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Bill Maher: Steve Jobs Would Run American Better Than Obama

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Bill Maher criticized Obama’s “fuddy-duddy act” at a commencement address at Hampton College last week and argued that Steve Jobs could do a better job running America than the Obama administration.

In the graduation speech, Obama slammed iPads, iPods, Xboxes, and PlayStations as a “distraction,” saying the devices “turned information into a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy.”

Maher pointed out that the President’s address seemed specious considering how heavily the “hip” Obama relied on social media and the Internet in his campaign.

“I know I’m being a little nit-picky, but how exactly does President Sanford and son think he got elected–by CB radio?” Maher said. “The entire campaign was based on the Internet, but in America, politicians they do that because they know Americans conflate ‘out of touch’ with adorable.”

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