President Barack Obama holds a town hall style meeting at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio,, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010.
Posted on 01/23/2010 3:06:34 AM PST by tlb
If you want to see how bad things may be for President Obama, consider Bill Maher's comments on the President at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island last night.
I was present, and there were gasps and hisses when Maher made several cutting comments about Obama to the packed crowd who, no doubt, would have preferred to have Republicans roasted rather than their favorite President.
Maher seemed a little taken aback by the audience reaction, but pointed out that criticism of Obama was warranted in the current climate. He soon won the crowd over.
Maher was not about to let the audience have their comfort zone. He sneered at Obama's giveback to the banks, doing a wicked caricature of Obama handing the billions out to A.I.G. and Goldman Sachs. He was also deeply critical --and hilariously so -- of Obama's failure to press home his agenda like Dick Cheney and George Bush were able to do despite what the electorate thought.
When Bill Maher, the most liberal stand-up comedian in America, is attacking Obama, then the President should be concerned., When he is comparing him unfavorably to Dick Cheney, then he had better be REALLY concerned.
Like any good stand-up man, Maher was edgy and ahead of the crowd. But he clearly has a sense of the Zeitgeist like no other performer right now. What he is articulating is the shattering disappointment on the left that Obama has not delivered for them, and that Wall Street and the banks have made out like bandits while the middle class continues to suffer and health care heads south.
In a strange way, Maher and the Tea Party have much in common. On Saturday night at the same venue, I will be seeing Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck. Strange to think they and Maher have much in common in believing that Obama has not measured up to the job so far.
Who would have thunk it?
Could anyone, no matter how delusional, possibly think that this scrawny, inadequate man has measured up to the job?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Well, Bill, let’s test how independent and “libertarian” you are. Keep your “hard edged” humor against Obama going and lets see if you can take the heat as well as the conservative political comedians like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
The signal has been given to lefties. It is safe to trash Obama. You will not be called a racist.
The Thrill Is Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI
Are you talking about Obama or Maher?
But seriously, the loony Left is going ape for exactly the opposite reason that the Right is: they feel Obama is centrist, in the same sense that they believe Clinton or Kennedy was centrist. Obama has a simple decision- veer even further left to mollify the 20% of the country that is "progressive" (meaning adhering to an ideology that ignominiously failed on these shores 400 years ago duringn the Pilgrim's first winter), or apologize and grudgingly move to become the centrist he promised to be. What to do, what to do.
Don't interfere when your enemy is committing suicide (but don't let down your guard, either)
A blind squirrel finds a nut, BFD.
Maher is still an ass and had his placenta lived when he was born, IT would have had more value to society than the abysmal Maher.
'Then why don't you like Obama?' my college-age nephew asked in front of a few of his friends.
I said 'Because the nation basically elected a minor Chicago city alderman with no experience as President of the USA. All he'll end up doing is talking and giving speeches and slowly but surely contradicting himself. The people around him will prove to be a cast of criminals, one after another. Pretty soon, he'll be seen as a grandiose BS artist when his mystique wears off and you guys will try to forget you ever got caught up in this inane Obama hysteria.'
This last Thanksgiving, nobody said a word about politics.
I saw some lefty diatribe the other day (wish I could remember where, it was so entertaining) —— it was a letter to the editor online, and new “progressive” position is that Obama is a rabid evil warmonger for sending more troops and not doing a total cut-and-run in the first few months.......
It is rather entertaining when the left goes into meltdown because Obama is not “pure” enough for their inanities.
Strange alternate reality when Obama is not supposed to be considered a “man of the left”
Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking. They are upset for very different reasons. Our battle is not just against this President or his administration it is with a philosophy that has a hold on the culture of America. 2010 and 2012 are just major battles on the road to restoring to Americans their freedoms. These folks are not the enemy of my enemy and we would be wise to keep that in mind.
Did you point out how prophetic you had been?
When one is a lying deceiving half-breed, community organizing, communist, leftist, statist from Kenya, what is it amongst those qualities that gives one an idea that hope and change have any hope of change.
You are correct.
And this means 0bama and the Social-Democrats are in a lose/lose situation.
If they do not right their course, and in a very demonstrative way, then the idependents will rise up against them all across the nation, and Massachussetts will be replayed all across the country in November, from New York to California.
But this may be a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
If Democrats try to moderate to avoid the independent’ backlash, then they will risk truly alienating their base, who will not show up to vote out of a combination of disgust, despair, and disappointment.
And the independs will almost certainly break decidedly against them, anyways.
But in the most liberal of districts, a decent showing of Democrat voters would be enough to stem the idependent tide. But not if they stay home.
The Democrats tacking to the center, at this point, would only deepen their losses, and penetrate into the darkest blue corners of the country.
We need to not only exploit 0bama’s weaknesses on the right, but also his weaknesses on his left.
To inflict maximum damage on the Democrats, we must separate them from both independents and their own base.
This is a "Dog Bites Man" story--or "Ass Bites Boob" story.
Maher is attacking Obama for not being enough of a socialist.
I used to love seeing Maher get all mad, and then he'd quote his favorite little tidbits from the paper that his staff looked up, or his little nuggests about "Deists" like he was some little brat showing up the adults. Then it just got boring.
No.
He was also deeply critical —and hilariously so — of Obama’s failure to press home his agenda like Dick Cheney and George Bush were able to do despite what the electorate thought.
Maher conveniently forgets that there was broad support for the wars after 9-11, people approved of the tax cuts and even education reform. Where Bush was a true leader was when he ordered the surge in the face of widespread doubts. He also took his lumps from the voters when he proposed immigration reform and tried to put Meiers on the SC.
Bottom line? Bush had success where the public was with him and failed when they weren’t. Maybe that’s why Obama continues to fail?
Yeah but the Problem is they are castigating him for not being Communist enough! I know now they have not read that 2000 page monstrosity. These people are really sick
I love statements like this:
“He was also deeply critical —and hilariously so — of Obama’s failure to press home his agenda like Dick Cheney and George Bush were able to do despite what the electorate thought.”
Can anyone name a specific case here? I guess the Left would say the invasion of Iraq, forgetting that the Iraq Use of Force Resolution had a majority of Dem Senators voting Yea, and quite a number of Reps.
And I really can’t think of anything that could be described as a conservative program that Bush and Cheney rammed through.
And education reform was FAR from a conservative program. Heck, conservatives were mad that they didn’t try to disband the DoEd, and Teddy Kennedy had huge influence in writing the bill.
The maher types really thought that this time, the country would turn hard left like China and that there would be political reprisals to eliminate the opposition. Every thing would be wonderful. Bill ayers spoke of rounding up political opponants like roosevelt did and put them in re education camps. barack hussein is bill ayers’ proxy. The loony (Dangerous) left really wanted a soviet style purge, that’s why they put so much hope in barack. Now they are figuring out that they were duped and they won’t be getting their worker’s paradise. This ought to be fun. Bring on the dumptruck load of popcorn.
Maher has his funny moments. ;)
Those are the types of decisions that need to be when you lack a moral compass and have no idea who you are.
A chameleon.
Barack Obama was never a Chicago alderman.
He acts like one.
It sounds even more ignorant today!
Mahr is pissed because he thinks Obama is not far enough to the Left.
Let’s see....you take the least experienced, most liberal senator and make him president with a ‘mandate’. Then he continues to ‘preach’ to America, neve listens, just preaches, surrounds himself with intellectual radicals, buys off the MSM to echo his retoric and we are surprised that he is a disaster?
The far left says he has not done enough...especially with both the house and senate in lib hands....the far right knows that the constitution is under attack and the middle of the country is hurting...really hurting..yet the Orator in Chief continues to preach he is watching out for us yet continues the back room deals with his cronies while paying off all the favors that got him elected.
He is a complete failure and the 1 year warranty on the drugged kool aid is wearing off. Mather is the first of many that will not let this go. They have been silent too long and did not want to be the first to pop the bubble.
I cannot Barry changing. He is a politician without a rudder...and the people around him don’t know how to recognize failure. He will continue to blame Bush for everything while pushing his socialist agenda.
Freepers...we must let every elected official know.....we remember how you voted on stimulus, how you voted on healthcare, how you voted on illegal immigrants, how you voted on protecting our country and our military. REGARDLESS of how you now back away to protect your re-election, we are going to vote you out based on supporting Obama’s socialist programs in 2009.
“When one is a lying deceiving half-breed,...”
What is the negative of half-breed in this context?
What’s wrong with being a half-breed?
When you are an idiot, the President of the United States, and in complete denial of the other half of your breed, PLENTY! Frankly, if he didn’t have the black side to play too, the individual in question would have NEVER been elected president, US Senator, State Senator, or for that matter, dog catcher. That in itself doesn’t speak well for those who fell for the act.
That sounds like an ignorant accusation.
I like how ignorant accusations, can somehow be grounded in truth.
Agreed.
Maher and Tea Partiers have little in common.
Some of the words may be the same but Maher says them to be popular and entertaining, not out of some sort of principle.
He’s an entertainer and not a political commentator.
The nation should laugh at Obama instead of Maher. Maybe they would both find themselves unemployed.
His failure to accept himself is not related to his mixed parentage but is a choice he has made. A political choice by the way because there were great advantages to be had by claiming to be an African American.
Many, many Americans are of mixed parentage (in fact, that's a big part of America) and it is inappropriate to imply that being a "half breed" is somehow a liability.
I like how ignorant accusations, can somehow be grounded in truth.
It sounds like good, old fashioned racism of the type that puts conservatives in a very bad light.
And I somehow don't think that is what you intended.
No. You will know Obama is really in trouble when Saturday Night Light actually starts making fun of him.
The last episode had the usual Cheney, Bush, and Sara Palin tired jokes but nothing about Obama.
That reflects the total political correct White Guilt reflex by liberals to avoid joking about their hero.
It does appear that Obama’s reach exceeds his grasp.
Have we yet determined whether he is dumb, ignorant, stupid, clever, decent, grateful, narcissist, service oriented, selfish, power hungry, in over his head, devious, honest, performing above or below his ability, holding back, intelligent, in charge of the WH, being manipulated by puppeteers, secretly dealing with other dictators, wants to be loved, wants to be feared, is confident, is debilitated, hates whites, hates blacks, loves everyone, lies, is truthful, successful, is doomed ?????????
He certainly is a conundrum wrapped in a riddle.
Watch this video.. Maher tears into Obama. First time ive found him funny ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmruk69SIo
Excerpt from the gig:
“I was willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, until I saw him give a tour of his house to Brian Williams... like they do on “Cribs”.... and at the end of his bed, there was a TELEPROMPTER... saying “whos your daddy”!”
Don't interfere when your enemy is committing suicide (but don't let down your guard, either)
Excellent, concise analysis - thanks!
So far? Obama was never up for the job and never will be.
The worst part is that he is ragging him because he isn’t going far enough LEFT!!
He isn’t ragging Obama because he is ruining America! He isn’t ragging Obama because he is dividing and encouraging class warfare!
Maher is one of those people who is so stupid that he thinks once socialism and communism gets here that he will be spared!
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