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1. 

   Horsehead1 said, 10 months ago

   A pinto rat?

2. 

   richardelguru said, 10 months ago

   Hey Ted, how about taking your own advice (OK, your own rat’s advice).

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   Joy Lederman said, 10 months ago

   You could at least wait until the new regime ACTUALLY TAKES OFFICE. (Usually I like Ted Rall’s comics, but his obvious disdain for Obama is getting old already)

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   Corosive Frog said, 10 months ago

   Mes amis je vous assure
   Que le temps est bien dur
   Y faut pas s’décourager
   Ça va bien vite r’commencer
   De l’ouvrage y va n’aouère
   Pour tout le monde cet hiver
   Y faut ben donner le temps
   Au nouveau gouvernement

   (My friends I assure you
   that times are quite hard
   but we should’nt give up
   It will start back very soon
   There will be work
   For everyone this winter
   We just have to give time
   To the new government)

   Old french-canadian tune from the 1930’s by Mary Traverse aka La Bolduc.

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   Corosive Frog said, 10 months ago

   the second paragraph is a translation.

   Thanx for the effort, SammyD!

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   Lavocat said, 10 months ago

   Despite all my rage
   I am still just a rat in a cage.

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   geezjan said, 10 months ago

   Wait for them to take office? Why? At this moment they’re sitting around doing nothing waiting for January 20?

   I’m with Ted. I don’t disdain Obama for the fun of it. Obama has been hard at work before January 20, and has already done quite a bit to deserve disdain.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 10 months ago

   geezjan, “disdain”, hard word. By your tone I believe you’ll be doing a lot of “disdaining” in the future, reguardless what Pres Obama does.

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   geezjan said, 10 months ago

   I suppose I could say that, by your tone, Humphries, I believe that you’ll love Obama in the future regardless of what he does. But that’s an empty, reflexive, defensive kind of thing to say. It doesn’t say or mean much.

   If Obama were to do the right thing in the future, I’d love him. But the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so I believe there’s good reason to expect more “disdaining” in the future.

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    fennec said, 10 months ago

    geez, did it ever occur to you that your idea of “the right thing” and others’ ideas of the right thing might just possibly be different?

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    Jeffritoman said, 9 months ago

    Whatever happened to “The only thing we need to fear is…fear itself!”

    I’d trade Ted Rall for FDR any day.