What to do this election season? There are choices, but none are much fun.
No Fun
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is 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 "2024: Revisited."
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I’ve got it! Lets vote for Eastwood’s empty chair… it has way more balls than Obama, and uh, honestly I kind of liked when the chair seemed to think we should close Gitmo.. Real Obama never believed that.
What say we vote for the best candidate?
Great cartoon.
Fun quotes from Chairman Mao:
“Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Not just Communists must grasp this truth, Aaron, everyone should.
Mao and the Chinese Communists learned that the hard way, when the General leading the Guomindang’s Northern Expedition, Jiang Jieshi (better known in the US under the Cantonese transcription Chiang Kai-shek), made his (extremely profitable) peace with the foreigners in Shanghai and turned his guns on the workers of that city, who had delivered it to him. Some lessons are not easily forgotten – why do you imagine that 53 cents on every tax dollar paid to the US federal government is devoted to the bloated military and (in)security apparatus and that the country maintains more than 1000 military bases abroad ?…
Henri