Ted Rall for June 29, 2009

Waiting for the “Oh, Ted, give him time” post. It’ll inevitably come and the poster won’t see the irony. =D

Lol, that’s true, lol

So why is he _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?

Nothing comes to my mind since I don’t care about who’s president of the US of A.

I get it! So why is he still bombing the hell out of Afghan/Iraqi civilians?

It’s even worse because Bush was a soulless devill whereas Osama is a saint!

Sainthood? Being likable isn’t synonymous with competence, but beatification as a saint requires the rite of martyrdom (preferably along the lines of St. Valentine or Bartholomew) a role for Obama that I am not adverse to, politically or otherwise >:-)

Already have. Thanks, fella’.

All politicians should take a note from Ciacescu regarding political hubris.

You wouldn’t survive one day in Osan for fear of a coronary embolism, my friend, what with the cellulite choking your brain.

Have you forgotten that Obama is debating the adoption of employee-taxed health benefits, the same issue that he so derided McCain, the war hero from Arizona, for during the campaign. Like a horse, Obama is a Bush of a different color, and that is the only change that he has brought to the White House. His substance is only skin-deep, but thankfully he has Biden as a Falstaffian foil (though less brilliant), which brightens him considerably (except when the Cabinet is taken into consideration, then he dims a few watts). Now, I’m sure you can make that pushup with the aid of a reflexologist, thus easing the burden of your weight and age, assuredly. Now, as far as character, or its failings: If you are a woman, possibly plain, you desire to be respected for your brain-personality-achievements with an MBA, despite your size 16 waistline and resemblance to Herbie the Fat Fury; or, if a man, you are overcompensating for some defect in character (a lover of Ward Churchill, angry, age 34, and living in your mother’s basement of vintage 70’s wood paneling, your bed next to the boiler), say, or a physiological deficiency: perhaps a bald pate, slowing abdomen, as well. Flat feet, perhaps, fallen arches, or I.B.S. Moreover. M Kitt (tralfaz), myself, not caring one lick what the booboisie on the Interweb thinks, as far as the the whole first amendment-opinion argument goes, most people never say anything worth defending in the first place, and I carry that banner myself. Take your work seriously, sir-madam-it, not yourself.

Like so many “Burma-Shave” signs! “He won the race / But started to rave ;/ He is a disgrace, / Obama Knave.” I’m telling you, Obama will ruin our Health Care, make “global warming” too hot for comfort, redistribute wealth in the same vein as the Politburo. No, he is a horrible man. That, and he looks like an academic metrosexual, caricature of Nefertiti.

M Kitt, surely you know that ad hominem attacks are a sign of weak rhetorical and logical skills. That is a right wing speciality; when you cannot attack the message, then attack the messenger.

Hey The right wingers are jumping on his back go look at SF Gate.com yesterdays comments on the clean air act

I see the right winger are using every excuse to jump on Obamas back even here there is a lot of bashing going on over the clean air act I have been out numbered fighting the the morons off at the sf gate for 2 days then I come here for some comic relief and find the same thing going on I think Obama is doing a good job We need clean air to breath, we need heath care but the right wing dogs are out mad because the GOP is in such a sad shape and they are wakeing up to the fact The Bush cabal ripped them off like they did allof us.

I did read his interminable postings after the last ‘toon. I wonder if the goofiness is humor, or if he’s actually goofy.

A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men, and I’d rather laugh at Obama the way Mel Brooks cocked a snoot at Hitler instead of the derisive “f—ing” invectives you libbies have used against Bush so many years. If you guys want to be a smart-ass, it takes smarts, more so than the gap-tooth jeremiad slurs of a late-night talk show host, too. Speaking of nonsense, say, consider one Jose Serrano pushing to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which would make you Obama cultists in the Demon-crat Politburo happy, wouldn’t it?–if he ran in perpetuity from 2016 on, like that recently ousted anti-constitutionalist tinhorn el presidente from Honduras, Zelaya, has tried to do, the very one that Obama, Chavez, and Ortega have applauded for “his stalwart steadfastness”.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/30/obamas-support-ousted-honduran-leader-accused-breaking-law-stirs-concerns/?test=latestnews

I may be goofy, but I’m muy guapo, and I know that a fair balance of wits, cash in hand, experience, good looks, and gumption is all the faith one ever needs in life.

Attack the messenger? You mean like your St. Saul Alinski? In that case, we’re not so different then–you and I, mattro53.

“anti-constitutionalist” yea cause a constitution enacted while the country was run by death squads and the american embassy and whose purpose was patently to curtail any potential political threat to the countries decrepit aristocracy is one that has to be defended. sorry a right wing conservative rancher is much too oppressive for my tastes, I, for one, prefer military rule with a politicians facade. and nothing is more authoritarian then holding a public referendum to ratify proposals with the working class’s consent. if anything that erodes the “checks and balances” institutionalized by hundreds of years of banana republic rule and foreign conquest.

thank god we have fox news to clarify the situation for us american twats.

Wits, cash, good experience and good looks. You and Fabio JR.

Yes, Jove, Apollo, and his ilk has favored me. Remember what Twain said about taking it with a grain of salt there, Kitt?

And by the way, I’m a dual citizen from Vancouver, my fellow Canuck.

Silence from Dobie… a first.

not bad i guess. i agree with the sentiment, however tired it may be.

but i’m quite ready for Rall to graduate from obsessing about the President and move on to roasting the global elite.

4/10

Are we having fun yet? Yow! I am having fun. I may be a radical, but I have yet to post a positive comment on Obama. In my view, he is busily solidifying his position as one of the global elite. In this country there is one major party-the Money & War Party with the Democrat and Republican branches.

If I were to nominate anyone for sainthood, it would be Jerry Garcia.

You’ve got it, mattro53. See my comment on the latest Oliphant (June 30). It totally applies here, too.

Anyone who critiques someone’s looks has lost the debate…

Adora68, I agree with your post on Oliphant. Not surprisingly, there is common ground between the right and left again.

DrCanuck said,

“You Americans allow nutjobs like Cpt Jay to carry guns, don’t you?”

Some of us had to defend your freedom to complain, Doc. All 58 states benefited from the services of CPT J L and myself.

MTwitt - One post about UCMJ and drop it. Are you really trying to hurt JL?

Thank you, Right_On! M. and his ilk have not even bothered to address the issues I raised, such as, say, “employee-taxed” health care, which Obama so heavily criticized the McCain camp for during the campaign–and Obama and his Keeper, Congress, are currently backpedaling on this issue. Nor the potential results of the 22nd Amendment repeal debate, as fostered by Jose Serrano, or how we can learn a lot from the Honduran bloodless coup (which would make William and Mary proud, no doubt). Believe me, there are tons of service guys that post their insignias and representative info on Myspace and Facebook, so cool the niggling, my nudnik M. The “crank” on your Victrola needs some WD-40 anyway, I think. And what do you think about the Washington Press Corp., particularly Helen Thomas, being up in arms with Robert Glib and Co., over this townhall meeting using questions from Facebook and Twitter? Sounds like his previous healthcare infomercial, or do you just want to banter away with the rhetoric you’ve learned from your correspondence course at the St. Saul Alinski School of Debate and Sophistry? If so, we can, but you’re becoming something of a bore, may I say.

Liberal: a walking improbability chasing the impossible; one possessing a hard heart and a soft head. Even Al Capp was a liberal in his youth, and G.B.S., infatuated with the gilded utopianism of the Stalinist regime, soon came back to reality. So shall you all, my wayward brethren.

And does no one recognize the “wits, cash in hand…” quote is derived from Samuel Butler (Butler 2, author of Erewhon and the Way of All Flesh, mind you, for you hulu addicts out there that believe “print is dead”). Put your copies of The Nation down and read a book, unwind. Start with Thucydides, then Hackworth, and onto Barzun, if you will…

I am a veteran and I also defended the rights of Americans, even the stupid and brainwashed ones. Keep on trying to drag us back to the 19th century. Keep on battling the New Deal and the ’60s. You are responding to being in a hole by digging with renewed fury. We’ll see how that works out for you. As a radical, I have been marginalized all my life by the corporate controlled government and media. How do you like finally being recognized as a fringe element?

Take a deep breath.

And I’m sure Congress, in its infinite wisdom, will keep their Blue Cross Blue Shield Premera healthcare plans while the rest of us, the great unwashed, will have bupkis–but not only bupkis, but bupkis that is run as efficiently as the V.A., the U.S. Postal Service, and your local DMV. blecch!