Bill Maher: 'For the Sake of Black America Obama Needs the Second Term'
The liberal media sure are playing the race card to get Barack Obama reelected.
On HBO's Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher said, "For the sake of black America, he needs the second term" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER: I think the second term for Obama is more important even than the first. Obviously, it was important to get the first black president elected. But if the first black president only has one term, America reads that as a failure.
This is what the right-wing hope and prays for more than anything else, that America looks at this one term president and goes, “Well you know what? We tried a black guy, but it just didn’t work.”
And I think Obama’s aware of that. That’s why he’s so conservative in the first term. He knows for the sake of black America, he needs the second term.
Yes, because let's face it - it would have been far better for blacks in this country if Obama never would have been elected at all than fail to get a second term.
Some interesting logic, isn't it?
Of course, this isn't about logic. This is about liberal media members once again using race to try to win an election, and you can't swing a dead cat now without hitting an example of it.
Jehmu Greene, a liberal contributor to Fox News did it earlier on Friday when she referred to the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson as a "bow-tying white boy."
MSNBC's Chris Matthews just last week called Republicans "the grand wizard crowd." A week earlier he asked if voters and political pundits would be reluctant to dump the first black president.
At the same time, Frank Rich of New York magazine wrote about "Old, white, rich men who are buying this election."
New York Times' writers David Brooks and Helene Cooper worried about "white guys" on the GOP presidential ticket.
Meanwhile, CNN's Candy Crowley asked Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) if he's more concerned with Obama's safety because he's black than he was for George W. Bush.
Add it all up, and it's clear that these folks on the left are just obsessed with race, and they're going to use it every day until November to get their man reelected.
Heaven help us.
On the other hand, isn't it marvelous that the number one contributor to Obama's Super PAC can go on national television once a week and campaign for the candidate he's given money to?
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Warning!
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 11:56pm.
Bill Maher is your brain on drugs. He is what he smokes -- a dope.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
How are Blacks any better
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:02am.
How are Blacks any better with Obama? The bad economy hit them worse!
Yeah, that shows you how they
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:42am.
Yeah, that shows you how they are viewing this, they would rather do worse under a black president than better under a white one. Actually I think it has more to do with political party than race. I live in CA, and they would rather do worse here under a dem than do better under a repub. They don't even see a black republican as truly being a black person. They are pretty much brainwashed, and no amount of evidence or reality will change their mind.
What would happen if a recession was declared...
Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:23am.
...and no one showed up?
Maher, Green, and others like them are enablers because they make excuses that allow minorities and others to get away with not going out and getting jobs or being creative and starting their own small businesses. Their comments help create a sense of entitlement in others that they do not have to take on the personal responsibility to earn a living because "the government" owes them a "nice lifestyle."
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If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
Correct, rbosque
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 7:08pm.
There are a few liberal black leaders who've pointed this out in their criticism of Obama, but for the most part, the Race Industry and the MSM have underreported it. Of course, when the 18 year-old jobless black American male ask the Democrats why he isn't seeing the fruits of the mythical recovery, they will assure him that it's because Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh are to blame. After all, didn't they cause Trayvon Martin to be murdered?
Let's diagnose Maher's quotes . . .
BILL MAHER: I think the second term for Obama is more important even than the first. Obviously, it was important to get the elected. first black president
So the primary purpose of the 2008 election had nothing to do with the burgeoning economic crisis, but with feeling better about ourselves with a symbolic choice. Sounds frivilous to me.
MAHER: . . . But if the first black president only has one term, America reads that as a failure. . .
Who's failure? The failure of an elected official to perform to promise and expectation? Or the failure of voters to properly elect a strong leader? What failure are we talking about?
Must we re-elect Obama so that we can say to ourselves "We didn't fail" -- is that how small Maher thinks Americans are? The cliche says the definition of insanity is repeating the same action expecting a different result.
MAHER: . . . This is what the right-wing hope and prays for more than anything else, that America looks at this one term president and goes, “Well you know what? We tried a black guy, but it just didn’t work.”
No. It's bigger than that, and far simpler. The Republicans want to say "Well, we tried a Democrat, and it didn't work. Do you want to give him four more years?"
MAHER: . . . And I think Obama’s aware of that. That’s why he’s so conservative in the first term. . .
Conservative? The stimulus pork bill, the wasteful "green investments," and Obamacare are liberal/"progressive" policies, not conservative,
What Obama is aware of is the massive polling and focus group data collected by the WH that indicate his major achievements are unpopular with the majority of Americans. Obamacare is the albatross around his neck.
MAHER: . . . He knows for the sake of black America, he needs the second term. . . .
Again, the answer is far simpler: As a narcissist, he can't cope with rejection, Look at how he has framed the bin Laden raid as being all about his decision, and clowns like Biden talk about what was at risk in the 2012 election had the the SEAL raid failed -- not the risk to the SEALs.
Black America will not benefit from Obama's re-election, but the record shows that it is likely to be further harmed by it.
White Liberals need to save obama
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:06am.
If all they have to save obama is his skin color then they are admitting he is a failure.
But they are wrong about one thing, it won't be that a Black will not be able to be elected in the future. A Conservative Black could be but it's the Liberal Black who will be rejected.
You're right - possibly -
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:58am.
You're right - possibly - with your second statement, Mid ...........although the media would have to be 'fundamentally transformed' in order for that to happen - look at Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain as an example, and suppose somebody like Thomas Sowell rose to the top - what kind of treatment do you think he'd receive???
But as to your first point - I'm REALLY sick of hearing how Boy Baraka is 'black'............hell, the guy has more WHITE blood coursing through his veins than 'black' blood...................so I'm not buying into that premise at all!! Plus, as I've said here a hundred times, if I've said it once - he is BLACK and WHITE and RED all over, anyway!!! And it's the RED part that scares the sh*t out of me..............I detest his white and black parts equally!!!
And...........Donkeyface is probably the most repulsive and vile cockroach to EVER hit the TV airwaves - on ANY subject!!!
BO white
Submitted by Jerry Frey on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:00am.
Sharpton and Jackson are Black. If Bo was black, he'd never have been elected. Remember Biden's quote.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138518/Genevieve-Cook-Barack-Obamas-ex...
It's Cause...
Submitted by FistsforLiberty on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:06am.
The Dems are the racist ones, and in there mind they think if I'm racist they must be racist. Witch is totally delusional.
Smug
Submitted by callitasIseethem on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:28am.
Every time I see the President posing like that I think of Benito Mussolini.
If
Submitted by Tjexcite on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:41am.
The same will be said in 2016. To save the world is time Obama needs to be elected for a third term. And not bother that pesky Constitution that old document is now outlawed. As with ever revolution the first thing they do is write a new constitution, this time over making a new one they will just dust off the old USSR one.
There is no real way that they will allow him to lose no matter what. Blood will be split if they election does not go their way. If they do take a lose O will be always looking for his second term somewhere.
I forget
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:45am.
how high is the unemployment among black, 17%? He's shooting for the stars alright.
what the **&^%!!
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:48am.
...is Black America?? Now, Maher adds race warfare to Obama's class warfare theme. Very clear we have no United States of America to the libs/left; we have cliques/special interest groups/victimhood hustlers and more. All of which they see as the base for re-electing this disaster of a president. Sad to say, it is odds-on he will be re-elected...by the way, if one said White America needs Romney, he/she would be branded a racist in a NY second.
Yep
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 1:05am.
Yep, yep, yep, oh, and yep!
I don't know what..
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:35am.
or where "Black America" is either. But, when it's found I want Obama to be it's President and Steadman Holder as its Chief of Police.
It'll look just like Memphis and Detroit.
For the sake of EVERY
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:52am.
For the sake of EVERY American, Obama needs to be cast out of office in November, preferably sooner once he is impeached for 'Fast & Furious'....
Uh oh*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 1:10am.
Guess we will need two presidents. One to represent 12 million blacks and one to represent 300 million whites. My preference would be a president that represents ALL Americans...
Oh No, No, No....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 1:08am.
...Negro BO Has Got To GO!!!
For numerous reasons; not the least of ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 1:40am.
which is the individual in the Oval Office is supposed to represent all citizens.
Obama is a turd.
MD
Obama is a ...
Submitted by Ben Arnold on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:52am.
That is so WRONG!
A good turd brings relief.
Ben, I do believe you have a ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 6:19pm.
valid point there. :o)
MD
It's good that maher knows
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 2:34am.
It's good that maher knows what's best for the negroes, they couldn't possibly figure it out on there own. Robert Byrd would be proud of maher for carrying the torch of negro enlightenment.
Yeah if Obama was a
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 5:30am.
Yeah if Obama was a Republican Maher wouldn't give a rat's ass that he was black, he would just want him out of there!!!
Idiots
Submitted by poseA on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 4:26am.
Idiots
Lib Logic
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 4:47am.
So...
We have to give America's 1st black President another term just because he's black, regardless of record, otherwise we are racists, but its not racist to give America's 1st black President another term despite his UTTER FAILURE just because he's PWB (President While Black) - thus, deserving of having all measurable standards not only LOWERED, but set below SEA LEVEL. ...Because damned if there's a metric I can point to that has IMPROVED under his leadership.
Got it.
Yeah we have to vote for
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 5:29am.
Yeah we have to vote for someone based on the color of their skin so we can...not be racist?
yes...
Submitted by superllama on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 6:55am.
that's the most amazing thing about his whole election. he couldn't have been elected without a white majority voting for him, and yet....while 90% of blacks voted for him, because he is "black", that is not considered racist in any way. and, since he's half white, isn't calling him "black" doing the same thing the jim crow laws did in the 50's and 60's? judging him based on his skin color, or the percentage of "black" blood that runs through his veins? at what point do we call "black people" black? are those that are tan colored less worthy, as they are in africa? does a "black" person at some point have too much "white" in them to be called "black" ? what's her name, the news flavor of the week claims to be american indian because she's 1/32 indian, and gets promoted for it. i'm 1/16th american indian, and never even thought about getting anything for it. i am who i am, and i either rise or fall based on my own ability. or do i?
A local radio show caller
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 7:33am.
A local radio show caller said his co-worker told him she was going to vote for Obama again (even though she admitted he was a failure) because he's our first black president and he deserves a second chance.
Barack Obama has poisoned presidential politics for blacks in this country, well, probably forever.
Affirmative action
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:42am.
in action.
Carter wasn't as bad and he didn't get a second term.
The racism of lower expectations
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:23am.
I expect that there will be some subliminal messaging along those lines from the elite MSM elite and super PACs.
Liberal 'codespeak'
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 6:48am.
This is 'dogwhistle' for "Obama is a complete failure, most likely because he is African American, so we need to prop him up, no matter how disastrous the results, to show we are 'inclusive' and not racist."
His deeds, not his color, are the problem
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 6:51am.
As this country continues to slide economically, as the government tells the lies that there is no inflation and joblessness is going down, as the national debt goes up and Social Security and Medicare insolvency get closer without being handled, Bill Maher, a rich white guy, says that black people need a second term of Barack Obama.
Black people need jobs, need good schools, need a strong dollar, solvent Social Security and Medicare, need education. All of these things have fallen down further under President Obama than they fell under Presidents Clinton and Bush. Yet black people need a President who is even less conservative than Barack Obama? The treasury is already empty, Bill, businesses pay the highest tax rate in the world, and the tax system in the US is more progressive than Europe. But Barack Obama needs to do more?
Bill, is the economy of Zimbabwe better for the black people than it was? Because that is where we are headed. Our economy will have huge inflation from the no-value dollars that the Fed has bought our debt with, our national treasury will be emptied by increasing interest on the debt. And the President and you liberals stand around and tell the lie that if only the rich were taxed more, everything would be better. You could take away the WEALTH (not just the income, but the WEALTH) of ALL of the people of this country, and could NOT pay back what this government owes. But we need MORE, Bill?
Not even to mention the foreign policy of letting the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt, Libya, and other allies. The vacations, the golf, all of the other things that would not be covered up and instead would spark outrage if he werent' a liberal, President.
No, Bill, we need less liberal, not MORE liberal, to support people of all colors. President Obama is not bad or good because he is (half) black. He is bad because of the THINGS he has done. And those things have hurt ALL Americans, whether "red or yellow, black or white".
Thomas Alva Edison
Egypt?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:46am.
They're throughout his administration in every part of our (his) government.
For black's sake
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 7:02am.
Has this moron actually noticed the plight of the black family in the past three years.
No jobs, lousy schools, and empty promises.
He thinks blacks deserve more of the dame?
You don't think Bill Maher
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 7:38am.
You don't think Bill Maher cares about stuff like that, do you?
What really counts is that we have a black president!
Maher and race pimps Sharpton and Jackson will insist he "needs more time." And if he fails again, it will be because of a "racist" Republican party that won't give him free rein to do what he wants.
I have no sympathy for Blacks
Submitted by maxvolt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:14am.
I have no sympathy for Blacks in America...none at all.
They have allowed themselves to be lead by the most corrupt bunch of thugs on the planet. Reverend (sic) Al Sharpton, and Reverend (sic) Jesse Jackson.
These two idiots are the most disgusting pieces of crap on the planet. Jackson smeared MLK's blood on his shirt, then wore it for three days after to build his own street credibility that thrust him into a black leadership role...folks by definition...thats no friend of MLK...thats a self righteous , greedy, self involved jackass.
And Al Sharpton never saw a racial hoax he didnt love..TAWANA BRAWLY , TRAYVON MARTIN, etc.
These two people have been the black leaders for decades now and look what they have accomplished...according to them NOTHING....they still say white americans are honky ass crackers trying to suppress the black man...
I have one suggestion for Black people...isnt it time to find successful Black people to represent you? and Im not talking by personal wealth, Im talking by going out and helping you be trully independent and free people in charge of your own destiny, and NOT dependent on Government or welfare for your everyday needs..... Just a thought, I would be embarrassed to vote foror support these two losers...as embarrassed as I am for Massachusttes idiots that voted for MURDERER TED KENNEDY for forty years, who allowed Mary Jo to drown so he could save his own life and sober up over night. Then there is Barney Frank who with his Co Hort in crime of Senator Dodd created a regulations on the mortgage lenders forcing them to give loans to people who could not afford the loans ...then forcing those people into bankrupcy...and out on the streets...oh and covered it all up by saying it was the banks and mortgage institutes who did it..this is why we are economically failing NOW. Seeunder Dodd /Frank banks would have had their Federal Insurance REVOKED if they did not lower the lending requirements to allow folks who couldnt possibly pay back the loans...to get the loans...CRIMINAL...SO WAKE UP Black People, your acting like tools to these morons.
The real racists
Submitted by gwalt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:23am.
Last year my uber liberal inlaws referred to blacks as ni@@ers and c@@ns and a few hours later called me a racist for sending a joke that their Social Security would consist of corn bread and watermelon seeds. ( a later version had tomato seeds).
Liberal logic at work.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Jerkoff Maher
Submitted by maxvolt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:00am.
As a person who travels alot, I get to see Bill maher while in hotel rooms, I long since dropped HBO because they stopped being a Movie Channel and turned into a liberal fascist propaganda machine...and I refuse to be anybodies drone..yep Im a real problem for this administration and probably am listed on their much publicized list of mal-contents..you know, middle aged white guys with guns and bibles...radical group that we are.
Anyway, anyone who watches Bill Maher is left with two impressions, he must pay a lot for sex, and...he hates America. So I wonder...why does Bill Maher even stay here in the country he so loathes, is this the only country where a jackass like him can make a million dollars? hmmmm.
For the sake of America
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:15am.
For the sake of America Obama needs to be fired. All his cronies throughout this administration need to be fired as well. That will benefit both black and white America. Probably even benefit blacks more than whites.
Brothers who know
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:58am.
and there are a few here at the VA Medical Center in West Lost Angeles- know EXACTLY what 'our' President is all about. They are not fooled one minute by Obama's assistance to the Veteran community. They recognize just another a tin horn Chicago politician when they see one.
Once you go BARACK....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:20am.
...You never go BACK!!!
America deserves so much more.
Submitted by Order270 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:28pm.
Obama has had unlimited access to America's wealth and this economy is all he has to show for it? I dare anyone to give me one good reason to vote for Obama.
We do?
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:54pm.
"I think the second term for Obama is more important even than the first. Obviously, it was important to get the first black president elected. But if the first black president only has one term, America reads that as a failure."
Obama is the President. He's achieved what is arguably the highest political office in the world. He's never going to be considered as a failure, even if he's not re-elected. Only someone as self-absorbed as Maher would consider Obama a failure if he's not re-elected. This isn't like having your contract at HBO renewed, Maher. After all Jimmy Carter lost his re-election bid. Do you consider that as a failure?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Voting Skin Color
Submitted by Netstatter on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 2:12pm.
So we need to vote based on skin color? How about going deeper that that and vote based on policies, political beliefs and record?
Obama is a failure. It just happens that this failure is a person of color. The black community would do well to help boot this guy out of office, as his failure might be taken as a reflection on them by those of that mindset.
The next great president just might be a person of color; who knows? Who cares about skin-color when you need a great leader?
What about white America?
Submitted by goldbough on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:47pm.
What about white America? Since Obama is half white, do we need him too? (obviously not) For the sake of black America I nominate Walter Williams. How about him Maher? He's black too.
Black America? It was my
Submitted by pitter43 on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:07pm.
Black America? It was my understanding that even obama himself said there's only one America. For the sake of all America, obama needs to be defeated.
there ARE two Americas...
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:27pm.
those of us who work
and
those who leech off of us
BREAKING NEWS! BLACK SUPPORT OF OBAMA HAS DROPPED!
Submitted by cbeyer on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 9:21pm.
Black approval and support of President Obama has slipped to 97% approval with 3% undecided.
It should be no secret to
Submitted by Semus on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 1:30am.
It should be no secret to anyone what Bill Maher's agenda for this country is and it should be no surprise the type of man he supports.
Black America?
Submitted by Morganfrost on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:42am.
I think for the "sake of Black America," white people like Bill Maher should stop behaving in such a paternalistic, condescending manner.
The real racists
Submitted by pcantidote on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 9:10am.
There is nothing more racist than telling a particular race that they are not capable of making it on their own, that instead they need the help of government.
Has the Left not used all of its coffin nails on Blacks and...
Submitted by Thalpy on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 10:47am.
Has the Left not used all of its coffin nails on Blacks, The Black family, and the Black future by now? Must they endure further exposure to Democrat use and abuse in the form of a second term of the One?
Sigh
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:24pm.
Why do I bother on a Bill Maher comment--but say for the sake of argument that this president has not been horrible news for black America (unemployment, stirring up riots, etc), isn't that 12% of us--what happened to being president of all...Shouldn't we find someone like that?
what black America really needs...
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:25pm.
is to get its racist, bigoted head out of its collective butt and stop rationalizing a failed culture by blaming everyone else. I am so sick of this mentality that blames me for their collective failure to get off their butts and get an education and a job. There's no white guy standing in their kitchen with a gun threatening to shoot them if they read a library book or do homework. Asshats.
Unfortunately,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:36pm.
70% of em dont have 2 parents to make sure they do it either.
But thats ok, and certainly justifies their behavior as far as leftist are concerned?
And a whole lot of 'em
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:57pm.
have a mom who hasn't finished high school yet. But thankfully the government is getting them cell phones so they can play games and go on facebook...
Sometimes when feeling sentimental....
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 1:30pm.
Sometimes I think we will look back on this presidency with its fake columns, ridiculous vacations, food bossiness, rabblerousing, twisting of events and facts, press slant, racist this, no you are no you are, etc and think--WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?
maher
Submitted by east tennessee john on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 1:06pm.
Let's see 26% overall unemployment; 50% teenage unemployment; 34% dropout rates. Yeah brother Barack is doing everyone fine/ Maher has shitforbrains or less