BK>>   Bill Maher is a libertarian, not a democrat.   
      
    JM> BIll Maher gave a million dollars to BHO's super pac.   
      
    When I was working in the 2008 campaign there were a lot of   
    republicans supporting Obama. It's not a matter of being   
    affiliated with him, but being so disgusted, or frightened, of   
    the republican alternatives as to be willing to go to that   
    extent to oppose them.   
      
    As I have said, over and over, I have never voted for any   
    presidential candidate, but I've voted against a lot of them.   
      
    I worked for Kerry in 2004, not because I was all that thrilled   
    with him, but because Bush was so much worse.   
      
    I worked for Obama in 2008, not because he was the best possible   
    candidate, but because he was the best candidate we had.   
      
    I suspect Maher donated the money because the republicans are so   
    bad, not because he thinks Obama is so good.   
      
    Maher is not a liberal, he is a libertarian. With Vegan   
    inclinations. I have never seen his HBO show, but his network TV   
    show was a lot more restrained. Maybe they should not have   
    forced him off network TV.   
      
    Even then he said a lot of things I found offensive, but he was   
    not killing people the way Cheney did. He often said things   
    about women not being suited for some safety service jobs, like   
    police and fire fighter, that were not very accurate. His   
    knowledge of such things, and some others, was very limited. I   
    watched his shows because he had guests who argued with him, not   
    to hear his rants. Sometimes he did get it right, though. Fairly   
    often, actually.   
      
    I had not known of this particular donation before, nor those   
    specific comments, so I looked them up. These are some comments   
    by Brent Bozell I found on Newsmax.   
      
    "There is Maher's arrogant description of George W. Bush as a   
    "retarded child emperor" and a "terrorist's wet dream."   
      
    I object to the reference to a "retarded child", other than that   
    he's pretty well hit it on the head.   
      
    ...   
      
    "Shouldn't Team Obama send the million dollars back?"   
      
    A superpac is independent, Team Obama cannot send the money   
    back.   
      
    ...   
      
    "Maybe he wants to start his general-election campaign by   
    reminding all the conservatives that his million-dollar donors   
    want them to die violent deaths."   
      
    Probably not even the majority of them, but some donors do, and   
    some of those they want to die would be doing the world a favor.   
      
    ...   
      
    "In addition to Katherine Harris, let's review who Maher jokes   
    should be dead."   
      
    If Katherine Harris had not done her part to steal the 2000   
    election over 5000 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis who died in the   
    war for oil and the Afghan debacle would be alive today. That   
    and we probably would not have a debt that doubled in the 8 Bush   
    budgets, nor a near depression.   
      
    ...   
      
    "There's Rush Limbaugh: "Why couldn't he have croaked from   
    [OxyContin] instead of Heath Ledger?""   
      
    I don't much care about Heath Ledger, but Rush would prevent a   
    lot of harm in this world by leaving it.   
      
    "Dick Cheney when he was vice president: "I'm just saying if he   
    did die, other people,  more people would live. That's a fact.""   
      
    True. Or at least before 2000.   
      
    "Glenn Beck when he was a Fox News host: "When we see crazy,   
    senseless deaths like this, we can only ask why, why, why   
    couldn't it have been Glenn Beck?""   
      
    "Sarah Palin: "Sarah Palin screaming about death panels? You   
    know what, Sarah, if we were killing off useless people, you'd   
    be the first to know.""   
      
    Considering the damage those people have done, the deaths they   
    have been and will be responsible for, I really don't have much   
    of a problem with those comments.   
      
    Dick Cheney in particular, has the blood of thousands of   
    Americans on his hands.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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