Ted Rall for May 23, 2012

Is that blood on his hands?

I don’t get it. All those sanctions were placed by previous Presidents. Is the cartoonist saying that Obama is an anti-bully?Not clear, please explain to this foreigner.

tell it!

Takes one to know one?

Rall’s point is that America actually loves bullies and promotes bullying. Bullying is part of American culture in every single institution, although that’s not part of today’s comic. This includes the internet: you can identify the bullies in this room by their posts.

I wish that he had had a better idea of Diplomacy than “Do what I tell you and then we’ll discuss what you want. Maybe.”

What about all the evil regimes the US government actively supports with weapons, money, and political protection? The truth is, the US government polices the world in much the same way the Bloods and the Crips police Los Angeles. The further truth is, the US government IS an evil regime, a regime that actively promotes terrorism, dictatorships, murder, war, torture, slavery, theft, and general oppression all over the world.

Great Liberalator? How is Obama a Liberal? He’s better then romney in every way, but he is not a Liberal, or Progressive.

I thought Ted was making the point that there are a lot more important events in the world than Romney’s childhood. Things that we need to discuss on a national level.

Burma? No such place. Time to get a new globe, the one from elementary school is obsolete.

I’m willing to cut Rall a lot of slack because he can be really good when he’s good. But if I get the point of this toon (and I’m not totally sure I do), then I think he is really off the mark here. If he is equating international sanctions with bullying, I just don’t see the comparison. What are the proper tools of international influence? I would much rather see sanctions against Iran than a war. Of course we can argue about which sanctions are justified and which are not, but that’s a second level argument. International bullying, I would think, might be something like the US overthrowing the government of Guatemala. Or perhaps invading another country on the basis of fabricated evidence.

We must remember who the hell started these wars. George W. Bush…. Obama, for the last 4 years has had to clean up 8 years of Bush arrogance and swagger…. remember "Mission Accomplished… hostilities have ended, shock and awe,…what a crock.

The Bully-in-Chief bullies the wannabe Bully-in-Chief with his prior bullying. I like. I think we used to call this pretzel logic.

““So, by his own admission, was Obama, but where is the press feeding frenzy on that?”

With the words “by his own admission”, you’ve answered your own question. We all have past actions we regret. Some of us own up to ’em.

We are arrant knaves all.

Good one Ted! The U.S. cant talk about bullying with a straight face

Ah, the usual warmth and hospitality from Ima. Only the US is allowed to even look at other countries behavior.

Yeah yeah, when OUR government does it there’s a million excuses. Murder, torture, terrorism, and wars of aggression are only wrong when our enemies do it. /sarcasm There is nothing “moral” about our government’s aggressive, brutal, and murderous foreign policy. It is evil, pure and simple. The “aid” you speak of is nothing more than a means of extortion, and a form of wealth re-distribution. And LOL at calling us “relatively free” of corruption. Our government is fully corrupt, from top to bottom. Corruption IS our government. I suggest YOU read up on some world history, and abandon your childish comic book fantasies of the US government as some sort of global good guy. It isn’t. It is a force of evil.