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believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

isn’t this a scene straight out of a movie?
(except for the cheering wingnut, that’s all too real)
cjr53 said, about 1 month ago

Yes, it is just part of their inverse universe.
nomad2112 said, about 1 month ago

The ‘toon lacks any reality at all. He’s “THE ONE”. He can do ANYTHING.
believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

wasn’t there a movie with Morgan Freeman as President saying something similar to this? c’mon, movie aficionados, you know ??
oldlegodad said, about 1 month ago

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/PhotoPopup.aspx?id=506213
Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

It must be fun to be a Republican, all you have to do is attack and complain. No need for policies, plans, ideas, or reform. Just attack until enought people get tired of all the division and anger and vote you back into office, and then you can call anyone who asks questions an “anti-American”
M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

BCS, could have been the Bruce Willis flick, “Armageddon”. Been a while but I think that plot fits the bill.
NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

LOL! Hi-Fives All-Around!
mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

haha, “…prepare to be vaporized.”
Hilarious toon.

Perhaps we should give obama a break tho…
Anthony 2816 said, about 1 month ago

This comic asks the same old question: Why do the righties hate America so much?
gbrucewilson said, about 1 month ago

Obama is the one who hates our country. Listen to his speeches when he is outside the country.

The “right” loves their country. That is why they hate Obama so much. Obama failing is the best thing that can happen to our country, in the long run. Otherwise, we will shortly be renamed to “The People Republic and North America”. No thanks!
hlp54 said, about 1 month ago

The “right” may love the country but they sure don’t care about any of the people in it, except themselves. They not only hate Obama they hate the world.
believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

gbrucewilson hates the founding principles of America. ‘Nuff said.
NeoconMan said, about 1 month ago

gbrucewilson is right. It would be a disaseter if the Republic ever belonged to the People. We must allow business to be in control and to keep a firm hand on things. The minute people start gaining “rights”, the economy falters.
PlainBill said, about 1 month ago

The movie BCS referred to was ‘Deep Impact’ starring Morgan Freeman as the President and Tea Leoni as the reporter who discovered the story. Elija Wood played the ‘kid’ who discovered the comet.

Of further note, the movie set a record for bad science and cheezey special effects.

Mike Luckovitch is correct about the attitude of conservatives. Witness the reaction of Michael Steele to President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
Libertarian1 said, about 1 month ago

I am old enough to remember the Democrats very actively rooting against the success of Bush’s plan to privatize social security. That is the job of the opposition, to oppose policies they think are wrong for America. Why were the Democrats right then and the Republicans wrong now?
dtroutma said, about 1 month ago

With every passing day the “right wingers” are proving more fervently they love “America”- the one of South Carolina in 1857.
Tigger said, about 1 month ago

What has Obama done for us?

He has put us deeper in Debt than ‘W’.
mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

Idiotic Henrie. Americans are in America. If they hate Americans they shouldnt be in America.
mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

If your against american rights, your against america, if so leave. America doesnt have a place for that attitude that is against it.
believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

^ Bye, have a nice life wherever it is you’re going.
mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

^Touchy BCS.

Haters of america dont have a place in america, regardless of how much that offends.

Heres a better way of viewing it, from my perspective. We are against wicked ways, we are for good ways. We arent against flesh and blood, we’re against wickedness.
deadheadzan said, about 1 month ago

NeoConman, I like your irony.

Henri is correct, many on the right do not believe in social justice regarding the right to affordable health care and the right to go to a decent public school.

mustbe, what you consider wicked I may say is socially justified such as allowing gays to serve in the military and the rights of gays to marry..
mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

Many of the ways happening arent american, corruption and scandals, from my view arent american ways.

Thats my point with what henrie typed. Forgive me henrie, but thinking wicked ways as american ways isnt a fair statement. America is a group of individuals, not all pressing for corrupted ways. So it basically boils down to lovers of good ways, lovers of wicked ways.

Wickedness isnt ever justfied.
Machado said, about 1 month ago

Alternative dialogue…

TV Clown

-–Fellow Americans , I was unsuccessful in stopping the economic meltdown and massive unemployment hurtling toward us..Prepare to be wiped out…

Welfare barfly

— GREAT!!! More Obama-money coming my way!!!!
Obamascares said, about 1 month ago

Machado, I like your alternative dialogue better. Brilliant!
diogenese said, about 1 month ago

Gee, the Republicans haven’t had such fun since Chicago did not win the Olympics, that’s patriotism!
ahab said, about 1 month ago

I like Libertarian’s comment on Bush trying to privatize Social Security. Ha. The stock market tanked! Wiping out S.S. is all that would have happened had Bush succeeded in privatizing S.S..
mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

Is Social Security money still in threat of not being there for later generations?
believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

mustbeunique: Haters of america dont have a place in america, regardless of how much that offends.

Then you agree those that insist Obama is not a legitimate president don’t belong in America? Those that would deny freedom of religious beliefs and their expression don’t belong in America? Those that seek to destroy separation of church and state don’t belong in America?

We are against wicked ways, we are for good ways. We arent against flesh and blood, we’re against wickedness.

Who is we? I am against the wicked ways of those who march and carry posters with Nazi insignia. I am against the wicked ways of those who march and carry posters of our president as a witch doctor. I am against the wicked ways of those who carry signs reading “Obamanation = Black Nationalism.” I am against the wicked ways of those who manufacture lies about death panels and pulling the plug on grandma in order to defeat healthcare reform for political purposes.

They hate America and what it stands for, so why don’t they leave?
PlainBill said, about 1 month ago

Mustbe, present projections are that without any changes in benefits or contributions, in 2016 SS will have to begin drawing on their investments. At the present levels of contributions and benefits, those investments will be depleted in 2043.

Are changes necessary? I may not be alive in 2016; it is extremely unlikely I would survive until 2043. Still, I would say it is prudent to make careful changes to both contributions and benefits.

Bush’s radical changes would have destroyed Social Security, not surprising since that has been part of the Conservatives’ agenda for more than 70 years.
M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

Part of the right wing agenda is to lead programs they oppose to failure, W would have been successful had he privatized SS, he wanted to float those funds into the housing market, Freddie and Fannie.

The complete lack of coherent response to the Katrina gulf coast disaster is another example, “Browney” was doing a heck of a job, alright. If the “Job” was to place a crony in office who could be relied on to fail completely.

Mandating Homeland security at the state level was another complete mistake(?), the funding for that program deprives municipal and district monies and starves local programs, public works infrastructure is severely restricted and less productive programs like poor/homeless medicaid supplements have been depleted almost to failure, suppose that could have been the purpose.

Recent tests at LAX confirmed that completely assembled weapons could get past the ineffectual security methods being used.

In California Schwarzenegger has been killing social programs since the COUP in which Davis was thrown out of the Governorship and refuses to impose any new taxation measures today with threatened VETOS, another way to starve selected programs to death.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010514/dreyfuss
Drowning government in a bathtub has always been a GOP ambition, removal of programs put in place by FDR has been the agenda of the right wing at least since Nixon, Raygun’s famous statement about “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help” being the scariest thing he could imagine is a fine example.

Righties like to threaten us all with the possibility of another 9-11 scale attack, they say that would validate their “A Democrat can’t protect the public” statements. If another of these incidents happens (from outside sources, excluding actions of another Tim McVeigh right-winger) it will likely be due to the “radicalized” muslims responding to our occupation of Iraq by W Incorporated and U.S. treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay/Abu Graib and elsewhere.

If the 8 years before Obama are any example of right wing behavior watch for another GOP official to fail in their oversight obligations, quite similar to what happened on 9-11.

And the right wing would see THAT as yet another victory since loyalty to the GOP is their first priority.
cdward said, about 1 month ago

bruce and others like him hate the America of the constitution. What they love and strive for is the CSA. In fact, if the north had simply let the south secede, bruce would be there.

So, yeah, we on the left hate that dream of America but love what the north fought for. Just as you hate what the north fought for and love what would have been the Confederate States of America.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

Libertarian1 said, 2 days ago

I am old enough to remember the Democrats very actively rooting against the success of Bush’s plan to privatize social security. That is the job of the opposition, to oppose policies they think are wrong for America. Why were the Democrats right then and the Republicans wrong now?

TOO funny! My goldfish is old enough to remember Bush’s attempt to funnel money to Wall Street! I mean, talk about your non existent cred!

Tell us libertarian1 are you old enough to remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Are you old enough to remember Al Gore’s “Lock Box” and how ridiculed he was for trying to make SSI solvent and safe from the predators?

Why were the Democrats right then and the Republicans wrong now? Because, the democrats are fighting for the same thing and the majority of American voters elected Democrats to fight for those things. The Republicans aren’t interested in being consistantly pro things that they are supposedly “for” (if you’re old enough to remember, the Republicans were once for law and order and then they were against law and order when law and order was trying to corral the actions of the wacko whackos and the Ruby Ridge riders and the folks who denounced “the new world order”, which was a Republican phrase from George H Bush BTW, and reported “Black Helicopter conspiracy theories. Then they were in favor of giving law enforcement total control with the patriot act and now they’re afraid of them again thinking that they’re after their guns!
Do you remember all of that? ‘Cause I do!)

However your leadership is not so willy nilly as you are (and don’t bother trying to hide behind Ayn Rand’s apron, libertarianism is just today’s Republicanism without the insistance on an anti abortion plank) In both the Privitazation of SSi and the Anti health care “Debate” the Right side is consistently “pro- big business” (even though anything other than single payer is anti big business) and anti little guy.

Yes privatizing SSI would have sent billions of dollars to buy up the stocks of companies in the S&P500… Which would make the man who decides who is in the S&P500 one of the world’s most powerful persons.

I daresay you’re not “old enough” to have thought about it from that perspective.
striper77 said, about 1 month ago

Believecommonsense stated he hates Americans whom use their freedom of speech against the most wicked president this country has ever had.

But he loves the freedom of speech of the following groups:

Black Panthers, ACLU, NAACP, NAMBLA, NGLTF, UNION GROUPS, TERRORIST GROUPS, MUSLIM GROUPS, GREEN PEACE, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights,Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ella Baker Center, Equal Rights Washington, Feminist Majority, GLBT Bar Association of Washington, Global Exchange, Hate Free Zone of Washington, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch - www.hrw.org,Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Legal Momentum (Women’s Rights), Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice, America - www.naral.org, NOW, People for the American Way,Reclaim Democracy, Reform Network, Seattle NOW, Sensible Seattle Coalition, Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Whatcom Human Rights Task Force, Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), ACLU-Washington, Civil Marriage Collaborative, Don’t Amend.com, Entre Hermanos, Equal Rights Washington, Evergreen State College Labor Center , Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, Gill Foundation, GLAAD, GLSEN , Green Party of Seattle, GSBA, Human Rights Campaign, Ingersoll Gender Center, Lambda Legal, Laura Pierce Consulting , Legal Marriage Alliance of Washington, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Northwest Women’s Law Center, PFLAG, Planned Parenthood of Washington, Pride Foundation, Pride at Work/Outfront Labor Coalition, OutSpokane, Rainbow Center of Pierce County, SEAMEC, Seattle Commission For Sexual Minorities, Seattle LGBT Community Center, Social Justice Fund Northwest, Stonewall Democrats of Washington, ETC.

Talk about a double standard.
striper77 said, about 1 month ago

Believecommonsense is a Nazi.
fritzoid said, about 1 month ago

Black Panthers, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, ACLU, NAACP, NGLTF, GREEN PEACE, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Feminist Majority, GLBT Bar Association of Washington, Global Exchange, Hate Free Zone of Washington, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, Legal Momentum (Women’s Rights), Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice, America, NOW, People for the American Way,Reclaim Democracy, Reform Network, Seattle NOW, Sensible Seattle Coalition, Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Whatcom Human Rights Task Force, Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), ACLU-Washington, Civil Marriage Collaborative, Don’t Amend.com, Entre Hermanos, Equal Rights Washington, Evergreen State College Labor Center , Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, Gill Foundation, GLAAD, GLSEN , Green Party of Seattle, GSBA, Human Rights Campaign, Ingersoll Gender Center, Lambda Legal, Laura Pierce Consulting , Legal Marriage Alliance of Washington, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Northwest Women’s Law Center, PFLAG, Planned Parenthood of Washington, Pride Foundation, Pride at Work/Outfront Labor Coalition, OutSpokane, Rainbow Center of Pierce County, SEAMEC, Seattle Commission For Sexual Minorities, Seattle LGBT Community Center, Social Justice Fund Northwest, Stonewall Democrats of Washington, Ella Baker Center, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Equal Rights Washington

The ones of these I’m familiar with, yep, I support not only their right to free speech, but their goals as well. The ones I’m unfamiliar with, SOUND like I’d support them, so I’ll judge them good by association.

UNION GROUPS

You’ll have to be more specific.

MUSLIM GROUPS

You’ll have to be FAR more specific.

NAMBLA

Don’t support their goals, but support their right to free speech.

TERRORIST GROUPS

Again, you’ll have to be more specific. By definition, I can’t support their methods. But their ideologies can be widely varied. I actually agree with Ted Kaczynski on a point or two, but I wish he’d delivered his message some other way. But then again, he’s not a group, and I don’t think he’s much of a joiner. Striper, did he ever leave his secluded hut in the Montana wilderness to come to YOUR secluded hut in the Montana wilderness to borrow a cup of sugar? Or are you in Idaho somewhere?
believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

striper has a problem with reading comprehension. mustbeunique stated Americans are against wicked ways and haters of America don’t belong in America; i pointed out the wicked ways of some haters of America and asked if they belong in America.

said nothing about their freedom of speech rights guaranteed by our constitution.

striper is a hater of America
striper77 said, about 1 month ago

I am not a hatter of Ameirca. I just strongly disapprove of America turning into Sodom and Gomorra. With the sexual freedoms in full swing under Obama administration and the democrats in control that is the way the country is heading.

I read an article last week and it stated 1 of 302 people has HIV.
1 out of 4 females from 14 to 17 has some type of STD’s.
2 out 5 babies are aborted in the African American community.
Most of the problems in America are tied to the career welfare participants.
Most of the youth knows no difference between good and evil.
The list could go on and on.

The people that approve of the above life styles and the political party that draws support and passes special laws for them is the Democratic Party.

That is where my problems lie.
I want to change the problems. I do not want to lie down like most the liberals are and just accept it.

Just roll out the current problems ten years from now. Imagine what a 5 year old child’s future looks like.
striper77 said, about 1 month ago

Recently someone was complaining about how bad the Aids problem is in Africa.
America could be their in 10 years due to the social acceptance of the youth, the humanism, socialism and terrorism taught at the schools.

Most colleges are not much more than terrorists training centers.
In order to get a decent job college is going to be a requirement.

This will allow the government at least 4 more years of brain washing.
NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

You notice those cigarettes in the ash tray? Our frickin’ Potus is smoking himself into an early grave and he’s going to suck out American taxpayers’ money through his free government health care.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

“2 out 5 babies are aborted in the African American community. ”

A couple of days ago I was railing about how white middle aged men were becoming the icon of the “Driving while texting” cartoon. I was called paranoid by Corosive Frog.

But Striper points to another of these strange juxtapositions.

Did you ever notice that when the folks of Striper’s stripes talks about abortion they create the imagery of a welfare mama black girl using abortion as birth control? But whenever there are depictions of the fetus they’re ALWAYS white babies! Why are black girls aborting white babies?

Didja ever notice that? No. Then you probably didn’t notice that middle aged white men were being used as the iconic image for the Texting While Driving issue.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

“In order to get a decent job college is going to be a requirement.”

Going to be? GOING to be? What backwoods fruit stand are you an apple picker for there Striper?

A college education (at least a BS) has been the first cut point screen for any decent job for the past three decades at least!

As soon as affirmative action showed up HR deptartments across the country drew up policy statements that made a college degree standard for all applications. In this way you could turn away all of those people with funny last names (or funny first names) if they didn’t have the proper educational sheep skin.

Of course, exceptions could be made on a case by case basis.

“The list could go on and on.”

Sure, when a list has no basis in fact it can be made to include anything and everything.

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