Tom Toles for April 05, 2009

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    riley05  about 15 years ago

    Well, that is the number one thing we have going for us now.

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    deadheadzan  about 15 years ago

    That’s all he had to say.

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    Simon_Jester  about 15 years ago

    Well so far, so good…but now we have to see if the agreements that came out of the G-20 meeting will have any sort of a positive effect.

    I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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    tpenna  about 15 years ago

    So Stewiez, you’re apologizing to the world that we now have a president beloved by the people of the world and no longer a president who was ranked above Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a list of threats to global peace? Dude, you’re out of your mind!

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    mogelsberg  about 15 years ago

    Tom Toles - you should win another Pulitzer for this one. Enough said!!!

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    riley05  about 15 years ago

    Stewie, you can count on the fingers of one foot the number of people who think Obama is worse than Bush.

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    Dtroutma  about 15 years ago

    Anthony! You may have identified the genetic marker for a Bush supporter!!! Inbred and angry.

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    believecommonsense  about 15 years ago

    Anthony, great line! I’m going to try to remember that one! LOL!

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    Simon_Jester  about 15 years ago

    Anthony…and three of them are Stew’s sockpuppets.

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    NoFearPup  about 15 years ago

    Whew, we may have dodged any number of bullets just by electing this figurehead…three and a half more years…hang on, peeps.

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    raycity  about 15 years ago

    BHO will go down as the worst’s pres. in history because of his spending.

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    WillBerry  about 15 years ago

    You folks should learn to deal in reality- The Great Impersonator is not loved in Europe. Did you miss the adoring crowds throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks, iron fences and other dangerous objects? Do you realize that he actually agreed to let EUROPE control major sectors of the US Economy? Do you realize that the other 19 members of the G-20 panned T.G.I.’s handling of the US economy? Do you realize that European leaders told him that his stimulus plan would WORSEN the world economic situation and lead to high inflation? Get a LIFE!

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    WillBerry  about 15 years ago

    Anthony - We USED to have the world’s strongest economy, the world’s best scientists, the world’s best equipped, trained and prepared military. BUTTTT- now we have The Great Impostor, so the rest of it is a thing of the past?!?!?!

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    riley05  about 15 years ago

    Willberry, you can’t suggest with a straight face that any lack of quality science is Obama’s fault?? We’ve just come off eight years of the most anti-science administration in our history.

    And our military would be in much better shape to tackle, say, North Korea had it not been mired in Iraq, protecting us from non-existent WMDs.

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    Delawarebob  about 15 years ago

    I’m sort of remembering that it was someone called George Herbert Walker Bush who talked so positively about the New World Order back in, what was it, 1989 or so? Maybe 1990, after the fall of Marxist Communism?

    Or am I getting old & senile?

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    deadheadzan  about 15 years ago

    Deleware, now that you mention it, I, too, remember the predictions and comments of HW Bush in that era. I also remember Bob Novack, (the prince of darkness) pundit saying after Mission Accomplished in Iraq had been declared- “3 or 4 soldiers killed a day in Iraq is a small price to pay for an Empire”. As the Goddess is my witness, when I watched that exchange with Paul Begala on CNN I knew that our political situation was even worse than I had imagined.

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    riley05  about 15 years ago

    In 180 degree contrast to what Wilberry claims about the European reaction to Obama, here’s what really happened:

    ” At the summits, while Obama didn’t get the troops he wanted to stabilize Afghanistan nor the massive stimulus he wanted to save the global economy, he did score a big win by turning around world public opinion.

    After years of Americans asking plaintively “Why do they hate us?” the United States can now watch the world eagerly cozying up to its new president.

    Huge enthusiastic crowds greeted Obama wherever they could. Where Bush was decried as a gung-ho gunslinging cowboy, Obama was hailed as the listener, not the lecturer; as humble, not arrogant; and as an ally, not go-it-alone.

    In Strasbourg, France, he held a campaign-style town hall meeting, giving a big set-piece speech, then taking questions from the audience of students from the region, including Americans abroad. He raised the roof whenever he mentioned closing Guantanamo Bay prison and when he declared, “America does not torture.”

    In Prague, Czech Republic, tens of thousands turned out for his big nuclear policy speech. Crowds waved and cheered. When was the last time that happened to an American president? As for the world leaders he was meeting with all week, a picture with Obama was worth a thousand words…or votes.

    Back in are the days when politicians can make hay at home by basking in the glory of the superpower president. Out are the days when politicians can gain by tapping into anti-American sentiment.

    Perhaps the single jolliest picture was of a beaming Obama surrounded by the megawatt grins of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev. If he did not get all the substance he was seeking, he certainly got the rave reviews.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/obama.world/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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    believecommonsense  about 15 years ago

    Thanks for the link, Anthony. Feels good to be proud of our President once again, doesn’t it?

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    riley05  about 15 years ago

    It’s amazing. I feel prouder having Obama as my president than any president since I started paying attention to such things.

    He’s mentally sharper than Reagan, more sophisticated than Carter or Clinton, doesn’t fall out of airplanes like Ford, has more integrity than Nixon…

    …and as the cartoon says, he’s not Bush.

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    believecommonsense  about 15 years ago

    Anthony, I remember the world reaction to JFK too. I remember a kind of infectious optimism taking hold from my parents and their friends. It does feel good and I am proud of this country for electing him. As someone else said, for choosing hope over fear.

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    NoFearPup  about 15 years ago

    They like an American President who is “cognizant of the bigger picture” which allows the world to hide from the truth and own up to the reponsibility it has to its citizens and its neighbors citizens…This is supposed to make us feel better the next time Americans overseas or at home are killed?” I’m against a lot of the rabid hate for Obama coming from the conservative side; but this worship you Libs have for one man is wierd. And scary. The weak-willed and self-profitting world is for us now? I wonder why? How much are we doling out now to other nations as a result of this g-20 meeting; in order to pacify their unhappiness? Do these things ever factor into your Pollyannish love for the “world” and hate for your own country?

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    riley05  about 15 years ago

    I believe you about Kennedy, BCS.

    I was just a little too young, first-hand-experiencewise to add him to my list.

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