“American Idol” runner-up and Democratic North Carolina congressional candidate Clay Aiken has been trying to distance himself from the currently-unpopular President Obama, like a lot of other Democrats. And Bill Maher is not happy about that.
First, Aiken threw some shade on Obama in an interview with The New York Times. Asked if Obama has been a good president, Aiken offered up this lukewarm reply: “I think every president is on a sliding scale somewhere. There are certainly areas where I disagree with him.”
Asked if he wanted Obama to campaign for him, Aiken politely declined, saying, “I don’t need that. We’re doing well.”
In the paper’s “Reading the Times with” feature, Maher pointed to the Aiken story as the story of the day that “incited the most fury.”
“Really, Clay? You’re going to lose. How much worse could it be if the President of the United States came to campaign for you?” Maher demanded.
“Obama gave people health care, not herpes,” he said. “Own it.”
“You’re gay in North Carolina. I think the redneck vote has sailed,” Maher advised.
A recent poll found Aiken’s Republican opponent, Rep. Renee Ellmers, leading him 47 percent to 39 percent.
(h/t Newsbusters)
