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‘Terribly Disappointed’ Bill Maher: ‘I Don’t Know What’s Going On In (Obama’s) Mind’

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Bill Maher stepped out of his weekly stage on HBO to visit Lawrence O’Donnell tonight and comment on last night’s dueling debt crisis speeches, andhe was not a happy camper. Telling O’Donnell that he was “terribly disappointed” in President Obama, Maher expressed frustration in the way that the President appeared to “cave in,” took “credit or blame” for the fame of Grover Norquist, and couldn’t avoid calling Republicans “assholes” on MSNBC.

“I like Obama so much, I’m always trying to understand what he’s dealing with,” Maher told O’Donnell, explaining that he was “terribly disappointed” and couldn’t understand the strategy. “I never thought he would be caving on the revenue side of it, I thought that was his line in the sand,” Maher noted. He didn’t seem too surprised as to the way the Republicans were acting– “the Republicans are certainly assholes,” he quipped before remember he wasn’t on HBO– but the President, he railed, “never plays on his own turf.” “How do you win if they get everything they want and you sign it?” he asked. Maher concluded that President Obama was not governing like a Democrat, instead “arguing with himself about their agenda” in such a way that “the Democrats will get blamed for implementing Republican policies.”

O’Donnell then turned to a leading conservative voice that claimed to be attempting to get the President to do just that: Grover Norquist, who he credited Maher with putting on the map. “The first time I ever saw Grover,” O’Donnell noted, “was on Politically Incorrect.” Maher took “credit– blame, really– for Grover Norquist,” as well as Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, who he said he put on air as “foils” but “I guess they’re having the last laugh.” He noted that the pledge Norquist was attempting to get Presidential candidates to sign was another attempt to get them to think for themselves less, joking, “I think he came up with that pledge in high school.”

Maher also revealed the contents of a pledge that he would pass around if he were a pledge sort of person, which included, predictably, “no more stupid pledges,” and a promise to “stop lying to the American people… saying that the best days are ahead of us,” a pledge O’Donnell jokes is probably having its signatures “come slowly.” Maher concluded that Republicans– unlike comedians who have money to lose– “want to see a calamity” because they have “nothing to launch a crusade [against Obama] about… to forever destroy this presidency,” unlike, say, Bill Clinton with Whitewater or the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

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  • Anonymous

    hope obama institutes a big nose tax

  • Anonymous

    hope obama institutes a big nose tax

  • Natureboy42

    Bill Maher is the best!

  • Anonymous

    But I thought Maher is only a comedian…Why is he involving himself in politics?
    Nothing but a tiny little vile liberal slug!!

  • Anonymous

    waaaaa. the president isnt socialist enough for us.. All these 2 do is whine and whine.. Shut the hell up already and move if you hate America so much

  • Anonymous

    for a comedian he was not funny at all tonight

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think MSNBC should let Maher get away with calling Republicans assholes on their network.
    They didn’t let Halperin get away with calling Obama a dick.

    Don’t get me wrong. I agree with Maher, I just think those kind of comments are better suited for HBO.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Off topic but a imporant point.

    For all my leftist/Liberal/Democrat friends who wanted to smear ALL Christians with what happen in Norway please read.For those who didn’t this post isn’t for you.

    Wade Sanders.A fellow swift boater with John Kerry.Introduced Sen. Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.Was  stripped of his Silver Star.He lied to get the Silver Star.

    Wade Sanders,a fellow swift boater with John Kerry,introduced Sen. Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, is now in jail facing charges dealing with child pornography.

    Since Wade is a Democrat,does this make all Democrats lying child porn watching scumbags?

    I don’t think so.But if you use the logic of some on the left,than it does.

    Back on topic.

    Hey Bill, hows that hope and change workin’ fo ya?

  • Anonymous

    Good job bfd – going for a single standard.  I applaud you.

  • Anonymous

    Idiot Post of the Month

  • Anonymous

    False equivalence much?

  • Anonymous

    Maher is a crude, ill-tempered political wannabe.

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher ?

    Tomorrow night . On O’Donnell’s show ,for the full hour , Carrot Top !

  • Cain

    Tea Party anti-tax fundamentalist are even against what Boehner puts out. These people are over the top.

  • Anonymous

    Maher is right about the pledge being stupid.

    “What sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments…Authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience – these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land.”  -Edmund Burke

    Burke.  What a pinko.

  • dik gozinya

    Not only that but Obama can’t even beat a comic book character wack job Libyan Army Colonel in the middle of the desert-Barack Obama “the most embarrassing President since Richard Nixon.” 

    Also looks like he’ll be impeached over sending guns to the Sinaloa drug cartel-way to go O’Brainless! LMFAO!

  • Anonymous

    Aren’t they breaking St. Ronnie’s Eleventh Commandment?

    Of course, they would also give Ronald Reagan an ulcer.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Should the President of the United States concern himself with what this guy thinks of him?  I certainly hope that he has bigger concerns than what Maher thinks of him..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Should the President of the United States concern himself with what this guy thinks of him?  I certainly hope that he has bigger concerns than what Maher thinks of him..

  • unmutual

    Little angry dwarf Bill is sad. Aint it great?

  • realheadline

    BO’s  approval rating will go up if this jackass attacks him. Americans love to hate Maher (the despicable commie douchebag thing).  Bill Maher loks like a drag queen version of Jane Fonda, people love to hate him.

  • realheadline

    BO’s  approval rating will go up if this jackass attacks him. Americans love to hate Maher (the despicable commie douchebag thing).  Bill Maher loks like a drag queen version of Jane Fonda, people love to hate him.

  • Anonymous

    What’s funny here is actually watching these two butt clowns get smacked in the face with reality.
    Obama was never up to the job and we screamed it out aloud at the top of our lungs three years ago.

    I mean honestly…how does a man portray himself as some sort of sharp political commenter when he can be so easily taken in by a known fraud ?

  • Anonymous

    What’s funny here is actually watching these two butt clowns get smacked in the face with reality.
    Obama was never up to the job and we screamed it out aloud at the top of our lungs three years ago.

    I mean honestly…how does a man portray himself as some sort of sharp political commenter when he can be so easily taken in by a known fraud ?

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher…you’re a frighteningly angry man.

    Maher said:  ”I like Obama so much…” and “I’m terribly disappointed in him…”

    You sound just like Mark David Chapman and we all know what happened to John Lennon.  

    You need to calm down and stop your hate and vitriol.

  • Darladoon

    of course by “not socialist enough” you mean “won’t raise taxes a few percentage
    points on very wealthy people”

  • Darladoon

    so you agree with maher, then?

    you said he wasn’t “up for the job” and so did maher, so…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    The weird little runt says he likes Obama soooo much.

    Awww…isn’t that adorable?? It’s like puppy love.

    The odd little midget probably has things like Barry Luvs Billy, Billy Luvs Barry, Billy and Barry 4 Ever, Mrs. Billy Obama scrawled all over his notebooks.

    (side note…I was standing in line at Chipotle today and next to me this hipster little douchetard with skinny jeans, an undersized t-shirt and ironic, clunky oversized glasses whipped out his iPhone that had a big ol’ photo of that ridiculous Obama Hopey Changey poster. At the same moment, the girl on the other side of the douchetard and I both looked over at his phone and busted out laughing. He turned beet red and quickly tucked his cute little Obammy phone bag into his man purse hanging on his shoulder)

  • Anonymous

    Fine raise taxes on them. It doesnt affect me.. In the long run it will affect everyone though.. And socialist is their word about themselves, not mine

  • Anonymous

    Come on Mediaite Wheres the story about Gov.Jerry Brown of California passing the Dream Act? The LA Times has the story and by the comments, people are pissed. 

  • Anonymous

    Come on Mediaite Wheres the story about Gov.Jerry Brown of California passing the Dream Act? The LA Times has the story and by the comments, people are pissed. 

  • dik gozinya

    Speculation is beginning that Barack Obama quits when he decides that the Presidency is beneath his dignity.

  • Darladoon

    socialism has a definition, and obama is anything but a socialist

     

  • BeggarBoy

    Feeling a little defensive that some insane Norwegian freak finds support and inspiration in Conservative & Christian thought? Well, maybe you should. Where you going to post this next, on TMZ?

  • Anonymous

    Was it covered in the national media in general?  I don’t think they would have something if only the LA Times had it covered.  Would appreciate a link though.  Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    nothing better than a socialist and a comedian talking politics

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    You trying to bankrupt Maher?

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t say he was. I was referring to O’Donnel and Maher. Are you saying they are mad at him because he is not conservative enough?

  • dik gozinya

    A Pay-Per-View of Obama reading bedtime stories and letting ‘little Billy’ sit on his lap would make it all better.

  • Anonymous

    Google it.. Its all over now..

  • Anonymous

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-brown-dream-act-20110726,0,3203216.story

    Here is the Tomes article. Its also on Yahoo, Huff Po, Cbs

  • Anonymous

    No.
    Maher agrees with me. I had this opinion years ago. Maher however still bitterly clings to the hope that Obama was not a fraud and is getting tired of defending someone so incompetent after he has touted his non-existant brilliance so many times.
    He has a broken heart.

    Ha Ha!
     

  • Anonymous

    The difference is clearly expressed in their faces. O’Donnell, the man of faith, looks poised and confident, and looks forward positively, and Maher, the Christian ridiculer, the Manson of his generation, looks sullen, maybe even scared. Maher is afraid, while O’Donell just knows that God has the matter in Hand.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Bwahahaha..and he was the only one of the dozens of swift boaters who served with him that tried to defend Kerry. The rest all said he was a real POS

    A child pornographer and a fraud.

    yep…he’s a Dem

  • Anonymous

    haha on the side note Cincy…lol tooo funny!
    I’m starting to see bumper stickers with “how is all that hopey changey thing working for you” here in Colorado.
    Oblamers gig is up…..even the liberal left is starting to wake up and see what a joke he is!!

  • Natureboy42

    He is a comedian with a point of view..

  • Natureboy42

    Why don’t you move to a plutocracy?

  • Anonymous

    How can he be? . It’s cable.  

  • Anonymous

    Halperin works for MSNBC. And he’s been warned a couple times. Maher was just a guest.

  • Anonymous

    that’s saying it midly.

  • Anonymous

    Diary of a Kool-Aid Drinker….
    “I like Obama so much, I’m always trying to understand what he’s dealing with,” Maher told O’Donnell, explaining that he was “terribly disappointed” and couldn’t understand the strategy. “I never thought he would be caving on the revenue side of it, I thought that was his line in the sand,”

    Conservatives knew this before the guy took office.

    I somewhat feel sorry for you libby’s…..naw ….after thinking about it….you should feel bad…your votes put this hapless man into office.

  • John

    Bill Maher is Neanderthal. He has a brain the size of a pinhead. Thats the only explanation you could have for his love affair with Obummer. This man is destroying the country and yet he is too blind to see it. No plan to cut deficit, tries to scare our seniors on SS, polarizes instead of uniting, leads from behind, lies every chance he gets, shovel ready jobs not so shovel ready and laughs while so many are unemployed,collusion with GE CEO immelt,debt really about trying to stop a gov shut down not a default, oil spill meltdown no leadership, vacation after vacation, golfing 75 rounds since in office, the list continues on and on. Why he hasn’t been impeached is amazing.

  • BeggarBoy

    Yeah Wade IS a scumbag, but do you really want to do a Repub/Conservative/Christian vs Dems/Liberals sex offender list? Ok, I’ll do the I’ll do the lefties, you the righties. I’ll need a couple of post-it notes to write on, you’re going to need a whole legal pad.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    If Bill Maher is this depressed and melancholy, The Republicans must be heading in the right direction.

    I like seeing a clown cry, it’s always been a special moment for me.

  • Anonymous

    If he is just a guest that makes things simpler.
    They don’t have to suspend him they could just never invite him back.

    They should have at least “bleeped’ him.

    I love hearing Maher call Republicans assholes and scumbags, but not on cable news.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a Liberal scum who cowardly hides behind his title of being a comedian to spew his vile hatred of anyone who disagrees with his twisted beliefs…..especially Conservative women….he is a little puke and I would love to see Palins husband knock the little scumbag out some day!!!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks.  I am finding that many newspapers update online so quickly now that you have to navigate for a longer time than you spend reading the article.

  • Darladoon

    ok teabaggers, we understand, you hate maher and larry is a socialist.

    but, SPECIFICALLY, with what arguments of theirs do you disagree?

    you guys never have arguments.  

  • Anonymous

     “I think he came up with that pledge in high school.”

    …says the guy who acts like a junior high school punk for a living….pot, kettle…

  • Darladoon

    of course by “heading in the right direction” you mean “pissing off 1/3 of your own
    party” or “rejecting plans that *they themselves* proposed just 1 week prior”

  • Darladoon

    tell us, cjdohio—-

    with what arguments of maher’s or o’donnel’s do you disagree?

    give me specific examples

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha…look at the Leftist Limp Wrist Maher in that photo. He looks like he wants someone to spray him with Napalm.

    Pick me! Pick me!

  • Anonymous

    specific——-the role they think government should play in our lives

  • Anonymous

    specific——-the role they think government should play in our lives

  • Anonymous

    and i think odonnell is a race baiter with his talking that people are against immigrants……….odonnell health care single payer

  • Darladoon

    again, with what arguments of maher’s do you disagree?

  • Anonymous

    “want to see a calamity” because they have “nothing to launch a crusade [against Obama] about… to forever destroy this presidency,” 
    No worries, his own policies, attitude and behavior will define him as the man-made disaster that he is without any help from Republicans.  I had high hopes for him but they were very quickly dashed as it was apparent that a few days as a senator does not a president make.

  • Wrwt2

    Fallacy, the discussion has already been had/continues to be had, so the pledges are just a way to check it.
    I like Burke though.

  • Darladoon

    that’s WAAAAAAAY to vague 

    give me a SPECIFIC example of what you mean, exactly

    and, besides, stick to their conversation.

  • Anonymous

    calling republicans assholes

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNU6EL55X2F7KTLPYB7Z4QTJNE George

    The Best What!!!??

  • BeggarBoy

    Why do I get the feeling you’ve spent your whole life pleading in frustration: Pick me! Pick me!

  • Anonymous

    what  i disagree with maher about?

  • Darladoon

    i don’t see how bleeping him changes anything

    but i do agree, maher shouldn’t be using this kind of language on this kind of show

  • Darladoon

    i think obama is brilliant, but he’s just very inexperienced and way to conciliatory

    he does have these things called “advisors” (you’ve probably heard of them),
    they do…..you know…..most of the work. hillary was clearly the right choice (for mainstream democrats, anyhow)

  • Darladoon

    still no specific examples from the consversation

    cjcohio–trying taking the act of blogging in a useful direction

    hint:  it helps to study the issues, use logic, and make clear arguments

    it helps move the conversation along (in much the way maher/o’donnel did)

  • Darladoon

    non-sequitur

  • Anonymous

    “i don’t see how bleeping him changes anything”

    Meh…it shows MSNBC is trying to a have a mature and responsible dialog.

  • Darladoon

    so i have to ask (i’m curious), how do you think hillary would have handled the Tea Party

    and the mainstream GOP as well?

    take the stimulus, the debt, etc, as entry points into your arguments

    thank you

  • Anonymous

    maher is a comic , i dont take him seriously got it

  • Anonymous

    now in plain terms, republicans want short term deals to use for political purposes, president obama wants a long term deal so he doesn’t have to deal with it during his bid for re-election

  • Anonymous

    Um, no.  It was in the context of the same sort of pledges that were presented to Parliament in Burke’s time.

  • Kelc

    The media was so involved in tearing Palin apart and telling us she wasn’t ready they ignore Obama had little to no experience.Maher is a moron,George Will made him look like a fool on ABC’s sunday morning show.

  • Darladoon

    i don’t think o’donnell is concerned with obama not being socialist enough.

    i think he wishes the president would simply raise taxes on the very wealthy.

    that’s hardly “socialist”

  • Darladoon

    still no specific examples

    i’m waiting…..

    look, why don’t YOU tell us what the president should do!  how about that?

  • Darladoon

    again, do you actually have an argument?

    or are we just a bunch of loud, drunken losers yelling in a bar?

    what’s the point of blogging in this comments section unless you’re going
    to actually debate the issues?

    i know logic is a difficult habit, but once you keep using it….

  • Anonymous

    tell me obamas plan……..be specific

  • Darladoon

    but the bleep merely covers up the reality (which is plain to see)

    how does bleeping out a word demonstrate that you didn’t actually
    use the word?

    it’s something that would have driven george carlin crazy

  • Anonymous

    and senator obama voted againt raising the debt ceiling in 2006, so it must not be that dangerous for the country, because he would not want to hurt the country would he?

  • Anonymous

    From your lips to God’s ears!

  • Jayamerican

    No we mean communist, Saul Aulinsky reading, redistribute the wealth, socalist. Hope that clears it up for you

  • Darladoon

    obama doesn’t have (it’s not his job), nor should he have, a budget drafted

    that’s the job of congress

    there are at least 3 democratic plans

    the recent reid proposal, the pelosi proposal, and the progressive caucus’ proposal

    i support the latter’s

    http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70
    and you dodged one of my central questions:  what did maher or o’donnellsay that you disagree with?

  • Jayamerican

    Only because the republicans, specifically the tea party won’t let him get away with it

  • Jayamerican

    Only because the republicans, specifically the tea party won’t let him get away with it

  • Anonymous

    it is the president’s job to submit a budget to congress

  • Anonymous

    it is the president’s job to submit a budget to congress

  • South Park Conservatives

    Your post are kinda lame.Don’t beat yourself up.It gets better.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Your post are kinda lame.Don’t beat yourself up.It gets better.

  • Anonymous

    and the progressive plan had all kinds of specifics lol

  • Darladoon

    it’s not the president’s job to submit a budget!!

  • Anonymous

    And darla, what i disagree with maher about, he is a comic…….nothing more…..i am not going to argue over a comic’s act 

  • Anonymous

    That question is impossible to answer not to mention an exercise in futility. The Tea Party may never have been a movement had it not been for the backlash to Obama’s overzealous “crisis-level” responses to our economy. I don’t think Hilary would have taken such an “all or nothing” approach to any of the solutions Obama found necessary.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t respect elected officials who then sign a pledge to pander to a particular group. You’re a duly elected official. Have some balls and tell them you took an oath of office to do what’s best for America and it’s citizens. That’s all the dam pledge they should need.

  • Darladoon

    sure it does

    again, no examples

  • Anonymous

    it is US law that the president by the first monday of february to submit his proposed federal budget to congress for the next fiscal year

  • Darladoon

    can you define socialism for us?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    comedians are easily fooled by ghetto thieves. Obama 1 Maher 0

  • Darladoon

    well, yeah……but:

    1.  the president submitting something doesn’t mean SH*T if congress isn’t on board

    2.  the president doesn’t actually come up with a budget by himself

  • Anonymous

    specific to darladoon, enact a public option lol

  • Anonymous

    i agree there cosmos

  • Darladoon

    interesting observation…..you could be right

  • Darladoon

    comic’s can make cogent arguments (see: groucho marx, lenny bruce)

  • Darladoon

    no, medicare for all

    it costs the least amount of money

  • Anonymous

    the same you think of palin is the same i think of maher

  • Anonymous

    and what about the doctors that dont accept medicare

  • Anonymous

    medicare for all darladoon………..what about the doctors that dont take medicare patients?

  • Anonymous

    Essentially we are living in one. I mean according to the Dems the wealthy control the country..

  • Anonymous

    A pretty meaningful story, at least more than this one..

  • Anonymous

    And if she was still a senator. She might very well be challenging him in 2012.. 

  • Anonymous

    And if she was still a senator. She might very well be challenging him in 2012.. 

  • Anonymous

    Fox calls Obama a fasicist, socialist or communist everyday on air, shouldn’t they stop that too?

  • Anonymous

    So those comments about Muslims you conservatives throw around should probably be reconsidered.

  • Wake up America

    This is all being orchestrated to make Obama look like he is going to the center. He needs the independent vote. Obama doesn’t worry about losing the libs. He has their vote no matter what. However if the dems come out with this ” he’s not acting like a lib” then the independents fall for this so they think. Obama and the Dems are running scared because they know that the Emporer with no clothes has just been seen nake, nothing there. Obama has managed to fool the people with his TelePrompTer, his class warfare, his us against them playbook. He was scripted well and promoted well by the Soros media. Obama however is not the big fish, neither is Soros, the big fish is pulling the strings from the middle east. Sound far fetched, well stay tune, the puzzle is about to unravel.

  • Wake up America

    Name one thing that he has done that shows that he is blilliant, not deviant, but brilliant. As far as fooling those of him to vote for him, that’s not brilliant because the ones that voted for him willbe had if not by him, then by someOne else. That’s not brilliance. Thats just a group of ignorant people. People that didn’t bother to inform themselves but rather were led by the Soros media. So just one thing that he has done to show he in fact is brilliant and not something that was repeated over and over by the Soros media. The same ones that got you to believe that Palin is an idiot because again, they repeated that over and over again so that the ones that fell for the ” brilliant” Obama would also fall for the ” idiot” Palin. In fact the “Soros” media is now having a hard time making him look competent.

  • Anonymous

    Maher is eyeballs, just like Palin.  I suppose they are talking about Kardashian’s skin problems on a sister site.  Curious though if that phrase is for alliteration or brother site just seems odd to write.

  • Anonymous

    When you post something of substance can we all RSS?

  • gordonbloyershow

    LOL, can these two get any dumber?

  • VARIT00L

    BINGO

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    I second that motion! If I was Todd Palin I would have Looong ago beat the batshit outta Bill Maher AND David Letterman’s buck toothed ass.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    The best PIECE OF SH*T IN THE TOILET BOWL!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    Yes you moron, that is socialism. Do you know why? Because we are limited to ONE VOTE per person. Which means that the wealthy do not get a “greater say” in what goes on, so neither should they have a “greater responsibility” to pay for this liberal BS.  Since you liberal f-tards have “separated” the Church and State, we actually have NO RESPONSIBILITY to pay for your ABORTIONS, Illegal ALIENS and their children, YOUR BOYFRIENDS BUTT TIGHTENING SURGERY, or whatever ELSE strikes your addled liberal mind! One man ONE VOTE, the only FAIR TAX is a FLAT TAX.

  • Anonymous

    The ideological candidates for president, W, Obama, always disappoint.  I’m ready for a moderate R like Romney.  No need to pour all of your hopes and dreams into the man – just looking for a guy who knows what he is doing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    See, an intelligent person would have PRINTED THE SO CALLED “DEFINITION” and listed his or her reasons why OBOZO doesn’t fit that bill. Problem is you’re right! He isn’t a “socialist’, HE’S A MARXIST. SPREADING THE WEALTH AROUND IS straight out of the Karl Marx handbook. 
     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    Sure thing darlaLOON,   taking from the rich to give to the poor. Expecting other people to pay your way without giving them commensurate power to compensate for their loss of wealth say… TWO VOTES, instead of ONE, for example. Having a stupid liberal view of the world that you are NOT WILLING TO PAY FOR WITH YOUR OWN G.D. MONEY! How’s that for starters? Next class at nine.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    That’s called the TRUTH beyotch, you wanna censor the TRUTH now?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    This from a guy whose ICON is the BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE VICE PRESIDENCY? A WALKING PUNCHLINE?

  • Anonymous

    Congratulations, you’re using the new talking points that got emailed around FOX.

  • Anonymous

    Congratulations, you’re using the new talking points that got emailed around FOX.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    The best PIECE OF SH*T IN THE TOILET BOWL!

  • Anonymous

    The ideological candidates for president, W, Obama, always disappoint.  I’m ready for a moderate R like Romney.  No need to pour all of your hopes and dreams into the man – just looking for a guy who knows what he is doing.

  • Anonymous

    The ideological candidates for president, W, Obama, always disappoint.  I’m ready for a moderate R like Romney.  No need to pour all of your hopes and dreams into the man – just looking for a guy who knows what he is doing.

  • Anonymous

    QUOTE: “Maher also revealed the contents of a pledge that he would pass around
    if he were a pledge sort of person, which included predictably “no
    more stupid pledges,” and a promise “to stop lying to the American
    people…saying that the best days are ahead of us.”

    Gee…funny how that works.

    When Maher wants to take shots at Republicans, he’ll note that saying “America’s best days are ahead of us” is really a BAD thing. In fact, using his own exact words, to make such a claim is LITERALLY “lying” to the public.

    And yet the SECOND that Obama or any Liberal politician says it, Maher will instantly change his tune and wax the poetic how the Left are “looking forward.” And having the “courage” to believe that America’s best days are still ahead only proves how the Democrats are the party of “hope and change.”

    Ah, you gotta love this buffoon.
    Bill Maher – HBO’s traveling hypocrite at large.

  • Anonymous

    How much of every dollar earned does the Fed+State+Local have to spend before you would say it is Socialism? What % of GDP? I’ve always wanted one of you central planners to answer that question

  • Anonymous

    Reagan and any other Republican that supports smaller government in rehtoric only

  • Yep

    Your mom’s a bitch

  • Yep

    Your mom’s a bitch

  • http://twitter.com/SpecialMob SpecialMob.com

    Breaking news from NYTIMES – I give in, republicans win! -http://t.co/GRt90DY

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure POTUS Obama cries himself to sleep every night because he has “disappointed” Maher!

  • Norbit

    The “Revunue” side is peanuts compared to the $4.1 Billion in Daily spending under Obama!

    I don’t know why the GOP doesn’t throw that bone in the negotiations – just to take the President’s class warfare off the table.

    As for Maher, generally, whatever he doesn’t like is usually good for humanity!!

  • Anonymous

    Did the point go right over your head?  

  • Anonymous

    Your ploy of putting words in people mouths and then uttering the banal “so you agree” b.s. is so childish and nerve grating Darla – grow up.  

    You think the Pres should do nothing but golf and holiday – you seem to be right for once because he seems to think that’s all he’s responsible for also.

    People!  Darla was right once in her life!!!!

  • Anonymous

    p.s. Hillary thinks he sucks also.

  • Republicon Buster

    You’re right!  Financing both Bush wars and running a country can be very expensive!    

  • Republicon Buster

    You’re right!  Financing both Bush wars and running a country can be very expensive!    

  • Mia

    My favorite bumper sticker is a picture of obama that says “Does this ASS make my Truck look big?”

  • Mia

    My favorite bumper sticker is a picture of obama that says “Does this ASS make my Truck look big?”

  • Rio

    Not many know about the dem pledge:

    AP, June 22, 2011, 7:14 p.m. EDT

    In a dramatic turn of events, every single Democrat in the House of Representatives has signed a pledge to never, ever vote in support of spending cuts on any social welfare program in any budget or bill. This makes the likelihood that a debt-reduction agreement will be concluded and a debt limit increase approved before the country defaults look hopeless. The pledge idea was the brainchild of liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas (Kos). “It’s about time,” he said. “People are suffering in this economy. We must take a firm stand on cuts to social programs. Now, while we have leverage.”
    http://auburnjournal.com/detail/183862.html

    Five House democrats did renege and sign Cut, Cap and Balance but, the rest entered into negotiations with no intention of even cutting waste in entitlements let alone trimming the budget across the board.  There’s cutting that can be done everywhere.

  • GoNavy

    How many times did you see GWB attack a talking head?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the link. I wasn’t aware of that and would like to learn more. If the GOP is going to be criticized for signing a no tax increase pledge then this ought to be covered as well.  It doesn’t change my views on anyone signing an additional pledge. It lowers my respect for them. I noticed this.

    Republican leaders reacted with scorn: “Not happening,” declared
    Speaker John Boehner when reached by phone in his office in the Capitol,
    “no, way, no how.” Majority Leader Eric Cantor was puzzled. “Why
    would they sign such a cut-and-dried pledge? It just doesn’t make any
    sense. How can we solve the country’s problems when one party digs in
    like this?” He shook his head and walked away.

    President Obama was dismayed. “The good faith and credit of the
    United States is more important than any ideology, any pledge,” he said.
    “This is not the time for partisan games.”

    Sounds like the president doesn’t agree with them. It strikes me as odd that Cantor would make that comment if members of the GOP are signing a pledge against raising taxes. No dam wonder we can’t get anywhere.

    I repeat what I’ve posted before. Let’s elect as many independents to congress and Senate as we can in 2012 and send a clear message to both parties.

  • thisexists

    Bill, you look so sad.  Try swearing at Palin’s kids to cheer yourself up.   

  • thisexists

    Bill, you look so sad.  Try swearing at Palin’s kids to cheer yourself up.   

  • thisexists

    Bill, you look so sad.  Try swearing at Palin’s kids to cheer yourself up.   

  • thisexists

    Bill, you look so sad.  Try swearing at Palin’s kids to cheer yourself up.   

  • Anonymous

    Bill, Barry’s problem is the same as your; you have no brain.

  • Sluggo11

    He’s a shallow, self consumed, morally flaccid clown…same as Al Franken. Perhaps he should make a a bid to run for the part of the Jackass.

  • Sluggo11

    sorry, that’s the “party” of the jackass. my typo.

  • Sluggo11

    He’s a hatefull, spiteful, self-important little punk who hates God and those who don’t. Sounds like a worthy challenger to our boy president. 

  • Anonymous

    …that’s one sad little creep. Welcome to ObamaNation.

  • Anonymous

    …that’s one sad little creep. Welcome to ObamaNation.

  • Howard

    The headline of this piece is pretty misleading. Maher, though disappointed in Obama’s negotiating skills, is still a strong supporter and believes in his agenda. I agree with him that Obama’s given way too much ground, but anyone who reads this as some kind of an endorsement of the Republicans’ certifiably insane ideas about taxes needs their head examined.

    The most important point that Bill makes is this: the debt is about the past and the budget is about the future. The teabilly’s strategy to intertwine the debates on these too things was intellectually dishonest. But this is hardly the first time they’ve pulled that and gotten away with it.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Maher is right. Nothing he says here is objectionable unless you’re an idealogical right wing reactionary.

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher: ‘I Don’t Know What’s Going On In (Obama’s) Mind’. Don’t worry yourself  too much about it D-bag, neither does he.

  • Anonymous

    Was it the Socialist hour?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

    Dear Francis, maybe if you moved in with Bill Maher and became is lover we could get more shocking info on what he’s thinking.

  • Chad Kesegi

    Sarcasm, right?

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm.  Republicans simply come equipped with…recto-cranial inversions.  It’s a given.

  • Anonymous

    I think you’re reading a little much into a picture, valkyrie.

  • Anonymous

    Think so?

  • Anonymous

    Hey, they’re part of the reason his ignorant wife hasn’t faded into deserved obscurity.

  • Anonymous

    I agree there. Also, what is it with all these media people going on each other’s shows and playing smoochy butt-kiss? It’s really gotten quite nauseating.

  • HowardNY

    Romney? Are you kidding me? Less ideological than Obama? The guy who said that Guantanamo shouldn’t be closed, it should be “doubled”? This is the guy who you think is a “moderate”?

    Good luck with that, doug. Your idea of moderation terrifies me.

  • Chris

    Of course Maher doesn’t know what’s going on in Obama’s mind because he’s out of his…

  • kurt

    you guys like to bash Obama.  Who is your choice to run the country?   McCain?  how would he do.  You guys can’t come up with solutions.  Crying about it doesn’t get the job done.  Why don’t you for once come up with something so solve the problem.  

  • Eddieharris11

    Bill Maher  correct don’t know why Pres Obama allowing a bunch kiss ass lobbyist called  so call “Tea Partier’s ” also “Racist” people who claims they are talkng for the majority of American’s which we know is not true. Real American’s we know this CRISIS didn’t happen in last 2 years. Our Great Nation been losing Millions of jobs I mean REAL jobs  Manufacturing jobs all over this country. When most people talk about Job creation  unfortunately  if only you can talk about  Wal-Mart , McDonald’s ,Burger King ,Home depot, Local Car Wash   minimal wage to about $10 an hour. Then the Rich or Wall Street who rob the American people without a gun Taking our 401K plans and moving massive Jobs over seas and these Jobs. Good paying  Customer Service ,Collection ,Public Relation and just even making candy such Brach Co. moved to Mexico claimed because sugar pricing. But raise price’s and we never got the savings.    Wake up all American’s    We used say    Made In America   now  they place tags on merchandise out China, Indonesia, Mexico   use Cheap Labor   make Shoe’s or jeans for $2 and sell it to us for $25-100 dollars.But this what this  Nation don’t want you to talk about. Used to graduate get a job anywhere  we used to say we are crawling before we walk. Now the Rich got us bickering over peanuts.It don’t matter who’s President is we are a Nation that are blind and can’t see whats being sheveled to us. I make little over 50K a year we used to call that “Middle Class” now its just bit over Poor.

  • http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

    Msaher says outrageous things to get some attention. Otherwise he would be a complete unknown. His show has almost no viewers. He should be ignored. That would be the worst possible punishment for him.

  • Gmomta

    In Reply to Darladoon
    No matter how brilliant you are , would you be able to do anything positive if more than half of the richest and most powerfull people of this country ( The real power in US) was against you and with their power & money also turned most of in power republican against you? If you could answer this, I am sure Daradoon will answer your question.

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