I'm watching President Obama on Bill Maher and I'm in tears.

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32. Bill Maher, the comedian is a better interviewer than 90% of today's "journalists."

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At least the ones I see on American TV. They ask some question and then immediately interrupt to either insert their own answer or twist it when they don't get the answer they want. An interview with the President becomes an ego trip with POTUS as a background drawing card. Maher showed more respect and deference--not to mention his pointed, relevant questions. He is a better journalist than many of today's "journalists" in America.

A side note--Obama made one comment that I was surprised to hear from him--he said that it was time for him to move on and implied that the founders had shown wisdom in making it so he had to. It was the 22nd Amendment that made it so that he had to move on, not some wisdom thought up by James Madison. The Republicans pushed that one through while Harry Truman was president. They were completely traumatized that FDR had won four terms in a row, and wanted to make sure no Democrat ever did that again. Of course, in doing so, they also made sure no Republican EVER would get more than two terms, but maybe in some temporary moment of lucidity, realized that no Republican, with the policies they were touting, stood a good chance of being elected three times in a row anyway.