We Need an Exit Strategy, Not a Couscous Recipe-Bill Maher

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-maher1oct01.story


By Bill Maher

New Rule: Presidential candidates must have news conferences and cut out the appearances on daytime TV. There's a reason they don't call it "Hardball With Kelly Ripa." I need to know our exit strategy for Iraq, not Dick Cheney's recipe for couscous.

This week, Dr. Phil aired an interview with President Bush and the first robot, er, lady. I wanted to record it, but I was afraid my TiVo would think I was a wuss. Especially at the end, when Dr. Phil made Bush act out his feelings toward North Korea with dolls. The president of the United States has no more business being on

"The Dr. Phil Show" than glue-sniffing teenagers have being on "Face the Nation." If Winston Churchill had gone on "Dr. Phil" he would have been outed as an alcoholic with rage issues and shuffled off to some center to break his cycle of co-dependency and get some closure.

What are we looking for these days from a candidate? Competence? Leadership? Ideas? No, we want to know how they feel. Thinking? Leave that to the Europeans. I want to know: Does George Bush cry at the end of "Charlotte's Web" when he listens to the book on tape, and how did John Edwards meet his wife, and who's a cat person and who's a dog person? Oh wait, that's right, I don't wanna know insipid
nonsense like that. I'm looking for a president, not a Lamaze partner.
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[wildflower]

1. No way...He didn't! Did he?

"Dr. Phil made Bush act out his feelings toward North Korea with dolls."

Did he really? I think I'd pay to see this.

-wildflower