HBO Bill Maher: "Obama Needs a little George Bush"

[Etheoma]

Never mind the laws of physics

[TheRajibmondal]

So intellectual and at the same time funny too.

[Kiru26]

The type of president when need is the sort who doesn't even want to be president, doesn't want to deal with media, despises politics, but is just sick of how much everyone else is fucking shit up!

[qwexas]

What we need is Ron Paul. He is more about substance than image.

[zwalrus1]

I'm tevoing it!!! Hahaha



[BeefPapa]

maher is more objective than people think

[BeefPapa]

maher is more objective than people think

[USA4July1776]

Face it, the problem is not Obama or any one man or woman, the problem is failed leftist ideology.

[Mschocolalicious]

I think Bill is neglecting to recognize a valuable point. The house of Congress primarily consist of republicans. The democrats do not have controling interest which makes it difficult for Obama to carry out his plans and policies he initially proposed. Obama is not God and can not change the world without people's support. So when people fail to vote during local and national elections they are doing their president a disfavor yet they complain about the very man they neglect to support.

[saberswordsmen1]

@Mschocolalicious What happened a few years ago when they had a supermajority along with a sitting President and still couldn't pass anything? No, this is a problem with the Democratic Party as a whole at this point; they have no unity or cohesion. I appreciate what Obama is trying to do, being the moderator above the brawl trying to being folks together, but he needs to realize that isn't possible now. He needs to grow a set and start fighting for his principles, tooth and nail if need be.

[TheQueposfan]

Bill Maher for President, Bush wanted to screw America and he did, he took Clintons's surplus and spent it in a year and took us all down, but he rammed it through. He and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Phil what's his name that works for the Swiss banks all will split billions from the suckers they call Patriots. Why can't Obama do the same thing for the good of America?

[Idontwannaname0]

Before hating Obama, consider that any move he makes may cause at least one group of people to hate him. He is carefully moving forward while trying not to get on anyone's bad side.

[amt253]

The bong joke reminds me of something Groucho Marx once said on You Bet Your Life...

[Vaeviktis]

Allah told me to fix healthcare.

[eleal1893]

Obama's ideas are good????

No, just plain no.

It's unfortunate, people getting brain-washed by the liberal media so obama can push through reforms to screw the government even more. If they really want to fix anything, cut down on taxes, cut down government spending like on welfare, and STAY out of other countries problems. Start using hydrogen and nuclear power, as they are much more efficient energy alternatives.Doing this will increase productivity and lower costs and increase opportunities

[MsDDiddy]

@eleal1893 better being brainwashed by the liberal media than the right wing fucktards. thank god they only have fox news.

[eleal1893]

@MsDDiddy so you admit to being brainwashed? You see I'm about thinking for myself. So you think I only have Fox news? Really? I'm sorry but relying on one source of information can only lead to brainwashing.

[joekiddlouischama]

... brilliant.

[BeYAWNsay]

JESUS TOLD ME TO FIX HEALTHCARE lol

[bindasbolre]

tht is y i like bill maher..........he is ready to criticize democrats if need be.............i hope the right winger like bill o Reilly can learn something from him

[The79Machine]

Obama and Bush are chillin' in some bunker right now smokin' cohebas laughin at us. It's like the 2 guys that start a riot then sneak out the back door when it starts.

[tyrone121285]

Its pretty hilarious that maher would make such a big deal about obama being on tv too much when he and other parts of the media are the ones always publicizing whatever it is he is doing. Bill maher just wasted 5 mins talking about him being on tv don't u people think thats kind of a copout???There the ones making him out of a celebrity not him.

[TheHappyBagel]

obama is a black ninja gansta yall!!!!!

[mattvlad3]

obama IS BUSH

[SatansMullet]

Niggers are Lazy, Obama is Lazy.. Problem America? :D

[FredrikN310]

When Bill M talks about Obama, his audience is always like: Eeeh - are we supposed to be laughing now?

[s5b678]

I like Obama but the one thing I have said since early on is he needs to grab his balls and make shit happen. Pres Obama, we need another FDR, be that person.

[ydnarnosfatsug]

Reality Check. Party is over Barry. step up to the plate or take your ass back to where ever the hell you came from. The HYPE is over. We got a Black President. Yee haa and whats he worried about today? Basket Ball. GO Figure. March Madness is right. This shit is Maddness and im SICK of it like everybody else

[s5b678]

@ydnarnosfatsug And you show yourself to be a retard racist. I am white and I love March Madness, so what? Because he is pres he can't enjoy college sports?

[ydnarnosfatsug]

@s5b678 sorry dick wad, sports shud take the back seat when the world is on fire. and stick your racist comment up your backside. Idiots like you made the race card the wild card and its played so much the word has no meaning anymore. He got elected becaus of race and everybody knows it. you want racist?? There you have it! Your one term affirmative action President. Hope and Change... win the future...Get er done, be kind rewind. What ever catch phrase it takes to get a morons vote will do.

[kimmieanne1]

@s5b678 Not we voted for him to fix things and he is busy meeting the Queen...

[dianacoley]

I kind of agree... Obama needs to be a little more forceful and when he does something right he needs to repeat that shit over and over again like everyone else...

[ttiiyy]

You're wrong, Bill Maher. Obama is George W. Bush. The negro approved $30 Billions military aid to Israel. He is George W. Bush.

[14luisalonso]

4% instead of 10%.. well you ARE recovering from an economic crisis so... maybe higher than 4% proved unsustainable.. Does the general public have acces to the studies, results behind those decisions? NOW, the reason I ask is because Maher wont go for the facts, he needs to support his comedy sketch that feeds on public political figures,etc. I just cant expect more from him, except being funny.

[psychokillercrab]

This whole society is about popularity. It's sick. Who cares if ppl don't like you, not everyone is going to like you, get over it. I am disappointed in the President that he feels the need to have so many 'friends' I wish our society would get over the high school politics....

[mauribest1]

obama mark my words will be more and more of asshole now!!

its obamas time to keep getting stuff done now.

its time for dream act to get pass and time to keep on helping

the middle class and the poor.

[mongerworld1]

are you saying that Bush got his job done???????? hahahaahahahahahahahahahaahaha­hahahahahahahahahahahahh

[thuzan117]

@mongerworld1 what we are saying is that bush got shit done, regardless of wether he was a bad president or a worse president he got his dumb fucking ideas through the system more or less intact. obama is lucky if he can get half of a damn budget bill through congress unmodified. cmon obama sometimes you just have to ask yourself....what would republican jesus do?

[psychokillercrab]

@mongerworld1 well he got the conservative job done lol

[shaqdaddy11]

why dont we just shut down the banks, insurance companies, big businesses and everything else the left dislikes. 

[thuzan117]

@shaqdaddy11 can't and it's a bad idea anyway. capitalism can work and it has worked we just need to regulate it. we all walk the dogs but how many of us prefer the dog to lead us around?

[rehan376]

I am goin to vote Republican this yr cuz Pres Obama didn't fix the mess quickly which republicans created in last 8 yrs.....! How fuckin dumbass I could b....? M outta words

[grasd2]

I'm disappointed in obama to say the least. He's turned out to be basically a moderate. We didn't have an actual liberal running in the election.

[rehan376]

Thank God we hv Obama in white house... Imagine ...Mitt Romney or other dick head like em being in White house...? We might b fighting another clueless war with Iran..and haliburton would b gettin another no bid contracts..... Fuck u Republicans

[fireflygirl246]

@rehan376 your right Obama has not really made things worse, he has not started any new wars or anything, but he really has not been able to do much good ether. The white house and a majority in congress and nothing has really gotten that much better. So I'm glad he is in office but I must say at the same time I am disappointed in him, I was expecting more out of him.

[equsnarnd]

This proves that Bill Maher is just as stupid as I've suspected. Witty> Yes. But when it comes to political philosophy he hasn't got a clue. All he can see is what's right in front of his nose. Pity.

[WikeddTung]

of course obama sucks at his job, he a fucking politician. and for those right wing dickheads who actually think libs are turning on him: aint happening asswipes. the reason we're pissed with him is because he's NOT LIBERAL ENOUGH. it's time to fuck bipartisanship and FORCE every republican, libertarian, teabag and nazi to choke on PROGRESSIVE AGENDA till it's coming out their kids' noses.

[MrFreeLibertarian]

I love it!  These idiots like Jon Stewart and Bill Maher who were Obama's "useful idiots" supporting him on TV for 2 years now turning on him like rats leaving a sinking ship! Hey Bill, instead of bashing Obama, why not apologize to your lame ass viewers for supporting a clueless part-time college teacher who was and is obviously way in over his head! As for Hilary Clinton, you morons are scary! She's not even qualified to suck her husband's dick!

[WikeddTung]

@MrFreeLibertarian libs criticize obama because we're not one dimensional, single-meta, shit for brains thinkers. only right wingers, (including deranged, batshit teabags and libertarians) are so fucking moronic they believe if you disagree with them, you're their enemy. you people are so fucking simple minded, cognitive dissonance is impossible for you. face it hand-job, you're just dumb.

[Stingerbillion]

I agree with Bill. Obama needs balls. He has a dick that got him elected, but now he needs balls.

[DraskyVanderhoff]

Everyone has a Hitler in his heart :D

[judasiscariot3]

BULLSHIT??!!?!?!!? Here is Bill Maher on his global warming spin as usual, shamelessly promoting the impending carbon tax. Stupid pundit.

[thursgun]

A country who ask his ruler to be more ruthless. That's funny.

[BMason3604]

I wish Hilary Clinton was president. She had similar ideas as Obama, but that bitch would get shit done!

[PKwinsomee]

@BMason3604 I agree 100%. Your thoughts have been shared by me since I got to see Obama in action. Brilliant guy, no idea how to assert his ideas in a government effectively.

[BruiserDrop]

Shes only a phone call or short walk away from the president so much of the time. I think Obama has achieved a lot in his first year but if there is something he hasnt done and wants to...and Secretary Clinton knows how to get it done...I'm sure shes talked with him about it. I always see her sitting in on those meetings. Plus when it comes to health care Obama is closer than Hilary was when her husband was President. Obama just needs to start swearing more and punching people on capital hill.

[Stingerbillion]

@BMason3604 I disagree a little bit. She had better ideas than Obama and Universal Healthcare plans. She would have done a superb job than Obama. Even though I like Obama and he's "trying", Hillary would have kicked butt. It's too bad she isn't the president.

[Albanezkaa]

@BMason3604 amen to that!

[equsnarnd]

@BMason3604 Well, then, thank all those people that voted for Obama since the ideas they both have aren't worth spit and would be very destructive of Freedom and Liberty.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd let me guess your a fox news fan aren't you?

Bush held people without charge or do proses, he illegally wire taped American citizens, his vice president outed a CIA agent and they lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

But Obama wanting to provide health care for all Americans is destructive to freedom and liberty, come on are you really serious? are you really that brainwashed by the talking heads?

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 This is an incredibly stupid thing to say. Bush was wrong and should be condemned for his misdeeds like the Patriot Act. His evil doesn't give Obama a free hand in enslaving one group of people to another. If your level of discernment is that well, a Republican was a bad actor so that gives Carte blanche to a Democrat then don't bother responding.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd I don't believe I said it gives Carte blanche to the democrats, I just fail to see how universal health care and the other ideas that Obama has are "destructive of Freedom and Liberty". I agree I would say that nothing could give Obama the right to enslave one group of people to another, but I'm wondering what you are talking about? Who is getting enslaved too who here? I'm sorry if I made assumptions on what you were saying , but your vague comments leave little choice but to assume.

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 Sure, no problem. People do not have a right to health care. If you've ever noticed when reading the literature of Liberty that rights are couched in negative terms. You're rights are things that you have by virtue of being alive and are not supplied by anyone and are delineated to codify what someone else is prohibited from doing. Health care has to be provided by someone at an expense and that money does not come from the gov't - it comes from the gov't stealing.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd dose the government steal money to build and maintain the roads you drive on? Dose it steal the money to defend the country by having a military? is it sealing money to have police and firefighters to protect our neighborhoods. Taxes are a fact of life, if they did not exist then there would be anarchy, come on give me a break, I am so sick of the self centered crap about not wanting to pay taxes to help society as a whole that includes you. how greedy can you get

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 As a matter of fact, that is exactly what the gov't is doing: Stealing. Using a gun to tax and take money from some to give it to others. This is indefensible on the face of it. There was no income tax until 1916 and we should abolish it again. There are much better ways to raise revenues for a modest Federal gov't but not for the monolithic Leviathan that we have come to know and depend on for goodies.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd yes and things have not improved since 1916, yeah right. The government using tax dollars to build the Highway network across the country, it was one of the best things to happen, its one of the reasons we have such a good standard of living, all this is thanks to income taxes. There is a good balance between socialism and capitalism. There is a lot of good the government can do to help improve things for everyone, education is another one of those things that helps everyone.

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 Your arguments are devoid of information and content. No further reply is necessary.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd you have no response to my points so you make a claim that they are "devoid of information" so you do not have to actually admit I have valid points and you can just dismiss them out of hand. You must be a fox news fan.

so what points are devoid of information, the fact that Highways built by income tax dollars changed the country, that education is good for everyone, that deregulation lead to the economic collapse? I'm afraid your the one that dose not have a let to sand on here.

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 I'll give you a reading list if you really want to learn but you can't reduce a complex subject to a bumper sticker or sound byte. When you talk about the hiways it's a good issue and illustrative but how can I summarize the issue in 500 characters? Read, read and read some more and don't get your education from the popular press and tv. I'd be glad to recommend some classics like Frederic Bastiat's The Law or anything by Milton Friedman. etc Ask if you want more.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd LOL I do alot of reading, economic study and get most of my education form books, I use the news as a way to keep up with current events but I do not take them for there word and try and form my own opinion. I have read Milton Friedman, I agree with him on many libertarian views like legalizing drugs, but not his ideas on the free market creating money, its probably the most fair system, but it causes more problems then it solves. It would make currency extremely unstable to name one.

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 I would refer you to the eloquent studies done by Murray Rothbard on the fed and the Banking system. Put his name into Amazon's search engine and look at any one of the books that come up. And to von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and The Fatal Conceit. They argue my points much more elegantly than I can and they have more than 500 characters to do it. My premise is that always, Liberty is the foundation of everything that is to follow and that principle brings about the best.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd Personally I see it the way Oliver Wendell Holmes saw it "taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society" and its true. It might not be the most fair system, we try and make it as fair as we can, but the alternative is to allow corporations to destroy the middle class, we would all be working for one company or another for life, not getting paid but earning store credit we can only spend in the stores our company owns. we pay taxes to keep the freedoms we have.

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 Personally I see it as taxes are the prices we pay for an uncivilized society but one man's ceiling is another man's floor so to speak. There are many alternatives to the current system. A flat tax would be fairer. And the imagination can come up with many others. Some so radical that it would take your breath away but the system we currently have is hideous, immoral and leads to bigger and bigger gov't.

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 This theft by gov't this use of force to give to one person by taking from another is an act of enslavement. Additionally the gov'ts powers are enumerated and limited. It has no right to take over health care or 'give' what it doesn't have to someone by 'taking' it from someone else.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnar its not like the government is taking this money and giving you nothing in return, universal health care is good for the whole country and its good for you. If you get sick now its a crap shot if your HMO will decide to cover you or not, if the illness drags on they will surly drop you for there plan. A real universal health care plan would make sure that you would not lose your house tying to keep yourself alive. I think the peace of mind is worth a little tax money, but I'm not greedy

[equsnarnd]

@fireflygirl246 We would be far better served with free markets in health care. First the gov't ruins through interference and regulation a free market and then poses itself as the savior of a destroyed health care system. A racket and if you can get a number of gullible people to believe your crap, voila, you have managed a bloodless coup of taking over 1/7th of the economy with no right to do so. We will as others before us, sooner perhaps discover why this is such a bad idea. Immoral too.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd no your not far better off with a free market for heath care, the US has one of the worst health care systems in the west and its the only one that is not socialized yet, Canada and the UK have spend much less on health care and get so much more for it. Letting people get sick and not educating them leads to a worse society for everyone. I think its immoral to let people suffer and die when there is something you can do about it. get rid of taxes and watch the country fall apart.

[fireflygirl246]

@equsnarnd "First the gov't ruins through interference and regulation a free market " remember that economic crisis, and the housing market crisis not so long ago, that was the result of 8 years of deregulation by the bush administration. I really wish we could trust people and companies to do the right thing, but we can't. If you really want to see slavery remove all regulations on the free market and let corporations take over, then you will truly have slavery and no more middle class.

[ArcanineKing]

@BMason3604 What about Ron Paul? ):

[MikeDevaney]

@BMason3604 like not handling the presidential penis. If she couldn't satisfy a hard on I doubt that she could satisfy your ideology.

[thuzan117]

@MikeDevaney dude you gonna deny she was scarier than obama? hillary clinton had more balls than obama and i'm not talking just metaphorically my mom has met her before and what we need in the whitehouse is a hardass not a wet noodle full of sunshine, rainbows and an 8 dicked republican walrus.

[MikeDevaney]

@thuzan117 I believe that was a Patton Oswalt reference at the end? Yeah I don't think being the presidents wife for 8 years makes anyone qualified for the presidency. I don't see why our president has to scare anyone. I am so sick of the aggressivist agenda. "EHHH we need to scare the world into respecting us instead of doing respectable things." Makes no goddamn sense.

[JJJohnson32]

@MikeDevaney THANK YOU!!!

[MikeDevaney]

@JJJohnson32 You are totally welcome.

[thuzan117]

@BMason3604 definitely true, clinton was someone who could scare the shit out of you, obama.......uh........uh......­..........i'd be more intimidated by...well anything i suppose.

[1danyol1]

@BMason3604 but how could she pass bills when she's busy giving blowjobs and making sandwiches?

[Mistrinho7]

@BMason3604 Have you ever heard about Illuminati?? That is why he is not doing anything...

[BrettMariee]

@BMason3604 She is a liar too, she is for the new world order shit too! her husband is a member of Bildergerg! The only one who can really help us is Ron Paul! Its not about color or gender, its about who will stand up for liberty and freedom and not policing the world. RON PAUL 2012!

[SHIBBYiPANDA]

@BMason3604 What has Hilary done that's so great? I'm not trying to hate I'm honestly asking. I'm a huge ron paul fan. I live in Texas so I don't hear much good about Hilary here, so what's so great about her?

[BeefPapa]

@SHIBBYiPANDA

her hubby

[peteagassi]

@BMason3604 She's vicious. The problem with Obama is that he's too much of a gentleman. He needs to get rough and tough.

[TheShayner21]

Well, well, well.....I never thought I would say it, but Maher brings up a good point and calls Obama out on his bullshit.

Bill Maher is trying to be too sweet about it though. He should have been more ruthless with his remarks.

[dicendimes]

Hah, even Bill Maher admits Obama has no balls and needs to grow a spine. Yes, he's criticizing him from the Left, but even the right agrees with some of the things he said. Bush had principles and didn't care about popularity and sometimes, it's not the most popular guy who gets the job done.

[fountainhead2epik2]

@dicendimes That's why Bush passed a 700 billion Medicare bill before elections, because he doesn't care about popularity LOL

[dicendimes]

@fountainhead2epik2 Bush was a Socialist, that's why he passed the Medicare Bill. If Bush gave a damn about popularity, he would have pulled the troops out of Iraq by 2006. Doh!

[Shadowsafter]

@dicendimes Yeah, the guy who not only decreased corporate and upper class taxes but took some upper class people off of the tax register is a socialist. Also that fucking bullshit bill simply pushed old people to the medical companies, who were only to happy to *help* them by selling them overpriced, unneeded bullshit pills.

[flintr94]

@dicendimes Riiiiiiiiiight, because Bush got /so much/ done!

[dicendimes]

@flintr94 Apparently he did, b/c even President Obongo has now shown that he agreed with Bush's Wars, Tax Cuts, and the Patriot Act. Have a nice day. LOL.

[bia13love]

@dicendimes Bush did nothing but make a lot of people anxious and put a lot of ppl out of work.

[SamFreedom]

lol I almost feel bad for them... they're total stooges and cant even come to a debate on substance... it's all high school nonsense

[stronzoid]

You anti-Obama clowns need to listen to this again. Bill is slamming the arrogance and wreckless stupidity of George Bush. Georgie and Cheney screwed the taxpayers of this couuntry and led us into the biggest recession in history, it's a slam against republicans you idiots.

[Libertarian71776]

This recession dates further back than the Bush administration. It involved everyone. Wall Street, banks, Dems, Repubs, the Fed, and consumers. Plenty of blame to go around. Obama is Bush on steroids.

[Grindmen25]

@stronzoid Republicans are simple minded fools. Its a waste of time arguing with them.

[unite4peace88]

You said it Bill. Fake advocacy for the real Democratic reform. I think we're being played!!!

[cwagnerwv]

ditto Bill!

[curlz8113]

Boo-ya, Bill! Finally someone behind (democrat) lines said it!

[brittonsimon]

I knew this would happen , the love affair that was never there is dying, Obama is a fraud , he is actually starting to make Bush look intelligent, and THAT is scary! :)

[StudentResponses]

Yep, right on the money, Bill. Obama lose your cool, blow up at somebody in public. George Bush? How about a bit of Bill Clinton?

[headbone3232]

what's next, automobile insurance to pay for tires and oil changes?

[PJYost38]

A year from now America will be wishing Bush was still in office. This is just the beginning of the end of Obama. He'll never see a second term. When this is the monologue of one of his more ardent SUPPORTERS less than 6 months into his term, just think what it will be like 2 years from now. Our media is only good at one thing: Building someone up so they can bring them down in the most ruthless (and ratings supportive) way possible. 3.5 years of media bashing will kill "you must love me" Obama.

[oden67]

I voted for McCain on 08' and would like to see a Republican in office for a few reasons but if you think that Obama will just get one term you are nuts.I mean he could who knows but come the lead up to the 12' elections if more people are making money and working then they are now then he will be voted in.I cant see a major revolt in the Democratic party that would cause it.Then again its is American politics and anything could happen

[PJYost38]

Remember, we are what...120 some-odd days in the Messiahs term? Hes got a LONG way to go and the American people are starting to wake up to his bullshit. While his personal approval ratings remain high now, all his other numbers are in the tank and dropping. Once people get over his "personality" and see what his policies are going to do to this country, his ass is GONE! When someone like Maher can see it at 120 days, someone who loved and voted for BO, well, the writing is on the wall.

[osp80]

maher is upset because he not doing what he said not because he's agrees with right wing idiots's

[CrowdPleeza]

What makes Bill think that the type of healthcare reforms Obama is pushing for will happen overnight and without any opposition from republicans and some dems? It looks like we don't have the money to support Obama's particular reforms anyway.

[Eddy666Nax]

Obama's health care reform isn't going to work. All insurance is, is a government sanctioned and in some cases like car insurance mandated pyramid scheme. Seems to me having a national fund from the taxes we pay on our cars, houses, etc. and using that in place of a glorified bet on how many people need to cash in their policy makes more sense. Imagine the stimulation consumer spending would get from the extra hundreds of dollars people would save, rather than letting the house take its cut.

[reddog543]

WOW! BIG NEWS! SOMEONE FINALLY MADE FUN OF OBAMA!

Liberals are starting to realize that a "rock star president" = a bad president.

Obama is a just college dorm level socialist with a few good speechwriters and zero executive experience.

People, it's time to forget your expectations of socialist utopia from our government of bank whores.

Sorry bout dat.

[mmeol]

I actually agree with you on the whole "celebrity" issue, but you're failing to realize Bill is calling Obama to be *more* socialist and less bipartisan.

[svaught32]

lol