Ted Rall for May 23, 2009
May 21, 2009
May 25, 2009
Transcript:
Calling for an end to polarization. National healer Barack Obama says it's time for Americans to initiate a new era of understanding. (Barack Obama: Only one small letter separates the torturer and the torturee.) Why shouldn't pro-lifers who see abortion as murder get along with pro-choicers who think unborn babies are lumps of protoplasm? (Woman: I love you, enslaver of women!) (Man: And I you, murderess slut!) Gays and those who think gays shouldn't be allowed to live (much less marry) can find common ground. (Man 2: You wanna kill me? Who am I to argue?) (Man 3: My buttocks are oddly tingly.) Unemployed? Try to see things from a CEO's perspective. (Man 4: Take my last $5 and invest it. (Man 5: Not unless it's tax-free!) As the great healer says: "let the $#@ healing begin!"
Ha! Some of my friends were in ACORN for a while… Said that they were barely organized at best. Kind of like the “People’s Front of Judea” from the Life of Brian movie.
It’s funny how the right can make fun of community activists and liberals as being pot-addled, clueless hippies, and then turn around and try to stir up fear by making them out to be some kind of goose-stepping brownshirt brigade.