Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding editorial cartoons.
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SkepticCal said, 3 months ago
Barack Obama, you did not build that.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago
Cool strip today.
ruff
said, 3 months ago
@SkepticCal
Very true, it was Bush the nincompoop that built it. The drones program.
Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago
@ruff
So what? I just love it when the only response you can generate is well Bush did that.
Remember Hope and Change?
What a lie. But YOU believe it so it’s all good.
flake-67121 said, 3 months ago
bush nor zero built anything, ever.
Repeal the 17th if you want it to actually matter who’s in the white house.
mickey1339
said, 3 months ago
@ruff
“Very true, it was Bush the nincompoop that built it. The drones program.”
Yes he did. And like so many of G.W’s stupid ideas, Obama has embraced it and expanded it’s use. I guess that makes him just as stupid as Bush. Don’t get me started on the Bush started it so it’s okay for Obama to continue it. The middle east is a snake pit that we should have avoided tenaciously and should abandon back to the theocratic partisan feuding they have carried on for a few thousand years…
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 3 months ago
Since when is Ramirez and the Right against killing people?
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I saw Dick Cheney going on about 9/11 and 3,000 dead and wondering how many dead it will take for America to wake up to the threat?
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How about 30,000, Dick? And yet the right is ok with that killing.
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And just about how many did you kill in Iran for no good reason? How much less safe did you make America by killing the father of a family in Iraq? A father, or mother, or sister. But you destroyed the family (the family values party) by blowing to bits an innocent bystander in Iraq. Now the family is in chaos without a breadwinner. How much is his son going to “love” America when he grows up?
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Go rent Godfather II for that answer!
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You right wing *&$%s! You leave us less secure and then the Democrats have to come in and clean up the mess! Reagan/Bush didn’t make the world safer by being in office when the weight of Communism collapsed the Soviet Union. At the end of it the world was less safe and the Russian mob moved to Coney Island NYC, and the ownership of nuclear weapons went from one government (the Soviet) to dozens or rulers in what ever satellite state the weapons were in when the central government collapsed!
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Then Bill Clinton came along and spent the money to buy up many of those weapons and have them converted to Nuke Reactor grade fuel. Thus making the world safer!
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Is Obama making the world safer? I really don’t know. I do believe that the world’s trajectory has changed. The rate at which we are less safe has slowed in some areas, while it has accelerated in other areas… So I don’t have an answer. But still, Cheney is a war criminal! A war profiteer, and a hypocrit extraordinaire!
1opinion said, 3 months ago
My son in law was thrilled when he “pushed the button” and took out another al-quida member. He also loves going to Oklahoma to buy weapons and ammunition as their laws are so lax.
(he hates Obama, but still would not and did not vote for Romney.)
tranquil-d
said, 3 months ago
i have a problem with use of drones without proper oversight and accountability, which seems to be lacking, but they are being used for military operations – doing a lot more than just killing and I’d rather have a drone do the killing than send in troops, which probably result in more deaths, more “collateral damage”, and more PTD. Since when have conservatives been against exercising the military option? never.
braindead08 said, 3 months ago
It would be nice if the discussion about drones centered around how/if it ought to be used. If it is used at all, there should be rigorous guidelines about who is targeted and possible collateral deaths.
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There should also be specific oversight by appropriate congressional representatives. Whatever secrecy is required, so be it, but some members of congress must be informed.
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Not to mention the use of drones on our borders and internally to spy on Americans.
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But no, it’s much more convenient to have yet another excuse to bash Obama.
disgustedtaxpayer said, 3 months ago
posters who hate Bush for going to war against Terrorists and governments that support terrorism….what is your solution, your answer to America’s response to 9/11/01 and 3000 dead inside America….by the hands of Mideast terrorists and Mideast Global Jihad?????
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IMO, self-defense and national defense are moral acts.
When enemies kill Americans in a declared war, IMO, it is justifiable and moral to start killing those who swear that they will not change or quit.
M Ster said, 3 months ago
@disgustedtaxpayer
This is not a black and white issue. Degrees matter. What about our invasion of Iraq? Was that “self-defense”? If so, please explain.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
@ disgusting
France took a small step and went into Mali instead of us having to go into another war.
I hope that happens every time a 3rd world country needs military assistance.
dtroutma
said, 3 months ago
The idiot right has no problem with carpet bombing, “shock and awe”, thousands of collateral damage deaths, including those kids, but has a problem with Obama, yes, continuing a drone program, but with far stricter protocols on target selection and firing orders?
While I don’t like the idea of armed drones, and “error problems”, I’ve seen them used more effectively,and with less “error” under Obama, and yes, letting the military choose targets. It IS a war!
Bush/Cheney turned Iraq and Afghanistan, and yes, parts of Pakistan, into “free fire zones” like we had in ’Nam. Obama is getting us out, reducing casualties, on both sides, dramatically, and waging the war with a little intelligence, and use of reliable intelligence. HOW DARE HE!!
Now using the “Patriot Act”, that REPUBLICAN wet dream at home? THAT needs to be reigned in.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
Meanwhile here in the good old USA, T shirts and bumper stickers that say:
“LAPD I am not Christopher Dorner don’t shoot me” are selling like hotcakes to African American men and people who own pickups resembling a gray Toyota.