Ted Rall for May 03, 2010

And best of all, he’s neither an idiot nor a Dick Cheney!

Is the last panel about only Obama, or is it about the Democrats?

“Deep waters run still.” Sounds like a Bushism mangling of the proverb my ma used to quote, “still waters run deep.”

Or is that the point?

Hey Ted,

Off topic but really ON topic about motivations,

I just read the preface to Krakauer’s book about Pat Tillman, Where Men Win Glory, where you got Tillman’s motivation for joining the Rangers completely wrong, and I was wondering if you had a faster way to point me in the direction of your original art Krakauer is talking about?

Don’t bring up the Kinsey Sexuality Scale. Republicans don’t understand it!

“Jesus Ted, how old are you?”

He can’t be too old, cause he’s pretty cute.

This is just the cartoon that needed to be drawn. The point has been on my mind awhile now; so many people want to make excuses for Obama on his lack of action on rather simple issues. He has the power; he could do it. The forces arrayed against him could not stop him…so we come to a more grim conclusion. I’m not sure I’m quite with you rikoshay; I feel like you must be right, and yet, it sure does seem as if Obama did care at one point, but I think once presidents are sworn in, they get surrounded by terrible advisors, insider types who convince them of the way things have to work…we can all look in and see that the wars and breaches of the constitution must be stopped and very well could be. But these insiders just shake their heads at our naivety, ‘They just don’t know what we know! They can’t know any better! Let’s pity them!’

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What’s all this obsession with age anyway…? You’ll be old soon enough, but you don’t have to live through an era to have knowledge of it. Ted SEEMS youthful, and that’s what matters anyway.

Rikoshay, I was considering making New Mexico my home, any comments?

I could have read the cartoon without the Kinsey scale detail!!! (o.o)

Hyperpartisanship is the problem. Doesn’t matter who is in charge (even behind the scenes) when one side instinctively dismisses the other side’s ideas by virtue of them coming from the other side.

Obama=Bush Lite, and I believed that before he got elected. Ted Rall is 46. I didn’t have a problem turning 50. It sure beats the alternative.

Yes, folks cast your oil on the waters,,, Oh, that was bread to clean up the oil on the waters? yeah, he isn’t blond enough for you or brave enough for me, is he?

50 is an achievement, like a graduation – half a century!

60 is more difficult. It gets better at 62, though, when you start getting a check every month. 65 will bring the full range of benefits. Best of all, I don’t feel like I owe the rest of the world a goddamn thing anymore.

New Mexico sounds as good as I’d figured. :] What’s wrong with Albuquerque though?

Why is it the three most interesting people here to me are over 50? (Or is Sirrom just suggesting what it might be like to hit 50?) Sigh. It just goes to show my own generation can be such a bore. I’m only 21 if you’re wondering…

Reasons, the reference does seem obscure; I see your point, but as for Obama, if I recall right he promised to close Gitmo, end Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell, bring the troops home, and (I’m sure) several other things that escape me at the moment.

Hyperpartisanship is right, but it isn’t THE problem. It astounds me, however, how one-sided it can be. Obama gives and gives, but Republicans have fought more fiercely than ever. Maybe they figure they can control the country almost indefinitely after Obama because they will have enough anti-socialism fervor (no matter how contrived) stirred up in the ignorant populace.

Wow. Ted Rall is exactly my age. Weird.

I wouldn’t presume to speak for everybody, but I celebrated on my 50th birthday. Heaved a sigh of relief and gave myself a small present, a two-night trip to a place I’d wanted to see for a while. Then I dug in and did some serious work for a time.

Turning 60, though, meant I couldn’t fool myself anymore, and I began to feel the most important thing was to eliminate every aspect of unpleasantness I could from my existence. I still feel like I’m 25 inside, but my bones tell me otherwise.

Yep. I like the cold, so December would be my favorite month if it weren’t for Christmas. Thanksgiving is holiday enough for me. My own birthday falls the last week of November, sometimes on that Thursday, so after that I’m ready for a long, cold, snowy winter. When April comes I just want to hide until October.

I live on Manhattan Island in New York City, but I have a mountain outside my house, and rock cliffs, and a forest, and a salt marsh, with bald eagles, Canada geese, raccoons, egrets, ducks, and both black and gray squirrels. In the warm weather there are definitely too many people around, but when it’s cold, they disappear and it doesn’t feel anything like the asphalt jungle and mean streets of television cliché. Times Square and Greenwich Village are half an hour away on the subway if I ever want to go there.

The Gulf is deeper.