Who’d have thought that the guy we used to watch on “SportsCenter” would rise to these heights?

Five years ago tonight, I laid in my bed in my apartment three quarters of a mile north of the smoldering pile that had been the World Trade Center, wondering what else could happen tomorrow. Five days from now, it will be the fifth anniversary of the day I got on my bicycle and somehow got by the police barricades and rode to within one block of the pile to see it all for myself.

And today, I wonder why our country still has no true leadership. I wonder why so many of my countrymen have mistaken the president’s lies for leadership. And I think I’m sadder tonight than I was five years ago tonight.

But I’m damned grateful for the courage that Keith Olbermann showed in his commentary on MSNBC tonight. And I hope my friend Bobby is wrong to wonder just how much longer General Electric will let Keith continue.