Bill Maher rips Democrats: ‘You gave people health care, not herpes — own it’

[babylonsister]

I didn't see the show, but that's a great line imo.


Bill Maher rips Democrats: ‘You gave people health care, not herpes — own it’
Arturo Garcia
31 Oct 2014 at 23:55 ET



Bill Maher ended Real Time on Friday by blasting Democrats for their apparent refusal to highlight their party’s successes in the midterm election campaigns.

“You gave people health care, not herpes — own it,” he said. “Instead of chasing polls, move them.”

Maher argued that Democratic candidates’ penchant for distancing themselves from President Barack Obama made him feel more sympathy for the president than his party mates.

“Sixty-three straight months of economic expansion,” Maher said. “A depression averted. A deficit reduced by two-thirds. A health care law that’s working and lowering costs. Two women on the Supreme Court. {Osama} bin Laden’s dead. Stock market at record heights. An unemployment rate that dropped from 10.2 {percent} to 5.9. If you’re a Fox News viewer trying to do the math, that’s less. Gas prices are down. Is it really that hard a record to get behind?”

He singled out North Carolina congressional candidate Clay Aiken for saying he didn’t need Obama to campaign with him because he was “doing well.”

“No you’re not,” Maher said. “You’re gay in North Carolina. Have you looked around? Half the state is redneck. Which is a huge improvement — it used to be all redneck.”

Aiken’s reluctance to appear with Obama, Maher said, cost him the chance to connect with the state’s new liberal base.

“Democrats are always doing this,” Maher argued. “And that’s why they’re just like Clay on American Idol: happy to come in second.”

Watch Maher’s commentary, as posted online on Friday, @ link~

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/bill-maher-rips-democrats-you-gave-people-health-care-not-herpes-own-it/

[vi5]

1. Obviously I have major issues with Maher...

But that line sums it up.

God, I really am constantly embarrassed at this point to associate myself with these cowardly, spineless idiots I call my political party.

[Takket]

2. If you run away from your success...

Everything looks like a failure. It hs almost as if they bought into the GOP version of Obama's record. If they can't highlight any successes what are the voters going to see? We should have defined the narrative for these midterms. Instead we let the GOP do it for us.

[Fumesucker]

3. The funny is ridiculous and the ridiculous is funny

Comedians are people who are wired to see and expose the ridiculous in everyday life where most of us overlook it.

Humor sometimes exposes an uncomfortable or even painful truth.

In antiquity it was often the court jester who could speak most freely to the sovereign if he but couch his comments in an amusing way.

[rhett o rick]

5. Well said. One difference between liberals and conservatives is that

liberals can listen to someone they don't always agree with, like Maher, while conservatives will, not only shun such, but also try to censor such so others can't hear.

I think that a lot of Democratic candidates seek the moderate way. Thinking that if they speak out too loud, they will be branded radical. But not standing up for SS and Medicare, or the ACA isn't moderate. And it comes across as cowardly.

[samsingh]

4. he's right

Our leaders seem to be afraid to speak out about their successes.