RyanUTAustin
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Great show last night.Some points I thought were well said:
Why will he (Obama) get the nomination?
MAHER: I just think there's something there that we haven't seen in decades -- you know, people getting involved who never got involved before. He's stirring something. You know, he got like 14,000 people in Idaho or some place where there's only 12,000 Democrats. He got 14,000 to come to a stadium. And, you know, it's something that's -- it's beyond politics. And that's, I think, what a lot of this country has been looking for.
In the last presidential election, I think, the figure is 79 million people who could have voted and did not. Those are the people, I think, who are getting involved. And I've said this before, I think if the people who don't vote voted, those are basically liberal voters.
Conservatives tend to be squares. And I don't say that in a derisive way. They're just the kind of people who get up early and vote.
And liberals tend to be in a nightclub at night or, you know, they're -- they're younger, they're poorer. They're perhaps more self- involved. They're a lot of things. But I think if there was hand mandatory voting, if someone went to everybody's apartment and grabbed you by the scruff of your neck and said you have to pick somebody, now get in there and pick, I think you'd find out that this country is lot more liberal than people realize.
On Mike Huckabee:
MAHER: Very funny. You know, he's got a real political sense of humor. But, you know, he did say that he thinks we should change the Constitution to conform with the bible, which to me is so arrogant.
It is just so arrogant because it presupposes that we all agree that the bible is the word of God, that that old book of Jewish fairy tales is the word of God.
Well, you have every right to believe that, but I don't. And millions of other people don't. And to go right through that stop sign where the Constitution is separated from what your religious belief is and say that we should amend the Constitution based on the bible and assume we all believe what you believe is -- is terribly arrogant.
KING: Has Iraq been semi-forgotten?
MAHER: Thanks to the TV media, which I don't think does the job they should do in a democracy.
I've been screaming about this every week on our show, that somehow the administration has been able to morph this war in Iraq totally into a war against al Qaeda. Now, it was only six or seven months ago that the American military said that the people we're fighting in Iraq -- and the names of those people changed constantly. It's insurgents, extremists, the enemy sometimes, sometimes just the bad guys. You know, very vague.
But they said, quite specifically, that al Qaeda was about two percent of the people who were shooting at us. So somehow two percent got to be the whole case now.
Every time I hear reports from Iraq it's al Qaeda. Well, al Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq before we invaded. And certainly it's not the majority of people who are shooting at us now. But somehow we were attacked by al Qaeda, and they were able to morph that right into the people we're fighting in Iraq now. It worked out very neat and clean, except that it's not true.
And when John McCain says the important thing is not American presence in Iraq, it's American casualties.
Well, that's dead wrong. The important thing is American presence.
That's why bin Laden was crazy to attack America, because we had an American presence in the Middle East, in the Holy Land. And we got those troops out of Saudi Arabia.
What did we do? We moved them right back to the part of the place -- part of the world that they consider holy, where you cannot have a Christian army. You cannot have the infidel in places like Saudi Arabia and Karbala and Fallujah, and that heart of the Middle Eastern world. That's what drives them completely nuts.
The idea that we're going to have a presence there, military bases there, for -- McCain said up to 100 years -- that ensures that we don't have this victory that he speaks of. Victory in the war on terror is not getting young Muslim men to come over here and try to kill us. And that's what's going to make them do it.
Why will he (Obama) get the nomination?
MAHER: I just think there's something there that we haven't seen in decades -- you know, people getting involved who never got involved before. He's stirring something. You know, he got like 14,000 people in Idaho or some place where there's only 12,000 Democrats. He got 14,000 to come to a stadium. And, you know, it's something that's -- it's beyond politics. And that's, I think, what a lot of this country has been looking for.
In the last presidential election, I think, the figure is 79 million people who could have voted and did not. Those are the people, I think, who are getting involved. And I've said this before, I think if the people who don't vote voted, those are basically liberal voters.
Conservatives tend to be squares. And I don't say that in a derisive way. They're just the kind of people who get up early and vote.
And liberals tend to be in a nightclub at night or, you know, they're -- they're younger, they're poorer. They're perhaps more self- involved. They're a lot of things. But I think if there was hand mandatory voting, if someone went to everybody's apartment and grabbed you by the scruff of your neck and said you have to pick somebody, now get in there and pick, I think you'd find out that this country is lot more liberal than people realize.
On Mike Huckabee:
MAHER: Very funny. You know, he's got a real political sense of humor. But, you know, he did say that he thinks we should change the Constitution to conform with the bible, which to me is so arrogant.
It is just so arrogant because it presupposes that we all agree that the bible is the word of God, that that old book of Jewish fairy tales is the word of God.
Well, you have every right to believe that, but I don't. And millions of other people don't. And to go right through that stop sign where the Constitution is separated from what your religious belief is and say that we should amend the Constitution based on the bible and assume we all believe what you believe is -- is terribly arrogant.
KING: Has Iraq been semi-forgotten?
MAHER: Thanks to the TV media, which I don't think does the job they should do in a democracy.
I've been screaming about this every week on our show, that somehow the administration has been able to morph this war in Iraq totally into a war against al Qaeda. Now, it was only six or seven months ago that the American military said that the people we're fighting in Iraq -- and the names of those people changed constantly. It's insurgents, extremists, the enemy sometimes, sometimes just the bad guys. You know, very vague.
But they said, quite specifically, that al Qaeda was about two percent of the people who were shooting at us. So somehow two percent got to be the whole case now.
Every time I hear reports from Iraq it's al Qaeda. Well, al Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq before we invaded. And certainly it's not the majority of people who are shooting at us now. But somehow we were attacked by al Qaeda, and they were able to morph that right into the people we're fighting in Iraq now. It worked out very neat and clean, except that it's not true.
And when John McCain says the important thing is not American presence in Iraq, it's American casualties.
Well, that's dead wrong. The important thing is American presence.
That's why bin Laden was crazy to attack America, because we had an American presence in the Middle East, in the Holy Land. And we got those troops out of Saudi Arabia.
What did we do? We moved them right back to the part of the place -- part of the world that they consider holy, where you cannot have a Christian army. You cannot have the infidel in places like Saudi Arabia and Karbala and Fallujah, and that heart of the Middle Eastern world. That's what drives them completely nuts.
The idea that we're going to have a presence there, military bases there, for -- McCain said up to 100 years -- that ensures that we don't have this victory that he speaks of. Victory in the war on terror is not getting young Muslim men to come over here and try to kill us. And that's what's going to make them do it.
