Bill Maher praises the USA for having elected Barack Obama.
"New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a bl...
Bill Maher praises the USA for having elected Barack Obama.
"New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black President, something no other democracy has ever done. Take that, Canada! Where's your Nubian warrior president? Your head of state is a boring white dude named Stephen Harper, and mine is a kickass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!
That's right everybody, I take back everything I'be ever said about the good old USA. I've gone from "God damn America" to "goddamn, America!". I feel like a hockey mom at the State Fair getting felt up by Hank Williams Jr. while fireworks go off and Jesus appears in my cotton candy. It would be stupid to not be stupid about it.
I'd like to take this moment, when we finally got one right, to bask in a little unwarranted, unapologetic, irrational faux patriotism. Or as Fox News calls it: Regular programming. Now I might regret this, as it's kind of like going grocery shopping when you're high. But here goes, World. [Patriotic music.]
We're Americans. We built the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam and Joan Rivers. We're the only country that can look at a sandwich made of ice cream and chocolate cookies, covered in fudge, and think "Huh... ya think we could we fry that?" And you know what? Yes we can!
They may have 72 virgins, but we have 31 flavors. Do you know what our favorite burger topping is? Another burger! We invented Rock'n'Roll, Jazz, Funk, R&B and Hip Hop. Without our music, your iPods would be filled with Abba, Menudo and Men At Work. And you wouldn't have iPods.
Not only did we create the internet, we're the ones who filled it up with porn. Jefferson lived here. And Miles Davis. And Mark Twain and Frank Lloyd Wright, and a lot of other people Sarah Palin never heard of.
In America, strippers and Disney stars have an equal right to be named Hannah Montana. And I was freely able to make a movie saying there's no afterlife, and you could watch it while eating crap that'll kill you. But that's ok, because our corn-fed high school sophomores are bigger than your soldiers. And they're better armed!
I ask you: In what other nation would they tax young people to make sure old people can afford erections? What you call football we call soccer, and what you call war crimes we call football.
So let me just say it again: We elected a black guy, and it was because he was the best candidate, not because it was some cheap gimmick. And we should know, because we're also the country that invented cheap gimmicks.
Yes, America is like Jessica Simpson. Sometimes it's so stupid it embarrasses you, but on the other hand, how about them titties!"
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I don't understand what's he so proud of. The rest of the world is so much mature than USA. It has women as presidents and leaders who work for their own country instead of going to war against nations for their oil. Yep, the rest of the world can be "jealous" of US all it wants.
I don't know really. Can you imagine a person of Indian descent as Prime Minister of the UK? And even if you can, you'll never see one on the British throne :) Nor will you ever see a Turkish Federal Chancellor in Germany (Turks are the biggest minority here). And those are pretty harmless examples... think of a Palestinian as Prime Minister of Israel, or a Kurd as President of Turkey. So as much as I agree with you on the war & oil issue, Obama's election really was a big step for mankind.
I agree with you on some parts of your above comment, but not "obama's election really was a big step for mankind." As i said before, the world has seen women, to old people, to young ones get elected and move on so i don't know how Obama being elected was any different. Sure it was history making in USA but i don't see how it's historical in world view. Also, what you said about Indian descent as PM of UK, depends really if that person is born/citizen of UK. Continued......
Women in leading positions is an old hat since Queen Cleopatra. Maggy Thatcher and Angela Merkel didn't really achieve anything remarkably new there. But a member of a racial minority getting elected by a white majority? And not only that, somebody who started out as a member of the lower middle class and worked his way up to the top, in a country where the odds still are...used to be... stacked against people of his race / social class? That's a first. I know that it couldn't happen in Germany
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I bet usa doesn't have a hanicapped person in a high postion like canada does.