State of the Union by Carl Moore
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State of the Union is the result of a self-professed "fallen liberal’s" journey from radical socialism to conversative cartooning. Combining startling caricatures with a sly sense of humor and a sharp eye for satire, this innovative new strip will be sure to tickle your funnybone while making you think.
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dsped
said,
2 months ago
Carl, people born after 1960 or so don’t tend to use the phrase “Can you dig it”.
LibrarianInTraining said, 2 months ago
dsped, would you prefer, “Can you smell what Barack is cooking?!”
I’ve been waiting since the election to say that. lol
jack75287 said, 2 months ago
The sad thing this is so true.
Ian Valenzuela
said,
2 months ago
Bin Laden replies, “MY people? Hah! You mean the cab drivers and farmers and students you’ve had locked up for years? I have no idea who those guys are that you’ve been torturing to the point of killing a few of them. You did get a couple of my people, but it turns out they gave up much more true information over a game of chess than they did on a waterboard.”
harleyquinn
said,
2 months ago
Plus we are no longer calling you a bad guy. You are just a misinformed person of interest who has not seen the light of Obama.
Takiniteasy said, 2 months ago
I’m new here, Harley and Ian. What makes you guys geniuses?
rricchhterr said, 2 months ago
…the ability to read strips over two weeks old, Takiniteasy…
Tigger
said,
2 months ago
Hey Carl, WAKE UP! You need to have Reagan for this. Reagan Supported Osama nd the Taliban for 8 years! He said we had to Supprot Osama!
Had RR not helped Osama, Russia would have kiled Osama for us!
RR loved Terrorists as he, RR Supported 2 Terrorists for 8 years, Osmaa and Saddam!
Yes, RR supported Saddam for 8 Yeasr while Saddam was killing Iraqis.
Strange how the Conservatives still support a Republican President supporting Terroism.
garfieldfan2222 said, 2 months ago
This is what happens when you have a president like Obama who doesn’t seem to realize that there is real evil in the world (think terrorists), that there is no hope for diplomacy with some people (think terrorists), and that the only way to stop these people (think terrorists) is to kill them! By the way, I include that loudmouthed Iranian dictator and his cohorts in the term terrorists.
jmworacle said, 2 months ago
We are now entering the re-newed era of the Carter foreign policy.
toasteroven said, 2 months ago
I want a phone in my hidden fortress cave.
harleyquinn
said,
2 months ago
Thank you takiniteasy, I just sit back and call it like I see it. Plus I can put two and two together and I am not blinded by the cult of personality that is Obama. And I am smarter then your adv. lib because i do not worship in the church of gorebull warming.
But Genius, it does not take that level to be smarter then your adv lib that posts here so I can see where you might think so.
DavidDow said, 2 months ago
Again, another STATE OF THE UNION that advertently or inadvertently takes the progressive position: Osama bin Laden is, of course, truly upset that President Obama is restoring the U.S. on a humanitarian course, and, unlike Bush-Dick, both renouncing torture AND not practicing it. Bush-Dick’s hypocritical practice of torture helped justify bin
Laden’s terrorist practices.
Ian V., well said. Bush-Dick’s C.I.A. & military had almost no success in kidnapping anyone who knew anything, which is the reason that they have kept the kidnapped for so long.
Thanks, Tigger, for reminding us of a few of Ronald Reagan’s faults in foreign policy.
Garfield, you show a want of knowledge about how the world works. The U.S. has supported terrorism for your entire life. Killing terrorists does not work. It leads to more terrorism. In addition, Ahmadinejad, though a corrupt idiot, is not the dictator of Iran. He is a figurehead for the Muslim clerics who run the state.
Woracle, if that were the case, then you would have no
complaints. Excepting accepting the Shah of Iran, Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy was leaps & bounds ahead of that of all his successors. Obama is the first president to move past Carter’s successes, but, don’t forget, he is only eight months into trying to clean up the most disastrous foreign policies since god knows when. Bush-Dick did almost NOTHING right in eight years. Obama has massive work still ahead of him in cleaning up your president’s messes.
Wow, Harley: You admit that you know nothing about foreign relations AND nothing about climatology. What next? Will you tell us that natural selection is wrong, that the sun goes around the earth, and that “God” made the universe in seven days some 6000 years ago?
HUMPHRIES
said,
2 months ago
Same BS toon.
harleyquinn
said,
2 months ago
You know David I was reading and trying to understand your point, until well, “Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy was leaps & bounds ahead of that of all his successors.”
Really? I do not even have to explain.
mroberts88 said, 2 months ago
There are people that we just cant be diplomatic with, and Osama is one of them. We should keep up with the military presence, as well as helping out humanitarily.
LIT, how about no one EVER uses that saying again.
harleyquinn
said,
2 months ago
Not that it will matter to you David I am a “Theistic Evolutionist”
striper77 said, about 1 month ago
You left out what Bill Clinton did. He dropped million dollar bombs on empty tents, but let them know before hand so they would not be their. Then Hillary gave Iran the go ahead to make nuclear war heads.
You also forget to mention the cold war under Ronald Reagan. You also forget to mention Desert Storm under Bush Sr.
I guess the liberals just think everything is either Reagan’s, the Bush’s or Nixon’s fault.
Nixon was before my time.
Iran had American hostages when I was a small child. They were promptly released when Reagan became president.
The reason for this was they knew Carter was a coward and only had a bb gun and they knew Ronald Reagan had the full support to the American military and would use it if necessary.
Then you have Clinton whom is a liberal sexists pig. But of course that is OK with the liberals, but a republican better not even think of it.
Now we have Obama whom attended a racist church for 20 years, the most liberal senator in Washington, is about to bankrupt the nation and blame it on Bush, may or may not of been born in HI, tied to all the corruption in Chicago and tied to Muslim terrorists.
Obama also has well over 100 million websites on his liberal agenda.
Back to Nixon. He was before my time, due to comments being left on him. I have done some research on him. It appears he wanted to know what the democrats were talking about and was going to have some listening devices to hear it. When caught he tried to deny it. When he know he was caught he resigned. Ford gave him a full pardon.
Lets look at Clinton, I did not have sexual relations with that women. He could of further his lie’s and stated I did not have sexual relations with any of those women including Hillary. When caught, he went through and impeachment process and did not resign.
Just from these two statements the Republicans worse was more honorable than the so called democrats best.
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
Striper, how is Obama tied to muslim terrorists?
DavidDow said, about 1 month ago
I am glad that you are not explaining, Harley. We can take my statements about Jimmy Carter as givens, then. As for “theistic evolution”: Your belief in god has evolved?
Mrob., I stopped reading Striper’s remarks months ago. They are inaccurate & unintelligible, and I recommend that you do the same. President Obama has fewer ties to Muslim terrorists than did Bush-Dick. I wish you the best of luck in getting anything worthwhile from Striper.
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
David, thanks for the good luck, I just want to know where he gets his information.
striper77 said, about 1 month ago
Since you asked,
In my U.S. News column this week, I make a brief reference to the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bomber William Ayers and his connections to Barack Obama. They were closer than Obama implied when George Stephanopoulos asked him about Ayers in the April 16 debate—the last debate Obama allowed during the primary season. To get an idea of how close they were, check out Tom Maguire’s Just One Minute blog and Steve Diamond’s Global Labor and Politics. The Obama-Ayers relationship is also mentioned in David Freddoso’s The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate.
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. Obama, then not yet a state senator, became chairman of the CAC in 1995. Later in that year, the first organizing meeting for Obama’s state Senate campaign was held in Ayers’s apartment. Ayers later wrote a memoir, and an article about him appeared in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. “I don’t regret setting bombs,” Ayers is quoted as saying. “I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Ayers was a terrorist in the late 1960s and 1970s whose radical group set bombs at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.
You might wonder what Obama was doing working with a character like this. And you might wonder how an unrepentant terrorist got a huge grant and cooperation from the Chicago public school system. You might wonder—if you don’t know Chicago. For this is a city with a civic culture in which politicians, in the words of a story often told by former congressman, federal judge, and Clinton White House counsel Abner Mikva, “don’t want nobody nobody sent.” That’s what Mikva remembers being told when he went to a Democratic ward headquarters to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s, and it rings true. And it’s a civic culture in which there’s nobody better to send you than your parents.
That’s how William Ayers got where he was. When he came out of hiding because the federal government was unable to prosecute him (because of government misconduct), he got a degree in education from Columbia and then moved to Chicago and got a job on the education faculty of the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle. How did he get that job? Well, it can’t have hurt that his father, Thomas Ayers, was chairman of Commonwealth Edison (now Exelon) and a charter member of the Chicago establishment. As Mayor Richard M. Daley said recently, in arguing that the Ayers association should not be held against Obama, “His father was a great friend of my father.”
striper77 said, about 1 month ago
MrRoberts88,
To make it easy go to www.google.com and type obama terrorist ties.
There is close to 2 million web sites. You can do you on research and decide if you believe it or not.
harleyquinn
said,
about 1 month ago
David says,
“I am glad that you are not explaining, Harley. We can take my statements about Jimmy Carter as givens, then. As for “theistic evolution”: Your belief in god has evolved?”
wow ignorance has no bounds with you does it David.
I love it when the best offence is there own libs own misguided words.
I will take your belief of Carter as a given. And you can have it. History of and the present Cater are a different story. Any one with half a brain reading your comment would understand, so I do not comment any further.
harleyquinn
said,
about 1 month ago
nice piece striper! I just post post it notes, you my sir post a post worth paying for.
Machado
said,
about 1 month ago
Hey Humps , you are right, same ‘toon on same President…….
Only I told you so months ago!! The fool is going to bury us all!!!!…
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uccomic=csisq&ucfull_date=20090205
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mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
harley, all he did was copy and paste parts of anothers work.
DavidDow said, about 1 month ago
Striper simply lifted–without attribution–a thirteen-month-old commentary by Michael Barone, a “political analyst” for FoxNews. Barone (age 65) has, for years, been moving to the right. In the heat of last year’s campaign, he made several unsubstantiated statements. In this piece, they are mostly about William Ayers. Besides working for FoxNews, Barone is a “resident scholar” at the American Enterprise institute, a reactionary think-tank that, mostly, worries when anyone makes noises about raising any taxes, except those on the working-class.
If you track down Barone’s assertions in this column, you will find that they are baseless.
LibrarianInTraining said, about 1 month ago
mroberts, I was trying to be funny. I like puns. It’s a thing I do.
Have a nice day! :)
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
David, he didnt lift the entire thing, only parts of it. The other sites I found didnt have alot of credibility.
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
Oh….well then, you have a nice day too LIT.
sablebrush5 said, about 1 month ago
The fundmental difference between liberals and conservatives on the “harsh interrogation” question is that conservatives believe terrorists are a special category of enemy that falls outside ordinary legal sanctions and liberals see them as simply another type of criminal who should be given the same legal protections as any other ordinary criminal U.S. citizen.
Why do conservatives see terrorists as different than ordinary criminals? First, terrorists are a type of soldier. That is, they fight for an idea or religion, not a nation, yet they are still part of a larger group or “army” that seeks to destroy our country. They operate clandestinely, moving within the general population in their cowardly attempts to subvert, terrorize and undermine our will to oppose them. They are not just criminals who are trying to rob, steal or murder, they are soldiers, out of uniform, trying to destroy are country.
Does this type of enemy sound familiar? It should. There is another word for these weasels - spies. What does any national army do when they catch a spy in time of war - they take him out and shoot him.
What do Obama and the liberals want to do - read him his Miranda rights, get him a lawyer and warn our people not to get too rough with the guy or they’ll be brought up on charges.
Are we in a war or not?
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
Sable, although I agree fully on your stance involving terrorists, I dont understand you (unstated) dislike for spies. They are an important part of gathering information.
harleyquinn
said,
about 1 month ago
So mroberts our spies bad and their spies should be good? After we interrogate a prisoner he or she still has all there fingers and toes. After they capture our “spies” or contractor he or she is lucky if they still have their head in tack and not thrown hung over a bridge so they can party under the corpse.
Yeh I can see where it would be the right thing to do is make sure the Islamic Muslim terrorist has his pray book and is tucked in at night once we have read him his rights. I mean that should be the presidents highest concern to make sure the bad CIA who risked their lives to bring him this naughty boy. I mean his only crime is that he doe not understand that Obama is president now and that makes everything all right
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago
harley, read the post, and dont put words in someone elses mouth. I never said our spies were bad. In fact, I never said ANY spies were bad.
On a battlefield, friend and foe, ally and enemy, are just words, who is on the right side, depends on which sid you are on. If you’ll notice, the first things I said, is that I agree that terrorists are bad, but you wouldnt know that, because instead of reading the post, and asking what I meant, you put words in my mouth.
DavidDow said, about 1 month ago
Mrob., honestly, once I found his source, I read Barone’s column & didn’t bother with Striper’s plagiarism any longer.
Sable., please grow up. There’s no such thing as a “war on terror”. This was a shibboleth created by Bush-Dick to re-create the Cold War—and all its concomitant federal spending. Bush-Dick’s friends have made billions from the “war on terror”. The U.S. has sponsored terrorism for the length of your life. We could hardly wage war on what we ourselves do.
Now, besides that, torture is wrong. It must NOT be practiced BY anyone ON anyone. When Bush-Dick practiced torture & lied about it, he made the U.S. no better than the countries & the people we were trying to invade & to detain. Bin Laden LOVES it when Bush-Dick tortured people. They had no information on al-Qaeda, AND the torture helped gather more followers.