Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 17, 2010

Sounds like Sarah.

God, I hope not.

Worthless, simply worthless.

Trudeau is so completely WITH-IT, so mind-boggingly (sp) perceptive that he sends me into a an amazing free fall trip.

That is definitely Sarah Palin.

of course it is Palin, who else is so completely whacko with her wording?

Well, DUH! Of course it’s Sarah! The problem is that, if you make fun of her NOW, she might not get elected and you’ll miss an opportunity for at least four years of great strips. Don’t kill the goose (metaphorically speaking, of course).

Let’s move to Mexico if she’s elected. Haiti might be good, too.

Sarah giving driving directions? A Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist recently wrote, “you need a GPS and a Sherpa to get through Sarah Palin’s winding utterances.”

Preacher turned politician is redundant.

They must not have much traffic in Alaska.

Fer Lefer, Many people in our country are ecstatic with Sarah Palin - at least for comedy’s sake :)

make a right turn here….you betcha!

wink

There’s any doubt that that was Palin?

The scariest part is that at no point does Trudeau identify the speaker … yet we all knew exactly who it was.

I have too much respect for the brain damaged to post what came to mind ; )

fbjsr: the great thing is, I’m sure you believe that. Astonishing. I hope this wasn’t too attack-y.

Unfortunately, anything that doesn’t completely agree with fbjsr is going to be seen as an attack.

The reason she is ridiculed is because she is a joke. Republicans should be ashamed she is so associated with them.

Agreed, mancocapac

Ya just gotta drive right through those road defenses!

How subtle. Nowhere in the strip does Trudeau state who is speaking on the tape, or any personal information concerning the speaker at all (references to gender, residency, etc.) Yet most of the readers picked up on the speaker’s probable identity rather quickly.

Those are just the outtakes, can’t wait for the actual driving directions. Very, very good.

fbjsr - I don’t fear Sarah in the sense that I seriously believe she’ll be elected, because I’m very confident she won’t. But the fact that there are people who take her seriously scares me very much.

I realize that this sense of being besieged on all sides is an important part of the whole far-right psche (have to be alert to anything that could possibly be interpreted as an insult, right?), but as mancocapac correctly pointed out, being disagreed with is not the same as being attacked.

I’m no fan of Palin, but I have to ask; could she really be any worse than what we’ve had for the last decade or so? Sure, she’s a joke, but aren’t Bush and Obama, too?

Just for fun, here’s an artist’s excellent rendition of Ms. Palin, from, of all places, the Daily Galaxy science report.

Get ‘em, Sarah

Can she be any worse? You betcha, she can.

The “Thanks, but no Thanks” is from Sarah - when she claimed to turn down some government money.

I have to admit that Sarah was not a name that came to my mind when I read the strip… but then I am not obsessed with her.

If she were ever elected president, I very much doubt we would have a full four years.

“One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let’s commit ourselves just everyday American people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say ‘Never Again.’ Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those managing our money and loaning us these dollars.”

What’s scary about Sarah Palin is that there are enough Americans who would vote for her, that you can’t say it’s absolutely impossible for her to become president.

omg I’m beginning to sound like her shriek!!

after all, they did put Bush in power for eight years. And altho I do like Obama, even people who don’t like him have to admit that Bush makes Obama look good by contrast.

It’s very windy in Tulsa again today…

Still prefer Major Major Major (see Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, or buy it).

My senior High School English teacher was Sergeant Smith, who never made it past sergeant; but neither did I. (Apropos of nothing.)

We really need to fix our educational system, so we can get past obsessing on these airhead hot chicks and vicious punks, who shouldn’t ever be allowed near the levers of power. A functionally sixth-grade education isn’t enough for administering a nation; the rest of the world gets that.

I have the “Catch-22” movie, pbarnrob, but I’ve often suspected I have it only to watch Paula Prentiss on that raft. I know, that is sick! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry… (That WAS an amazing sight in those days…)

ID yourself or id yourself or have a laff; I like it……. mr. trudeau ; you are one fine polarizer, and all the other words that start with P.