Keith Repeats

In a program length commentary, Keith Olbermann addressed issues regarding reform of American Health Care while immersed fully in the public debate and private crisis. His own father, Ted, had suffered a fall on August 22, 2009 followed by kidney failure, and a series of hospital-acquired infections that literally kept him in intensive care and constant pain until March 13, 2010... Literally for the remainder of his life.

MSNBC re-ran the show last night in its entirety, as first broadcast on October 7th. At 43 minutes, it's too large to embed here, but it is something worth hearing, or hearing again as we approach a critical and climactic vote this weekend.

The reason the "closed for maintenance" sign was up the other day wasn't because the site needed work; I did... Another outdoor fall, sidewalk face plant and concussion. Eventually another fall like that, a thrown clot from some other injury or even a cardiovascular event that'll come without warning will mark an end to the blog and to me.

It's something I must accept and do... Even as I know there will still be many dreams incomplete when it's time to sign off.

Ted Olbermann was an architect, not someone who ever wanted to be in the center of a national debate. Shaky though I am, I stand with his son... And every son haunted by the way he lost his Dad.