Posted on 05/21/2014 4:43:15 AM PDT by Desperado67
This past weekend on his HBO show, host Bill Maher suggested that conservatives were fine with the federal government until five years ago after Barack Obama was elected to the presidency. The headline of a video clip on the Real Clear Politics website of Maher's statements stated, "Why Were Conservatives Okay With Government Up Until Five Years Ago?"
While Maher never actually posed that question verbatim, some of his other statements and questions lead to the summary contained in the headline. The video clip can be found here. For those who cannot handle the video, here are a couple of samples of Maher's commentary from the segment:
"Why was everything okay until five years ago? I hate to make everything racial, but what happened like five years ago? Who got elected around then that seems to have changed everything?"
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"Somehow just five years ago, everything was going great until then, until Obama got elected, and then suddenly we have to overthrow the government."
First of all, at least Maher admits that he makes everything racial...
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
“Why Were Conservatives Okay With Government Up Until Five Years Ago?”
When you start from a false premise, it would be the sheerest of accidents to arrive at the correct conclusion.
Fantasy is only allowed to survive in environments where simple, hard working and well grounded people have paid the bills and done the chores.
If it weren’t for all the effort and diligence of common hard working Americans, past and present...the Liberal Elites would have no teat to suckle.
They too would have to get a real job.
Until 5 years ago, no United States pResident had ever publicly stated with disdain that citizens are bitter so they cling to their guns and religion. No pResident had ever said, “We won” and refused to compromise on every issue. No pResident had ever doubled the national debt in just one term. No pResident had bowed to foreign leaders. No other pResident was a self-professed junkie/pothead.
So yeah, conservatives didn’t complain about the pResident in the same way 5 years ago.
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