Bill Maher Calls Obama 'Wimpy,' 'Wussy' On 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' (VIDEO)

Bill Maher expressed disappointment and frustration with President Obama on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on Sunday. The president, he said, has been too timid in pursuing the Democratic agenda.

"I thought, when we elected the first black president, as a comedian, I thought two years in, I'd be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?" Maher said. Instead, Maher said we've got "President Wayne Brady."

"For him to be talking about compromising with the Republicans on the Bush tax cuts, where -- where are they going to draw a line in the sand? When are they going to remember who they are?"

"I'm so disappointed.," Maher said. "And I still like him and still think there's hope he could get it yet, but I'm so disappointed that he just seems to be another in a long line of Democrats that come across as wimpy and wussy ... and of not standing up for what they believe in enough."

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[topazz]

11:00 AM on 12/07/2010

Bill Maher is a gangsta-wannabe, and always has been.

[cayuse]

09:38 AM on 12/07/2010

Bill Maher

I will give you the benefit of the doubt since your article was written before yesterday.

Disturbed does not describe Talking LEFT and acting RIGHT. 2 wrongs do not make 1 right. 0 risk management, the basics for any decision.

DEBT 100% in the wrong direction
EQUAL TAX 100% in the wrong direction
JOBS 100% in the wrong direction
DECENCY 100% in the wrong direction

MIRACLE the BUSINESS CYCLE will recovery on its OWN 0%, his only excuse
FUTURE DIRECTION 100% in the wrong direction

[madame48]

10:24 AM on 12/07/2010

he should be so hard on the lying, blackmailers of the laid off workers, and their pals in banking who are rolling in dough. Every time I see a GOPig on TV he/she is LYING. This country is going down the tubes

[softvoice]

09:23 AM on 12/07/2010

That is just about the most immature thing Maher has said in a long time. Some people need to grow up and stop thinking that being President is about scoring political points. It is about making the toughest decisions anyone can make and it is about finding solutions to problems that don't seem to have a clear solution. Progressives seem to think that they should have some sort of co-presidency going on because they worked to get Mr. Obama elected. He owes them no favors and further more I am having a hard time distinguishing Progressives from Republicans. Both of them seem to think playing with American lives is acceptable, if it brings them a political win.

[KarmaTheDog]

11:14 AM on 12/07/2010

What was the tough decision? He kicked the can down the road. Solutions? Let the tax cuts expire, it will go along way in reducing the debt.

[Gigi Jacobs]

08:46 AM on 12/07/2010

You're alternative is to find a Democrat with a spine and do it fast. I disagree with Bill in that Obama will never grow a spine. If all that he's done in the last two years has not showed him the way to negotiate, it's not his thing.

See, we have a problem. Democrats are the party of the people. They feel sorry for the poor and homeless. They have empathy. Therefore they do not fight with the same ruthlessness that the Republican's have no problem doing in their sleep. it's a biological difference. Empathy does not usually yeild a strong combative leader.

So, what's to do? Well there are Republican's with a spine. They are few and far between. But we need to put one of them on the 2012 ballot or we are lost. Try a Congressman Alan Grayson. A Bernie Sanders. There are a few of them that know it takes fire to fight fire.

But do it fast. If Obama takes a second term, the democratic partiy is over as we know it.

I'm begging, pleading, asking, put someone else on the 2012 ballot or we are finished.

Gigi Jacobs, small business owner, Santa Monica, CA

[Paul Andrews]

03:34 AM on 01/19/2011

IMHO there is only one candidate from either party that knows anything about small business which is where just about all new jobs are created. Sadly i dont think he can win, so we are doomed.

[Carl Caroli]

08:06 AM on 12/07/2010

The democrats believe in corporate campaign donations, just like the republicans.

[Paul Andrews]

03:35 AM on 01/19/2011

yep no differenmce there

[medic628]

07:57 AM on 12/07/2010

What does it take for any Black man in this country to get the same respect that is demanded from any White man is this country. "This comment will not be displayed until approved."

[Go2Renz]

06:53 AM on 12/07/2010

This is all Sarah Palin's fault.

[Go2Renz]

06:52 AM on 12/07/2010

Obama: "They talk about me like a dog. Then they throw me a bone ang I wag my tail. Everyone is happy now. I like bones."

[mlrlmsw]

05:05 AM on 12/07/2010

It pains me to agree. I think Frank Rich's piece in the NYT on Sunday was right on. The dems are like abused spouses who are still under the sway of their abusers even when they have power. Obama and the Reid blew an amazing mandate with broad support when Obama was elected. Pelosi did more, but still took impeachment off the table when Bush was still in office. I'm not saying dems should abuse their power in kind, but damn, have some core principles and stand up for them! So disillusioned.

[lucerot]

03:03 AM on 12/07/2010

I'm not holding my breath for *any* Democrats any more. They have let us down again and again and again. Grow a spine already, fools!!!!

[ChasG]

03:16 AM on 12/07/2010

What's your alternative?

[SonyaInTx]

08:00 AM on 12/07/2010

That's what I want to know......

[jlemaire76]

02:47 AM on 12/07/2010

I just plain give up. Get your money. Grow a business. Run your own life.

[Allen Jenkins]

02:31 AM on 12/07/2010

I know it has to be tough for y'all....we're still waring in the middle-east, no government spawned jobs, high-unemployment, don't ask don't tell, no universal health care, tax cuts for everyone, no gay marriage rights...

Looks like we'll have to survive on Capitalism!

Rush, Beck, Bill O, Sean, tried to warn you, but you didn't listen!

I'd be ashamed!

[mlrlmsw]

05:13 AM on 12/07/2010

Oh, yeah, we were so much better under Bush/ Cheney who squandered a budget surplus; lied and bullied to push through America's immoral, pre-emotive war in Iraq ("mission accomplished" 8 years ago); two mismanaged wars that have wasted billions and bankrupted our country to Osama bin Laden's pleasure; and contributed to the nasty polarized nonsense that passes for governing now - "you're either with us or against us.". ALL Americans should be ashamed. Our over reliance on tv, intellectual laziness, greed, and apathy have given us these leaders. They are a sad reflection of who we are - a declining country, once great with promise, now just sad.

[CanisLatrans]

01:08 PM on 12/08/2010

It's very telling that you seem to be pleased as punch about wars, unemployment, sick people being left to fend for themselves, and a class of people being discriminated against. Yay, Capitalism, for bringing us these fruits!

Yeah... exploitative Dickensian Capitalism, as portrayed in "Hard Times". Or maybe the Emilie Zola version that we saw in the mines of France in "Germinal".

But for every 'Germinal', remember too that there is a Souvarine.

[RobinSeattle]

01:57 AM on 12/07/2010

Maher is right. Obama is the American answer to the craven behavior shown by Paul von Hindenburg in 1933.

[JesusWasAZombie]

01:55 AM on 12/07/2010

I think Obama's latest cave in has proven Bill Maher right.

[redmaple]

01:24 AM on 12/07/2010

I totally agree. During the primaries I wasn't sure about Obama. Now I'm sure. He's not on our side. He's just a polititian. No vision. Or no guts. The only chance for the Dems is to have a chalenger to Obama in 2012.

[SteveDenver]

01:27 AM on 12/07/2010

Dems have challenged the incumbent three times in Presidential history and have lost the White House each time. But "It's better to have a known enemy than a false friend."

[Junius Publius]

01:47 AM on 12/07/2010

So you support Democrata losing all branches of government come 2012? Your opinions are not the majority (doubt you can admit that). Please proceed to tell me how stupid America is and how we should be be more like Greece and Spain (best countries ever).