Quote of the day: Robert Klein, as a fellow "geezer," thinks Young Johnny McCranky is too old -- among other things -- to run for president

Funnyman Klein is troubled by the dependence of Senator McCranky (left) on his friend Senator Lieberman (right). Oops, that's celebrated ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy with his friend Edgar Bergen.

"[Holding up one finger.] One house! [Pause.] And the mortgage is a little behind. But Trump is taking over."

-- funnyman Robert Klein's opening comment to Keith Olbermann on last night's Countdown, which had featured extensive discussion of Senator McCranky's too-numerous-to-remember homes

by Ken

Klein, evidently not a great McCranky enthusiast, is bothered less by the abundant wealth on display in the "how many homes" gaffe than by the evidence of geezerdom. As a certified geezer himself at 66, he said, he thinks McCranky is too old to be running for president. "I don't like the idea of Lieberman whispering in his ear, like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy."

He doesn't seem much impressed with the McCarthy resume either. "I don't know where all this experience was supposed to have been gained, from all those years of supporting the status quo," he said. "There was a sanctity about him because of his suffering, like Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel -- a prisoner subject to torture. Okay, I know, but we have a world to run."

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