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   baslim_the_begger said, 3 months ago

   Hey, they’re from Walden, home of underachievers like Zipper!
   Lower your expectations…

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   JonD17 said, 3 months ago

   Hey baslim, as an alumnus of Walden, I resemble that remark!

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   BobMcK said, 3 months ago

   I am so glad that GT has gotten off the bashing republicans thing (although they need it), but why doesn’t he have the cajones to go after Obama. This administration is turning out to be such a socialist joke that surely he must find something funny in it. What is he so afraid of?? (and, no, I am not a rabid conservative or a racist–well, no more of a racist than most people really are if they’d just admit it)

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   Nemesys said, 3 months ago

   Bob, Garry took a little shot at Cash for Clunkers yesterday - the first strip EVER that zinged the Dems all year - which evolved into a comparision with government-run healthcare. After that, I’m thinking he’ll stay with safer topics for a while, such as todays, as the Independents are making a 180-degree turn towards the right.

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   plus4 said, 3 months ago

   BobMcK – Yeah, if the “birthers” thing had happened with, say, a Bush, GT wouldn’t be satirizing the “birthers” – he’d be picking on the president for not coming forth with a birth certificate.

   On the other hand, GT now has a president that he doesn’t want to satirize, and it’s kind of fun to see how uncomfortable that makes him.

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   JonD17 said, 3 months ago

   Interesting; here is our lesson for the day; how to do a 3 step political injection. Hey, it don’t matter if it ain’t political or racial. We can make it that way in 3 easy comments!

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

   B.D. is a coach at his alma mater, Walden College. Don’t confuse that fictional school with Walden University.

   It is ironic that “Swooshes” is the mascot name for a football team that doesn’t usually win a game.

   What Toggle observed when he said, “W-W-WOW…,” is how the Fighting Walden Swooshes generally play during a game.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

   In regard to the political comments, the Tulsa World has moved the Doonesbury comic strip to the Opinion section of its paper. And they did that quite a while ago.

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   jtpozenel said, 3 months ago

   Looks like we’re getting a breather from politics today.

   He’ll probably give it to us again with both barrels when we’re not expecting it.

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    AKHenderson said, 3 months ago

    BobMcK: “[W]hy doesn’t he have the cajones to go after Obama.”

    I thought yesterday’s strip undermined ObamaCare - a government that mucks up auto sales wooudl do even worse to something far more complex.

    Trudeau could have had fun with Obama undermining his own health by touting the superiority of UPS/Fed Ex over the USPO. Or the proliferation of tax cheats in the administration - even SNL went after Tim Geithner. Or the proliferation of unaccountable czars. Or the multitrillion spending promises.

    During the election Trudeau could have gotten mileage out of the “57 states” gaffe, or Rev. Wright (keep in mind that it was Hillary who brought that issue to the fore), or the Annenberg Challenge scandals (the attempted coverup of its records, the fact that the portion of the AC-funded school programs that were drafted in-house were drafted by a confessed terrorist).

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    if i remember correctly, Walden’s football team was bad even when BD and Zonker were playing for them back at the beginning of the strip. i don’t think they’ve ever been good (or even competitive).

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    rtacsk said, 3 months ago

    I believe that Obama isn’t eligible to be President…. I believe that Obamacare will euthanize the elderly and the disabled…. I believe that Obama is the source of all of our economic ills… I believe that Sotomayer will vote to rescind the Bill of Rights…. I believe that Bush 42 should be added to Mt. Rushmore…. I believe all of this because I am a proud, flag waving Republican and a Great American!…. and you’re not!!!!

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    Sternvogel said, 3 months ago

    rtacsk said, 34 minutes ago

    “I believe that Bush 42 should be added to Mt. Rushmore…”

    Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States. Do you mean Bush 43 (G.W. Bush)?

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    Nick V said, 3 months ago

    THERE WERE 42 BUSHES INVOLVED IN POLITICAL LIFE? Somebody add them to the Darwin Awards straight away, because seriously - we don’t need any more.

    But anyway, in relation to the strip - amusing how Toggle can speak eloquently enough when around his girl, but while around a football coach, he reverts back to single-word sentences.

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    rtacsk said, 3 months ago

    opps… that would be Bush 43. The irony is that I’ve been able to recite the Presidents in order and the years they served since the 2nd grade….. George W. Bush fully elected POTUS in 2004 and served legitimately 2005-2009. We do have a tendency to try to forget our worst nightmares.

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    Decades ago, newspapers here and there were moving the Doonesbury comic strip from the comics pages to the editorials page. That was just as funny as anything that ever happened in the strip itself.

    What was not funny was the time they decided a series of strips was offensive, and censored it from the newspapers entirely. (If you remember this, you’re showing your age.) It was about a friend of Joany’s who had AIDS, and was dying in a hospital bed, and he kept cracking jokes. The newpapers said this was disrespectful. People in my city who had AIDS said it wasn’t disrespectful, what they were offended by was the newspaper’s attitude, and what Trudeau was talking about was the courage that the dying man was showing. The local free weekly paper published all the strips at the end of the week. I doubt if the daily paper learned anything from this experience.

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    What’s so bad about socialism? I often wonder if people use these words as denotations (having meanings) or as connotations (generating emotions). The word “communist” always has been synonymous with “bad”, as far as I could tell. Most people who used it didn’t know, didn’t care to know, and felt they didn’t need to know, anything more than that.

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    I was taking @rtacsk’s criticism of obama seriously, until he(she?) went too far and said, “I believe that obama is the source of all our economic ills”, which was too much. surely he wasn’t responsible for things that happened before he was elected? Before he even was officially a candidate?

    well, I guess you can’t blame him for swine flu, no that’s not true, i heard a joke about that: people said that before obama could ever be elected, pigs would have to be able to fly, and he was elected, and guess what: “swine flew!”

    But what’s so terrible about having a president who tells it like it is, and tries to fix what’s wrong? There’s a lot of people the world over who really admire obama, and are waiting to see what he will do next.

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    PSUnderwood said, 3 months ago

    “But what’s so terrible about having a president who tells it like it is, and tries to fix what’s wrong?”

    Nothing. I wish we had one.

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    rtacsk said, 3 months ago

    We do have one, PS. You’re just a bit too blinded by your partisanship to see Obama as he really is……. But then partisanship has become a blood sport in this country… both sides. I believe we are in a state of cold civil war, both culturally and politically. I hope it doesn’t turn hot anytime soon… or at least til I can move to state bluer than KY.

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    NebulousRikulau said, 3 months ago

    We did.
    And he was smart enough to refuse reelection.

    Guy name of George Washington.

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    Orgelspieler said, 3 months ago

    JAD - and naturally, what the Tulsa World does should be regarded as sacred and appropriate for the rest of us. Oh wait… the Oklahoma Gazette did the same thing. Never mind. ;-)