Mr . President , 
It’s been 18 months since you stated that your  $ 800 million dollar stimulus bill would keep unemployment below 8% . Where are the jobs ?

Bill Maher is the best.

Yop.

Wow.  It’s like a ghost town in here.  Faced with their favorite, left-wing smart-ass telling them that their favorite, left-wing emperor has no clothes, the liberal Mediaite commenters, who ordinarily flock to any posting involving Bill Maher like moths to a flame, are conspicuously absent.  Does it feel a little like Mommy and Daddy are fighting, kids?  Or, I mean, Daddy and Daddy?

I don’t  think America can survive a Obama second term.God help us all if he gets re-elected..

How dare you ask about jobs, you right-wing extremist!

Clearly the economy is racist .

Why would the GOP want to campaign against him when they can campaign for him and get the same thing?

The Republicans are trying to make the economy worse.  That is their plan.  They even caused the FAA to have lay-off thousands of jobs.  

LOL. Magic. Maher is such a putz.

Wait…is MSNBC now giving shows to any black person who puts in application?

Michael Eric Dyson AND Al Sharpton hosting shows on MSNBC????

They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel……………..

I’m an atheist, and I’ll take Romney’s pseudo-christian faith over Obama’s any day. I’m REALLY going to enjoy the pain of people like Maher in 2012.

Kind of like FOX and blonds.  

how so?  You mean the plan the senators refused to consider because it was holiday time?  The one the Congress passed – that one?  

So, tell me, how in the hell did the republicans cause this problem – did I sleep through the takeover of the senate by the republicans?  

I like Obama too. I just prefer him as an adjunct, unpublished professor of law to POTUS.

maher was actually quite critical of obama (like usual), so your point is meaningless

i would rather have rational people help us, not god

and none of the republican contenders are rational

dyson is about 1 million times smarter than any fox anchor

No, because they didn’t send a clean bill. They stripped unions rights from the bill.  They also have filibustered a lot of jobs bills. Democrats don’t have control of the house, so they can’t set the agenda or bring up legislation.  Maybe you should just go back to sleep, since you have no clue what is going on.

ok, lol

Both are good choices.  Sharpton is well researched, clever and entertaining.  His delivery and comfort in the position improving.  Dyson has real skill and a perspective that has to this point been largely omitted by cable news.  MSNBC is building an impressive lineup for the future.  

You mean they sent a “clean” bill and the democrats went nuts!  They wanted all the gravy kept in. lol

well then you are completely out of luck there girlfriend.  There are no rational democrats lately – they’re all nuts and you are the fruit of their labor.

once again proving that a kid and #’s don’t mix.  1 million times? lol  

If Maher had any guts he would have told Michael Eric Dyson  what a real black President should be doing .

Do you read before you post a rebuttal?  Of course he was critical.  That WAS my point.  And when you write “like usual,” you are, AS USUAL, wrong.  Maher, as one of Obama’s biggest cheerleaders for quite some time, has only become critical more recently.  He called anyone who dared criticize Obama a racist, until he, himself, began criticizing him.

Let me see, no one who thinks the mainstream media are liberally biased is capable of rational thought, and none of the Republican contenders are rational.  I am beginning to see a pattern, here…

You mean they allowed people to have the freedom to vote anonymously?  You mean they were protecting workers rights?  You mean they didn’t allow the union thugs to “control” votes? lol

Simple and childish repetitive word association and name-calling from Maher and MSNBC. This is what passes for deep thought among liberals. Why even put fourth a fake narrative, just say terrorist/hostage/teabagger100 times in a row and spare us the pain of your imbecilic and flawed analysis. Psuedo intellectual twits.

Well, it shows Republicans have disdain for the worker

Is that the deal with Darladoon?  Is she just some unsupervised child at the keyboard?  That would explain a lot.  I will stop trying to debate rationally with her.  I was about to comment on the “rationality” of, say, an IQ of 10 vs. an IQ of 10 million, but you saved me.  

Obama has certainly inherited a difficult position.  His calm concession has resulted in a middle way forward that has limited growth.  While the recovery is slow, the resultant devolution of the Republican party has proceeded with considerable speed.  We will fully recover after the convulsive end of the coalition famously assembled by Reagan.  Government functions poorly when one of the two parties so angrily ends.  

lol – ok then I’m sure they will unseat O’Reilly et al.  Mind putting a small wager on that?  My prediction is that if they do get shows – the shows will bomb in less than 6 months.  How much do you want to take?

Bill Maher complains about the GOP playing victim, then refers to it as a “bully”…so much hypocrisy on both sides of media and politics…

There is a lot less here than meets the eye.  Obama will win again.  He is just a much better campaigner than any of his challengers.  As far as calm concessions and slow recovery is concerned, Obama does not really care.  He just wants to be President, and no one can beat him.  The current ideologue hijacking of the GOP reminds me of when McGovern won the Dem nomination in ’72.  He was really popular in the party, but not with the public at large.  You can say that about most all of the GOP contenders right now, except perhaps Romney, who is a crashing bore.  None of these people beat Obama. 

So that means you won’t be voting for him?

And his dad can beat up your dad.

You know if that were deep thought from liberals it would still qualify as ten times deeper than Conservative ideology. You seem to be fairly ignorant, why don’t you try and explain all the shallow inane Conservative talking points that have no basis in logic or reason. Try this lie on for size, Conservatives say tax cuts stimulate the economy and create jobs. We’re in roughly our tenth year of the Bush tax cuts, how many jobs have they created? And how influential have they been in stmulating the economy? You’re a complete idiot.

no……I think his sarcastic comment went right over your head

Okay… I watched for about fifteen whole seconds before I had to puke. God, Bill Maher is an a-hole; and whoever that other guy is, he should simply commit something like hair kari.

Wow you’re giving them 6 entire months, you are kind.

government functions poorly (or stalls completely) when the person in charge has no idea what that entails.  When the going gets rough – he goes golfing.  

No vetting, no wonder we now have a character in the big seat who can’t even say good morning without a teleprompter.  In the dead of night don’t you just get a little twinge of doubt about someone with no history, no old friends from school, no school records – just a big empty book?  I sure the hell wonder.  

I have made this point before and we will see were this one goes.  I think this deserves discussion without the pro/anti/neutral political hyperbole we seem to throw on here. 

My main problem with Obama is how he governs.  I am not against anything he has tried to enact (or failed to enact).  I believe we should have a national healthcare system (the current system is and was broken, even with Obamacare).  I believe we cannot win the “war on terror” with the same rules we used in the cold war or the provisions put in place under the Bush administration (though honestly, he hasn’t changed it), and I do believe there needs to be regulations on the corporations/wall street/banks so we put the good of the nation over short term profits.  That’s where I stand, but I don’t agree with how we are getting there. 

The main problem I see with Obama is that he governs like a congressperson.  He wants to lead by committee and not take the reigns and steer the country in the direction he wants to see us go.  The reason I think he does this is that he was never a governor.  His highest office has been senator.  The last president that was only elected senator was John F Kennedy.  The rest have been governors.  The offices call for two different styles of governance.  One is all based on compromise and action by committee, the second is rallying or shaping said committee to reach the goals set forth.  A governor forces you to work with both sides on one singular vision.  To use those that support you to draft legislation that suits you agenda.  Obama hasn’t done that.  He rarely takes charge as to not upset his fellow senators/representatives.  This would be fine if he was just a member of a committee. But he isnt, he is the head man and the buck starts and stops with him.

So I agree with Maher on this one.

or……he campaigned and ran for the position….promised everyone Hope and Change and Puppies and Rainbows…..and everything else he couuld bloviate about….and hasn’t performed up to expectations. If any party “devolves”…..it will be the democrats……The left will start eating the center. I think Maher is only the beginning.

Thanks, this was exactly what I was talking about. Thanks again!

True, some of the magic is gone but it will be replaced FURY.

Fury at what the extremist Tealiban is trying to do to this country.

And a FURY vote is just as valid as a MAGIC vote.

I believe he does care quite a bit.  There are limits to the executive position that humans, despite (historically) recent movement toward popular sovereignty, still lament.  We still want a leader of the tribe equally lion and fox.  We imagine, illogically, that one great man is enough to solve the accumulated problems of millions of bad decisions and downward historical momentum.  My point is simply that he is cog, attempting to function in a manner that allows the machine to produce forward momentum while other elements labor and border on split.  The more centripetal force he exerts the greater the chance of fatal breakdown.  

I do agree that he benefits from a weak Republican field (no surprise to you, I am sure).  This is partly a function of the dissolution of the coalition that has empowered the republican party since Reagan.  No one candidate can now meet the dual demands of the business class and the textual fanatics.  

Cheers David!

I am a Palin-supporting conservative but at least Bill Maher is honest in saying that Obama will be held accountable for the economy.

Where he’s dishonest in his verbal assault of Christian-conservatives is when he acknowledges how important Christianity is to this country but doesn’t acknowledge that his base of nominees always suck up to that fact — I.E. Bill Clinton showing up in church with a big old Bible in his hands, Obama pretending to go to church, etc.  They all do it because yes, we are a Christian nation and I still believe we should be proud of it as it does not force anybody to convert as Islam does without tyranny. 

But we are headed for a double-dip recession and he is going to have a hard time making the case that this one vote by conservatives in one half of one branch of government is going to be the cause of it while the rest of America remembers the failed stimulus and the force of ObamaCare down our throats.

So, it was a good try, but Americans will reject Obama next year and they’ll be right in their rejection.

This country needs a good old fashioned Thatcher revolution.

He ran smartly.  The nation was ready for both hope and change.  I think that puppies and rainbows are your addition.  I agree that he has not performed up to expectations, but that might say more about our expectations than his performance.  Not sure what you mean by “the left will start eating the center”.  The only danger I see on the left is apathy while the right has literally spawned a new “party”.

This fascination with Obama’s sporting choice strikes me as odd.  I cannot remember such animosity directed toward the use of ones precious time.  

He was vetted aggressively, giving a defining speech on race after being questioned about the words of his local pastor.  

Of course you wonder.  You dislike the man in a personal way.  He never had a chance with some.

Complaining about name-calling while doing to it someone else in the same post, and then calling them pseudo, intellectual, twits, does’nt reflect well on your point.  I agree,  Maher can be an annoying, jerk.

he wasn’t vetted at all.  Holes in his resume large enough to run a train through and the media glossed them all over by stating every question raised was racist.  

You should have a quiet moment with your brain and truly question what little you know about him.

To be fair, there was a significant amount of overt and covert racism directed toward Obama.  As far as his biography, I have read his autobiography, read countless articles an even watched documentaries that describe his life story.  He strikes me as one of the most public personalities of our current age.  

I understand that there is literally a cottage industry that has emerged to promote a sense of mystery around Obama.  I have been a longtime reader of sites like W.N.D., listened to Michael Savage for nearly 6 years, consumed reports about Obama’s supposed gay affairs and murder plots.  Since his emergence dedicated opponents have propagated the idea that he is a secret opponent of the Republic.  Fine… let the marketplace of ideas bear what it will… but I don’t believe any of it.

The magic is gone? It was never there idiot.

Really? He is pretty much giving everything Republicans want. Why are so many people out of work? Big business, Republicans do not want this economy to work. They want it to fail so they can pass their huge tax cuts for corporate america. Stupid people, it’s not about the people it is about the rich and of course a black man as our president. Ya, he could save you from a burning building and you wouldn’t thank him. He is a liberal afterall!

Not much of a betting man… it strikes me as eerily similar to superstition (except for those cases that will get you blacklisted from a casino).  I think that O’Reilly has a fairly dedicated (though aged) demographic. The problem for FNC (in this context) is that the larger national demographic shift demands increased diversity in cable news representation in the long term.  I don’t believe that Sharpton will suddenly change the present game, but he might lay the foundation for an effective counterpoint to the narrow framing and limited appeal of the lead rival.  

No, the economy needs some help.  And then there’s the Bush years, over doubling the National debt while turning a booming economy into an almost depression. Left us in two wars, deregulation policies that allowed CEO’s to rape and plunder, and oh yea, it took him 8 years to do all this. How is it that you think it should be turned around in 2 years all with a Republican party sabotaging every effort to get it going? Really? Is it just because the man is black? A Democrat? What is the problem with radical republicans? I would like to know? Fox News?  Rush Limbaugh?

Bush? Ring a bell? It only took him 8 years to destroy a booming economy and over double the natl. debt. Can’t believe people support a party that only cares about around 4 or 5 percent of the people in this country. Do you really think republicans care one iota about people making less than a million a year. If they did, they would be for investing in rebuilding our infrastructure, high speed rail, natural gas vehicles. No they don’t want that they want to destroy our economy so some radical republican can take us farther in to a hell hole.

Do you actually watch MSNBC? Morning Joe? Anything that might just offer facts instead of fiction? I have watched fox news, used to watch alot. I finally decided I knew a lot more about what was actually going on than they did. I just got tired of made up crap!

I would like to suscribe to your conspiracy newsletter . Url ? Link  ?

a republican bill????….WHO…u didnt name anybody….is generic running?????..i saw you live tonight and you were lying through your teeth…thats why the president cant stand you professional leftists…you just like the hobbits….never happy with what you get….just constantly complaining about what you cant have….what are you doing bill????cheerleading for republicans now???..what are you lookin for????…fodder for your show???….maybe if you kiss enough repuke ass you can land yourself another christine o’donnell…youre so phony youre pathedic…looking like a wacked out meth head….tell you what bill…..YOU RUN AGAINST OBAMA….or get one of leftest loon buddies like bernie sanders or ed shultz to run….dont let a republican do your dirty work for ya….mount a challenge from the left bill…PRIMARY HIS ASS, i mean hell, the magic is gone…right……should be easy to beat him….get somebody who will stand up to the big bad tea party billy

Seriously, Bruce is talking about 99 percent of the Republicans in this country. I am suprised any republican can get elected. They represent less than 5% of the people in this country. They could care less about you or your job. Get a clue! It is not about the economy it is about getting rid of a black president. Over 40% of the people in this country are racist and therefore no better than the old KKK. Just a bunch of ignorant people spreading fox and limbaugh propaganda. Nothing more, nothing less!

I’m not right wing, I’m not left wing (i use to be a died in the wool Dem), I’m Independent. Now that thats out of the way, do you honestly believe President Obama has done everything he could for your side? (I  assume with trepidation that you’re on the left ideologically, correct me if I’m wrong.)If I were still a democrat, i’d be screaming about how this President has not done anything but play it cool and try to be above everything political. While playing it cool is not always a bad thing (in instances of war its good as opposed to cowboy mentalities of certain former presidents) but when it comes to the nuts and bolts of legislation he CAN’T keep doing that!The perception of his lack of legislative strategy is starting to show. While I know Lincoln is his go to guide for all things presidential, I think the point remains that he better start reading someone more like LBJ. I know the President is an intellectual (and that’s a badge of honor, i don’t treat that word as a pejorative) but he needs to realize that this isn’t a country of intellectuals anymore (especially in congress) he needs to know how to govern the weak minded. 
President Obama looks weak and ineffectual. And if he expects people to come out for him the way they did in 08 he better start making people WANT to vote for HIM. 
Not just because he’s better than (insert Republican).

Have you ever read a word of Thomas Paine? Thomas Jefferson? Ben Franklin? You are aware these men were not Christians. They were Deists (believe in an architect of the universe who has nothing to do with human affairs; gave us free will) and Thomas Jefferson even went as far as rewriting the new testament where he omits all miracles and the resurrection. Thomas Paine’s rights of man attacks all organized religions. 

Here’s a quote from Ben Franklin: “Lighthouses are more useful than churches.”

Read your history before you start that Christian nation nonsense. 

This wonderful country was founded on the values of the Enlightenment. Europe was founded on the teachings of the Roman Catholic church… What did that give them? The DARK AGES. And of course subsequent wars between Catholics and Protestants… Christians and Muslims… Christians killing Jews… 

Yes, religion when it was in power and taken seriously by the majority has a wonderful track record. If you want a country founded on religion… Go to the Middle East.
Christian extremists are no better than Muslim extremists. They only create poverty, war, and oppression. 

Have you ever read a word of Thomas Paine? Thomas Jefferson? Ben Franklin? You are aware these men were not Christians. They were Deists (believe in an architect of the universe who has nothing to do with human affairs; gave us free will) and Thomas Jefferson even went as far as rewriting the new testament where he omits all miracles and the resurrection. Thomas Paine’s rights of man attacks all organized religions. 

Here’s a quote from Ben Franklin: “Lighthouses are more useful than churches.”

Read your history before you start that Christian nation nonsense. 

This wonderful country was founded on the values of the Enlightenment. Europe was founded on the teachings of the Roman Catholic church… What did that give them? The DARK AGES. And of course subsequent wars between Catholics and Protestants… Christians and Muslims… Christians killing Jews… 

Yes, religion when it was in power and taken seriously by the majority has a wonderful track record. If you want a country founded on religion… Go to the Middle East.
Christian extremists are no better than Muslim extremists. They only create poverty, war, and oppression. 

Why don’t you tell us what made up stuff you heard on Fox.Its always the same thing with you liberals never any facts just general accusations.

Emotion unsupported by ideas does not win an election. Not that i’m saying one republican has ideas (ok Gary Johnson and Ron Paul do) but because of the nature of republicans today they don’t seem interested in ideas. 

Without sound, logical ideas supported by action, Obama is making his re-election not a sure thing.

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Do you even know that composition of the “$800M” stimulus.
Do you know the size of stimulus in China (absolute and percentage of GDP).
Do you know the size of the decrease in GDP during the recession?.
Please read a little and get the facts. The internet is at your fingertip, you have
no excuse for not knowing, other than sheer laziness.

“I am a Palin-supporting conservative” – credibility DONE.. 

The happy fact is that the ‘magic’ was entirely media-created. Maher himself decided that Obamo would be ‘magic’ and ‘transformational’ and ‘post-partisan’ and all sorts of mumbo-jumbo to mask the obvious fact: “Obamo is a Leftist and I need to sell a Leftist to a voting population that doesn’t really want one.”

Maher and Leftist media HACKS were the ones who put Lipstick on the Obamo Pig.

>> “Maher saw something controversial in that, though he did see a twist to the analogy that the word “hostage” didn’t quite properly convey: a message that “‘if we shoot the hostage, it’s not really that bad for the hostage – thats the idea on the debt ceiling.”

LOL  I’ll say this much for Maher — at least he’s consistent. He was delusional to start and he still continues to display the mental prowess of a carrot. Bottom line: there’s nothing controversial about what the Tea Party did. They simply held Washington accountable for all of the money it HAS spent and WANTS to spend. And if every American can balance their household bills…and if every American is going to be held accountable by banks (or whoever) for the bills they run up…then it’s really not asking very much for these idiots on Capitol Hill to do the same.

As for “shooting the hostage”, that can actually be the SMARTEST move, so long as your aim is true.
What’s the matter, didn’t anyone here see the classic action movie SPEED…

HARRY (Jeff Daniels):  Alright, pop quiz.  Airport, gunman with a hostage.
He’s using her for
cover. He’s almost to a plane. You’re one hundred feet away. Jack?

JACK (Keau Reeves):  Shoot the hostage.

HARRY:  What???

JACK:  Take her out of the equation. Go for a good wound and he can’t get to the plane with her.
Then you have a clear shot.

bill maher is another dumb ass white person who wants the president to be some dumb ass bully. fight your own battles, it’s other white people that are hurting you guys, not this president you butt wipes, elected these politician. The truth is out, young white kids and minorities, got the president elected. punk ass bill maher is just mad he can’t have no black jokes to tell. he is a clown, like stewart. 

you righties are sure obsessed with ratings.. Id LOVE to see those demographics for FOX.. old crusty and white probably.. Pensioners that stay at home and rail against a government that is involved in just about ALL of the benefits they enjoy..Part of me HOPES they cut Medicare and Social Security for these idiots.. Watch these rats and roaches run out into the sunlight and complain when this happens. 

“I don’t know why these people are always in need of being the victim, I guess that’s part of the mentality if you’re in the tea party and you’re the kind of person that wants to join the tea party. It’s always the Alamo, Mike.”

This is one of the truest statements I have seen about the teabaggers. They are the perpetual victim and crybabies. One thing I know if the shit comes down heavy in this country the last people we will be able to count on is a teabagger, they will be off crying in a corner being a bitch. Biggest pussies this country has seen, and that is saying something.

“I don’t know why these people are always in need of being the victim, I guess that’s part of the mentality if you’re in the tea party and you’re the kind of person that wants to join the tea party. It’s always the Alamo, Mike.”

This is one of the truest statements I have seen about the teabaggers. They are the perpetual victim and crybabies. One thing I know if the shit comes down heavy in this country the last people we will be able to count on is a teabagger, they will be off crying in a corner being a bitch. Biggest pussies this country has seen, and that is saying something.

“I don’t know why these people are always in need of being the victim, I guess that’s part of the mentality if you’re in the tea party and you’re the kind of person that wants to join the tea party. It’s always the Alamo, Mike.”

This is one of the truest statements I have seen about the teabaggers. They are the perpetual victim and crybabies. One thing I know if the shit comes down heavy in this country the last people we will be able to count on is a teabagger, they will be off crying in a corner being a bitch. Biggest pussies this country has seen, and that is saying something.

Fact: Dreams from a delusional gay rod! Remember Mahar always lean forward!

Fact: Clintons dismantling of intelligence community and his don’t pass info between groups law got us clobbered on 9/11. Barney Franks, Chris Dodd’s and Maxine Waters mortgage fiasco caused the economy to plunge. That’s extremist radical progressives caused all of the problems on the countries plate today.

Fact: Clintons dismantling of intelligence community and his don’t pass info between groups law got us clobbered on 9/11. Barney Franks, Chris Dodd’s and Maxine Waters mortgage fiasco caused the economy to plunge. That’s extremist radical progressives caused all of the problems on the countries plate today.

Fact: Come on you guys all love Romney?

Thank God for the fiscally conservative people (responsible Republicans and Tea Party members) in this country. We didn’t get nearly everything we want, but we’ve only just begun. Just wait and see what’s next! It would be nice to see Obama fail to get reelected (like he’s failed at everthing else he’s done) but that is no longer completely necessary in order to take over and control the debate.

Given the irrational and unprecedented resistence that Obama has been facing from the conservative side, he is doing about as good as he can. All the real good stuff will happen in the second term.

and your point is?

Two things… I’ll give you that some of the opposition to President Obama is irrational.

1. Exactly what is unprecedented about the opposition?
2. Saying that he is saving all the “good stuff” for the second term is an act of faith. As a former Dem, it’s not something that I would’ve been proud of, nor is it something you should be proud of. 

And don’t go screaming i’m a Rep or a Tea Party guy. I’m an Independent. My philosophical outlook is that of a classical liberal (free minds, free markets).

“1 million times smarter” ? Based on what?

Running for reelection on the “I inherited” line isn’t going to get him reelected.  He cannot vote present or point the finger at others forever; at some point even the media will wake up (perhaps).

Bill Maher has agreed that Obama is incompetent, he just calls it another name (“magic gone”)

do you make any sense?  Quit with the knowing what republicans want nonsense.  Only speak for yourself.  It’s time to grow up and put delusional statements about republicans to rest.

anyone trying to pin this bad economy soley on liberals is an idiot. anyone trying to pin this bad economy soley on conservatives is an idiot. both sides had a hand in this, and if you think thats false, guess what you are? thats right, an idiot

It took Obama only 2 years to make things worse.

If Republicans want to destroy the economy, who will buy all the rich people’s stuff?

Jobs cannot be created when Obama stifles businesses with over regulation and Obamacare. They are sitting on their money because they don’t know what Obama will do next to screw things up.  Ask almost any small businessman.

Whew!  That’s a lot of ignorance. Do you have any facts to back up your stupidity?

Whew!  That’s a lot of ignorance. Do you have any facts to back up your stupidity?

Many people thought Carter would beat Reagan. The election is still a long way off. Flowery speeches and a teleprompter won’t work this time.

Seek – I think you are right, they will bomb. The thing is MSNBC will keep them on the air and call them “successes”.

Check the numbers. Obama has had more appointments blocked than any president, ever. The filibuster has been used more times in the past 2 years than at any other time in history. After passing the debt limit increase 17 times in a row, including everytime during the Bush years, this time the conservatives condition that on getting legislation that their side could not otherwise get via the democratic process. So unprecedented? Yep.

Second terms are always better and it is likely after the 2012 elections that Obama will again have both houses of congress to help him since the republicans have totally pissed off most of the country.

Good luck, his name ends with 13. Past bedtime, mom’s coming to tuck him in.
My question here is what part of the prosperity we lived with from 02-07, booming real estate, thriving business until the greed got in the way in the end, and that was all Bush’s fault. how about Clinton pulling the trigger on Bin Laden in the late 90′s that would have saved 2 years of devastation after 9/11? memories for prog’s are very short.

He wasnt’ calling a republican woman a c@nt, why would any progressive come to his defense for criticizing the president?  Other than to call him a bigot and a racist, and that would defeat tomorrow’s rant about republican women.

Yeah, he got elected because no one wanted a black man in office, douchebag. Alot of people had hoped hope and change was a true possibility when he got elected. Unforutnately, he was shown to be just an empty suit, community organizer, and it’s come out lately he ” doesn’t like conflict.” And now even the hateful left is starting to see there’s no there there. Scary to be one of his helium balloons today trying to hold him above the crowd when he’s wearing lead underwear.

Because he occasionally uses big words with more than one syllable. I’ve heard Dyson on MSDNC and Maher’s HBO show. He’s an idiot and a racebaiter.

I just paid $ 23.86 for an iPhone and my girlfriend loves her Dell laptop that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 42 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 665 which only cost me $ 62,81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com

Come on Black, you’re not trying logic again are you. that’ll never work. See, all that debt, it’s just a republican illusion to scare people. Comp[anies like apple, ge, microsoft, their hoarding all the money to make america suffer. Oh wait, thy’re all in the tank for democrats. What the heck, now even I am confused.

It was Obama himself who promised to lower the sea levels and heal the world if only we elected him President. While I assumed that his hubris and arrogance and not an actual campaign pledge, he hasn’t come close to fulfilling any realistic expectations of the electorate. He’s made the economy much worse and p-ssed way trillions in the process. And aside from bin Laden and those Somali pirates getting capped, I can’t think of any foreign policy successes he’s had.

Today’s unemployment number is 400,000.

Last week’s unemployment number has been “unexpectedly” REVISED upwards from 398,000 to 401,000!

What a surprise!

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ooops, a billlliooonnnnn times smarter.

yeah, nothing like getting the real word from Mika and her white house sponsored twitter account, or how about that genius donnie douchebag. The only thing true ever said on morning joe was that obama was a dick, and the guy got shitcanned for a month for being honest.

Please do me a favor and spend a week watching one hour of Sharpton. You’ll be impressed. He’s sharp as a tack. He’s gonna lay a foundation alright, but for what, other than blatant racist hate, I don’t know.

Good point. Both sides have caused the problems we are in now. Too bad more people can’t see that.

If it is a Republican I hope it’s John Huntsman. He’s the only guy over there that has any decency and respect. He’s not a wingnut.

The FAA is the one changing the rules that have been in place for 76 years; the House bill, which is waiting in the SENATE, reinstates the existing rules regarding unionization.

As with most of what Obama has been doing, HE IS USING REGULATORY AGENCIES TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT CONGRESS WILL NOT. If a Republican President were trying to do this, the media and the Dems would scream bloody murder and threaten to IMPEACH the President for overstepping his Constitutional authority.

Secondly, did you know that the government SUBSIDIZES airplane tickets to small, rarely used airports? The ELY, NEVADA airport’s flights reported a total passenger count of just over 400 passengers last year.

OUR TAX DOLLARS paid approximately $3,700 PER TICKET in subsidies so that the airlines would continue to serve ELY, NV.

Tell me, how is that a best use of our TAXPAYER DOLLARS?

The House bill eliminates some subsidies. 

If we are willing to close some MILITARY BASES because they are not economically feasible in today’s climate, WHY MUST WE CONTINUE TO SUBSIDIZE small airports for which there is LITTLE NECESSITY?

What is it about black people hating Fox. Check on this site alone so see the difference between the two channels, Fox and MSNBC. MSNBC has a panel of talking heads all agreeing that Obama is practically a shoe in to be reeelcted. Fox has a segment with two people in a debate, notice the fact it’s not just one sided bullshit
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hostage-taker-versus-terrorist-fox-news-panel-debates-hyperbolic-political-attacks/

MSNBC never has a counterbalance on their shows, Fox does. You are talking out your ass, try doing a little homework and get educated, it might shock you.

So, you are saying what exactly? That they are blocking Obama’s appointments because Obama is black? Please tell me you are not that ignorant.  Next, with the filibuster, if the Democrats weren’t trying to pass massive legislation that a good portion of the country was against, the Republicans wouldn’t have needed to use it so often. Obamacare?

Finally, it makes NO difference whatsoever how many times the debt ceiling was raised in the past. Usually it was raised in smaller increments not this giant leap that Obama wanted. Here are the differences and none of them have anything to do with Obama specifically but are due to our dire debt problem.

1. This was the single largest increase EVER.
2. We have never been threatened with a downgrade in our credit rating due to the size of our debt.
3. We have never been lectured by China (in conclusion with Russia) to get our debt under control.
4. There is more and more talk about getting away from the dollar by large Countries due to our debt.

If the bill was so clean what were the union election rules (not rights) doing in the bill…  You libs have a sense of entitlement that the country can no longer afford…  You just don’t get it..  Had those workers wanted a union they would have voted one in, as they don’t choose to have a union Congress decides that the election rules must be changed… Your side has been trying to weasel that rule in for sometime and now you’ve gone as far as to put all these people out of work, you should be ashamed of your side.

Once you understand Michael Eric Big-Words Dyson was cloned from an Obama toenail you understand his purpose in life.

Not sure that any of that is factually true.  The economy is not “much worse” than when he campaigned by any objective measure.  As far as any micturating of currency is concerned, he has sprinkled the trough lightly while his predecessor has been releasing full stream with gusto in a record setting way  and continues to supply the the fluid that deepens the warm yellow flood.

The magic is gone? He never had any magic except the magic to make jobs and the economy disappear!

I don’t know about tlf13′s “conspiracy letter,” but mine is called “The Wall Street Journal” if you’re asking on a source that holds Bush accountable for messing things up, for instance, on the jobs front:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

I’ll doubt you’ll want to subscribe to another one I read, but it’s called “USA Today”…

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-08-30-stimulus30_CV_N.htm

As for your snotty, information-started retort to tlf13′s post, what part of it do you find to be conspiratorial? The part that suggests the “economy needs some help?” The part that rightly credits Bush with doubling the National Debt and presiding over the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression? The part that rightly notes he started and didn’t finish two wars, both based at best on abstract premises? The part that rightly notes vast business deregulation during his term? The part that notes he, by a bizarre quirk of electoral history, got elected twice to do this and that we now expect Obama to have undone it within two years?  The part that rightly notes the extremely stubborn voting history of Congressional Republicans during those two years?

Or is it the part of the post that asks you to answer for WHY all this — all of it undeniably a part of the unbiased record of history — is true? Because, frankly, if it’s this last bit you find paranoid… then you’ll have to count me among the paranoid too, as well as every other thinking American (the few of us that are still standing). 

Last week, a Republican called Obama a “tar baby,” just one more piece of evidence that the race question is not unfounded. And the issue of him being a Democrat? C’mon, the Right has masterfully turned that legitimate label into a slur, simply by spitting every time they repeat it. As for Fox and Limbaugh, please tell me you’re not one of those who thinks those sources count as unbiased “news.” If yes, then you might as well counter back with citations from the National Enquirer.

I know that “Shovel-ready was not as … uh .. shovel-ready as we expected. ”
Perhaps your exasperation should be directed directed towards the President , it appears he didn’t know the answers to those questions .
Hope and change , right lemming ?

But only if MED knew what the words he said meant.

jake12 , you were able to divine so much from George_C ‘s nine words ,  can tell me what color I am thinking of ?

Ron Paul for President.

I wonder how much semen Maher ingests each day?

The economy isn’t much worse? Unemployment went up to double digits and has now “settled” at 9.2%. GDP was 0.8% in the first half of this year. The dollar is weaker thanks to the Fed’s quantitative easing. Gas prices have doubled. And foreclosures are at record highs as are homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages.

People can keep harping on what Obama “inherited”, but most Presidents come into bad situations when a party loses the White House. The only recent example of one who didn’t was Clinton who entered office with an economy in recovery(albeit a weak one) and the world at relative peace in the wake of the Cold War ending. Hell, Reagan “inherited” just as bad an economy as Obama, yet at this exact same point in his Presidency, we were on the verge of over 9% GDP and an economic boom which lasted for a quarter century.

DEM 2012 EXIT POLL

WHITES 30%

ASIANS 30%

LATINOS 50%

BLACKS 99%

ILLEGAL ALIENS 100%

THE DEAD 100%

SEIU 200%

ABSENTEE MILITARY 000% (balotts arrive to late to qualify)

* obamma runs unopposed in 7 of the 57 states

how do you know Im black? smh

Look at the charts that track the debt and note when the Democrats (2007) took control of Congress. Then just for fun look at what is happening now with the Republicans in charge of just the House. Obama and the Dems can’t do anything. Now think rather than feel. Answer the question, “which party caused this mess?”.

Ostrich, meet sand…

Never under estimate, the Dead.  

Paul/Paul 2012

Now all the Bill Maher and the rest of the Regressives have to understand is that there never was anything else bu magic in the first place. Hope and Change was all an illusion.

You blame the lack of jobs on Obama? He is powerless to pass any legislation because one entire party has decided that he must fail and have been willing to even threaten blowing up the American and world economies to do it. Obama will get a second term, because there is justice, and the American people are going to hold the republicans responsible for their little pact with the devil.

Does he own a bunker, is he all prepared for the last days?

Thanks. You’ve shown us that you can’t spell, you can’t think and you can’t make sense. We appreciate your being so upfront about your inadequacies.

Now go away.

Only one party decided to threaten blowing up our economy in order to push through their agenda. Sorry, that is reality.

The original point had to do with what I termed “unprecedented” opposition that Obama has faced and I mentioned the appointment blocks, the filibuster, and the debt limit matter, and each of them were in fact “unprecedented” in recent history, am I correct on that?

I agree with you entirely that both sides have contributed to our current problems, and the partisans who can’t see — or admit — their side’s contributions are idiots. That said, it’s also not reasonable to suggest that the two sides bear equal responsibility. The last two-and-a-half years we’ve been trying to dig out of a mess that’s been 30 years in the making, going back to when the deficits really started to pile up under Reagan and worsening in the wake of two huge, unfunded wars. Unfortunately, as a country we’ve never shed our naive belief in “trickle down” economics and the proponents of this theory — on both sides — must bear the lions’ share of the blame for our current economic woes.

Ok Super Bill!  Just who the hell does he think will beat out Obama?  I am GOP but for sure i would never vote for either of the idiots running!  To be honest the on GOP I would have voted for would have been Jeb Bush he will run sooner than later and he would do a good job for the country.

The group now only want to win for status such as Romney who is just pissed a little mixed kid kicked his rich ass during the election.  not only that but Romney campaign went broke where as Obama ‘s had big bucks left over-so you telling me Romney can balance the budget or anything else-he like the rest are jokes!

Ok Super Bill!  Just who the hell does he think will beat out Obama?  I am GOP but for sure i would never vote for either of the idiots running!  To be honest the on GOP I would have voted for would have been Jeb Bush he will run sooner than later and he would do a good job for the country.

The group now only want to win for status such as Romney who is just pissed a little mixed kid kicked his rich ass during the election.  not only that but Romney campaign went broke where as Obama ‘s had big bucks left over-so you telling me Romney can balance the budget or anything else-he like the rest are jokes!

Bill Maher: A Republican Can Beat Obama In 2012 Because ‘The Magic Is Gone’It only seems that way to the faithless.

Obama totally won the debt ceiling fight by agreeing to a bunch of stuff that is going to be replaced after the American people throw the republicans on their ass in 2012.  

Obama totally won the debt ceiling fight by agreeing to a bunch of stuff that is going to be replaced after the American people throw the republicans on their ass in 2012.  

Bill was under the Obama spell but he had Ann Coulter on the other day and I think she gave him the wand treatment. Either that or he is using reverse psychology to try to gleen a few conservative fans. Only an idiot would imagine Obama losing.

The magic was a carefully orchestrated figment of David Axelord’s imagination. Mr. Obama was a false entity delivered whole and uninvestigated by our media, 91% of whom voted for Barack Obama (so much for their much touted intelligence and wisdom).

After November 2012, 0bama will do the thing that he is best at: BOWLING!

LOL! I had forgotten about that 37 he racked up a couple of years ago.

No republicans are. The economy is simply f’ed up. Thanks Mr. Bush. 

What he misspell other than “Obama”? It was probably intentional. You should be as creative.

Yeah, he might as well be a Democrat (he said sarcastically).

How many times are you going to say that? Do you think repeating it is going to make it sound any less ridiculous?

Sorry to bust your bubble, but there ain’t gonna’ be no second term. 

No, you’re not. Obama had majorities in the House and Senate behind him for his first two years, and without them we wouldn’t have had Obamacare shoved down our throats.

Dream on, sucker. If anything, more Democrats will be thrown out on their ass because it’s obvious that after everything that’s happened they still don’t know what’s good for this country.

Who cares as long as it’s true?

Never under estimate, the Dead. 

that’s so true.. I think the Democratic machine in chicago was caught using them to vote at one time..

If the man is powerless, he should have never became President.

If not for a victim approach on Government, Democrats wouldn’t even have a party.. Oh Please.. don’t try to reflect the Democratic party agendas on Tea Party, you guys earned it, you keep it.

The last few times I have seen Bill Maher in clips here, he seems defeated and lost as a Democrat. 

I am finally starting to like watching his clips..  His defeated state of mind is a breath of Fresh air….

If you look at the polls, the folks are not too happy with the repubs.

Yes, they were Grateful for the Dead.

He won a valid election by a significant margin but the opposition party is behaving classlessly.

dave, I wish it were so that emotion does not win elections. I fear that emotion unsupported by logic does win elections, and has won them recently.
Just look at the comments here. In the context of the whole USA, we are insignificant, but we do represent the emotionally connected to current politics, and no matter how logical we think we are being, those who disagree with us will refuse to see the logic and go with their emotions.
Reality always trumps theory, especially when the theory depends on the wisdom of humans. 

You do realize the debt has increased MORE in 2.5 years under Obama than
it did in 8 years under Bush, correct? You do realize the deregulation
began far before Bush correct? You do realize bailed out those wall
street CEOs correct? You do realize Obama has only extended the wars,
correct?

Guess who’s mayor of Chicago?

no, he just looks dead…;)

The government has to subsidize a lot of things from food to airports to trains.   

It’s in the governments best interest to keep these airports open and running because there is not another airport within a couple hundred miles. Why?  National security and other emergency reasons. 
Other airports taxes goes to supporting these smaller airports.   

Amtrak is subsidized too because the private sector can’t make a profit on most routes, but it’s in the country’s best interest to have passenger rail service.  Why?  9/11 is a good example.  Not too many flights were taking off immediately after 9/11.

The Pentagon cost the country huge amounts of money for bases it doesn’t use, so it’s best to close those down.  

Oil companies get subsidies which make no sense, since they’re making record profits.  

$3,700 is so minute in a 3,500,000,000,000 trillion dollar budget that it wouldn’t even show up.

You Americans are so thick! Do you really think things are going to get better under the Republican’s. Well they may do but only for the rich. You poor people are still going to be on your ass and they will cut your unemployment benefits and give you no healthcare. 

I’m getting a terrible feeling that America didn’t survive Obama’s first term.

There never was any “magic” just delusional  half-wit liberals and a few uninformed independents,
that’s how this creep Obama got elected.

You seem to forget…..these “pensioners” paid into the system their whole lives while working. If benefits are to be cut…….we should start with limiting the amount of money unemployed and unwed mothers get ( white, black, brown, yellow…..legal and “undocumented”) $800 bucks a month……and some states pay for up to 4 kids. …and then they become eligible for Section 8……MediCAID….and food stamps……..and the checks are not sent to the infants. Cruel..yes……But not any crueler than haven’t children when you have no resources to feed them. Do you realie that 40% of births in this counrty are to single women? Here’s the Link to the story on The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/health/13mothers.html

Where did you come from and where have you been? Do you think for one minute that Barry Soetoro Hussein, The Little Muslim, Fraud, Non-American, Racist fool would ever have been elected if mostly blacks didn’t vote for him. Also, I happen to be Hispanic. I want the borders CLOSED. To everyone. Until we figure out the situation, the borders should be closed. They said it would take so many border patrol people or sheriffs at 25 yards apart to accomplish that. Well, how about using US, yes US, the citizens of the United States who are tired of the B.S. at the borders. Give them warning, then bore down on them. You are correct tlf13 when you say the KKK is bad. I totally agree. It’s not about race. If you want to bring race into the picture, Barry Soetoro Hussein and his wife are both RACIST in my mind. Not that all blacks or all whites are. Barry is WEAK as a president. Maybe he was a good community activist but that’s it. Cunning and crooked is how I describe him. Oh, I don’t like Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Axehole Rod, Holder, Pelosi, Soros, Little Timmy Guithner, (WORM) or a lot of others. There are a lot of Republicans I don’t like either. Truly, if you thing Barry is even o.k. you are the ignorant one. Normally I never pick on anyone but the politicians. Sorry for this. I, at 66years young am tired of the giveaway agenda of the politicians. I hope and pray they never try to take our Social Security away. They already have given enought to ILLEGALS. You see, they don’t know the meaning of the word. DOWN WITH THE CLOWN. You know that in reality, he should be IMPEACHED??????????  Oh yeh, both George’s too. You see, I am not prejuce at all, I just don’t like BAD in anything and Barry is The DEVIL. Of course, this is my opinion. You have yours and you have the right to it. Barry and his band of COMMIES haven’t gotten that far yet.                                                Concerned AMERICAN, LV

Bill Maher, smart guy. But, I don’t agree with him much. He is funny but has no personality as far as I am concerned. Waste of time.                    Concerned AMERICAN, LV

I have been a Democrat all mt life and have always voted this way, even for Obama. I will not even consider voting for him now, because he lied just to get elected and has tried to stay far away from deciding how to fix the economy just to get elected a second term.If he gets a second term, Heaven help us, because he will complete the destroying of this country without worrying about polls. He has soured me on politics. I do have buyer’s remorse. Anyone but him!!!! Scott Brown from Massachusettes should run, because I beleive he could beat him. Please someone worthwhile come out of the woodwork and run
against him!!!!!!

Hi, this is Tom Tucker at Channel 5 News..oh wait, this just in…Jesus was a socialist, Maher is acting like a small child, and neither political party is worth a wheat penny, more at 11.

Mr Bush left far too much of a mess, as do most republicans, to repair the damage done that quickly. The GOP can really screw up an American’s day.