New Animated Cartoon
"Obamanomics 101" is going up in a minute.
In recent weeks, Obama has resorted to the almost Bush-like practice of presenting grim economic statistics in a positive way. This time: we're losing fewer jobs each month than we had been earlier this year, when nearly 10 million jobs were lost (one of them was mine). Of course, there are fewer total jobs each month, so a smaller number of job losses still amounts to a relatively higher perceentage of jobs left to be lost. In other words, the more jobs you lose, the fewer jobs are left to be lost.
In recent weeks, Obama has resorted to the almost Bush-like practice of presenting grim economic statistics in a positive way. This time: we're losing fewer jobs each month than we had been earlier this year, when nearly 10 million jobs were lost (one of them was mine). Of course, there are fewer total jobs each month, so a smaller number of job losses still amounts to a relatively higher perceentage of jobs left to be lost. In other words, the more jobs you lose, the fewer jobs are left to be lost.
posted by Ted Rall at
6:37 PM
13 Comments:
You know times are bad when the President personally tries to put a positive spin on job losses.
President Obama's 'Obamanomics 101' lecture deserved a pie in the face. If any like-minded readers of Search and Destroy experienced similar thoughts and frustration on the absence of a well-aimed pie, a step back in time and 'relief by association' is possible at
"YouTube Pie in the Faaaaace (aka Johnny's Pies)"
Ann Coulter is way overdue.
No offense, but it sounds like Stephanie put her mouth too close to the mic. Made it a bit difficult to keep listening to the second half of that clip.
Your last one was almost passable, but this one continues the horrible trend downward.
Ted, I love your comics. I've been any avid reader since the mid-'90s. I've also been a long time reader of your columns, and your commentary would be sorely missed if you stopped doing them.
I hate to say it again, but I find the videos absolutely limp. If doing these things are taking any time away from your writings or comics, I plead you to STOP DOING THEM!
PS: Did you record the female voice on a wax-cylinder?
I don't watch TV, at all. Obama acts suspiciously like Bush did...as if his strings were being pulled, or the hand of our corporate masters (a different set with the Democrats than with the Republicans) were up his a** making the puppet move and speak.
You're dead-on right, Bush employed these exact tactics shortly after 9/11/01 when the economy nearly collapsed. Obama doesn't represent change, he represents a changing of the guards.
Unfortunately, I have done years of searching for answers to the possibility that we, the people, can overcome the government. But what I have found is that time and time again, we are distracted from any revolution. In the 60s, Woodstock, believe it or not, was the distraction that ended the movement (fortunately it didn't sway racial changes.) In the 80s, music was the preacher of the revolution, but its really hard to actually give it back or start a revolution when you just want to dance to the beat.
And Obama represented the newest revolution. And what did we get? Exactly what our actions gave us. Sure, a few more democrats got off their lazy asses and voted (in 2004, 51% of registered voters were Democrats, to 38% Republicans - Bush didn't win, lazy democrats gave him the office), but voting isn't where your political action ends, it is where it begins.
Honestly, Obama doesn't disappointment, not near as much as Americans do. And I ask all of you who participate in Ted's blog here, how many are in regular contact with your representatives? I wrote to my Senators on March 23rd, 2003 demanding the impeachment of Bush. And on May 8th, 2008, I wrote to one of my Senators and demanded an investigation into the influence of speculation on oil prices. And I am constantly trying to get the message through their thick heads about health care reform and other issues. But alone, I can't do squat, now can I? And I would suggest that if you don't register your opinion, regularly, with your congressional representatives, that you don't have any reason to come here and bitch about how things are in this country.
But anyway...it's all an exercise in futility, since we'll never band together as a nation and fight against our opressors...
Hook.
Line.
And sinker.
America continues to swallow the bull**** whole.
Art imitates Life imitates Art na na na na na na....
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1959)
A pod is placed not far from the bedroom of Barack Obama as he sleeps. The next day, President Obama, or what used to be President Obama, speaks with the honesty and integrity and credibility of burned-out toaster. The citizens of the USA have devolved from stupid college students to 2nd graders. It's now time for our morning nap. Mmmmmmm! The world is such a safe place! The President takes care of us all. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM-Hmmmmmmm!
The rate of job loss has been cut by over 50% since the beginning of the year; in the same period, the percentage of total jobs lost has been much less than 50%. Therefore, according to my preliminary analysis, it seems more likely that we are asymptotally approaching some kind of MINIMUM NUMBER OF JOBS, not ZERO JOBS.
Don't you see, Ted?! Things may be as bad as they can possibly be, but at least they aren't worse!
It's ok, fallow (sic) 'mericans, the President will sleep on the plane between the USA and Copenhagen and back. Important Presidential work will NOT be sacrificed in order for Barack Obama (formerly Senator D-IL) to demonstrate CLOUT, Chicago Style, in an attempt to get the 2016 Olympic Games FOR Mayor Richard 'Corruption? What Corruption?' Daley before the royal scepter is passed to one of Daley's close relatives, most likely his equally-corrupt-and-still-learning-the-art-of-camouflage son with the MBA. Thank you, President Obama. You've turned out to be as predictable as the Chicago Cubs. Grab your ankles, folks. We're about to get reamed again. The politicians have a monopoly on all the lubrication, though.
Suck it, Grouchy! This is the funniest one yet! I thought the voice sounded great!
Rex: "And I would suggest that if you don't register your opinion, regularly, with your congressional representatives, that you don't have any reason to come here and bitch about how things are in this country."
That misses the point of a representative democracy. We're supposed to be electing leaders, not followers. Elect someone with smarts and integrity[*] who will do what is best for the country [**], and you won't have to tell him what to do.
In fact, any real problems our politicians deal with are complex, and understanding the issues and understanding the long- and short-term consequences of any government action takes a lot of time. Doing this is our politicians' JOBS, and we should expect them to do so 40 hours per week - so we don't have to. If you know the issue better than your representative, your representative isn't doing his or her job.
Of course, that's not how it works - the public, swayed by mass media, elect the wealthy power-grabbers who have the most influence over public thought, rather than anyone who will put any time or thought into what they are doing.
So we have Reps, who do their corporate masters' bidding, and tell the people it's the right thing (which is leadership, of a sort), and Dems, who do their corporate masters' bidding, and ask people what they want (which is NOT leadership) so they can spin it as what the people want. It's harder to spin corporate interests as public interest than it is to lead people, so the Dems accomplish less, making them less harmful than the Reps.
In other words, it's not lack of communication with representatives that has broken the system. Rather, it's the election system that makes it nearly impossible for diligent, competent, and ethical people with integrity to get into office.
[*] Yeah, good luck with that.
[**] Good luck with that, too.
No, Grouchy is right. These animations are not up to a professional level. Stick to what you do best, which is political cartooning.
"Anonymous said...
Suck it, Grouchy! This is the funniest one yet! I thought the voice sounded great!"
Anonymous (not me) apparently has never heard a non-wax cylinder recording. you know there's this thing called MONO that some of these bands are doing today, and man it sounds great.
but seriously Ted, the animations are funny, but the production quality is pure _shite_.
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Yeah, and that guy you hired to impersonate Obama at the beginning of the cartoon really sucked. He didn't sound anything like the real Obama! He was about four inches too short, too.
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