Bill Maher Calls Obama 'Wimpy,' 'Wussy' On 'Fareed Zakaria GPS'

[Scurrilous]

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"Bill Maher expressed disappointment and frustration with President Obama on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on Sunday. The president, he said, has been too timid in pursuing the Democratic agenda.

"I thought, when we elected the first black president, as a comedian, I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?" Maher said. Instead, Maher said we've got "President Wayne Brady."

"For him to be talking about compromising with the Republicans on the Bush tax cuts, where -- where are they going to draw a line in the sand? When are they going to remember who they are?"

"I'm so disappointed.," Maher said. "And I still like him and still think there's hope he could get it yet, but I'm so disappointed that he just seems to be another in a long line of Democrats that come across as wimpy and wussy ... and of not standing up for what they believe in enough."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/05...92223.html

"I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?" Maher said."



@#$% you Bill Maher!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Yeah I thought he would be gangsta too! If there is one thing hsis background screams, it's "gangsta"

(12-05-2010 03:19 PM)Scurrilous Wrote:  <snip>

"Bill Maher expressed disappointment and frustration with President Obama on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on Sunday. The president, he said, has been too timid in pursuing the Democratic agenda.

"I thought, when we elected the first black president, as a comedian, I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?" Maher said. Instead, Maher said we've got "President Wayne Brady."

"For him to be talking about compromising with the Republicans on the Bush tax cuts, where -- where are they going to draw a line in the sand? When are they going to remember who they are?"

"I'm so disappointed.," Maher said. "And I still like him and still think there's hope he could get it yet, but I'm so disappointed that he just seems to be another in a long line of Democrats that come across as wimpy and wussy ... and of not standing up for what they believe in enough."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/05...92223.html

"I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?" Maher said."



@#$% you Bill Maher!

[Cha]

(12-05-2010 03:21 PM)SemiCharmedQuark Wrote:  Yeah I thought he would be gangsta too! If there is one thing hsis background screams, it's "gangsta"

[Joan Ruaiz]

(12-05-2010 03:19 PM)Scurrilous Wrote:  <snip>

"I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?" Maher said."



@#$% you Bill Maher!

I thought that I had turned Bill Maher off a while ago. He turned out to be a bigger sexist chauvanistic bloviator than I ever thought he would. His Napoleon complex is starting to wear extremely thin.....

[SeattleGirl]

I guess Bill didn't get his pony either.

[atomic]

That kind of name-calling isn't helpful.

I like Bill Maher but he has never been one to mince words.

[spazito]

I have never understood his popularity as I don't find him funny just rude and obnoxious as well as having an ego the size of Mount Rushmore.

[Cha]

(12-05-2010 04:41 PM)spazito Wrote:  I have never understood his popularity as I don't find him funny just rude and obnoxious as well as having an ego the size of Mount Rushmore.

We liked him when the bush/cheney coup was goin' on and since then I just find him obnoxious.

[spazito]

(12-05-2010 04:52 PM)Cha Wrote:  

(12-05-2010 04:41 PM)spazito Wrote:  I have never understood his popularity as I don't find him funny just rude and obnoxious as well as having an ego the size of Mount Rushmore.

We liked him when the bush/cheney coup was goin' on and since then I just find him obnoxious.

Even back in the dark days of the bush regime I didn't care for him even when I agreed with some of what he said, I never got the feeling he really meant them, it was more for reaction, imo, than taking a principled position.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Whqat he is saying here is that Obama is not acting like what he thinks a black man should act like. Nobody told Bill or Hill to be gangsta

[NYC Liberal]

Bill Maher is one of those guys who I don't particularly like, but don't really dislike either. I agree with him on a lot of things, disagree on a lot too. So I guess it balances it..or something. He goes over the top in making his points I think just to be deliberately provacative for attention.

[There Is No Spoon]

(12-05-2010 10:18 PM)NYC Liberal Wrote:  Bill Maher is one of those guys who I don't particularly like, but don't really dislike either. I agree with him on a lot of things, disagree on a lot too. So I guess it balances it..or something. He goes over the top in making his points I think just to be deliberately provacative for attention.

That's it really. I don't mind if he points out that we have to occasionally laugh at ourselves. He also goes too far at times.

[NYC Liberal]

(12-05-2010 11:51 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote:  

(12-05-2010 10:18 PM)NYC Liberal Wrote:  Bill Maher is one of those guys who I don't particularly like, but don't really dislike either. I agree with him on a lot of things, disagree on a lot too. So I guess it balances it..or something. He goes over the top in making his points I think just to be deliberately provacative for attention.

That's it really. I don't mind if he points out that we have to occasionally laugh at ourselves. He also goes too far at times.

Yeah...I actually mostly watch the show for the guest panel (and New Rules), and hardly ever watch his monologues.

[Born_A_Truman]

I do enjoy his show on HBO--he gets some interesting guests. Hell, Bob Cesca's latest on HuffPost called Obama a wimp too. The left has their talking points too it seems, although they are the wrong ones.

[CraigGrant]

Two years ago I thought we would be talking about how relevant and funny Bill Maher is. We were both wrong.

[Ikonoklast]

Tough talk from a little man.

Never cared for Maher and his planet-sized ego.

[PoliticalTiger]

It's interesting how some on the left call Obama "wimpy" while the right screams and shouts about how Obama is destroying the country with his "radical, socialist agenda!"

While the two spectrum's bitch and whine, Obama stands firm and above it all. That's not the sign of a "wussy."