Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 04, 2013

Ouch. Right up there with asking a woman when she’s due when she’s not pregnant.

Got to love the mindless,clueless generation !

Look, another redhead! Is this a thing? And what about Drew? Garry!!!

‘Older sister’, that’s what she should have said, ‘Older sister’.

Of course the Senator is late. She has to store her peace pipe and put on her war paint.

Junior staffers, so necessary but so clueless.

Senator Pocahontas.

What a clueless twit! Senator Warren is 63. Joanie is now 73. In 2009, she said she was 70. Unless she gave birth at 10 years old, which she didn’t, there would be no possibility of her being the Senator’s mom…

Uh oh. Where is DT?

I assumed perhaps Joanie would be working or at least volunteering, in the Senator’s office?

wish some of you guys would take your not-too-subtle racist remarks back to your little tea party – face it, you lost

oh please, let this not be prelude to a brush-off!

Taco and Don: What part of limited government, reduced taxes, and adherence to the Constitution do you disagree with? Calling Tea Partyers racist or ignorant is itself bigoted.

Warren is feeling smug knowing she’s parlayed her make-believe Cherokee blood into a professorship and a seat in Congress

Obviously, Taco disagrees with the ethnic references ascribed to Senator Warren and there were many openly racist comments in regard to her on the Tea Party side. Also, I see no evidence that the Democrats are not into limited government as much as the other side. In fact, the other side endorses controlling one’s reproductive rights, which goes way beyond most people’s definition of limited government. As a Harvard-trained lawyer specializing in Constitutional Law, who taught the subject at Law School, I believe our current president is as well-versed in adhering to the US Constitution as any US president has ever been.

No, I don’t agree with your accusation of the prez murdering American citizens without legal foundation. I believe that the prez has plenty of info which the average citizen does not have. We have had spies in government since the beginning of time. The matter of gathering intelligence has to be a secret process, although we try to protect the rights of individuals to the greatest extent possible.

To say nothing of being bought and paid for, surreptitiously, by the Koch brothers for the sole purpose of further enriching their already wealthy selves and their friends in the same stratosphere.

Beg your pardon, I am aware of drone wars. I am not, however, knowledgable about every last detail involved with the foreign policy of the US. I believe there could be more involved than what you or I may know. Furthermore, all administrations have to have a strategy to keep the US safe. I would rather see us use a surgical approach, rather than see us engage in a full out war every time we turn around. Many more innocent lives are lost when that is our strategy.

Maybe the real secretary is at lunch already?

Targeting al-Qaeda operatives is not tyranny. It is a legitimate means of protecting the US from another attack. The US has the right to protect itself.

Obama is not a hawk or a dove. I view him as an owl, one who tries to use restraint and intelligence while at the same time protecting the US from those who would do us harm. It is a fine line he must walk and he has done it well.

Obama has not dragged us into a war which is not necessary. The US was not attacked under Obama. I am sorry that 4 people died in Benghazi. I am sure that Obama regrets this too, however it is a complex world and he is doing as well as anyone could expect.

Except those that have nothing better to do than attack him personally, just ’cause they hate him.

Hey,everybody! How ’bout those Ravens?

I want to thank everyone (not you, @lookinside) for your thoughtful, though abysmally wrong, responses to my Tea Party post. Not one of the dozen or so highly intelligent, educated, principled Tea Party people I know resemble the malevolent picture you all have in your heads.

But the Tea Party is not the answer, only a small, hopeful step in the direction of the answer: laissez-faire capitalism, with the government limited exclusively to the defense of individual rights through the military, police, and courts. I cannot here go into how politics rests on morality which rests on even more fundamental levels of philosophy. When America began adopting German philosophies in the late 19th century we started down a road that led to fascism and communism. The main reasons we aren’t there yet are the remaining threads of the old American spirit of freedom and the Constitution.

I could debate with each of you the specifics of your errors, but this is not the time or place. I’ll just ask that you don’t assume I have any more love for the cowards of the GOP than you do.

Speaking of birds in America, Cal, I view you as a cuckoo.

That’s interesting…this morning at work, her hair was Becca Bickle red. Now, brown. Maybe someone realized it was colored wrong?

@montessoriteacher

Thanks for those numbers. I was going to say, “clueless YOUNG twit,” but remembered my own experiences with people much older than this one appears. My youngest sister was born 11.5 years after me, and I cared for her a lot as Mom was busy with the others. We both had vivid red hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. In a waiting room one day, a grumpy-looking woman scowled at me and said, “Zat the first?” I said, “No, she’s the fourth.” The woman was silent for a moment, then remarked, “They start early these days.” I realized she thought I was my sister’s mother. I was fourteen at the time. Fast-forward about thirty years, and my sister is showing me her wedding dress in a bridal-shop fitting room. She was so stunning I was moved to tears, whereupon the saleslady said, “You must be her mom!” Why “must,” I wonder???!

Her hair looks brown to me, too.

Yes, she was a redhead this morning. Maybe she visited her hairdresser today.

Only her hairdresser knows for sure…

I think slate has a lot of fun info about Doonesbury.

And never assume anyone is a nurse. Always assume they’re the brain surgeon just in case!

@montessoriteacher “That sounds like a rather low blow.”

Well, the first event just seemed hilarious, but the second was a “heads-up” about voicing assumptions. I’m really careful these days!

“Tea Partiers combine the two characteristics I dislike the most in politics, racism and self inflicted blind ignorance.”

I heard it called “self-deception” today — fits well.