Ted Rall for August 01, 2009

I think of both Ted and Obama as smart folks of good souls and with the best of intentions; and so I’m amusedly, or grievously, torn between either laughing or balking at this cartoon.

Mr. Ted, you sure you don’t wanna go to the beer summit next time?

How did Biden wrangle an invite to the Beer Summit anyway? Did they want to make sure that Sgt. Crowley didn’t feel outnumbered?

nice. nice. nice.

Ted, good to see you’re using your balls.

9.5/10

After 8 years of non-stop stupid, the occasional gaff is no big deal.

I’ve sait it before and I say it again; at least nobody died in that gaffe.

Was it the constitution or the bill of rights that gives us the right against unreasonable search and seizure by “authorities?”

There are many ways the cop could have handled that better.

Obama is the first President in 8-1/2 years to honestly and promptly admit his mistakes instead of insisting everything is just hunky dory at each and every obvious mistake. And boy Bush made plenty of them!

Ted, your single-panel cartoons always seem better than the others, and this is one of the best. Totally over the top, which is the essence of great satire.

@Tigger Have you ever heard of the Blue Brotherhood? Have you ever heard of black cops engaging in racial profiling against blacks? Have you ever heard about a black cop beating the snots out of a black person? If not, you really need to broaden your media horizons.

Quote from the beer summit:

“We hit it off right from the beginning. When he’s not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy.” -Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

“When he’s not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy.”

That should be on a t-shirt!

Yeah, sure. We all know the criminal justice system never makes a mistake, and that police are not mere mortals, but are on a higher plane.

mattro53, the thing is it’s the some of the police who put themselves on a higher plane. I do know a few members of the NYPD and not been happy with some of the things I have heard between them. Some even look down on the NYFD stating “Oh, they just sit around all day waiting for a fire”. Well, how many members of the NYPD really risk their lives every day? Also so many in the police department are in it for the wrong reasons… “you do your 20 years, retire and live on a pension” and not for helping out the community.

Just to point out a glaring inaccuracy in Ted’s cartoon - Obama never “retracted” his statement. And he never apologized for it. He only expressed regret that he didn’t phrase his statement better. That’s hardly a retraction.

You’re nitpicking, Ted.

churchillwasright said “DALE, once again you have no idea what your talking about”

Excuse me, but I was giving my opinion of situations I have been in, so how in the #@$! can you write I have NO idea what I am taking about? You may not agree, but do NOT call me a liar!!!! I post under my own name with a pic of myself as well! Plus I have been friends with Ted Rall for two decades now ( in fact, I met his wife Judy before I met Ted ).

HOWGOZIT, was that Jack Nicholson from “Easy Rider” or Nicholson in “The Departed”?