot on the loose masquerading as the President of the United States!

President Bush today during his press conference again proved to the world that he’s not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. When asked about the Iraqi Government’s lack of progress in reaching its political benchmarks, the President responding with; “part of the reason why there is not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule. I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where’s Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”

Read Press Conference Here

I wonder if somebody from the Bush camp informed Nelson Mandela that he was dead? I also wonder if Bush felt like a total maroon after he was informed that Nelson Mandela was indeed still very much alive? Bush has always humored me during his press conferences with his mangling of the English language, but this time I feel he has once again truly embarrassed the people of the United States by proving what a complete total buffoon their President is.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Thursday an ad criticizing the United States’ top commander in Iraq was “disgusting” and added that Democrats should have spoken out against it.

“I thought the ad was disgusting,” Bush said at a press conference. “I felt like the ad was an attack not only on Gen. Petraeus but on the U.S. military, and I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat party spoke out strongly against that ad.”

It’s called the “The First Amendment” from that little thing called the United States Constitution that George and his band of crooks have so diligently trampled upon for the past seven years. Oops, I forgot he’s probably never read it.

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September 19, one o’ me favorite days o’ t’ year. Its “Talk like a Pirate Day!” Life be hard, and it seems its gettin’ harder every day. As immortalized by t’ great Jimme Buffett, “Aye I be a Pirate, born 400 years too late….” Captain “Bucket O” Blood” Vice invites all t’ partake in this rare, odd, special tradition.

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