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Bill Maher Introduces The 2012 GOP Bizarro Superman Kareb Amabo
On his HBO program Real Time Bill Maher introduced America to the Republicans dream 2012 candidate, Karab Amaobo. Maher said, “Amabo would be our first homeschooled president, and the first in his family to ever not graduate high school. After flunking out of bartending school, he spent years disorganizing communities, and wrote two books. A memoir Dreams From My Food Court, and a policy book Thinking Is For Dummies.”
Here is the video:
The Real Time host began, “If the Republicans idea of governing is just being against everything the President is for, then they have to change their name to the I Know You Are But What Am I Party, and nominate for 2012 a man who is the exact opposite of Obama. A fat, white, small eared idiot, who angers quickly, overreacts to everything, and can bowl 300, and who carries only one form of ID, his original birth certificate, a man so the antithesis of our current president that even his name is Barack Obama spelled backwards, so say hello to GOP’s 2012 presidential candidate Karab Amabo.
He said Amaobo is based on real GOP behavior, “Now before I give you the details about Amabo please understand I ‘m not making this premise up. This week the Republican Party did a 180 on Libya so hard it drove the tears back into John Boehner’s face totally ruining the leather.”
Maher then described Karab Amabo, “But let me tell you about Karab Amabo. Amabo would be our first home schooled president, and the first in his family to ever not graduate high school. After flunking out of bartending school, he spent years disorganizing communities, and wrote two books. A memoir Dreams From My Food Court, and a policy book Thinking Is For Dummies. And what are his policies? Karab Amabo believes we should increase our dependency on foreign oil, and shrink the size of government until it only performs the most basic functions, killing Arabs, paying farmers to grow corn, and probing people at the airport.”
He continued, “Karab Amabo believes that abortion should be illegal especially in case of rape or incest, and he is so pro-life his slogan is life begins at erection. Karab Amabo pledges to repeal the job killing health care bill and to implement Amaobocare. A comprehensive program that gives uninsured people with preexisting conditions a chance to walk it off. Temperamentally Karab Amabo believes that America has had enough of no drama Obama and his measured Vulcan logic, and at the first sign of crisis Amabo will pray, scream, shit his pants, and fly Air Force One into a mountain.”
Maher moved on to First Lady Amaobo and family, “And what of the Amabo family? Karab Amabo’s wife is a sour ashen midget whose flaccid arms are so weak she could barely do her job operating the deep fryer at the Jack In The Box. The Amabos and their two sons go to church every four hours, and they have a meth lab where the White House garden used to be.”
Bill Maher concluded, “And perhaps the most important thing to understand about Karab Amabo is he’s not exotic or worldly or smart. He just loves America so much that when he says the Pledge of Allegiance, he not only puts his right hand over his heart, he salutes with his left hand, and makes the sign of the cross with his foot, which admit it folks, is pretty hard to do.”
Besides the fact that Bill Maher nailed the ideal Republican candidate perfectly, his Karab Amabo reflected just how much of a caricature the Republican Party has turned itself into with their Party of No stance. Republicans don’t have alternative vision to offer America. They don’t have an agenda that they can discuss in public, as evidence by Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Rick Snyder in Michigan. Republicans are reduced to sitting around and fantasizing about a 2012 candidate who would embody the ignorance is a virtue, Bible first, mentally that has hijacked the formerly Grand Old Party.
Republicans could care less that Karab Amabo would be slaughtered in an election match up with Barack Obama. All that concerns them is that their religious and ideological principles take the human form of an anti-Obama, and that’s what the wanna be 2012 GOP nominees will be battling over.
They won’t be fighting over issues and the future direction of America. That’s not what this primary will be about. 2012 Republican debates across this country will be consumed by a stage full of candidates who will spend hours trying to out anti-Obama each other.
Maher had it right. The Republicans don’t want to offer an alternative to Obama. They want to impose their beliefs and values system on us all. The voices of today’s GOP have taken their anti-intellectualism stance to a new place. The party has moved away from simple fear and distrust of intelligence to a war against it, and the people and institutions that encourage it (public schools, teachers, and funding for universities).
Lifting oneself up your own bootstraps is no longer an option, because in Republican America you and children are permanently crushed and regulated to your economic caste by the heel of the GOP’s corporate steel toed boot.
Bill Maher’s Karab Amabo was a humorous portrait of both the country that conservatives want to build, and of the kind of Americans Republicans want us to be.
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Rmuse
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Excellent analysis of Republicans and their anti-Obama position on everything. Republicans are clueless about how to govern or problem solve so their only answer is the opposite of Obama. We can only hope that mainstream voters understand that the GOP is clueless. The racists who cannot deal with a Black President will never go away, but working people who are losing everything are going to make the Republicans pay regardless who runs against President Obama. When I watched the show last night, I kept thinking the GOP power brokers were taking notes to refer to when they pick their candidates. Maher is spot on and did all the work for Republicans.
Anne
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
This encapsulates perfectly the anti-Obama nihilism that has driven Republicans to oppose even ideas they previously espoused just because the president likes them. They are ideologically motivated, childishly oppositional, and uncaring about the enormously destructive consequences if their policies were ever implemented on a national scale. All this is aside from the thinly veiled racism that many of them have shown toward him.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
My favorite tweet from yesterday
PanchoVillaAli ☠ by awop “We envision a government small enough to patrol your uterus but unable to do much else…It’s what the founders intended ” ~#GOP #teaparty 2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
The republicans do not have a candidate. I watched a guy on MSNBC say that Barbour and Rand Paul have a good chance. Seemingly forgetting both are racists and might take 3 states
Sarah Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
It’s worse than I thought; the Republicans are the preschoolers of autocratic, abusive parents crying and shrieking into the wind about birth certificates and if only God would burn us all in Hell…
The party of revenge, anger and grotesque immaturity.
Reynardine
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
That’s why I say: watch for more ingenious vote-rigging, faithless electors, and, if all else fails, a coup, probably by a combination of private security firms and a Blackwater- type cadre in the military command itself. They have, like all psychopaths, overreached their powers of persuasion, and when flattery and falsehood no longer work, they won’t stick at resorting to fear, fraud, and force (all beginning with F, suitably enough).
DontHatetheGame
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
It’s Karab AMABO!
mary b
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Excellent!
I could not put it any better than these commenter’s already have!
Phantom
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
While Barack is half-Black/half-White, Karab is half-White/half-Black.
Reynardine
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Star Trek already did that one, remember?
Conservative Heart
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
God bless Karab Amabo.
DontHatetheGame
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
What’s wrong with your spell checker? Amabo is still spelled wrong 3 times in your article. Thanks for correcting the headline though! Good article.
DontHatetheGame
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Oops, this time you messed up KARAB in the headline, this is funny!
Sarah Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
I’m fascinated that you think that “amabo” as the backward “obama” is in a spell checker.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
/shiva crys
DontHatetheGame
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
You can add it. I’m amazed you didn’t know that.
Sarah Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
I’m sure you are. But, before you fall to your knees, why would we add a non-word that will only be used once to our spell check? Or do you all intend to run this fella?
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
there are days when you have to wonder, just where in the hell do they come from?
DontHatetheGame
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Ok I answered to quickly. Let’s try this again, at least “search and replace” a name that you are using throughout an article and spelling it differently each time you type it. In this headline KARAB is still spelled incorrectly and AMABO is being spelled inconsistently within the piece. It’s sloppy.
Sarah Jones
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I’m thinking you might want to volunteer your time to provide a much needed tutorial on spell check and possibly provide copy editorial services for free. I mean, you’re reading here for free, why not? Everyone who writes here writers for free, so I’m sure you will want to help them live up to your standards for non-words.
Clearly, you’re not busy, since you have time to police the backwards spelling of the President’s name:-) Looking forward to sending all of our work to you to make perfect!
Henry Brock
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
You liberals are just dum because you don’t know how to like Amaraca. But Sarah Palin will show you when she is alected president. Maybe if you would come to a tea party meeting and learn something you would like amaraca. You are just jelus of Sarah Palin because she is the best!!! You try to say that she is dum… well tell me this…how did she almost win a buety pagent if she is so dum? Got you there didn’t I? I’m a proud member of the tea party moovment and I say us conservatives might be stupid but at least we don’t like communism!!!! SARAH PALIN all the way in 2012!!!!!! And tell me this..If everybody deserves helthcare then why isn’t it in the Declarashun of Independence? When I spoke at our last Tea Party meeting there was almost a thousand or even a hundred people there, so I can tell you we will win the next alection!!!!! God Bless Amaraca!!!
Sarah Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Nice parody, Henry:-) Almost too subtle, but I figure Amaraca was the breaking point.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Conservative heart better get cracking
Sarah Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
He never misspells anything…..but he always snares a few people in:-)
Reynardine
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Yeah, he had us all going, and he can even spell F-U-K.
Sarah Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
And I believe he properly ID-ed Muslins as a great fabric….
michael
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
that was a parody?
Sarah Jones
Mar. 28th, 2011 at 12:06 am
Seriously? You have to ask?
Parody: Any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.
Google.
Bayman
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Amabo’s slogan- I HOPE you are ready to work for peanuts, have no rights because the GOP/teabaggers want to CHANGE America into a few crooked powerful, rich white men and tons of powerless poor! See that’s Amabo HOPE and CHANGE, now go back to the fields and the mines and dig me up some Gold and Diamonds!