As North Korea’s ruling dynasty continues, the US lectures about a democracy we don’t have ourselves.
The American Way
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Come on Ted we vote for two candidates with the same view at least! Although since there is no way to prove you voted for one guy or another… Well we have a very special Russian like democracy, that has to be bullet proof right?
Punchline might have worked better as “In a democracy, the same man can’t be commander-in-chief of the armed forces, president of the republic, and the undisputed head of his polical party–which is why both of detest it.”
Um…it’s probably a good thing for the president of the republic to be the head of the armed forces. In countries where the armed forces are independent, they tend to rival the power of the democracy (think Latin American coups). There are problems with American “democracy”, but this isn’t one of them.
@anschelsc: I would strongly agree with that.
You forgot 2+2=4 etched into the dust on the table, but a good reference nevertheless 🙂
I saw you and you saw me…
The caption under the toon is the same one for the previous one with Hillary and Son of Kim, no matter, seems completely appropriate here as well.
Due to an aforementioned quirk in the Comicpress format of WordPress, prescheduled cartoons sometimes leap into place despite being, well, not scheduled. A comic scheduled for next week did just that, and for those of you who enjoyed it, well, I’m glad. For the rest of you, sorry for the confusion.
Happy New Year!
The idea that Obama is the undisputed head of the Democratic party is laughable, though not in the way you intended.
@Whimsical: I was referring to the absence of a primary challenge.