Should Keith Olbermann consider running for political office in 2008?

[NNN0LHI]

I think he has what it takes to do something like that if he made up his mind to do it. Be really nice if he could either replace one of the DINOs or knock off some Republic in the Senate in '08. He could fill a real nice niche somewhere I betcha.

And he is young too. The sky is the limit.

Don

[Ian David]

1. You want Olbermann in CONGRESS? Fuck that... UNITARY EXECUTIVE!

Keith Olbermann for Unitary Executive in 2008!

[Rosco T.]

4. You mean something like this???

www.cafepress.com/democatic

[NNN0LHI]

6. Boy, that looks really good Rosco T. Real damn good n/t

[Ian David]

12. It should say PRESIDENT on it somewhere. Or Unitary Executive. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No; we need him to keep doing exactly what he's been doing.

[GrantDem]

5. I agree...

Catapulting the truth...

[William769]

10. I was thinking the same thing.

[bryant69]

3. No

He's far more valuable where he is.

In my opinion.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[pooja]

7. No. Journalists who fight for the real news need to stay fighting

for the real news.

[bleever]

8. Only if he bumps his head really badly.

I say this with love for the guy.

[Berry Cool]

24. He already bumped his head really badly in 1980, LOL.

And we definitely need him right where he is right now. Or with a bigger audience. But he'd make a lousy politician, because compromise is not his strong point. He's much better off where he is, delivering the truth as he sees it without having to cater to any special interests.

[bleever]

31. You knew

I already knew that. And as for the rest of your comment: I agree with that as well.

He can say what he sees, including what he sees about the ways that other people and media entities are seeing, and how they're saying what they see.

[upi402]

9. He'd be great, but earth needs him as a truth teller to power

Sitll in all, he'd be hands down better than 80% of ALL politicians.
Conyers, Jackson-Lee, Waters, Feingold, McDermot ( [email protected] )
all come to my mind as true patriots standing up to power at personal risk.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. No.

The Conress is a place where people compromise and hedge their words and try to moderate what they say in order not to offend anyone. He would not be able to do the kinds of things he's doing now if he had to worry about his re-election prospects, polls, or whether some wingnut colleague would cooperate with him on a piece of legislation.

Lets let him keep doing what he's doing.

[NNN0LHI]

13. Thats the rub ain't it? I don't want any compromising on Habeas Corpus

I want my representatives to say absolutely no to any suggestion to suspend Habeas Corpus.

There should be no compromise with something as basic as that in my view.

Don

[AlCzervik]

14. no i like him right where he is, same with Stewart, Colbert and various

other good folks that get these "Should so and so run for president" threads.

[Thickasabrick]

15. No - he makes the best watchdog ever.

[Catbird]

16. No.

We need good journalists at least as much as we need good politicians.

[sallyseven]

17. Are you nuts????

A nice guy like him. There would be a brawl a day there in congress. He would shame them so badly.

[mcscajun]

18. Nooooooooo -- We need him *right* where he is.

No matter who is in office. We need all the truthtellers we can get in our media.

[sakabatou]

19. No

We need this generation's Murrow.

[burrowowl]

20. No!

He is an otraged conservative, but he is still a conservative.

[Berry Cool]

26. What makes you say he's a conservative?

Other than that he wants to "conserve" the Constitution and real American values?

[Crunchy Frog]

30. Conservative? I see no evidence of that...

unless by "conservative" you mean someone who believes in traditional ideas of personal responsibility, fundamental honesty and integrity, basic constitutional principles and individual liberty. Maybe an old-style conservative, but very much the contemporary defintition of a liberal.

If you've seen any evidence suggesting anything else, I'd be curious to see it.

[grasswire]

21. NO NO NO NO NO

Geez. We get one honest journalist and youse guys want to put him in public office?

Leave the guy alone. He's unique as he is.

[chazzio]

28. No! Leave KO alone!

Why on earth would anyone want the one journalist(IMO) who has not been completely co-opted or silenced or is in-bed with the administration or the corporate media to join the rest or the crew that only spin news coverage in favor to those who are in power. We desperately need at "least KO who appears to be unique in having cahones enough to speak truth to power and who is a voice for those of us who still believe in the freedoms guaranteed to us by Constitution of the USA. Perhaps his courageous efforts will inspire others to follow his excellent example of what journalism should be about.

[El Supremo]

22. I'd rather he become baseball commissioner.

Then ML Baseball would be cleaned out of drugs and inflated salaries.

[Golden Raisin]

23. He's just about the only media (TV)

voice we've got --- and it's a voice crying out in the proverbial wilderness. I wish to hell the Democratic party's so-called "leadership" would say some of the things Olbermann, a newsperson, is saying. It's sad and disgraceful that the person throwing it right back into Bush's smirking face is Keith and not the Democratic bigwigs. If Olbermann gets too hot for MSNBC to handle and/or BushCo puts pressure on to get Olbermann fired, then sure. Run for Congress. Run for President. But until he's lost his TV podium we need him exactly where he is.

[Vidar]

25. No. Good journalists are an endangered species.

[madmusic]

27. The Nays have it for good reason. n/t

[Patsy Stone]

29. No

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, let alone KO. :loveya: