Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 26, 2012

Tagg had to learn the alphabet before Daddy gave him the Rolodex.

^REALLY? What stress!

Obama smoking pot like a fiend? No mention. Doing coke? No mention. Bullying a girl? No mention. Solyndra? No mention. Associating with terrorists? No mention. Invading several more countries? No mention. Fast and Furious and the murder of over 300 Mexican citizens and at least one American cop? No mention. Biden’s constant gaffe’s? No mention. Absolutely ZERO business or real-world work experience? No mention. Absent almost every vote in his entire short history as a legislator? No mention.

But by all means, let’s poke fun at Romney’s business experience. Gotta be worth a vote or two from people who don’t know any better and who only read the State-approved sources.

Orion

Orion, Mitt has zero real world business experience, too. His daddy was rich and powerful, so ricj and powerful people took care of him.

If you think Mitt the Bully is bad, in this the Atlantic article, Maraniss makes Obama look like a gd Bogart, “intercepted!”.

I wouldn’t trust the author’s musical taste

Aries

These investors all came from Nigeria

If somebody had loaned me $50,000 in April of 2009, I would be retired now.

Orion-13 said, about 5 hours ago…

NOTHING of consequence.

You guys seem to have this covered, have a great day everyone!

“Since when has politics had anything to do with objectivity?” Objectivity has everything to do with being an intelligent, mature human being, and a responsible citizen. It’s utterly wrong to exclude any activity from those requirements — especially politics.

You know, “Guard SGT,” it is apparent that it just does not bother you to be thought of as an idiot.

When that’s about all he says about himself.

The phrase Political Objectivity is an oxymoron!

I would say you have the intelligence level of a bag of hammers but that would be insulting to hammers worldwide.

ROLODEX ? Seriously ? I haven’t used one of those in years – and I’m an oldie. It just shows you how out of touch Mittens is with the 21st Century.

Lets see. John and John Quincy Adams? William Henry Harriosn and his grandson Ben, both presidents. Our two Bush’s. Kennedy’s rich daddy made him president. It would have been a different story for FDR if we hadn’t had TR. Bill certainly made Hillary’s career for her. And Ron Paul would be nowhere today without his daddy’s name to run on. Family ties may not be a requirement in American politics, but they help. Personnaly I’d rather vote for a good man who made it on his own. Even if a few nuts call him a Kenyan.

Personally, I just love the irony of panels 2-3; the misunderstanding Mitt has of the question “do you really think that’s practical for most.” One of the hallmarks of a great cartoonist is to get that subtle ironic twist in there, and that nails it.

I love the way GT doesn’t really have to mess with the actual language and ideas of Romney. It writes itself sometimes. Just a little scary that some folks actually buy into Romney’s line of reasoning…

If you can call it reasoning. More like a cow pie of distraction, as the prez recently noted.

Or rather, cowpie of distortion. Distraction, distortion— either way, not good.

Having sometimes (!) been a jerk myself…I don’t like the inherited royal road to greatness…and the narrow-minded cretins who think they are conservatives…I understand finally that our lives’ experiences shape a lot of our perceptions. The old fool who thinks he’s defending the weak and unjustly criticized helpless by defending Romney’s royalty…or, worse, by mounting many false and irrelevant attacks on Obama…which is NOT the same thing,…opines, probably, that he’s some kind of John Wayne riding to the rescue(!!) of the poor, beleaguered weak-sister Romney…he probably thinks that Robin Hood stole from the poor and bought a huge castle somewhere with the drawbridge up.

Me? I LIKE America, even if I’d like to thoroughly weed the garden. A la French Revolution…

This is a Must Read:My break with the extreme right.I worked for Reagan and wrote for National Review. But the new hysterical right cares nothing for truth or dignity.http://www.salon.com/2012/05/24/my_break_with_the_extreme_right/singleton/

my my my, faux news said it.then, it must be true.it would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic for the countrymy idiot state having dumped the most experienced Senator in Congress whose chief mission was to disarm nuclear weapons, is about to send an experienced tea bagger to the senate whose only philosophy is that compromise is something he would never do and his idea of being a senator is to speak out his point of view , periodi poopie you not, he came out and said that when he got the nomination.and, my idiot state is about to elect a tea party governor, too.

so when can we expect the adventure of the choom gang?

Why does the Obama get to be president?The landover baptist church has the answer.

obamanation

Spot on! On Memorial Day Weekend, one needs to ask where these “great Americans” served. The Duke and Ronnie never got further than the Hollywood Canteen. And what theater did Chaney serve in? I don’t remember seeing him or Bush II in ’ Nam.Anyway, Happy Memorial Day Weekend to those who really did serve and are still serving.

Orion’s a troll. Or a moron if he actually believes half the garbage he spouts. Just ignore him and move on. He only keeps posting here because people keep paying attention to him.

Guard – since you say you would like to be informed about these matters, check the article on snopes.com regardin the “stolen” ssn. Check factcheck.org or urbanlegends.com for info about the birth certificate and the college transcripts and whether the president attended college as a foreign exchange student. factcheck.org, by the way, is run by the Annenberg foundation, and the Annenbergs are and always have been staunch Republicans. One of them, Walter, was even appointed ambassador to England by that pinko Richard Nixon.

The scary thing, though, is that I’m sure you could read all of these articles and still not be satisfied. The phrase “preponderance of evidence” doesn’t mean much to someone who gives credence only to the evidence that supports your beliefs and dismisses the opposing evidence as part of a grand cover-up. It doesn’t matter how many birth announcements were in the papers, what the hospital records say or what documents the state of Hawaii produces. In you mind, as long as one voice continues to express doubts that the president was born in Hawaii, the debate is still open, right? And those who look at the mountain of evidence on one side and the molehill on the other side and decide to go with the mountain are dismissed as those who choose to remain uninformed, right?

Sometimes (way too many), Trudeau really has to stretch to smear someone who is not left of left. This is one.

Let’s see, first of all, I don’t have a ‘guy’. They’re both fairly appalling.

You feel these issues are ‘fantasy’?Obama admitted both smoking pot and doing coke himself – Look up the ‘Choom Gang’. Or do you deny that he skipped most of his votes? (Sorry, he voted ‘Present’ I guess he WAS there. LOL). You dont think Solyndra happened? Or that Biden makes a lot of gaffes? (C’mon, the guy makes Dan Quayle look eloquent)…Do you deny he’s ‘intervened’ in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Uganda? Do you think Fast and Furious never happened?

I’m doing what many commenters do – suggesting new material for the cartoonist. Can you IMAGINE what Doonesbury could do with a President who’s gone his entire administration with no budget? Who cannot, in FOUR YEARS, including 2 when his party controlled the entire government, get a SINGLE vote for a budget? Or who’s crony-capitalism has earned him the sobriquet ‘President Goldman-Sachs’? And you folks call ME Uninformed? (And no, President Obama was CLEARLY born in Hawaii as reported by both major dailys at the time – It WAS odd that his agent would report that he was born in Kenya through 2007, but that’s more to do with honesty than with where he was born. Even if he WAS born in Kenya – which he was absolutely NOT, he would still qualify as a US Citizen since his mother was American and fulfilled the residency requirements)

I’m just hoping ol’ GT comes out of his 3 year long coma and starts poking fun at a target who richly deserves it.

Because this constant living in a left-wing cult-worship-session is not doing anyone any good.

And for those of you upset at the lack of civility – I refer you to your own behaviors for the 8 years of the Bush presidency and your very own left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement.

Orion

We will all be redundant once Richie Rich gets into office. Expect your pink slips in the mail sometime in January.

And I’d also love to see him do some positive humor – President Obama’s space policy has been the most brilliant and productive since Kennedy and has ushered in the era of commercial space flight. That is something he deserves a TON of credit for and I think that he could have a lot of fun with some of the characters going to work for SpaceX or Scaled Composites (Mel, perhaps? Mike doing ad work?).

Orion

Okay,“Memorial Day” drives me nuts every year with the hypocrisy from those who SENT us to wars, pontificating, and prancing. Garry understands “us”, and sticks it to the frauds.

The discussion here does bring up some “personal history”. My dad was in business with Don Nixon, Richard’s brother. Don was a nice guy, Richard was an arrogant jerk.

The John Wayne discussion is also interesting, and may reflect on my “attitude” about such folks. I met Wayne a couple times, and he was a “right wing” jerk, who made movies, TERRIBLE movies, the worst was “The Green Berets”. I was at the premier at Ft. Benning, and we laughed through the whole flick as it was SOOOOO BAD! Especially at the end, when Wayne had the sunset at the end, with the sun setting in THE EAST at Da Nang.

I also knew Bob Mitchum and his son, Jim, quite well, before I was in the Army, or combat.. Mitchum was a GENUINE “war hero”, and one of the nicest, least phony, people you’d ever want to know. He was NOT a person you’d want to “cross” however!

“W” was an insult. My “read” on Mitt also goes back a long way in his “appearances” on the public scene.

Knowing these “famous” people, and seeing the difference between genuine, and phony, combined with real combat experiences, and other life experiences, like in law enforcement for nearly a decade, gives one little different “take”. It also builds a skill set upon which to judge personalities, performance, and “expectations”.

It is scary to think what this nation can expect from Mitt. And none of it is good.

Those on the far right and left wouldn’t and couldn’t understand objectivity even if it came up and bit them on there hinies

Corzac: YES, a “must read” article from a conservative speaking from a position of reality. indeed, there ARE many “conservative” views that are extremely valid, but the “new right” refuses to acknowledge them, preferring the insult and attack mode of Rove et al, instead of “logic”. It DOES take a united, not divided, approach to run a family, or a nation. “Differences” should lead to discussion, analysis, resolve, and build strength, not destruction.

Tagg, you’re it!

“They are never to be trusted.It is that simple.”

Like I said, just part of the grand cover-up, right?

And I just spent ten minutes finding out who the Cold Case Posse is (I had never heard of them before). They’re your source? You don’t believe the media, snopes and factcheck can’t be trusted, but you regard what these guys say as “the facts and nothing more”? I could not have said anything to rebut your position more effectively than your own last post. Thank you.

Ah, served but never fought. How apropos !Easy for someone who has never taken a life,smelled death and had to face himself in the face of the enemy. to wrap himself in delusions masquerading as patriotism , Be cautious in your diatribes, my friend. Your incendiary rhetoric borders on treason and pushes the boundaries of this forum’s rules of exchange.

“W” volunteered to go to lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant in Mobile, right, Guard? Your effort to defend him could use some Right Guard.

Tagg? Has Mittens had so many kids he had to outsource the naming to Sara Palin?