Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 17, 2013

A mind is a terrible thing to lose…

We are talking nine weeks a month for Mr. Obama’s predecessor, right? Yes, I know that doesn’t work out, but Mr. Obama’s predecessor has a problem with basic math. And basic English. And basic a-whole-lot-of-things, really…

I think we can easily guess the REAL reason, but we also know that they’d never admit it.

Only if you’re white and Republican. Otherwise you need authentication from God.

I was going to say something about the dumber than dirt audience, that continues to buy, the load of road apples that fox pushes, non stop. But it wasn’t going be nice, and my Mother told me, “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything,” God bless her.

Just get a new copy!

What a load of crap you’re pushing. Don’t get a hernia.

Yeah man, he needs a break from all those campaign trips.

FOX won’t ask for your birth certificate. You’re white.

They have MANY reasons. Ignorant liberals just refuse to hear them.

SUSAN NEWMAN said

“Makes one wonder what kind of President Zipper might be.”`- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - -This MAD-TV sketch from YouTube might give an idea.`Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va71a7pLvy8

I hope you realize that you and friends probably cost Mitt the election. A lot of people who were unhappy with the economy stuck with Obama, because Mitt had birthers like you on his side. I also hope you learned that phrases like mocha mamzer are not acceptable in mixed company.

Tucci and ray thomas: the absence of evidence does not mean there is an evidence of absence. bush 43 and rummy used that explanation ad nauseum when the couldn’t find saddam’s nukes. of course saddam had chemical and biological weapons. bush 41 had the receipts.

You have to have a birth certificate in some states to get a drivers license. See voter supression.

Wow! They’re not just resorting to personal insults right off the bat today. I do believe they’re actually hotly defending the cartoon versions of the FOX News guys! .Is there a Nobel Prize for Trolling? Or maybe a Congressional Medal?

I think you need to quick sucking teabags.

“Cartoon versions” was meant to be set off, not crossed out. Interesting. Permit me a test putting various characters on both sides of some words. ./Slash./ Asterisk Hyphen. Underscore.Any others?

@dinkytown “A lot of people who were unhappy with the economy stuck with Obama, because Mitt had birthers like you on his side.”

*

Amen, sister.

*

" I also hope you learned that phrases like mocha mamzer are not acceptable in mixed company."

*

And shouldn’t be acceptable in any company! My mama taught me that intelligent people have a wealth of acceptable words with which to express their thoughts, and that the use of offensive ones is a sign of limited thinking. Proves out, doesn’t it?

Wonder what Redheaded Roommate’s name is….

How old IS Zipper? I suppose it’s too much to hope that he is 31 so that this really could be a genuine story arc for the next four years? I’d love to see Zipper in a campaign managed by Duke and Earl…

“Lazy,” of course, is code. It’s one of those words used only to describe certain people. I think everyone here except Tucci and Ray Thomas understands what is really meant here.

Don’t like his policies? Challenge his policies. Just calling him names makes you sound like a goober.

In his own words: “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.”

OK and Mitt wouldn’t give up his income tax statements. What did he have to hide?

Question: Will Fox ‘news’ ever stop embarrassing themselves? It seems to be an impossible task, no?

So how come people believe everything they read on the internet? Gullibility. That, and an eagerness to believe anything bad about a politician they are ideologically opposed to. Pathetic? Yes.

Bush worked less than Obama, but Bush wasn’t black. Thus the “lazy” slur for Obama.

Bush’s kids were of legal age and in college when he took office, unlike Obama, whose kids were 7 and 9 when he took office. Once kids are ready for college, good luck insisting they go on vacation with the rest of the family. It is a way different situation…

Actually, this is how the “dog whistle” of racism works: you mentally add “lazy, shiftless --”. Anyone can complete the phrase.

We already had a President Zipper. The only difference is that Zipper has a more active fantasy life…

DT said a little while ago he was taking time off from commenting on the strip. He needs to come back soon so he can gloat on having predicted Alex’s pregnancy, among other things.

Well, you Americans COULD rise up in protest against the war crimes, but that would require admitting that your Exceptional Nation is wrong. Also, Trudeau would never, ever, dare criticise Obama – which is why I’ve mostly switched to Tom the Dancing Bug.

It isn’t about how much vacation time you take, it’s about what you actually do and accomplish. Hard to say the President is doing much with no budget in 5 years, no money for infrastructure upgrades, constantly confirming what Bush Jr did (Patriot Act, Guantanamo, drone killings, ignorance of foreign policy…), and now puts in a health care act that still isn’t law, forces people to pay for non-health care stuff while treating different people differently (which is, BTW, unconstitutional) and is soaring in cost estimates before it starts like it’s part of the F-35 project!

Dr.Tucci, the birth certificate argument has been put to rest. President Obama’s father was Barak Hussein Obama, Sr. He was from Kenya and a British subject. Mr. Obama’s mother was a natural United States citizen by virtue of her being born in Kansas, USA. Mr.Obama was born in Hawaii. Please, all this vitriol is not good for your blood pressure. If the only thing you really don’t like about the President is the color of his skin, then you really need counselling. We are the “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” and rhetoric like yours and the recalcitrant republicans in Congress is not doing anything to advance our nation. Let’sstart a new journey today by going forward as a nation “UNITED” under one flag and work for the good of all people. And, sir, all these attacks you make on people on this forum are simply uncouth and childish.

It helps to be C-, coke dealing, AWOL nincompoop, too. Oh, and having a rich dad who once ran the CIA.

bho has played more golf in 4 years than ike in 8 years wash post] vacations 3 wks hawaii +2 weeks in la + 2 weeks in martha vineyard prob could find more

Dubya spent a THIRD of his 2 terms gone. Figure it out, people, a third of the time he was missing. So just imagine the damage done if he had actually been at his post for more time! Horrors. Guess we should’ve been grateful. Faux News gave Obama a hard time back in Feb. 2009 for not working on Sat. or Sunday. Idiots.

That’s another BIG FAT LIE. Obama spent $2.6 million on post campaign related legal expenses. John McCain’s rather smaller, losing campaign spent over $1.3 million on legal expenses after the election. Those legal expenses had nothing to do with “hiding” records. This is easily researched by anyone with a working brain & access to Google.Because of the frivolous lawsuits brought by birthers, the US Government has been forced to defend the election result at a cost of millions. This has been so well researched that you have to be full of hate to continue doubting Obama’s birth in Hawaii.Stop being the “Party of Stupid”.

Yeah, I remember Bush flying Southwest Coach class to his ranch… NOT! Laura & the Bush daughters traveled with Secret Service agents & government staff everywhere they went. And contrary to the lies being posted, their trips cost at least as much as the Obama family’s.Tucci & his troll posse are racist, hateful liars. Not worth reading or responding.Any thinking conservatives know the GOP must quit being the Party of Stupid. Come up with a good plan to get the economy going… besides tax cuts for the investing class. We’ve seen how little that helps the middle class. Keep on the current path of backing defining your party with tax cuts & divisive social issues & you’ll go the way of the Whigs.

Obama does have family members in Hawaii. Hawaii is one of the places where he grew up. Of course, Hawaii is special to him. My inlaws live in Hawaii. If my daughter is to visit her grandparents we make the long trip to Hawaii. Yes, it is a special place. It also has about a million or so people who live there, many of whom have family members on the mainland.

@Tucci About 3 hours ago you posted some remarks addressed to me, but actually responding to comments by marchman, who posted about 5 hours ago. Tsk! Pay attention, please. Or just drop it, because as John Pike has pointed out, nobody else here is particularly interested in the whole birther thing.

The secret service has to look after all of the first family, regardless of party… They always have done so, as most reasonable folks know.

Our former presidents continue to have Secret Service protection for themselves and their families for the rest of their lives, which is what is needed.

Tucci’s profile says he has been a member since 2009, and has less than 100 comments. Since he makes about 25 a day on Doonesbury, he has changed his name at some point. One of today’s was so awful I flagged it.

GT was born in NYC.

Interestingly enough, the Current POTUS seems to be more the late night TV crowd and golfing rather than running the Country, which might be a good thing. On his taxing the rich, why does he not get his billionaire supporters to pony up the tax dollars he seems to apply only to Republicans? BTW, isn’t he also rich?

@MortyFor Tyrant * Trudeau a Canadian? Wikipedia describes him as American, born and raised, and has him a Yale grad currently living in New York, with wife Jane Pauley and their children.

Garry Trudeau born in New York.Pierre Elliot Trudeau born in Canada.

Thank you:John PikeRedkayceiNight-GauntUncle JoeIf I left out anyone else who stood up for the truth, I apologize.

@Sharuniboy “one can’t seem to use any of the computer’s normal functions, such as “copy” for instance”

*

I’ve been able to copy-and-paste when needed, but I can’t get the hang of spacing, italics, and so on. Someone once referred me to a place on gocomics where they give instructions for things like italics, but I can’t remember how to get there now, and gocomics ain’t sayin’. So I just keep trying things. It does seem that you ought to be able to copy your piece from the other forum, come back over here, and paste it in.

ya mean like Obama is Bush on steroids – and both have the back bone of a wet noodle.

Obama rarely goes home to Hawaii to visit, typically at Christmas. Another time he went was when his grandmother who had a big role in his life, was dying right before he was elected. He has the right to visit his family even if they are in Hawaii. Hawaii is part of the United States. Bush was in Crawford, Texas far more frequently when he was in office.

I noticed that the Bush family is no longer in Crawford. They seem to have moved to a Dallas suburb. Maybe there is no more brush to clear?

Smarter, debatable. Running roughshod over the Constitution, unlike said previous presidents who supposedly share a name with plant life, for sure.

Crawford for the following reasons:1- Crawford is further from DC than the Florida trip Obama took this weekend.2- When Obama takes a long distance vacation- Hawaii- it is for 1 to 2 weeks. Bush used to spend up to 6 weeks at his ranch, which means the secret service detail had to set up camp and then break camp for 6 weeks.3- Because of the size of the ranch a larger Secret Service detail was needed than is needed for Obama’s private home in Chicago or for any of the places he has vacationed.4- The Daily Mail published an article that expense for maintaining the White House and First Family in 2011 was $1.4 billion. There was a great out cry. What they did not mention was that in 2008- the last full year GW Bush was President- the expenditure was $1.598 billion. The budget for White House expenditure DECLINED by nearly $200 million since Obama became President.

You know … thank God for the Internet. You’ve probably been banned from talking to people at the donut shop and the library and the laundromat, but there’s always the comments section of Doonesbury, isn’t there?

It’s so weird that the Red Rascal has these delusional episodes, and he imagines he’s an average kid in the USA.

I don’t care if you call him a geek, that’s not an insult. And we call you a troll because, well, you’re a troll, and that is an insult.

ok folks, please don’t feed the trolls