When a man is right, he's right

I'm ambivilent about Bill Maher. I never liked him as a comedian, and although I haven't seen much of the new HBO show, I never cared much for Politically Incorrect; I think Maher's instincts as a comedian are at war with his desire to be a serious political commentator. And oft times one is thrown off balance by the other.

But his "Dixie Chicking" was stupid, and his book When You Drive Alone, You Drive With Bin Laden was actually pretty good. But, like it says up there...

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.

...You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans.

When a man is right, he's right.