Bill Maher: 'Bush Had the Thinnest Résumé for President Anyone Had Ever Seen'
Bill Maher said Friday that George W. Bush when he first ran for president had the "thinnest résumé anyone had ever seen."
Such happened on HBO's "Real Time" during an interview with author T.C. Boyle (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER: But people like confidence, don't they? I mean, that is part of the attraction there.
T.C. BOYLE, AUTHOR: Well, they have charisma.
MAHER: It doesn't matter what you're saying. I mean, obviously, Charlie [Sheen] is saying crazy stuff. It’s the fact that he's so confident in what he's saying. Reminds me of George Bush. George Bush was like that. When George Bush ran for president he had the thinnest résumé anyone had ever seen. He was just the ne'er-do-well son of a, of a, you know, guy who had been president. And, but he acted like he owned the f--king world.
BOYLE: It gets worse. It gets worse. I had to explain American foreign policy to audiences in Germany and France for eight years.
MAHER: Why?
BOYCE: Well because everybody's saying, “This is your president. What do you want from him? Who are you?”
MAHER: Oh, I see.
BOYLE: You know, and so on. And it was, it was humiliating.
MAHER: Right.
So how would one explain America's foreign policy to audiences in Germany and France today?
We've got a president that was given the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months in office having accomplished absolutely nothing, and now less than two years later, parts of the Middle East and Africa are exploding in violence.
The world today is in a more tenuous condition than it has been since the end of the Cold War, and the current White House resident seems totally clueless.
As for the previous president's résumé, he was twice elected governor of our nation's second most populated state. Prior to that point, Bush:
- Was managing general partner of the Texas Rangers for five years
- Assisted in running his father's re-election campaign in 1992
- Was a campaign advisor and media liaison for his father's first presidential campaign in 1988
- Created Arbusto Energy company which later merged with Spectrum 7 eventually becoming Harken Energy which he served on the Board of Directors
- Was a member of the Texas Air National Guard
- Graduated with a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School
Is going to Harvard and Yale, creating an oil company, and being twice elected governor of our nation's second most populated state a "thin résumé?"
If it is, our current president's curriculum vitae is emaciated by comparison:
- U.S. Senator 2005 through 2008
- Illinois State Senator 1997 through 2004
- Lectured at University of Chicago Law School 1991 through 2004
- Harvard Law School graduate 1991
- Community organizer 1985 through 1988
- Graduated with a BA from Columbia University in 1983
As it pertains to the highest office in the land, which résumé looks thinner to you?
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Comments
If this guy Boyle was
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 1:25pm.
If this guy Boyle was 'humiliated' trying to explain Bush's foreign policy, I wonder what adjective he's using now trying to make heads or tails of Boy Blunder's LACK of foreign policay . And I wonder where ol Donkeyface would place Hussein Soetoro's 'resume'..................since it is so thin that it is 'transparent'??? Well, I can't really use that word, because the majority of his so-called 'resume' has been hidden, or revised, or re-calibrated.........
Both of these clowns are complete dolts.
Well
Submitted by ripper58 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 1:39pm.
crude was $46 a barrel when the Usurper took office now it's $103, the Mid-East burns and Libians are begging for help and Obummer fiddles, food and textile prices are "necessarily skyrocketing", the stock market is antsy and there still are NO JOBS!!! Gonna look good on the One's next (first?) resume, huh?
Billy, you'd better lay off
Submitted by MikeB on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 1:49pm.
Billy, you'd better lay off the booze and the drugs before ... oh, well, too late!
Let's take a look at Bush's resume: fighter pilot in Texas Air Nat'l Guard, business owner, governor of Texas, Bachelor's and Master's degree from Ivy League universities, with a decent GPA.
Now, let's take a look at Obama's resume:
And, what was in Clinton's resume? Rhodes Scholar, draft dodger, governor of Arkansas.
The last Democrat with a decent resume was Dhimmi Cahtuh (Annapolis, degree in Nuclear Engineering, service in USN, Governor of Georgia), and he was dumb as a fence post when it came to practical matters.
Your statement is about as sensible and accurate as Rosie O'Donut's statement that the first time in history that fire melted steel was on 9/11/01. Putz!
But Obama ran a successful election campaign!
Submitted by OxyCon on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 1:49pm.
Remember that ridiculous resume padding?
Obama's chief success prior
Submitted by BD on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:10pm.
Obama's chief success prior to election seems to be FILING for the election.
He had MINOR success shaking down people for money as a community organizer, but he was hardly successful at the actual job or poverty in the Chicago area would have been abated - it was not.
No, his biggest success
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:03pm.
was his speech at the DNC convention in 2004. Based on his poor speeches as a President, he ought to go back to that speechwriter. It sure isn't he.
Dennis Prager
Liberals have the thinnest
Submitted by P. Aaron on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 1:59pm.
Liberals have the thinnest skin of anybody...Credentialed but not educated.
They all wanted
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 1:59pm.
to find evidence that Bush had done coke. Barry admits it in a book and they've never even mentioned it.
Stupidest human alive...
Submitted by adamsmith on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:11pm.
One has to wonder if Bill Maher is the stupidest human alive. This guy I'm pretty sure has shiite for brains. It's amazing to me that politics is his bread and butter and the only thing he knows is a handful of Huffington Post talking points that most of the time are nothing but lies. He reads nothing of any value to arrive at his own conclusions. He's just a loud element in the collective, but just as mindless as the rest of the hive.....
He really is a total moron
Submitted by merly1 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:14pm.
Running texas alone would out do most. Fighter pilot pretty awesome, too,
More proof Maher has risen to his level of incompetence.....
True, but I wouldn't tout the Rangers ownership much
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 10:38pm.
Before last year, that team has stunk up the majors to high Heaven.
His tenure there might be a negative mark. :)
Yeah, but did it turn a
Submitted by BD on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 11:09pm.
Yeah, but did it turn a profit?
Only after the city built them a ballpark
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 10:55pm.
I'm not big on the corporate welfare aspect of that either. :/
Yeah, but at least it did
Submitted by BD on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 9:19am.
Yeah, but at least it did what it was designed to do, turn a profit even if slim.
certainly not as smart as he THINKS he is
Submitted by nitish on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 4:51pm.
given Maher's history of being wrong--including his self-declaration of being libertarian,
you'd think he wouldn't reach beyond his intellectual grasp so often.
Liberals are hilarious.
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:17pm.
Liberals are hilarious.
It's worse than funny
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 4:10pm.
They are mostly mean, arrogant and poison spitters. God forbidden you don't agree with one. Then you can see the real LIBERALNESS of the liberal. The word itself is an oxymoron.
Is Bill's show running out of cash or something?
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:21pm.
Looks like Billy-boy's running low on money. And/or his ratings are tanking and he's under threat of being fired if he doesn't get in the news again. It's always the same with these leftist media clowns. If they're not in headlines for a few days, they just start bashing Bush, or Christians, or America in general. Like a haggard crack whore banging on the dealer's door begging for their next fix.
Billy's sudden spate of statements must show that the high has worn off and he's looking for that next shot....
Maher is ignorant scum ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:30pm.
Did this clown ever look at Obams's resume? Apparently not.
If he did look at Obama's resume
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:00pm.
He must be the only person who has ever seen it. I can't to this day find a resume for BHO prior to his state Senate days.
Dennis Prager
Obama had a resume?
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:13pm.
Who knew?
I thought it was all "Hope and Change", because as far as I can tell, even if he did have a resume, it is all unsubstantiated blah, blah, blah.
Obama claims to be a law professor, but was a guest lecturer. He claims to have been a state senator, when he mostly voted present. He claims to have been a US Senator, when 2/3 of his term was abandoned. He claims to be a citizen, but we have no proof. He claims to have graduated from college, yet we have no transcripts or other documentation.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Blonde...This is one aspect that really bugs me...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:41pm.
There is almost no real documentation of anything involving Obama's college career...No record of his being accepted to Columbia, no transcripts, no financials of how he paid for it, and much the same can be said of his time at Harvard, except there is some documentation of his being editor of the Harvard Law Review, in the form of some articles he supposedly wrote. I've seen these online. It is interesting though, that just about no one else who was there at the same time, outside of a few people who are buddies/supporters of his, remember him from Harvard, and I find that very strange. With all the suspicion surrounding this man and his past, you would think in the interest of laying all this to rest, he would have eagerly released every bit of documentation that he has that proves where he went to school, what his grades were (since he's supposed to be so brilliant), his writings, how he paid for his schooling, etc. But, so far, nothing...And that just fuels the doubts and speculation(s) about him, with good reason, I believe.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Exactly...why spend millions to cover it up?
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:01pm.
That's the part I find to be so bizarre. I truly suspect that the reason all of his college information has been kept under wraps is because he applied as a foreigner, perhaps with a scholarship for the foreign born. So either he's lying about his citizenship, or he lied to get preferential treatment to get into college, which is fraud. Either way, he's in trouble.
We know he's fake. I am so sick of his lecturing. Blah, blah, blah. Particularly when he knows less than a five year old about economics, it makes me crazy to listen to him blather. I think we should invent an "Obama off" button for the remote, at the first tone of his voice it would automatically turn the TV off. I can't even stand to listen to him for however long it takes to find the remote.
But the lefties like Maher continue to bash Bush, go figure.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
college papers
Submitted by Agnostic on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:08pm.
I wonder sometimes if it is nothing more than he acknowledged Marxism as his religion. Yes I know it isn't a religion but that is hard to prove when you listen to the true 'believers' talk about it.
The only college
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 10:27pm.
papers Obama ever made any impression on come on 4 inch wide rolls.
Or if that fun-loving jihadist dad, or marxist mom of his
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:20am.
didn't list Barry's religion as Islam on the BC? Just for giggles?
You could be onto something...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:16pm.
I just did some re-reading about Obama's high school drug use...He has admitted to being a druggie (alcohol, pot and he snorted coke...nice, huh?) for quite awhile during high school, and also has admitted that he wasn't much of a student...If this is true, his grades no doubt weren't good...So, how the he!! did he get accepted to Columbia? As we all know, getting accepted into an Ivy League like Columbia ain't easy...There's lots of competition, and very high standards...Did he get in as a result of affirmative action? Was it as a result of what you suggested? It must have been some back door way, because it sure doesn't look like it was as a result of his stellar character or his grades. Everything about this man is smoke and mirrors bs, and the fact that he actually managed to con the American people into voting for him still just stuns me.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Nail meet Hammer
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:23pm.
Spot on.
It's a velly, velly smerry bidniss.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
You said it, and...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 5:02pm.
I'm getting real tired of holding my nose.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
And, don't leave out
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:17am.
his application to Occidental College. That would have been his first attempt to enter an American College, and it would, indeed, be interesting to see what he, or his handlers, put down on the application. According to his apologists at Snopes,even, "Barack Obama's student records from Occidental College remain unreleased. He has not chosen to make them public, nor has any court ordered the school to release them".
Let's see, GW Bush was a
Submitted by Smartypants on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:31pm.
Let's see, GW Bush was a successful and popular governor of one of the largest most economically diverse states in the country. Obama was a part-time Senator at the state level before winning a US Senate seat, upon which he immediately started running for president. Other than this, most of his claim to fame appears to be as a professional rabble rouser. He never led anything before being elected president. His academic background is sealed tighter than a drum and his birth record is murky at best. Really, by any reasonable standards, Sarah Palin had a stronger resume than B.O. in 2008. This is all about the "D" after Obama's name...oh and probably has a little something to do with his race as well. A white Republican with the same credentials as Obama would be unacceptable to Maher.
I doubt your last sentence
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:06pm.
After all, Bill was a Kerry fan in 2004 and a Gore fan in 2000. Both of them are white men with no credentials (unless you count throwing your medals over the wall or inventing the internet). You are right, however, about the (D). I don't think Maher has even said anything good about Herman Cain, Thomas Soule, or Judge Clarence Thomas. So he is a (D) bigot. He likes black people fine as long as they had a (D) next to their name.
Dennis Prager
Bullseye
Submitted by IrateNate on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 9:48am.
Exactly correct - it's all about the (D).
Although, let's not forget the immortal words of Harry Reid, as to the qulifications of then-candidate Obama being "light skinned with no Negro dialect."
Actually, my main point was
Submitted by Smartypants on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 3:47pm.
Actually, my main point was the "D" after Obama's name; that is all that matters. Still, Obama's race is a factor, too. Liberal white guilt is a huge influence in the left's world, and I think that at least partly explains the over the top fawning by Matthews and some others in the media.
Maher must be drunk, stoned, crazy, or just stupid...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:49pm.
Bush had the thinnest resume when first running for president? He has apparently forgotten that President Bush had been a very successful, effective and popular two term governor (the first consecutive, two term governor in Texas history)...In addition, he had also run an oil business, and had co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team.
What had Obama done? He'd very briefly worked as a lawer, as a non-tenured, adjunct professor, as a "community organizer", and spent a few years, mostly voting present, in the Illinois state senate...How that surpasses what Bush had accomplished prior to becoming president, only Maher's unhinged liberal mind could understand. What a jacka$$.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
I vote stupid
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:55pm.
Dennis Prager
Agreed...Maybe I should have also said...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:18pm.
"All of the above"...LOL!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
They never ever seem to
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:06pm.
They never ever seem to mention Obama blew all the cash as a community organizer..
he spent all the cash and had no results to show for it, except his own movement to another job.
NOTICE since running his program, NO ONE has hired him to do another. In fact no one has ever askied to rehire him from any job...He changed professions each time and was a loser every time.
The also seem never to mention the south side of Chcago looks as bad as it did in the 60's, 70's 80's 90's and now. all in all it looks worse than the 50's.
Keep it up liberals we might ge tto do some liberal hunting sooner than expected.. this game would be a fun one..
Yep...I have heard that Obama didn't have...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:27pm.
the most memorable or stellar track record before he went into the Illinois state senate...And we all know just how effective he was there, with his 139 "present" votes. I haven't even included his time in the US Senate, because he wasn't there long enough to do anything of any real consequence, except vote against the Iraq war, and of course, lay the groundwork for his run for president, which is why he became a senator in the first place...Pathetic.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Gods dont need any resume', I
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:51pm.
Gods dont need any resume', I mean they are gods right; performing miracles and good works all day long. Selah.
"ever seen" is the key
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:00pm.
"ever seen" is the key word...your guy has not shown any resume except what you liars present.
all liberals lie and do it the best. The only thing a liberal can credit for himself is being the best liar.
He doesnt even have what you all say he has!
Submitted by brutony1 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:57pm.
What University diploma? His grades are locked tighter than a drum sat upon by Moochelle "Dont judge me by my fat ass" Oblubber! We cant even get a proof of birth, let alone a birth certificate. In fact, I dont even think he was born on this earth-hes truly an ALIEN! And not one of those hot-looking green bitches who frequented Star Trek, either! Look at his ears, his stilted speech, his teleprompter-less dumbfounded look-truly not of this world!
And dont even get me started on Maher-his problem is he thinks hes funny and TRIES so hard to portray humor in his speaking and delivery-but he aint funny, hes just the kind of a guy you want to punch out his lights!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
If I valued anything
Submitted by dr-go on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:00pm.
that Bill Maher said or subscribed to, I would very very angry with myself.
Actually Noel, Obama had a thicker resume - in one area..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:08pm.
.. stealing elections. Ref:
MAKING OF A CANDIDATE - Obama knows his way around a ballot - chicagotribune.com. April 3, 2007,
And they [Obama] kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box,
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.
Imagine, if Bush would have had Obama's experience going into the fall 2000 election against Al Gore, he could have simply run unopposed -- by getting Gore kicked off the ballot first!
Then, we wouldn't have had to go through all of the trauma of watching Al Gore trying to steal the election away from the man who won, President George W Bush.
(;~> gary
You would think creeps like Maher
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:19pm.
Would make themselves irrelevant by what they say, as I see Rosie is at it again as well.
Experience counts
Submitted by Miket53 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:38pm.
The many posts prior to mine have said it well. If anyone wants to compare resumes then they had better not be an Obama supporter. Liberals may blow off the importance of business experience but should not be so quick. Running the country has many similarities to running a business. The "experience" factor also should be looked at those selected under the president. Bush had some experienced heavy weights under him when it came to their management history. Obama has many "activists" under him that do not have business or managerial experience. That is a big mistake.
Having degrees and experience with social causes does not prepare someone for fiscal planning and decisions, national security, or managing crisis. Americans want people in power who can make tough decisions based on their priciples and not change direction based on polls. I'll take a former business executive any day for president or cabinet position.
Miket53 http://mtaricani.blogspot.com/
D'oh!bama was not a law
Submitted by Joe C. on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:35pm.
D'oh!bama was not a law professor, he was a senior lecturer. Kinda like being a guest teacher on certain subjects... say anti-constitutional theory.As usual Maher just made up
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:38pm.
As usual Maher just made up total left wing nonsense. He doesn't even pretend anymore about there being any validity to his rant.
I think he would have better served his liberal ( special ) audience by having his guest run through the highlights of the ' Gay Pride ' parade he was obviously on his way home from when he stopped by the show to wow the audience with his manly charm & wit.
Just think, at one time, on his way up, Bill was a regular weekend froliker in the legionnaires disease infested grotto at the Playboy mansion. Not to mention the proud recipient of an imitation gold plated plaque, in his honor, on the wall at the infamous Mustang Ranch.
Now he's reduced to pretending he's somebody in today's liberal late night seedy underworld where everybody is a nobody.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
Well Said
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 6:12pm.
That last sentence is the most apt description of liberal late night TV I've ever read.
Visions and Principles blog
Why is he still bringing up Bush?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 5:26pm.
Oh yes, to deflect attention away from the disasterous policies of BO.
I agree with Blonde
Submitted by pbthinker on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 5:40pm.
Anytime the Democrats fail to produce proof, it's usually because there isn't any. In Obama's case, I believe he used a foreign passport to help him either get in or get funding from Occidental. Either he's avoiding it because his citizenship was from Indonesia, or he just said that to take advantage of some financing. As far as grade transcripts go, they pulled the same thing with BUsh and then, once the transcripts came out and Gore didn't look so good, that all stopped.
Hopefully, in 2012, we'll have a candidate willing to ask those questions and a press willing to look for the answers..........................Nah, but there's still Fox News.
Barack Obama was NOT a "law
Submitted by TE on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 5:46pm.
Barack Obama was NOT a "law professor" at the University of Chicago.
Obama was a sometimes "lecturer" or some sort at the University of Chicago. I think he "taught" a "course" on something like the inherent racism of the United States and "typical white people".
Obama was not only NOT a "professor". Obama NEVER published a damn thing about any legal issue in any scholarly publication (e.g., a law review).
Not sure about that...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 6:04pm.
Obama was, briefly, a non-tenured, adjunct "professor" which is roughly similar to a guest lecturer. I have actually seen him referred to as both, so who knows what the truth is...It seems to change based on who is writing the article or who is doing the talking. He did, supposedly, write something for the Harvard Law Review, but this appears to be the only thing he did write for that publication (or just about any other one). Impressive, huh? Not.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12705.html
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
say what, billy boy?
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 5:47pm.
Bill Maher: I am looking for your Ivy League degrees, both undergrad and grad...looking for your silver wings as a USAF jet pilot...can't seem to find them. Oh, I should look in Bush's resume? Right, there they are...speaking from experience, Bill, you do not have the brains or the b-a-double l- s to fly a jet fighter plane. As to your ed creds...still looking.
What!?
Submitted by Bronco46 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 5:53pm.
Mr Maher can only be a liar of delusional. He couldn't possibly have actually read both resume's and come to this conclusion. So which is it Bill?
More Credit Than Due
Submitted by Junk Science Skeptic on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 6:08pm.
Obot's University of Chicago gig was as a lecturer, not professor. Not all faculty members at a college are professors, though the term is frequently misused.
Enough with this American Hater
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 7:44pm.
Isn't the name of this site Newsbusters, When does a left wing American hating cretin like this deserve to earn credit as newsworthy. Maybe a new site for these types should be started called Hollywood or something. This pedantic ignoramus is not newsworthy. Besides he should have been dealt with in 2001 with his comments. Like turning off HBO.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
Prairie-Obama got into
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 11:56pm.
Prairie-Obama got into Columbia through the intervention of NYS Politician Percy Sutton, a big deal in the African American community in New York in the 1980s. How Obama met him, is a mystery, but given Obama's marxist friends, it is likely someone from the left brought him to the attention of Sutton as a manchurian/alinskyite up and comer. A radical who could pose as a near centrist to gain power.
Time to move on
Submitted by Mike009 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:23am.
Someone needs to remind Maher that Bush has been out of office for two years. Time to move on.
Let's compare Bush to
Submitted by talkradio55 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 1:09am.
Let's compare Bush to Obama:
Bush:
Obama:
The only surprise here is that Obama actually has a resume with writing on it. He's spent his entire adult life as a theoritician, a pseudo-academic and a quasi-intellectual who is nothing more than an affirmative action. He has never done anything, never had a real job, never had to prove that he had a real intellect, or earn a living.
Bill Maher went off the rails after being booted from ABC. He and Obama's combined IQ is negative based on Obama's "resume" and every idiot thing he has said for the last 10 years.
I'm sick and tired of the New
Submitted by ozarkian on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 1:27am.
I'm sick and tired of the New Atheists, who, every time there's an article about muslim violence, answer it with posts condeming Christianity.
And Yes, I'm especially sick and tired of the muslim promoter in the White House.
What a Laugh
Submitted by NVRAT on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 9:50am.
Hey Bill Maher, compared to Obama, Bush only had to list 3 items on his resume (eliminating education history) to be more qualified and that is the simple story. Its obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about, you are just another sand lot, butt licking Liberal trying to impress someone...sorry, you have failed also.
tHIN RESUME'S
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 9:50am.
BHO WHILEIN THE SENATE FROM 2005 THROUGH 2008-
VOTED 170+ TIMES PRESENT
SOME RESUME
Did Obama get more than mimium wage in pivate business?
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:00pm.
1975 or 1976 — ice cream scooper, Baskin-Robbins — Honolulu — Obama claims to have lost his taste for ice cream during this, his first job, the duration of which is not publicly known.
Date unknown — deli counter clerk, business name unknown — Honolulu — Obama had a summer job at a deli counter in Hawaii, making sandwiches, his spokesman said during the presidential campaign.
1980 — gift shop sales clerk, business name unknown — Honolulu — Obama worked at a gift shop in Hawaii selling island souvenirs the summer after his freshman year at Occidental College in California.
Sometime between 1981-1983 — construction worker, business name unknown — New York — Obama cleared a construction site for a summer on Manhattan's Upper West Side while attending Columbia University
You Didn't Build That.
Obama on a construction site?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:05pm.
OMG that is so laughable! I just can't picture that skinny cocky SOB doing manual labor! I think I'd pay to see that.
Rad, LOL Sure enough resting on his end of the shovel.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:33pm.
Shovel ready..
You Didn't Build That.
Sounds like a hyped-up description . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:59pm.
. . . of community-service hours performed to meet some college course requirement. He probably picked-up trash in a vacant lot.
The Obama phenomenon is that the MSM has never even been curious about the claims of Obama and his supporters. I think it's because that once they latched on to him, they didn't want to discover information that might call their judgement into question.
However, over the past year, we have seen a few signs of buyer's remorse in the MSM.
A construction worker?? Obama???
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 2:57pm.
This yutz looks to me like he's never done a hard day's work with his hands in his entire life...Obama, a construction worker??? Sure...And I'm next in line to the throne of England...
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Actually that 1981-1983 --
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:10pm.
Actually that 1981-1983 -- construction worker , New York was actually Barack auditioning for the constuction worker gig in the adaptation of the " Village People " cabaret review. He didn't get the job, but he did meat an awful lot of fairy nice, extremely generous gentlemen. That's the word on the street anyway.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
"Fairy nice"
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:12pm.
Was that a typo? Because it is just hilarious, particularly if it was a typo. I love those "funny" typos. They always make my day.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Along with
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:22pm.
Meat
Thanks, Boudin
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:32pm.
Missed that one!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I'd like to have seen that
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 1:54pm.
I'd like to have seen that petulant fag show up on any one of the construction sites I've been on. Construction workers are pretty straightforward and they all have to produce something in order to keep their jobs and get paid (well, I've never been in a union, so I don't know how those jobsites go - but I know that they have a job to do also.) Plus, I don't think too many blue collar veterans have much patience of bulls**t, especially if it were coming from a wet-behind-the-ears rookie greenhorn who felt like he was ABOVE having to work...............
As for the other supposed 'jobs'..............rumor has it that Boy Barry was some kind of a 'scooper', although I'm not sure if it was in an ice cream parlor..............
Let's not forget that Obama
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 5:44pm.
Let's not forget that Obama stayed at a Holiday Inn for a night or two! Those are unbeatable creds!
It doesn't matter what Bush's resume is . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:07pm.
. . . and it never will. The Left and the MSM have so successfully created the negative image of Bush, that merely uttering his name is enough to get their point across.
And this is Maher's schtick. In front of his low-wattage audience, he routinely throws out references to Bush for the reflexive cheers and applause, not unlike a preacher stirring the congregation with call-and-response. The audience knows its role and gleefully obliges.
I love asking libtards
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:26pm.
What Bush lied about, I like talking Bush to libtards. Not because I personally think so much of Bush, but because they rarely have a clue as to what they say about him.
The left does this to
Submitted by Smartypants on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 3:54pm.
The left does this to Republicans all the time; they create empty accusations and then repeat them endlessly until the message sticks. Most people are not paying attention, so all they remember is what they have been trained to remember, "Bush lied, people died" Nobody really knows what that means, because it is meaningless. It doesn't matter though.
The left lives in a land of make believe. History, facts and reason do not matter. If something doesn't fit their agenda, they just alter it as needed. How much evidence is there that tax cuts actually increase revenue to the Treasury? It happened under Kennedy, Reagan and GW Bush. Yet, liberals will still insist that a tax cut is going to "cost" money. How much evidence is there that a policy of appeasing aggression actually leads to more aggression? Yet, liberals still insist on appeasement as a standard operating procedure when dealing with any nefarious government and/or dictator.
Reality has no place in the land of liberalism.
too bad this cockroach...
Submitted by Patriot II on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:29pm.
didn't look at obamas...but then, oblahma spent 2 million so no one could see his resume.....maher is an incomplete idiot!!!
Maher is irrelevant
Submitted by cwize on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 3:27pm.
This guy has the luxury of stating something completely false (The 'thinnest resume') by any measure and getting away with it because "it's his show."
Bush beat an entrenched incumbent liberal hero (Ann Richards) to become Governor of Texas. Never mind anything else he ever did - that alone dwarfs all accomplishments of our current President. The one, by the way, who has hidden his so-called "achievements" from public scrutiny.
Maybe Bush wasn't the second coming of Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan, but he played the hand he was dealt and led with authority.
Our identity-shifting, name-changing, religion-hopping, dubiously eligible current Community Organizer in Chief has done nothing but weaken America's influence abroad, cause internal turmoil, increase our dependence on foreign oil (and finance) -- the list goes on. It would be refreshing, but highly unlikely, if Bill Maher would call out this empty suit for being the puppet of Leftist masters that he is.
When the objective histories
Submitted by BD on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 3:48pm.
When the objective histories are written on these two presidents in fifty years time the conclusions will be obvious.
Bush was a president who entered politics late based on family whims and then took big swings at challenges ranging from Islamic terrorism to reform of social security. Sadly he was a president who could not say no to foolish policies regarding the economy, but his policies were largely self correcting.
Obama will be shown to have been a quota king (Dearth of evidence he ever accomplished ANYTHING while in college or as a COmmunity agitator) who was ill prepared for the challenges he undertook as president. Nor did he have any desire to defend what he saw as a racist/classist country sadly dependant on capitalism. HIs socialist attempts will require 15 years to recover from and require hard work. But socialism in the end will be rendered low by his efforts. Oh, and he threw a bunch of parties....
For all the talk of whether
Submitted by Smartypants on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 4:06pm.
For all the talk of whether GW Bush was qualified to be president, it is now a specious argument. GW Bush was president for eight years. He governed during some of the most tumultuous times in modern history, with unprecedented events that would have challenged the most skilled leaders. Overall, I believe history will show GW Bush to have handled those challenges pretty decently. After 9/11, the entire world was watching Bush to see how he would respond to the vicious attacks. His response was indeed measured and well reasoned. In terms of Iraq, for all of the bellyaching about that war from the left and right, to this day it remains a very reasonable action under the circumstances. The events on 9/11 were devastating and it was Bush's job to make sure nothing like that ever happened again on our soil. Given this, and the available Intel, he made a reasoned decision that it was time for Saddam Hussein to go. This was something that members of both parties acknowledged had to be done eventually; however, Bush was the only occupant of the Oval Office on 9/11; and it was the events of that day that triggered the need for action in Iraq. Let's also not forget it was the Bush tax cuts that helped keep the economy humming for years after the 9/11 attacks, which so many people thought would bring economic ruin. In fact, I'll still take the "Bush economy" of 2002-2007 over anything we've got going now.
Sure, Bush was soft on immigration and some other things, but no president is perfect. In the end, he was the right man for the job at the proper time. Had Al Gore been president on 9/11 we may have a bigger mess on our hands right now. That's right, whenever anyone questions the Bush presidency, they need to be reminded the alternatives were Gore or John Kerry. Nobody in their right mind believes those guys were or are fit for the job.
Maher is a leftie douchebag!!!!
Submitted by ArrowSmith on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 6:39pm.
How does state senator + 3 years as US Senator trump 2-terms as Governor of Texas in terms of EXECUTIVE experience for POTUS?
I Thought The Mantra of The Left Is to LEAN FORWARD
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 8:38pm.
Hey Billie, George Bush left the WH 2 years ago, he is not running for anything politically and is keeping a low profile now that he is a common citizen.
I don't understand why these libtards always bring him up when their American Idol "Mr. Obama" needs a boost from his Kool Aid drinking followers.
LEAN FORWARD means MOVE FORWARD...like putting the car in DRIVE NOT REVERSE...IDIOT!
leaning forward
Submitted by Agnostic on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 8:43pm.
George Bush may not be running for anything but it didn't keep the people in Egypt and Iran from calling for his help. You know - all those people who hate us because of President Bush.
Let me finish Maher's statement....
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 10:43pm.
"...When George Bush ran for president he had the thinnest résumé anyone had ever seen..."
....to that point, so in November 2008 we went majorly thinner and set a new bar.
Sorry
Submitted by catnamedjake on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 1:58am.
I actually feel sorry for Bill Maher. He seems so totally insecure and lashing out. If he really thinks that he is an atheist--- well, that's a surprise I don't envy. Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess.... As for Obama, I used to enjoy listening to him, it was like a comedy routine for me--- I laughed and I laughed......... but now when I see him all I can think is get that look off your face! errrrr.......
Funny, I am certain that
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 2:50am.
Funny, I am certain that being Governor is worth more than some no-show Senate position that Obama held for only 2 years.
Lessee...
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 10:43am.
As of 2000, previous presidents's executive experience included:
Cinton: 4-term governor of Arkansas (32nd in US population)
Bush 41: Chairman of First International Bank of Houston; professor of Administrative Science at Rice University; founded Bush-Overby Oil Development; founding president of Zapata Offshore Company; chairman of the RNC; Director of the CIA; Navy officer
Reagan: 2-term governor of California (1st in US population); SAG union president; Army officer
Carter: 1-term governor of Georgia (24th in US population); owned and ran family peanut business; Navy officer
Ford: Navy officer
Nixon: Senior law partner; Navy officer
Johnson: Navy officer
Kennedy; Navy officer
Eisenhower: Career Army officer
Truman: Missouri's director for the Federal Re-Employment progra; opened and ran a haberdashery; Army officer
FDR: 1-term governor of NY (3rd in US population); Assistant Secretary of the Navy
As noted by others, Bush 43 was 2-term governor of Texas (2nd in US population), founder and chairman of Arbusto Energy/Bush Exploration, managing general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball franchise.
So, as usual, it can be factually proven that Maher does not know what he's talking about. In terms of years of executive experience, the Bushes had the thickest resumes since Eishenhower, and only W was a state governor.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me