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1. 

   Adora68 said, 7 months ago

   Waiting for the “Oh, Ted, give him time” post. It’ll inevitably come and the poster won’t see the irony. =D

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   Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

   Lol, that’s true, lol

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   audieholland said, 7 months ago

   So why is he _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?

   Nothing comes to my mind since I don’t care about who’s president of the US of A.

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   audieholland said, 7 months ago

   I get it! So why is he still bombing the hell out of Afghan/Iraqi civilians?

   It’s even worse because Bush was a soulless devill whereas Osama is a saint!

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   Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

   Sainthood? Being likable isn’t synonymous with competence, but beatification as a saint requires the rite of martyrdom (preferably along the lines of St. Valentine or Bartholomew) a role for Obama that I am not adverse to, politically or otherwise >:-)

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   M Kitt said, 7 months ago

   So JL, want to check out the postings for Rall’s last toon? I’ve placed a few comments there for you.

7. 

   Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

   Already have. Thanks, fella’.

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   M Kitt said, 7 months ago

   Yeah, I understand why you failed to address the issues raised by those posts, JL, you wisely removed your’ full name in recognition of the possible consequences. As a Lib I regard even those postings as protected under the 1st amendment so long as you play by the rules, still doesn’t excuse the misbehavior I pointed out tho. And if you want to post anti-whoever political opinions have the good grace of using LINKS to the information instead of pasting several paragraphs since they pre-empt others by excluding them from equal space on this site (or was that the intent?) Otherwise I hold to my opinion, you were in fact behaving like an A$$ at that time. Since you subscribe to the M. Savage school of thought I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that you think martyrdom for the commander in chief of the armed forces would be a good idea but I wonder what the DOD would think of you posting that opinion. Play nice, now.

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   Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

   All politicians should take a note from Ciacescu regarding political hubris.

10. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    You wouldn’t survive one day in Osan for fear of a coronary embolism, my friend, what with the cellulite choking your brain.

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    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Taking the hard-line right wing tack, huh JL? Can’t address the substance of the questions I posted so you resort to insults, these are the methods of the GOP. That’s why McPain couldn’t promote any supposed accomplishments of the W administration during the campaign, instead he attacked Obama for what he called “failings of character”, which really accounts for the entire 8 years of W’s supreme court appointed (not elected) white house committee, “failings”. I can easily do 35 one-armed pushups, by the way (either arm, one after the other), cholesterol and/or bodyweight do not my A$$ make, but if the Osan registry is as evangelically impeded as your’ postings I’ll bet it’s a fundie paradise :-). Insults aside, I have nothing against posting opinions, as I’ve stated, just be aware that these opinions are read NATIONALLY, take care.

12. 

    parkersinthehouse said, 7 months ago

    even internationally
    ºo)
    O
    π

13. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    Have you forgotten that Obama is debating the adoption of employee-taxed health benefits, the same issue that he so derided McCain, the war hero from Arizona, for during the campaign. Like a horse, Obama is a Bush of a different color, and that is the only change that he has brought to the White House. His substance is only skin-deep, but thankfully he has Biden as a Falstaffian foil (though less brilliant), which brightens him considerably (except when the Cabinet is taken into consideration, then he dims a few watts). Now, I’m sure you can make that pushup with the aid of a reflexologist, thus easing the burden of your weight and age, assuredly. Now, as far as character, or its failings: If you are a woman, possibly plain, you desire to be respected for your brain-personality-achievements with an MBA, despite your size 16 waistline and resemblance to Herbie the Fat Fury; or, if a man, you are overcompensating for some defect in character (a lover of Ward Churchill, angry, age 34, and living in your mother’s basement of vintage 70’s wood paneling, your bed next to the boiler), say, or a physiological deficiency: perhaps a bald pate, slowing abdomen, as well. Flat feet, perhaps, fallen arches, or I.B.S. Moreover. M Kitt (tralfaz), myself, not caring one lick what the booboisie on the Interweb thinks, as far as the the whole first amendment-opinion argument goes, most people never say anything worth defending in the first place, and I carry that banner myself. Take your work seriously, sir-madam-it, not yourself.

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    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    Like so many “Burma-Shave” signs! “He won the race / But started to rave ;/ He is a disgrace, / Obama Knave.” I’m telling you, Obama will ruin our Health Care, make “global warming” too hot for comfort, redistribute wealth in the same vein as the Politburo. No, he is a horrible man. That, and he looks like an academic metrosexual, caricature of Nefertiti.

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    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    No thanks, JL. I’m not here to make nice with you or to “share”, in fact as I pointed out previously I think you were giving away more than enough, maybe “too much information” and I’m not of that particular character flaw.
    Good to hear that there’s something of a sense of humor beneath the otherwise dark anti-Obama cynicism, tho. Nope, not that serious about myself or my opinions, absurd speculation about my personality was an innovative way to try to gain some advantage, nice try :-).

16. 

    mattro53 said, 7 months ago

    M Kitt, surely you know that ad hominem attacks are a sign of weak rhetorical and logical skills. That is a right wing speciality; when you cannot attack the message, then attack the messenger.

17. 

    Stillahippie said, 7 months ago

    Hey The right wingers are jumping on his back go look at SF Gate.com yesterdays comments on the clean air act

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    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Good point Parker, know we’ve got Canadian readers, that makes this site multi-national. Thanks.
    Matt, I don’t take much of what JL says seriously, browse his rambling postings and you’ll see that they’re mostly just rants, some of it’s really goofy so I suppose there’s a sense of humor in there somewhere, like I said above.
    There are unfortunate references from M. Savage and other such bile (see Rall’s last toon posts), what I’d term to be “useful idiots” on the right fringe sanctioned by the GOP to incite the “true believers”. Think those postings are generally harmless other than the obvious vulgarity associated with their source.
    If JL wants to buy into the complete GOP party package of bigotry and licensed hatred that’s his disability of choice (maybe choice of disability?)

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    Stillahippie said, 7 months ago

    I see the right winger are using every excuse to jump on Obamas back even here there is a lot of bashing going on over the clean air act I have been out numbered fighting the the morons off at the sf gate for 2 days then I come here for some comic relief and find the same thing going on I think Obama is doing a good job We need clean air to breath, we need heath care but the right wing dogs are out mad because the GOP is in such a sad shape and they are wakeing up to the fact The Bush cabal ripped them off like they did allof us.

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    mattro53 said, 7 months ago

    I did read his interminable postings after the last ‘toon. I wonder if the goofiness is humor, or if he’s actually goofy.

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    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men, and I’d rather laugh at Obama the way Mel Brooks cocked a snoot at Hitler instead of the derisive “f—ing” invectives you libbies have used against Bush so many years. If you guys want to be a smart-ass, it takes smarts, more so than the gap-tooth jeremiad slurs of a late-night talk show host, too. Speaking of nonsense, say, consider one Jose Serrano pushing to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which would make you Obama cultists in the Demon-crat Politburo happy, wouldn’t it?–if he ran in perpetuity from 2016 on, like that recently ousted anti-constitutionalist tinhorn el presidente from Honduras, Zelaya, has tried to do, the very one that Obama, Chavez, and Ortega have applauded for “his stalwart steadfastness”.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/30/obamas-support-ousted-honduran-leader-accused-breaking-law-stirs-concerns/?test=latestnews

    I may be goofy, but I’m muy guapo, and I know that a fair balance of wits, cash in hand, experience, good looks, and gumption is all the faith one ever needs in life.

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    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    Attack the messenger? You mean like your St. Saul Alinski? In that case, we’re not so different then–you and I, mattro53.

23. 

    anonim said, 7 months ago

    “anti-constitutionalist”
    yea cause a constitution enacted while the country was run by death squads and the american embassy and whose purpose was patently to curtail any potential political threat to the countries decrepit aristocracy is one that has to be defended. sorry a right wing conservative rancher is much too oppressive for my tastes, I, for one, prefer military rule with a politicians facade. and nothing is more authoritarian then holding a public referendum to ratify proposals with the working class’s consent. if anything that erodes the “checks and balances” institutionalized by hundreds of years of banana republic rule and foreign conquest.

    thank god we have fox news to clarify the situation for us american twats.

24. 

    DrCanuck said, 7 months ago

    You Americans allow nutjobs like Cpt Jay to carry guns, don’t you?

    (hooo-boy!)

25. 

    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Yeah, DrC, and he quotes from the Wash. Times, Fox News, and “Dr.” Michael Savage, imagine that :-). On the Times, here’s an interesting aside involving politics on the right Rev. Sun Myung Moon http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-96125793.html with links explaining his return to earth as Jesus Christ incarnate. How could I not trust these publications?

26. 

    el_natureboy said, 7 months ago

    Wits, cash, good experience and good looks. You and Fabio JR.

27. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    Yes, Jove, Apollo, and his ilk has favored me. Remember what Twain said about taking it with a grain of salt there, Kitt?

28. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    And by the way, I’m a dual citizen from Vancouver, my fellow Canuck.

29. 

    parkersinthehouse said, 7 months ago

    Oh Cpt. Jay.

    “I may be goofy, but I’m muy guapo, and I know that a fair balance of wits, cash in hand, experience, good looks, and gumption is all the faith one ever needs in life.”

    My guess is that you had a few highballs before you wrote. Please have some kind of excuse. Your last dozen or so posts have been irremediably obnoxious, your namecalling and insults, paranoiac and ultra-defensive, and the chest-thumping - oh the chest-thumping - an hilarious party theme, but kind of nauseating.

    But most troubling, I think I knew you in highschool. Say it ain’t so, Dobie - is that you?

30. 

    el_natureboy said, 7 months ago

    Silence from Dobie… a first.

31. 

    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Dobie? Parker, did the last name begin with an “L”? Cpt. Jay has changed his moniker, that’s why I was referring to him as JL.
    
    Pregnant pause, yep el_nature.

32. 

    bromonation said, 7 months ago

    not bad i guess. i agree with the sentiment, however tired it may be.

    but i’m quite ready for Rall to graduate from obsessing about the President and move on to roasting the global elite.

    4/10

33. 

    mattro53 said, 7 months ago

    Are we having fun yet? Yow! I am having fun. I may be a radical, but I have yet to post a positive comment on Obama. In my view, he is busily solidifying his position as one of the global elite. In this country there is one major party-the Money & War Party with the Democrat and Republican branches.

34. 

    mattro53 said, 7 months ago

    If I were to nominate anyone for sainthood, it would be Jerry Garcia.

35. 

    Adora68 said, 7 months ago

    You’ve got it, mattro53. See my comment on the latest Oliphant (June 30). It totally applies here, too.

36. 

    Dale Hopson said, 7 months ago

    Anyone who critiques someone’s looks has lost the debate…

37. 

    mattro53 said, 7 months ago

    Adora68, I agree with your post on Oliphant. Not surprisingly, there is common ground between the right and left again.

38. 

    Right_On said, 7 months ago

    DrCanuck said,

    “You Americans allow nutjobs like Cpt Jay to carry guns, don’t you?”

    Some of us had to defend your freedom to complain, Doc. All 58 states benefited from the services of CPT J L and myself.

    MTwitt - One post about UCMJ and drop it. Are you really trying to hurt JL?

39. 

    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Write_off is several pages behind the conversation, as usual. Where on this entire date/page have I mentioned the UCMJ? If that’s some particular concern of your’s we can have that discussion, let me know.
    Otherwise we’re having the usual partisan political discussions. Try to keep up, if possible :-)

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    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    Thank you, Right_On! M. and his ilk have not even bothered to address the issues I raised, such as, say, “employee-taxed” health care, which Obama so heavily criticized the McCain camp for during the campaign–and Obama and his Keeper, Congress, are currently backpedaling on this issue. Nor the potential results of the 22nd Amendment repeal debate, as fostered by Jose Serrano, or how we can learn a lot from the Honduran bloodless coup (which would make William and Mary proud, no doubt). Believe me, there are tons of service guys that post their insignias and representative info on Myspace and Facebook, so cool the niggling, my nudnik M. The “crank” on your Victrola needs some WD-40 anyway, I think. And what do you think about the Washington Press Corp., particularly Helen Thomas, being up in arms with Robert Glib and Co., over this townhall meeting using questions from Facebook and Twitter? Sounds like his previous healthcare infomercial, or do you just want to banter away with the rhetoric you’ve learned from your correspondence course at the St. Saul Alinski School of Debate and Sophistry? If so, we can, but you’re becoming something of a bore, may I say.

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    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    Liberal: a walking improbability chasing the impossible; one possessing a hard heart and a soft head. Even Al Capp was a liberal in his youth, and G.B.S., infatuated with the gilded utopianism of the Stalinist regime, soon came back to reality. So shall you all, my wayward brethren.

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    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    And does no one recognize the “wits, cash in hand…” quote is derived from Samuel Butler (Butler 2, author of Erewhon and the Way of All Flesh, mind you, for you hulu addicts out there that believe “print is dead”). Put your copies of The Nation down and read a book, unwind. Start with Thucydides, then Hackworth, and onto Barzun, if you will…

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    mattro53 said, 7 months ago

    I am a veteran and I also defended the rights of Americans, even the stupid and brainwashed ones. Keep on trying to drag us back to the 19th century. Keep on battling the New Deal and the ’60s. You are responding to being in a hole by digging with renewed fury. We’ll see how that works out for you. As a radical, I have been marginalized all my life by the corporate controlled government and media. How do you like finally being recognized as a fringe element?

44. 

    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Matt, if the media weren’t so corporate owned/controlled the public would have been aware of the GOP circus of incompetence long before the W years, seems they’ve just caught on.

    Fox and Rupert Murdoch (IE disinformation Inc.) are still pushing the tripe, Cheney and his “Rendition” campaign are just the tip of the iceberg, wait until recent FOIA released documents come to light, memos approving waterboarding and many other detainee “treatment” methods are common knowledge but aren’t given coverage and the latest material, rendition photos, aren’t public yet but that will happen, give it time, the cover-up of the photos will then BECOME the story. Eventually they’ll be published (or other, similar photos will) inside or perhaps outside of the U.S. by, let’s say, the BBC and then the media dam will break washing away (I hope) several political “protectors” of that policy, just hope Obama has the good sense to be on the right side of that deluge.

    Beyond that, the wiretapping of U.S. citizens began well before 9-11, W & Co. were misusing executive branch power and FISA court (Federal) oversight of 4th amendment protection was breached even then, the white house closed off possibe leaks with “containment” procedures, removing what had been public records of executive activities indefinitely. So far the courts have refused to pursue this issue, their position is that enactment of the “Homeland Security” provisions removing FISA oversight are retroactive, imagine that. This also gives a “blanket reprieve” to the Corporate entities that cooperated, money talks, mainstream media remains silent.

    W’s ties to the Saudis and the 9-11 connection are other issues the so-called press won’t touch, yet there are numerous documents tying the house of Saud $ to those hijackers, some of that is coming to light now as well. If we’d followed the money trail then, publicly, I doubt we’d have ended up in the fiasco that constitutes Iraq, yet another result of disinformation courtesy of “journalistic integrity”. The 9-11 commission conveniently failed to mention those money connections, another key piece of information withheld from the public courtesy of W Inc.

45. 

    Gladius said, 7 months ago

    Take a deep breath.

46. 

    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    By now I was sure you’d have looked at the articles of military code I quoted and because of that I’m surprised you even raise this issue, they pertain specifically to statements made about government officials at the highest level, naming those officials too JL. If you’ve not read those articles I suggest you do so, I can provide details (again) if you’d like, the Executive Branch is covered. I thought this much was apparent, guess not.
    Partisanship is not the issue, my opinion is that military members should have full political access including the option of vocal protest against the war. Since they can’t do that in uniform or voice that opinion in the press (with rank included) in active duty status without facing possible NJP or worse consequences I suggest that you don’t breach the specific standards I quoted amounting to political action from the opposite end of the spectrum. Change the restraints given under those regulations and then have at it as far as I’m concerned, I’d like to see war protesters in uniform :-). And as I’ve stated these comments are read NATIONALLY.
    The 22nd amend. issue is a straw dog raised by both parties, first proposed in my immediate memory during the Ronald Raygun years. Good luck selling it, not worth discussion.
    Corporate health care should be the issue, what should be discussed is why we allowed dupes of the insurance Co’s. into office in the first place, they’re the real controversy, not why Obama supports a public health care option during an obvious economic crash making the insurance ripoffs that much less affordable to the public. If the representatives of corporate insurance (lobbyists and politicians both) have their way you’ll be in that boat with the rest of us sooner or later, Obama recognizes that even if the GOP misled and misinformed don’t.
    Bloodless coup, think that about sums up Supreme Court involvement in the 2000 election, JL.

47. 

    DrCanuck said, 7 months ago

    Right_On said: “Some of us had to defend your freedom to complain, Doc.”

    DrCanuck responds: OK, you historical illiterate, I’m calling you out on this one. Give me one historical example of America defending Canada or Canada’s rights (and I’ll give you three of Canada defending America).

48. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 7 months ago

    And I’m sure Congress, in its infinite wisdom, will keep their Blue Cross Blue Shield Premera healthcare plans while the rest of us, the great unwashed, will have bupkis–but not only bupkis, but bupkis that is run as efficiently as the V.A., the U.S. Postal Service, and your local DMV. blecch!

49. 

    M Kitt said, 7 months ago

    Think the V.A., while certainly flawed, is generally a model that would work just fine for the public sector, JL. Their resources are worn threadbare by 7+ consecutive yrs. of ongoing conflict, doesn’t surprise me that systematic problems arose and the public ire reflected that, justifiably. Unfortunately they’ve been stuck with the economic shortfalls/cutbacks the rest of us have had to contend with and it shows. We could discuss the financial impact of an ongoing war in Iraq that most of the public rightly sees as a vast waste of resources that could have been (much) better spent on infrastructure programs, and whether a Dem. in office would have taken U.S. forces there (nope), but I’ll leave that alone for the time being.
    On that subject, wonder if you’re so deeply into the conservative mindset that you reject all tax increases reflexively, the services you mentioned as well as police, fire, public works and others are all strapped for $ (IE infrastructure & services). If we were to repeal the tax exemptions W gave to the corporations all of these programs would benefit, and personally I wouldn’t mind if I had to kick in another 5% myself to pay for those services. I’d also like to go after what I see as an 8 year deficiency targeting specific corporations (IE PETROLEUM) but that can wait too.
    Based on your’ answer to that, what’s really the difference between relying on these publicly financed programs and a government health care option? You trust the police, fire dept., and obviously the armed forces to perform their functions competently, GOP raises the socialist bugaboo about health care because so many politicos (some Dems, I admit) are deep into the insurance industry pockets to finance their campaigns. The exceptions you gave (DMV, yes it sucks) have always been the LEAST favorite gov’t services because they perform functions any grade-school dropout could easily conduct, and some apparently do.
    70+% of the U.S. wants a public health care option, that would drive down costs since corporate providers wouldn’t have free reign to charge whatever they see fit. I prefer single-payer myself but won’t have any problem watching the for-profit sector wither if they don’t keep up with public expectations.
    
    By the way, I usually feel no obligation to justify my opinions to right-wingers and am generally content to just prod them with a verbal stick, consider yourself an exception, my acknowledgment that the armed forces deserve respect whether I agree with their opinions or not.