Sad state of affairs on the 4th of July

Keith Olbermann, MSNBC commentator:

We enveloped our president in 2001.

And those who did not believe he should have been elected -- indeed those who did not believe he had been elected -- willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.

And George W. Bush took our assent, and reconfigured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point .. and stabbed this nation in the back with it.

Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.