Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 20, 2011

I can believe this…

and her @$$-istant, Michele Bachman.

Could you imagine we would be in bankruptcy all the time, but it would be someone else’s fault….and have a wild women running around making idiot statements.

And when it all sorts out, the GOP will nominate the most boring candidate possible.

And we’ll all be thankful.

The funny thing about all of this? The state of Michigan - JUST LIKE HAWAII - refuses to issue photocopies of original birth certificates to random questioners, and only issues “certifications of birth.”

So where are the “birthers” when it comes to questioning Mitt Romney’s bonafides, hmm?

By the way… Has anybody seen any actual proof that Trump and Palin were actually born?

I can sympathize with the President about mother refusing to admit I was born. After the “under a rock” and “cabbage patch” stories, she admitted I was abandoned by a bunch of gypsies.

Lewreader — What? No stork? :)

Ravenswing said So where are the “birthers” when it comes to questioning Mitt Romney’s bonafides, hmm?

No need to question Romney - he’s not black!

I was adopted, and I wouldn’t be able to produce a birth certificate either, just a COLB.

And the clown of the year prize goes to…(drumroll)…..

I’m sure Clark K. was just being funny. Otherwise s/he’d be as paranoid as any birther or truther.

pschearer said, 2 minutes ago

I’m sure Clark K. was just being funny. Otherwise s/he’d be as paranoid as any birther or truther.

I’m pretty sure that the organic entities were either born or hatched (as is the case with most dinosaurs), but the public personae are quite manufactured. There is no way such two-dimensional characters could ever occur in nature.

Neb…i believe they were born yesterday….

You’ve got to admit this is funny stuff. The thing is, the jokes on the GOP.

Trump 2012! LOL!

There really is very little difference between Palin, Trump, or Obama. In all three cases it is all about them, and we would all be better off without any of the three.

A re-issue of “Dumb and Dumber” ?

All we need, after “Dumb and Dumber”, is “Dumbest! Oh, I forgot, that’s Boehner!

The tea party was created by PAC, Americans for somthing patriotic. So socillay inept they called themselves “TEABAGGERS”. This is the equivalent to going to the Harley shop and buying a bike and a teashirt and creating your new personna. Goodluck!!! BTW, If you row in one direction and switch sides the next four years your trip would be anything but linear. The tides alone dictate that. Wiley we can wait for tommarrow.

thought he was going to say Joan Rivers…..

@Rx71Wm29: I’m not a fan of Speaker Boehner but he has more integrity than 98% of the other members of the today’s Republican party.

The end is here! BUY GOLD (It’s peaking and you can ride the commodity all the way down!)

I think you’re missing the point- neither Trump nor Palin nor Limbaugh truly believe in the Birther nonsense or Death Panels or most of the other junk they come up with. These are just more wedge issues for the purpose of keeping the loonies firmly packed under the right wing, and even more importantly, swaying the non-thinking undecideds. It isn’t the left or right voters that determine election results. It’s the ones in the middle you have to get. As we’ve seen, the repubs are masters at getting people to vote against their own interests by using these wedge issues.

“Teashirt” ?

Trump/Palin 2012

“You’re Fired! / I Quit!”

fbjsr wrote: ” Ever read Mallard Filmore? it’s great. Problem is you can’t get papers to run them ”

The community I used to live in had a paper that ran Mallard Fillmore. It WAS NOT great.

The first 2 years it was in the paper, it had the same lame joke EVERY FRICKING DAY. IT wasn’t funny the first time, it wasn’t RELEVANT the first time, it wasn’t even in the same UNIVERSE as reality.

It was like hearing the same lame knock-knock joke every day for 2 straight years..

Ravenswing said, about 10 hours ago

“So where are the “birthers” when it comes to questioning Mitt Romney’s bonafides, hmm?”

They are still worn out from saying his Dad, George Romney, was not a “natural born US citizen,” back in 68, when he ran in the primaries against Richard Nixon.

G. Romney was born in Mexico, where his parents had fled to avoid religious persecution for being Mormon. Either that, or they were in Mexico on a mission from the Elders of the Church. I’ve heard both stories, and do not know (or care) which one is true.

I think the SCOTUS had to hand down a decision on G. Romney, and he was declared a “natural born” citizen, by the same virtue as a child born to a Military member while serving overseas. I kept telling that to my dumbA$$ ex, about our daughter (born while I was serving in Germany) to no avail. She finally got the message when she took the girl to the INS to “register” her as a resident alien, and INS told her she was nuts. (I knew that!)

“The thing is, the jokes on the GOP.”

Well, considering Trump’s dubious “pro-life” record (he voted for murder before he voted against it), his donations to several Democratic candidates (including a sizable one to Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral run), and his spotty business record, there’s no way that Trump would survive a primary season. While he is entertaining, I don’t know of anyone on the right who has actually endorsed him.

However, that just leaves him free to make statements that are that are being picked up by all the major media sources, including Garry Trudeau, and those statements seem to be having an impact as Obama’s approval numbers sink to record lows.

Methinks I know who the joke is really on.

My local paper carries Mallard Filmore on the editorial page and doesn’t carry Doonsbury at all. Recently he had several strips in a row saying he and some of his staff have been audited by the IRS for the last three years. I don’t like his strip, but that did sound like the Nixon or J Edgar Hoover years, if true. Hope Pres O doesn’t stoop that low.

As I recall it, George Romney’s run for the presidency fell to pieces when it was revealed he wore traditional Mormon underwear with the embroidered secret symbols. (Google on the underwear if you need to.) The resulting public ridicule removed him as a serious prospect. (However, the last I looked, this had not made it into the Wikipedia article on him.)

I understand Mormons learn to recognize each other by how the somewhat puffy underwear shows through their outer clothes. Not being Mormon, I can’t tell if Mitt Romney wears boxers, briefs, or magical Mormon undies.

Of course, the biggest argument against Mitt is that the champion of Massachusetts RomneyCare is now running against similar ObamaCare. Flip-flop.

Too bad too many others who are making noises about running are so bad as to make Romney seem like a grownup.

Might want to recheck those numbers, nemesys. The Prez’s numbers are higher anytime voters think about the circus parade that makes up the Elephants.

Anybody who has a parent that is a US citizen is automaticallyy a US citizen since the end of WW2.

Here you go, spyderred. From Gallup:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

Your point is valid in that this has been on the media’s mind, and one of the reasons why they’ve been giving Trump air time, but it’s backfiring. Despite Garry’s cartoon world, Trump ain’t Palin, and unlike Palin he subscribes to the notion that so long as people are talking about him, it doesn’t matter what they’re saying. He LIKES being trash-talked, and he’s being happily accomodated by people who don’t know how to do anything else.

You know the funniest thing about all this? John McCain was not born in the U.S. AT ALL!!

He was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which does not even qualify as a U.S. Territory, like, say, American Samoa or Midway Island or the Marshall Islands.

Until given back to Panama, the Panama Canal Zone was a military “zone of occupation” like Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. McCain IS a citizen but only due to a quirk in the law that says he is a citizen if born of U.S. citizens in special circumstances, like the Canal Zone (another is aboard ship on the high seas; or in a detention camp in another country, etc.).

No one talked about this during the campaign but Obama had more cred about being a natural born citizen than McCain. Perhaps that’s why McCain downplayed the issue during the campaign - smart move, for him.

GT is just a little behind the curve on this. SP concedes Obama is American born.

“Nemesys said, 1 day ago

Kifariel, why does every political “flame war” attract some bleeep who tries to tell those whom he doesn’t agree with to shut up and go away?”

Because “flame wars” are generally idiotic slams by people who think they’re clever and funny but are just regurgitating insults and hatred while hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. They show a total lack of respect, consideration or even simple courtesy.

“Discussions”, on the other hand, are generally carried out with more civility and with something that bears a resemblance to a real effort to reach compromise.

Fairportfan2 – me too!!

Nemesys – So what on the pro-life thing – GHWB was very much pro-abortion until he ran on the Reagon ticket. But then he also lived with another woman besides his wife the whole time he was VP and also while he was in the White House. This after the Gary Hart “scandal” that ended his political career. Anyone else see a double standard here?

The election season is approaching. Kenya feel the love?

;-)