Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 26, 2012

Which dream applies to Hispanic and Asian Americans?

dreams will be allocated on a pro-rata means tested basis (and only if one has a D.A.R. in the lineage)

Republican idealism since the eighties.

And that kid’s wife drives two Cadillacs!

Then I’d be screwed, if I lived there…and I’m not even Hispanic.

That depends on what you mean by “Asian”, doesn’t it? I know Americans for some reason assume “Asian”=East Asians of Mongoloid ethnic ancestry, but like most of us actual Asians, I’m brown

GT’s happy as long as each candidate supports making American citizens pay for apartheid. That’s why GT belittles Ron Paul, who wants to let the apartheidists pay their own way and fight their own wars

As most crimes are committed by whites, that would be a very busy profiling system.

http://prof77.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/george-carlin-forget-the-politicians/

Never figured out why the Party Of The Protestant Work Ethic (or so they insist) has as the center of its economic policy removing all taxes from money you didn’t have to work to get (capital gains, dividends/interest, and inheritances)…

Conservative agenda – that the American dream MUST ONLY accessible to rich WASPs ! All others, must step aside. And that is the kind of President y’all want next time around? Good luck!!

You’re either stupid or an a$$hole, or maybe a stupid a$$hole.

Carlin – Excellent!

Ron Paul is a fake. He is a “libertarian” who wants to control women’s reproductive systems. Get it? He wants to legislate what women do with their vaginas! Hello!

Man, Trudeau really nails the Republicans on what they didn’t actually say!

So does every other reality show! That said, I agree with you 110%

If your wife asks, I will deny knowledge of anything you said.

Romney and Gingrich Republicans call what comes from Doonesbury “twaddle” because they need to believe that THEY don’t receive govt. welfare.

In fact, one-fifth of our annual budget expenditures—-$600 billion—-goes to tax credits for corporations and legally “incorporated” individuals like Romney.

The speech GBT has invented accurately expresses Romney’s “American dream”: anyone who is good at managing other people’s money can retire early and live at the expense of those suckers who keep working and paying taxes.

@fritzoid (yesterday)

“What’s interesting about both Alex and Skye is their relation to Leo’s aphasia. He has difficullty speaking, while Skye makes her living off her voice and Alex can’t shut up.”

That’s a neat perception about the art of Doonesbury and the way GBT balances his characters.

It also brings out Leo’s appeal as a good listener. The logic seems to be that anyone who talks a lot is mainly interested in themself; ergo someone who can’t talk would rather listen to others.

(Of course, Leo may just prefer the privacy of his studio where he can control what he hears.)

The “economics” of Romneyco is that 1/2 of 1% at the top, separated by a wide gulf between them, and even the “middle class” they can’t begin to understand. It might also be notable that “Caucasian” refers to those originally from North Africa, Eastern Europe, and western Asia, quite a mix of ethnicities, actually.

Those receiving in actuality the greatest per capita “welfare” or gift from the government ARE those at the very top of the economic scale, corporations, and wealthy individuals.

I wish Romney would take your advice: stop complaining about our govt. or go someplace else—-back to Massachusetts or Utah, or to Mexico or the Cayman Islands where he keeps his nontaxable wealth.

Democrats think rich people should pay more taxes. Republicans think poor people should pay more taxes. I know which side I’m voting for.

What a magnificent country we live in where all the idiots are not only allowed an opiion but the freedom to express it.

Gato, my dream is I don’t get hit by an unlicensed tortilla truck driver, again.

Oh well, the debates are over.Guess I’ll just watch regular sitcoms for my entertainment now.

The version I know runs: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

This wording tastes better, as far as I am concerned.

@jimwill0803Well, here in the UK we’ve just had to let a suspected terrorist out of detention because extraditing him to face trial in Jordan would breach his human rights – controversial, but certainly not authoritarian, and the mark of a ruly independent judiciary. On the other hand, under a lopsided extradition treaty which allows our citizens to be extradited to your country without any evidence being shown (but not vice versa) we have just had to extradite a pensioner and may soon have to extradite a young man with Aspergers, both for offences which, if they happened at all, happened in this country. So, given a choice of governments to trust with my human rights, frankly it would not be the one that set up and still continues to run Gitmo.

@Astolat…….You make the common mistake of assuming that Americans are as well informed about their own country as the rest of the world is. They are not, not even close (well, some of us try to be, at least).

I’m a Marine. I’ve traveled all over the world on my own dime. I make my own assumptions based on what I see and hear from the people living there Cat. The freedoms we have in this country are not shared by the rest of the world. That’s why they envy and hate us.

Ditto NM and AZ.

@jimwill0803I’m afraid we take no responsibility for the Australian-born, American-resident Rupert Murdoch whose papers are at the heart of the hacking scandals. That said, the good US papers have some of the best journalistic standards in the world, particularly on fact-checking.

So your experience of other countries is as a marine and a tourist? Every Brit of a certain age will now be thinking of the old joke based on a real British army recruiting advert: “Join the Army. Travel the world. Meet interesting people. And kill them…”. We know that a certain type of American tourist believes that the rest of the world wishes it had been born in the US of A; we are normally too well-mannered to tell them the truth.