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I saw this happen yesterday on Meet The Press and it made me cringe. The more this campaign drags on, the more I’m convinced John McCain has Alzheimer’s.

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Colin Powell is on Meet The Press and is endorsing Barack Obama for President of the United States.  Not only has he stated that he will be voting for Barack Obama on election day, he detailed the reasons.  He mentioned one of the reasons being the fact that John McCain chose a running mate who is not qualified to lead.

Before John McCain chose Sarah Palin as a running mate, I was contemplating voting for McCain.  All that went out the window when he chose Palin to be his running mate.  I realized just how ridiculous a McCain presidency would be.  McCain choosing Palin was the smelling salts I needed to make me come to my senses.

I’ve always had the utmost respect for General Colin Powell. I’m glad to find out that he and I will be voting alike on election day.

NBC’s Meet The Press host and Washington bureau chief Tim Russert is dead. He died today in his Washington office. They are innitally saying that it was a heart attack. He was 58.

I’ve spend many a Sunday morning watching Meet The Press. I’ve also done my fair share of yelling at the TV at some of the stuff Russert asked. Sometimes it was about the stuff he didn’t ask.

Not only would I watch Meet The Press almost every Sunday morning, I also subscribe to the audio podcast of Meet The Press. I would sometimes listen to an episode if it was an important interview. I think I listened to the Ron Paul interview twice.

I sometimes found his habit of always pointing out his blue collar roots to be annoying. The “Go Bills” at the end of Meet The Press during football season could get really old.

To say that he was the best at what he did is giving too much credit to the others in his profession. When it came to interviewing politicians or government officials, he stood alone. He will be missed.

Republican presidential hopeful and all around crackpot Ron Paul was on Meet The Press this past weekend and capitalized on the opportunity by showing America just how kooky he is. He blamed Abraham Lincoln, arguably our most beloved president of starting the Civil War. This from MSNBC:

Paul repeated his claim that Abraham Lincoln should not have started the Civil War to get rid of slavery. “Six-hundred-thousand Americans died in the senseless Civil War,” he said. “No, he should not have gone to war. He did this just to enhance and get rid of the original tenet of the Republic,” he told NBC’s Tim Russert.

“Slavery was phased out in every other country in the world,” Paul continued, responding to the question if America would still have slavery had there not been the Civil War. “The way I’m proposing that it should have been done is do it like the British Empire did — you buy the slaves and release them. How much would that cost compared to killing 600,000 Americans?… I mean, that doesn’t sound too radical to me. That sounds like a pretty reasonable approach.”

Except “buying the slaves” would give credence to the idea that humans can be bought and sold like farm animals. That was kind of the whole point in abolishing slavery.

People are not livestock.

Lincoln did not choose to go to war. The war came to him. The United States did not declare war against the Confederacy. The Confederacy declared war against the United States. The southern states illegally seceded from the United States one by one in reaction to Lincoln winning the election. They feared that Lincoln would abolish slavery. Lincoln only called from states to provide troops to assist retaking U.S. forts in southern states after the Battle of Fort Sumter.

A part of me feels sorry for Ron Paul supporters. I understand why they gravitate towards him and his candidacy. Ron Paul is the only anti-Iraq war candidate on the Republican side. Unlike most candidates in either party, Paul comes out and clearly says what he believes. It’s refreshing. The problem is that some of the stuff he comes out and says that he believes in is just plain wrong. Not philosophically wrong, but factually wrong. Like that Lincoln stated the Civil War or that a fertilized egg is a human being. To be a Ron Paul supporter, you have to chose to ignore an awful lot.

Dear Rachel Maddow -

I am writing you this open letter in regards to your open letter to Senator Hatch. Evidently you watched this past week’s episode of Meet The Press where Republican Senator Orrin Hatch lied about one of the fired US Attorneys, Carol Lam. On the show he said:

“She was a former law professor, no prosecutorial experience, and the former campaign manager in Southern California for Clinton”

Of course none of what Orrin Hatch said on Meet The Press was even remotely true. Carol Lam has never been a law professor. Carol Lam has never served as a campaign manager for Bill Clinton. Carol Lam was in fact a prosecutor before becoming a US Attorney.

You seem to be surprised that Orrin Hatch would go on Meet The Press and either make stuff up our just out right lie.

Have you ever watched Meet The Press before?

Having Republicans or so called conservatives on each week to lie about something is very much a staple of the show. It’s what Meet The Press is all about. After all the very name of the program is a lie. When was the last time an elected official or some other government bureaucrat was on the program and actually met with members of the press? It’s been a very long time. Instead, they meet one-on-one with Tim Russert. He asks them one lame question after another, never bothering to ask a follow up question about the whopper of a lie they just told. It’s kind of what he is famous for. That, and writing retarded books about what a great guy his dad “Big Russ” is. Please.

Having you call a Republican out for lying about something on Meet the Press is a lot like someone watching their very first professional wrestling match and then announcing to the world that wrestling is fake.

We all already know it is.

All best wishes,

Rick Rottman

Blogger, “Bent Corner”