Tom Toles for October 29, 2013

The less Obama does, the better for America!

His only “accomplishment” is proving daily to be an even bigger disaster than first thought.What happened to Obamacare will be “easier to register than Amazon”, “if you like your doctor, you can keep him” and “your premiums will go down”???Just a bill of goods…….

Benghazzi, even though that was sad, 4,000 were killed in dubyas trumped up war, we don’t see him and cheney in a war crimes court, why?

So would I, but the worst Democrat I can think of is still better than the best Republican I can think of!

Who is the intellectual standard-bearer for the GOP? They (GOP) seem incapable of anything other than making up stuff and immature insults.

There is not such thing as “one of our greatest presidents.” Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, Reagan, Jackson, who? Every one of those is praised to the sky by some, and cursed and spat upon by others. The only president who comes close to general respect is Washington, and there are some harsh critiques of him, too. Perhaps being a great president is just that: being a president who attracts love and hate that last. Nobody cares much one way or the other about Ford or Bush Sr. Plenty of people hate Carter and Bush Jr., I am not sure either one still has many ardent admirers. Obama like Reagan and FDR will be lauded and vilified long after he is gone. So I guess he is a great president. The measure of greatness is memory, I think. The least great presidents are those who are most forgettable: James Buchanan, say, or John Tyler. Even those who hate Obama are not going to forget him.

I suppose that’s a good thing at least he not still destroying thing like the Constitution or America.

I’d have to think twice about Hillary, but a corporatist Democrat is more likely to throw crumbs to the middle class, whereas I see Republicans laying ground for a new feudal system.

Bush’s wars were based on false, misleading, and cherry-picked “intel”. Unfortunately, although many of us citizens were more than skeptical, our elected “representatives” from both parties were willing to believe the intel presented to them, hence bipartisan support and authorization.Whether Bush/Cheney knew that the info they were presenting was bogus, or whether they were too clueless to realize that they were trusting the wrong sources, or whether they were just unwilling to check the veracity, (or even—gasp—allowing for the possibility that they were willing to intentionally lie to all of us) is what would allow us to decide whether the wars were trumped up, legitimate, or criminal. We all have our ideas, but we will not have proof. Thousands of redacted pages, however, make it seem as though they were either intentionally misleading or that they did not perform due diligence.

@Michael wme:#4. He PROMISES to slash the deficit. Until it happens, I’m not holding my breath, and I didn’t attend the Nobel Peace prize awarding, either.

@TheTrustedMechanic“I never advocated voter suppression but why shouldn’t you show an ID? I must have one to be in a bar or I have to leave. Isn’t that beer suppression?”Are you or do you look underage?Are you or do you look like you do not have voting privileges?

“… regular Joe … Mitt Romney …”???

Glad you can have a beer with Mitt … I sure wouldn’t!!!

“Typical distraction politics …”

Learned by watching the Republicans since the 1950s, courtesy of Joe McCarthy and Dick Nixon …

The same as your email from Rush …

Nothing worth paying attention

Wish that YOUR stereotyping would go the way of the Roman chariots …