I actually heard military commentators on cable news TV say this about Obama.
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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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I almost feel sorry for little Barry. He’s way out of his league.
So was Dumbya, Route. But just like George had Dick Cheney as an experienced evil mastermind, Obama has Emanuel and Hillary.
More like old route 66. Yadda Yadda Yadda from ‘on high.’ A fair weather friend at most. Gas bag for sure!
How come General Petraeus has more “flair” than General Eisenhower (who won the war, btw)?
Has anyone every cataloged just what all those ribbons and medals are for? I am willing to bet there are a few chicken inspector medals and Hello Kitty bling.
W hasn’t been president for 18 months. It time for you to move on. Dumbo ears is now our smirking chimp.
Dirt path ‘instructs’ “time to move on.” And “You need to…” Who put this fazool in charge? DP states the obvious, then concludes the always politically partisan, tunnel-visioned, Johnny one-note spin, quite like the boring, put-everyone-to-sleep droning of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Linda Chavez, and yes, George W. ‘Dick Cheney’ Bush. Indeed, George W. Bush has been out of office, but his ‘work,’ if we are allowed to sully the word alongside Bush’s 8-year vacation and nap, lives on for all good people to clean up, and it should take many more presidents of either party to clean up. But don’t count on the Republicans to fix anything while they carpetbag the country and blame the Democrats for everything wrong in this world. Dirt bag…excuse the honest error… Dirt PATH has now reached the fork in the road, and IT will take the predictable and boring route. YAWN
This is an adolescent and insignificant “debate” of the absurd. We’re screwed. It’s the consequence of irrevocable errors in basic judgment. Electing better people doesn’t fix what cannot be fixed. that’s why it is important to continue to point out that it was a mistake to do it in the first place. But that gets drown out.
In other news, I’m no longer in California, and THANK GOD!!! I hated California and I’m so glad I’m out of it. It’s one of the many states now on my list that should be ejected from the union.
“It’s the consequence of irrevocable errors in basic judgment”
Don’t you mean irrevocable correctness in perfect judgment?
What did you hate about California? Where were you? If you say Sacramento, I understand. The democrats and Public Workers Union have broke this once great state.
Linda Chavez? Where did you dig up her from?
One thought foot path knew everything! Land sakes alive! Nice sentence structure, too: “Where did you dig up her from?” And WOW! IT has been in California! A well-traveled gas bag, no less.
Yeah Sacramento is nauseating. San Francisco is smelly and dirty, everything is expensive no matter how crappy it is.
We were near Grass Valley, so yeah, Smartsville area. What did I hate about it? The people, the desert climate, the people, the rattlesnakes, the people, the dust…did I say the people? the tailgaters…I would have thought a banged-in rear bumper and a massive trailer hitch on my truck would have deterred everyone from being on my ass (and not in a San Francisco on-your-ass-kinda way), but it didn’t. I was rear-ended my third day in California…and no, not in a San Francisco ‘rear-ended’ kinda way.
I was up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas and it seemed like everyone up there thought they had some eternal god given right to be there, but nobody else in the world did. They all hate everyone else, and move up there to be alone, and then they are all neighbors. I’m now back in good ol’ Dixie, and I love it!
NoCal people say SoCal is even worse.
Aggie, that’s the first post from you that made me laugh with abandon. You’re right on the money about California drivers, they would be right at home in South America.
“Public Workers Union have broke this once great state”
but state workers make what the average blue collar worker made in the 50s. Their average wage is right around what it always has been, adjusted for inflation. Perhaps there is more to the story (nudge, nudge).
I think more to the point what screwed California is what has screwed the country -a proportionately giant generation (baby boomers) who possess a culture of narcissism, self righteousness and arrogance, and have voted en mass for their interests every step of the way. Now that they are all approaching retirement, we see the consequences of their decisions: short-sightedness (because they’re old and won’t be around long enough to suffer the consequences); xenophobic paranoia in their attempts to keep the US culturally static; emphasis on dismantling of the state, the education system, and all those things that “damn youngin’s” use to leech of their justly earned hordes of money.
The depression generation was extremely generous. The baby boomers are selfish and self centered. Sure, that’s not all of them, but it’s the dominant group. I say we eliminate medicare and social security completely, and THEN talk about what everyone in the country needs. All these people are sucking off of the government for medicare and social security while they watch Bill O’Reilly and Friends, and listen to Rush Limbaugh….and let their abject bigotries flourish to the point that they just hate anyone that isn’t themselves.
Baby boomers indeed do smoke government and claim they don’t inhale.
I’ll agree with you Aggie, Sacramento area sucks. SFO, parts of LA and Orange County and San Diego are very nice. As for the drivers, the worse drivers I’ve ever encountered are in Las Vegas/Clark County.
About California Public Workers Union: California is broke largely due to the pensions promised state workers during the late 90’s. CALPERS (the California retirement program) invested in the go-go stock market and made promises to the retires based on the DOW reaching 25,000 by 2009 and and 28,000,000 by 2099. Any shortfalls would be covered by the taxpayers. We are $500 billion short on our pension liabilities so far.
Route 395. This is precisely why putting federal Social Security partially into the hands of Wall Street was an awful idea as well. I have no sympathy for Californians, they are not victims. They voted for a trajectory that was moronic in it’s conception, and rewarded the politicians who went along with it.
Now they sleep in the bed they have made. Unfortunately this lesson will not be learned by Californians or the rest of us. It will be hidden, excused away, finger-pointed into absurdity, and we’ll still be left on a course of action that leads to abject ruin for most of us.
Face it, we bought into the bullsh*t. I am REALLY glad I’m not in California.
Aggie,
Almost agreed. California deserves what it has coming. I hope the fed’s do not bail us out. Let California sink because of it’s own stupidity. As for privatizing SS, there was no taxpayer guarantee on returns. If your investment lost money, it was your own responsibility. By the way, this was voluntary. Not the case in California, taxpayers are on the hook for guaranteed stock market returns.