Hidden in the Louis CK email

[SleeplessinSoCal]

"frankly I wish the next president was a conservative only because we had Obama for eight years and we need balance. And not because I particularly enjoy the conservative agenda. I just think the government should reflect the people. And we are about 40 percent conservative and 40 percent liberal. When I was growing up and when I was a younger man, liberals and conservatives were friends with differences. They weren’t enemies. And it always made sense that everyone gets a president they like for a while and then hates the president for a while. But it only works if the conservatives put up a good candidate."

I wonder how many other voters think this?

[stevenleser]

1. It's hard for the party that has held the White House for 8 years to keep it.

Particularly when a Democrat has done a good job with the economy and other things, people start thinking that those things are going to continue no matter who is in the White House.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I'm just surprised that he thought Obama was a liberal.

He certainly didn't act much like one over the last 7 years.

[lindysalsagal]

15. Yeah. No worries. Hillary's only a slight change.

Both centrists, so, really, no change.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. Obama is a Liberal. Just not liberal enough for the far left.

By that I mean ability to be FDR based on the lack of a "great depression" and Congress. If Obama tried stacking the SCOTUS like FDR did, he'd have been impeached for sure.

Why have we not raised the minimum wage since 2009? Obama has done so in every way he has the power to do so.

Please don't blame Obama for the hardline defense of the GOP.

[Marr]

18. Obama has described his own policies as those of a moderate Reagan era Republican.

He is a not a liberal, and has worn the 'moderate' label quite proudly when he wasn't campaigning.

[LiberalElite]

19. Please, there is no far left here -

That's a right wing meme.

[DJ13]

3. I wish the next president was a conservative only because we had Obama for eight years..........

I think its time we actually have a liberal.

The Clintons and Obama are moderate conservatives, so we've had enough conservatives to last us a long time.

[Nyan]

4. I remember Louis CK talking about how everybody's broke in America.

And saying how he doesn't like Bush, but he doesn't like Kerry, either, because they're both rich and they don't get it.
I think it was about 2005 when he did that stand-up? That was before he made big bucks. So he had a change in perspective, I guess.

[flamingdem]

5. He should stick to comedy

The gop is bad joke

[UTUSN]

6. He's a hypocrite, something about COSBY-like transgressions, sounds Libertarian n/t

[Skittles]

7. idiot

[Stinky The Clown]

8. That's the thinking of a person ignorant of how the country is run.

[Initech]

9. Balance? That's bullshit.

I think that we need to treat the Republicans the way they destroyed us in 80's and 90s. Refuse to acknowledge their very existence. Their policies have destroyed the country. Look at what they did to Flint, you want those morons handling the rest of the country? Much less picking possibly 3 SCOTUS justices? I sure as hell don't!

[Kalidurga]

10. I guess he didn't get the memo

Republicans aren't just people with different opinions now. They followed the Tea Party off into fringe RW land and they have no idea how to get back out of there without losing a chunk of people that will vote for them. Then on the other hand pandering to them means they sound like complete lunatics that no one else will vote for.

[JHB]

11. All this tells me is that Louis hasn't been paying as much attention as he gets credit for

maybe he'll think it through farther and figure it out, but I feel no shame in completely ignoring his "charmingly naive" opinion here.

[Bucky]

13. Well he's pretty successful... a Republican prez won't harm him personally

[Bucky]

12. I think huge knows a RW loony in the White House is good for comedy

He has a conflict of interest

[lame54]

14. maybe he is not as smart as I thought he was

[Orsino]

16. The president has too much power for us to entrust it to a Republican...

...but not enough for a Dem to unfuck much of the damage done.