Ted Rall for February 26, 2010

Ted, love your work, but not always your politics. Obama’s many things but he’s not asleep on the job. A more accurate portrayal would be Obama’s office-mate (Congress, especially the Just-Say-No party) filibustering the cleanup.

I need a job like Obama has. Talk the talk without having to walk the walk. It amazes me how someone who ran such an amazing campaign (I did not and would not vote for him-like Clinton I consider him a GRID-Goshdarn Repub In Disguise)is such an ineffective president.

We sure that’s not supposed to be Palin?

Oh wait… “talks good.” Nevermind.

How many presidents have we had that actually kept their campaine promises, all of them, and did it in the first year as well?

When you are preceded by President Blowjob and President War Criminal, the bar really ain’t set that high, now is it?

Plus, we’ll throw in a Peace Prize, so long as your next war is a small one.

I may have presided over the Decline and Fall of the American Empire - but at least I’m not THOSE guys!

Touche, Ted.

I agree with the toon, actually.

good one Ted! DO something, rather than coddle the republicans!

Our current President has more work ethic in his right pinkie (and he’s left handed) than the phony Texan Kennebunkport Saudi Oil Whore has in his entire being. Give me a break,Ted—well, at least you admit that the little neo-con yuppie left a terrible mess.

OK, wingnutz..lap up left handed and morph pinkie to pinko.

This cartoon is completely off the mark. You can like Obama or hate him, but you can’t in all honesty say that he’s been asleep at the wheel. And his performance yesterday was impressive to say the least.

In general, however, I think it’s more important to talk about policies than about personalities. I like Obama, but I’m not fixated on him. It amazes me how much he drives some people around the bend, so much that they seem to lose all sense of reality.

Lonecat,

Going around the bend counts on both sides of the aisle, liberals were shocked that Pres Obama was against gay marriage even though Sen. Obama said he was against gay marriage.

It’s not Ted’s job to count what any President has accomplished, its job security for him to point out that he has lots left to do. Whether sleeping on the job or not, Rall has to paint the picture. Unless you commenting jerks want ANOTHER unemployed American…

I’m reminded of the a la Normandy-storming comic that motivated me to sign up and comment on. There is a plan, that most everyone has gotten behind in Af/Pak, we don’t see much about that here anymore, mostly just misplaced anger about a do nothing congress.

Off topic question: HOW did Harry Reid keep his job after the racist comment he made? I think losing Reid would have been the best thing to happen to government in general, democrats specifically.

killbill – Perhaps it’s true that many people project into Obama whatever they either love or hate the most. I started out favoring Senator Clinton, because I thought her plan for health insurance reform was better. I listened to Obama pretty carefully, and I haven’t been surprised by any positions he has taken, because I think he has been generally consistent. He is not my dream president, and certainly my political positions are usually to the left of his, but I do think he’s smart and very hard working. My dream president would probably crash in flames.

killbill – further to the above – you say “It’s not Ted’s job to count what any President has accomplished, its job security for him to point out that he has lots left to do. Whether sleeping on the job or not, Rall has to paint the picture.” Well, I’m not in charge of Ted’s job description. All the cartoonists simplify and exaggerate, that’s accepted. But when a cartoonist shows something that’s just the opposite of reality, it’s worth pointing that out. Obama is not asleep. He’s the hardest working politician I’ve ever seen. That may be good, or it may be bad, depending.

As for cute, well, he’s not my type. Now Michelle… And she’s just as smart, too.

Sorry Rall but economies take a long time to recover especially if the safety mechanisms that prevented risky behavior by bankers were removed by someone else. It also doesn’t help that the manufacturing base has been outsourced to (name country here). At the risk of sounding like a wing-nut Obama can restore the rules so this does not happen again but he can’t tell corporations to hire people, pay them a living wage adjusted for inflation, and give those people health care. We can get on his @$$ all we want but ultimately its up to entrepreneurs to decide if the markets will allow them to pay for such things.

I don’t think the point was Obama is sleeping on the job, but rather it was to use sleeping to represent doing a terrible job. The obvious truth is Obama is working very hard - for the rich. I hate to say it, hate to think it, but he is starting to look like the worst president ever. Free money for the banks while teachers are being laid off… increasing the military budget while undermining the environmental movement … reinvigorating the republican party when they were dying. The only thing questionable about this cartoon, is the use of the word ‘you’ - I hate him, like I do all oligarchs.

Obama is so far out of his element is isn’t funny. 143 days as a senater does not qualify him for anything, and he is proving it daily.

It’s quite a funny cartoon Ted, quite irreverent and exaggerated as any good cartoon should be.

But it’s just too inaccurate.

Funny though!

P.S. Brief naps at work is actually good sometimes and boosts performance.

“Asleep at the wheel” doesn’t mean you’re asleep. It means the equivalent.

I’d rather watch curling 24/7 than Nascar for one minute.

To KIllBillvs007 who wrote, “HOW did Harry Reid keep his job after the racist comment he made?”

We’ll see in November whether the voters let Reid keep his job.

@ lonecat

I think you and I are on the same team. although Kucinich had already dropped out, I voted for him during the primary, because he stood up to the banks as Mayor of Cleveland.

I’d like to think voting for the most left candidate could help push Clinton and Obama left, but I’m most likely mistaken.

@ Eddie Caplan

I don’t know what your political sensibilities are, but I’m ready to see Dick Durbin or even Henry Waxman in charge.