Bill Maher on OBAMA

[npk]

This is an excerpt from Bill Maher on Larry King Live. I have to say I think I agree a lot with what Bill had to say.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/11/06/larry.king.obama.reaction/index.html

Larry King: Were you ever -- I don't want to use the word scared -- were you ever worried last night?

Bill Maher: Why? What happened?

(LAUGHTER)

I think, you know, we all had this paranoid feeling like we're Charlie Brown and they're going to snatch the football away again. So, you know, until about when he won Pennsylvania, that's when it started to look pretty good for the people who were for him.

King: What does this election say to you, Bill?

Maher: I think that the lesson of the election is that the old America that Sarah Palin was saying was the real America, the small town, "Joe the Plumber," white America, that's still out there. But the other America, the more diverse, liberal America, has edged it out. And maybe that's the real America now.
King: Is Karl Rovism dead?

Maher: Never. Negative campaigning, mudslinging, tearing people down -- that will always be in vogue. McCain did make a classy speech last night. But, you know, they all make a classy speech when they lose. What else can you do?

And it does ring a little less true when only a day before you're calling the guy a socialist, a communist, a terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American.

Oh, we lost? He's a great guy. Forget what I said yesterday. Let's all get behind the guy I just said was a communist. Please.

King: Did the McCain campaign -- I know you admired him in the past -- did it disappoint you?

Maher: Terribly. I think it even disappointed the people who were voting for him.

I sensed something in conservatives reacting to the election yesterday. Even the ones who voted for McCain, they sort of were relieved. I sensed that. It was like, yes, I guess I kind of had to pull the lever for McCain, but secretly a part of me knew that this country needed a breath of fresh air, needed a new kind of president, a new kind of politics, a new face, a smart guy, a flexible guy, a supple leader.

[DesertFlower]

1. i saw the show.

most of the time i do agree with bill maher.

[skygazer]

2. I saw the same thing he talks about in his last comment

I spoke to several conservative friends and acquaintances the day after the election and all of them voiced a sort of satisfaction with the outcome. They all had positive things to say about Obama and spoke about hopes for the some concrete changes - a better reputation in the world, a stronger economy - that they thought would happen now. And they way they said it made me think they hadn't really believed that would happen with McCain.

I found it interesting.

[yeswecanandwedid]

3. Bill was dead on in that interview. He has grown on me. nt