WATCH: Bill Maher Challenges Obama: "Stand Up For The 70% Of Americans Who Aren't Crazy"

On "Real Time" Friday night, host Bill Maher closed his show with some sharp words for the Obama administration with regards to how they have responded to criticism from figures such as Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

Maher called the White House "cowards" for allowing Van Jones to resign following a series of right-wing attacks and for capitulating to those who complained about the nature of Obama's back-to-school speech.

"The Democrats just never learn. Americans don't really care which side of an issue you're on as long as you don't act like pussies," Maher said.

Maher then criticized Obama for trying to win over those who vehemently disagree with him, insisting that the president should instead "stand up for the 70 percent of Americans who aren't crazy."

"When are we going to actually show up in all this," Maher said.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/12/bill-maher-challenges-oba_n_284314.html

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...a million morons/morans can still vote... (btw, why does the spell check flag morans, when the overweening 'journalist majors' sniff that it's 'moran' and not moron? Hmmm, maybe DU needs to rewrite the software, because it's obviously wrong. How 'bout the Bugs Bunny take? You know, "...what a maroon."?

Organized stupidity still has power and this dismissive attitude seems more like whistling in the dark to me...


When are the so-called 'progressives' going to convince their more conservative neighbors and members of their own families of the logic of their arguments with compassion and respect, rather than looking down their noses and haughtily declaring their obvious intellectual superiority?

I've read too many posts here that show a total disrespect for parents, brothers, sisters and neighbors by bitching about their 'right-wing' political beliefs, and those people should be ashamed. You folks make this whole thing into something of a cult that deserves more loyalty than your own family.

Furthermore, any deviation from what the choir wants to hear gets the whole 'if you're not with us, then your against us' mentality that rightfully generates scorn when used in any context. Witness those who want to establish 'educational' or 'monetary' requirements to be allowed to unrec a post, as if an adult thinking person has to prove himself worthy of posting here, as opposed to a high school senior or college freshman with some bucks who can afford to donate.

Is that what you had in mind, Skinner and Co?

What too many people here want is a nice, quiet place where everybody compliments their posts and agrees wholeheartedly, and joins in with abuse on the posters parents, ex-friends and neighbors who offend with their conservative views.

You may not like the White guys in their Cat hats, pickup trucks and rifle racks, but they have a say in our society too, and intelligence used in catty, scornful and insulting generalities aren't going to open anybody's eyes. Why can't anybody step forward with guts along with brains and compassion, not to mention charisma, and LEAD?

What is needed now is a populist leader who can bridge this widening gap There's nobody on either side of the fence who can do it at this juncture, certainly not the current President.

Van Jones was politically radioactive, for example, and had no business being brought out as a public member of the team, and it is truly foolish to think otherwise. However, he could've been working in the background in the same capacity. All the Administration did was fly a balloon to see if it would fly with the general public, and it didn't. Such shortsightedness is going to come back to haunt this Administration, and it doesn't matter how much people moan and bitch here.

Finally, it seems to me that the Republican Party was emasculated during the last election. However, any sort of roadblock to Administration plans is being decried as Republican obstructionism. Bullshit! It's those Democrats in conservative districts who are holding things up, so let's put the emphasis where it belongs.

You can flame on, but I never read that crap, anyway; it's just written, as usual, by people who want a scratch behind the ears and a pat on the back from the choir. Anything but actually thinking about it. It's called a 'knee-jerk' reaction.

and have given up.

your quote: When are the so-called 'progressives' going to convince their more conservative neighbors and members of their own families of the logic of their arguments with compassion and respect, rather than looking down their noses and haughtily declaring their obvious intellectual superiority?

All thru Clinton, "conservative neighbors and family members" have "looked down their noses" at me with "their intellectual superiority". Sorry, being nice.doesn't work with 99% of the wingnuts.

They have been acting liking bullies, being nice hasn't work (it never does on bullies). I rarely talk to the wingnuts in my family any more (pretty much just for the few holiday gatherings)...not worth the stress or the headaches....they want to be stupid, fine...I don't have to hang around them.

I have plenty of friends and other family to hang with that are not stupid wingnuts...they deserve my time and attention and love and support.