Bill Maher asks Senator Hillary Clinton, "Why should Americans vote for someone who can be fooled by President Bush?" Senator Clinton responds, "It's a little more complicated than that."
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VERY amusing bitch!What a cackle!
"It's complicated Bill...you see I'm supposed to portray principles and integrity...but in truth...I'm just another WHORE!
I'm a loyal Democrat that will sit on my hands on election day rather than pulling the lever for this phony whore!
[mmmm...beep]
cue laughing mechanism....look animated
If Dems give her the nomination, I agree. Why vote? Bad enough to be in a red state where voting for any Dem candidate is not going to make a difference.
I'm a loyal Democrat that will sit on my hands on election day rather than pulling the lever for this phony whore!...If Dems give her the nomination, I agree. Why vote?...
I've been a Democrat since 1963 and I don't like Hillary either, but saying you'll stay home is stupid. Any of the Dem candidates will be better than any Repub and if you stay home you're just enabling more of what we've gotten for the last 7 years. Nader was wrong about there being no difference and so are you. Politics is the art of the possible. No one gets exactly what they want. If it's Hillary who gets the nomination I'll hold my nose and vote for her.
Whore?!!!!?
How is Hillary a whore?
Is this the best you can come up with?
Just admit it, you sexist pig, you're not pulling the lever because our presidential Democratic candidate will be a woman.
Actually, I think "whore" in this instance refers to Hillary being bought by corporate interests two times over.
Liar! That cackle says enough for me!
Ugh!
Maher I remember you right before the 2000 election saying " It didn't matter who won, there was little differance between Al and George". I guess Bush fooled you once also.
Bush makes a used car saleman look like the pope. He treats everything like a paper towel.
Peace
Good point. If you read the New York Times in 2000, they too embraced Bush.
True. But the difference is that Maher came out long ago and acknowledged that he was wrong that there were differences between Al and George. I believe it was around 2003.
Yes, but Maher was still fooled wasn't he.
Maher's standards should a ply to him and the 90 percent who where in favor of the Iraq war in March of 2003 also.
The fact is Bush is a liar. Some saw it before others and to many don't care because it party before country.
Too bad, he wasn't thrown away in one of those
paper towels, you write about...
Bill Maher is many things. A thoughtful liberal is not how I view this man.
A triangulator whose own peccadillos - like whoring around at age fifty while smoking marijuana - an illegal substance - with the open admission he always makes in person or on television - give him the illusion of a person whom the left should embrace.
The individual who gives both friendship and voice to Ann Coulter makes me more than pause.
I firmly believe that his first public chastisement cost him any value judgements ever again. From regular television to cable has resurrected his career, but he knows the missteps if the neocons ever crucified him again.
Maybe Bill has more respect for the First Amendment than you do.
Points for laughing? I'm not sure.
It was a valid question, and she's been consistent in her answers to just about anything asked regarding that vote.
Would she be a more competent president than what we have now? No question. Is she the absolute right person to go in and attempt to clean up what Bush has wrought? That's tricky, because the share more interests than meets the eye.
Frankly, I don't envy anyone taking the oath of office in January 2009. I think I'd rather mop the floors in the men's room after a GOP convention.
Funny!
Give me a break! Hillary had a chance to show leadership and exercise that "influence" she so gleefully points to when it mattered. She publicly stated time and time again she didn't trust the Bush administration, then when it came time for the vote to give Bush authorization, as a US Senator she had the NIE report and has later admitted (only when pushed, of course) that SHE DID NOT READ IT! The few who voted against authorization sited the NIE report as not making the case for war the Bush administration tried to sell. Bottom line, Hillary failed the biggest test of leadership by not bothering to do her homework before handing authorization to a cabal of self serving liars. She can't claim she was duped like everyone else when 70% of the public didn't have the intel she sat on and ignored. So much for that "experience". And her condesending laugh at the mere question was insulting. Nothing about the death and destruction she is complicit in creating is funny. Pin the Medal of Freedom on her and send her ass home. She is a disgrace.
YUCK!!!
I'm glad she finds it so funny that her political calculation got our country mired in Iraq. Does she cackle like that when she sees flag-draped coffins?
oh thats deep...you must be so profound...
lol!
I'm in the same boat he is in but I play the Democrat side.
Most of my stock portafolio is Halliburton shares.
Craig / Vitter 2008
Foley for Ed Sec?
AG?
AG? The Macocka guy...
Yeah, it's very complicated...you see I want money and power and am not able to stand for principles.
Try Dennis, he always has intelligence and principles, that's his department.
I'm in the money and power department.
Perfect.
Except you didn't mention the maniacal fake laughter.
Why would anyone who still hopes for government of, by, and for the people even bother to listen to this woman? She is the DLC, and the DLC is the Trojan horse in the Democratic party; they represent the military/corporate power structure and their mission is to subvert any move that might thwart the House of Bush.
If you are a huge, monolithic corporation or a member of the military industry, by all means, vote for Hillary.
If you're not a giant corporation, don't kid yourself that Hillary might ever, even by accident, work for you.
If you're not a giant corporation, look for someone who isn't owned by the same people who gave you George Bush.
seriously, that CACKLE was just downright condenscending and rude ... and a little scary
Too true, rbrooks. Of course, the question itself was rather simplistic and too particular in the first place. It gave her an easy way to worm about and reframe the issue as a simple betrayal of faith on the part of the Bush administration as opposed to a betrayal of faith on the part of the government as a whole. Instead of essentially asking "Why were you fooled into giving George Bush power to go to war in Iraq", the question might have been more potent if rephrased along the lines of "Why do you have such little appreciation for the balances set forth in our democratic constitution that you would allow the executive branch of our government to arrogate the power of another branch?" I'm sure that she would have danced around a question like that as well, but at least it would have set a more concise frame on the main issue that the question was really trying to address.
Again the Huffpost finds plenty of room to bash Hillary and throw soft balls to the nice looking jr senator from illinois. does the resentment wing of the Democratic party ever want to win? Ah but who cares - Clinton is way out in front in the polls:
http://liberalrapture.com/
and those of us who want to win know better than to waste our time with Obama.
I am surprised that the headline is not : Rose asked Obama is he can touch him and who is favorite Beatle is! or Obama comes to mash up after TIGER BEAT FOTO SHOOT!
Trust me - Obama is as phoney and "corporate" as they come.
Yes, that is the corporate enabling response, for sure. Double ditto on Dennis !!!!! He is the only true liberal and socialist in the bunch. He is consistent and he walks the walk.
All DLC Centrists and Dixiecrat Neocons march to the same Corporatist tune with lyrics and music by K Street lobbyists. It is always written for John Philip Sousa in a military march cadence with ruffles and flourishes.
Sinclair Lewis had it nailed when he described how fascism would come to America....he should have added that when the fascists succeeded...they would nail the sheeple to the cross.
Dennis Kucinich is NOT a socialist. While he is a champion for social causes, such as universal health care, education for everyone and a level playing field (read, meritocracy), he is not a Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist or Maoist.
And he is definitely not a Bushist.
The guy just wants to clean up a government that went bad a long time ago...while HIllary wants to hang with the boys at the Bohemian Grove.
You're right. Dennis Kucinich does have the intelligence and principles. I hear him and was astounded how the media ignores him and the huge response he gets from the audiences and always ask "so who won Hillary or Obama?"
He is the only one who wasn't fooled by Bush and voted against the war and and the Patriot Act. He was reviled by some at the time as a traitor but he is a leader. America could be restored to greatness with Kucinich. All the powers that be are against him, of course,but if the people get to hear his message he will be elected.
I won't vote for anybody that originally voted for the unnecessary Iraq War or the Patriot Act.
Yes, it is very complicated. Why would you vote for anyone who does not have an agenda for improving this country, who has shown no leadership skills, whose only election slogan seems to be "it's time for a woman president", and who takes money from people who put the interests of OTHER countries above those of America? And most important, who is married to a man whose policies helped push this country toward destruction ie. NAFTA, deregulation of the media, etc., etc., etc.
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First Posted: 09-13-07 08:35 AM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM