Maher was asked by host Piers Morgan to evaluate Obama’s presidency. He gave the 44th president a positive review, saying Obama is an improvement after the George W. Bush presidency.
“You know I love him,” Maher said. “You know you can’t not. I mean coming in after Bush, first of all, you have him there, you have a guy you can relate to. He’s intelligent, he can speak English. I don’t think about George Bush at all anymore which is great. He’s like an uncle who molested me and I blocked it out. You know? And you could just tell, you know, you’d like to have dinner with Obama. He’s an erudite guy, he’s a constitutional law professor.”
Morgan asked Maher to contrast Obama’s decision-making on the economy to his decisiveness in authorizing a raid into Pakistan to take out al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. According to Maher, that’s not much of a comparison:
MORGAN: But what — I mean I agree that on one level, the criticism that seems most accurate to me is that he can be diffident in decision-making. And that hasn’t probably helped America get out of this economic strife. But then just when you think that he’s diffident, he comes out with that stunning strike with the Navy SEALs against bin Laden, which had it gone wrong –
MAHER: That’s the low-hanging fruit.
MORGAN: Is it, though?
MAHER: Absolutely. It doesn’t cost anything. Everyone wanted to see it done.
MORGAN: But if you went wrong –
MAHER: Yes. Yes.
MORGAN: And a bunch of American SEALs has got killed. That could have cost him the election.
MAHER: No. He’s got a pair on him. Obama.As for the debt and the deficit, the “Real Time” host accused Obama of letting his political adversaries frame the debate.
“Well, stop talking about — stop talking about the debt and the deficit. You know when Dick Cheney was in office and they were running up all the debt, and by the way you can look this up,” Maher said. “There are facts outside of the Fox News bubble, actual facts and numbers. Most of the debt was run up under Bush. Dick Cheney said, quote, ‘deficits don’t matter.’”
Maher suggested that race might be somewhat at play in this situation.
“Why can’t Obama say that? Why is it OK when Dick Cheney says it but not when President Black Man says it?” he said. “I’m not saying it’s all race, but it seems a little weird that suddenly he gets into office and the debt and the deficit is intolerable. I mean the Republicans have some nerve. Bush came into office. The debt was $5.6 trillion. He took a surplus and turned it into a $10 trillion debt, almost doubled it, with stuff they didn’t pay for. They didn’t pay for the wars. They didn’t pay for the tax cuts for the rich, which should be called tax spending for the rich, because it is spending. The prescription drug program, all of that unpaid for. And then suddenly Obama comes into office and they act like he’s Newt Gingrich’s wife at Tiffany’s. He didn’t spend — what — his big spending, the stimulus, was mostly a Republican spending plan.”
…………right on brother,got the Nobel prize and bin laden……..while all those stinkin’ two-faced cowardly republicans are doing is taking a giant dump on the hard working people of America and then standing back laughing and pointing out shit they left on the american carpet……………… oh yes, and telling us to step to it and clean it up………what kind of 21st century plantation mentality is being shoved down our mouths and how much longer are we going to take this playground bullshit…….did we ever let a few playground punks get away with crappin’ on our field……..its time to tell these pen pushers and bean counters that they can park their fat overpaid asses on the middle digit and spin on it………………spin until they squeal like pigs on their honeymoon!