Bill Maher on the Budget: Barack Obama Is a 'Terrible Negotiator' (VIDEO)
Bill Maher hasn't been impressed with Barack Obama's negotiating skills during the budget impasse that ended Friday night with a deal between the President and the Republicans in Congress.On 'Real Time With Bill Maher' (Friday 10 PM ET on HBO), Maher ripped Obama's strategy, saying Obama had admitted, "We met the Republicans, what they asked, and then we gave them more."
"This is like your lawyer saying to you, 'You know, I went into the chambers with the judge and the prosecutor, and my first offer was 40 years to life for you,'" Maher said of Obama's negotiating technique. "'And I think I can get your tailgating charge moved up to manslaughter. And that's my first offer."
"What is wrong with these people? He is a terrible negotiator. Does he not even know a Jew?" Maher wondered, playing off of the stereotype that Jewish people are good at making deals.
Or perhaps this was Maher's way of telling Obama he should seek the services of famous television negotiator and Jew William Shatner.
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