Great Quote from the Bill Maher show this week about *

[Bleacher Creature]

"New Rule: You can't run on a mistake. Franklin Roosevelt didn't run for re-election claiming Pearl Harbor was his finest hour. Abe Lincoln was a great president, but the high point of his second term wasn't theater security. 9/11 wasn't a triumph of the human spirit. It was a fuck-up by a guy on vacation."

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"But by the looks of your convention, you'd think that the worst thing that ever happened to us was the best thing that ever happened to you. You just can't keep celebrating the deadliest attack ever as if it's your personal rendezvous with greatness."


http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/

[skooooo]

1. kick

:kick:

[TA]

10. skooooo - What the heck does "kick" mean

I've seen it a lot but can't figure out what it means.

[ima_sinnic]

11. when a post is made, the thread is kicked to the top of the msg list

... good to do when a thread is sinking in the list without much comment, or needs to get more attention

[TA]

12. Thanks

[CaOs]

2. Are we back or what!!!

[bagnana]

5. also love his comment to John Kerry

Stop with the vacations already. From now on your only sport is mud slinging! (Or something to that effect)

[kentuck]

3. Damn! so true..

"But by the looks of your convention, you'd think that the worst thing that ever happened to us was the best thing that ever happened to you. You just can't keep celebrating the deadliest attack ever as if it's your personal rendezvous with greatness."

[RevCheesehead]

4. He also said (on the same show)

episode 35
Premiering September 3, 2004
Guests: Howard Dean, Jason Alexander, Andrew Sullivan, Arianna Huffington, and Pat Buchanan.


On Terrorism

"First of all, if Osama bin Laden was captured and killed today, it would have the same effect on terrorism as Ray Kroc had dying for McDonald's. They have already built the franchises. Ray Kroc doesn't need to be alive to sell more McDonald's hamburgers." – Bill Maher

[Wapsie B]

6. I agree with Maher on that one.

9/11 is nothing to be proud of. It didn't need to happen.

[belle]

7. Kickass.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Times Change

Maher got fired for saying a lot less a few years ago.

[RevCheesehead]

9. HBO Knows its audience

They let him say whatever he wants.

[alphafemale]

13. This is great! -kick-

[LynnTheDem]

14. There snort I another can of soda

Abe Lincoln was a great president, but the high point of his second term wasn't theater security.

*SNORT*

[Carla in Ca]

15. kick...love that man!

[dmr]

16. He expressed what I didn't know how to articulate

"But by the looks of your convention, you'd think that the worst thing that ever happened to us was the best thing that ever happened to you. You just can't keep celebrating the deadliest attack ever as if it's your personal rendezvous with greatness."