Jon Stewart doesn't know what Obama believes in, calls president's health-care plan a 'clusterf---'

Some quotes from a new Jon Stewart Rolling Stone interview:

“[A] lot of people wish” the President would “take the gloves off a little more,” Stewart responds that Obama’s “problem is not his lack of passion. It’s his lack of direction.”


“I still don’t know what he [Obama] believes in.” 

“Maybe that’s my biggest issue with [Obama]: I’m not sure what he truly thinks is the right path, other than that he believes the wealthy should pay a little bit more of their fair share.”

[H]e’s sure the President is “pleased with what he’s done,” but adds: “I would have preferred to see something a little more transformative.”

 Obama’s health-care plan a “2,000-page clusterf-k.”

“You can blame the intransigence of Tea Party Republicans all you want, but Democrats had a chance to pass a budget before they lost the midterm election. “They didn’t do it because they were afraid that those votes would cost them the House,” Stewart continues. “They had the ability to avoid the entire f-ing thing. And they didn’t do it, out of cowardice.”

“CNN.” He says the news network’s “idea of clarity seems to be … grits without salt. It’s just all mashed up - there’s no direction, under the guise of ‘integrity.’

“CNN feels like an opportunity squandered.”

High-res “In 1996, then President Clinton signed into law the Defense Of Marriage Act… It was one of his administration’s proudest moments. Which is why he signed it at 12:50 a.m. on a Friday night. That’s Bill Clinton for ya, staying up late in the Oval Office, defending marriage.” - Jon Stewart

“In 1996, then President Clinton signed into law the Defense Of Marriage Act… It was one of his administration’s proudest moments. Which is why he signed it at 12:50 a.m. on a Friday night. That’s Bill Clinton for ya, staying up late in the Oval Office, defending marriage.” - Jon Stewart

“You’ve got to go pretty far out of your way to find a crappy photo of Michele Bachmann, and you did… Be honest Newsweek, you used that photo in a petty attempt to make Michele Bachmann look crazy. And that’s what her words are for.”

Jon Stewart

“We cooperate and we fight as hard as we can, because there will perhaps be disappointment but there will be no shame.”

A specialist in the 655th TC, writing to Jon Stewart • In a letter Stewart mentioned on Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show.” Stewart used the episode to pay tribute to the soldiers fighting overseas after he paid a visit to Khandahar this past weekend. After displaying several t-shirts that he had promised to wear, he read some of his observations and thank yous. Stewart then read this quote from a letter from a young specialist, from one of the nicest letters he’s ever received. source (via • follow)