Most conservatives would laugh if someone told them that President Obama had spent much of his first year in office trying to seek their support.
Yet that’s what folks like Bill Maher seem to believe, as the talk-show comedian confessed to Joe Scarborough in a Newsweek conversation.
How could Barack Obama, after 11 months in office, manage the
trifecta of offending progressives, who believe he hasn’t gone far
enough, conservatives, who believe he’s gone too far, and independents,
who are acting like they did when Ross Perot was running around the
countryside?
That’s a good question. I’ve
heard you ask that on your show. There is no good answer because he is
such a bright guy, so you wonder how he could do it. He was never going
to get the conservatives. I mean, I don’t know why he spent the amount
of time he has so far in his administration currying the favor of
people who don’t like him. Someone has to give him a memo that says,
“They’re just not that into you.” You are the wrong age, the wrong
party, the wrong color. They’re just never going to get behind you. So,
you know, I hate to say it, but I agree with your boy Pat Buchanan. If
Obama was in Congress still, he would have been against this troop
buildup in Afghanistan. He would have been with Kucinich.
I thought you might enjoy a good chuckle.
