My Only Error...
...was drawing this more than a year ago.
posted by Ted Rall at
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20 Comments:
Ted,
I was starting to share the pessimism, but I now believe Obama IS trying to change things and frankly has a chance.
He "Swept up" the Republicans in Baltimore, and not as a Janitor.
AND---
He's renewed, in the public speech, and right in the face of the Republicans the push to "End tax breaks and subsidies to companies that outsource jobs". Before, the only one talking about things that 'radical left' was NADER...
Give it a chance... And try to get in on the new wave. Hopefully we'll have a "Mini 90s" just long enough I can make enough for a "SeaStead" and get out before one of Dubya's relatives arranges a city (likely Seattle or a place in California) to be nuked for a new "Dark Vision of Hatred and Fear".
The true State of the Union.
12/1/08? Holy crap, you drew that before Obama was even sworn in!
You might technically be right over a year later, but I still think it was inappropriate to make that cartoon at that time.
Obama's group may not be as horrible as the Bush administration, but they're certainly less competent!
The Bush administration could be counted on to botch something roughly every 18 months: 9/11, Iraq War, Social Security "reform" (in a rare victory for progressives), Hurricane Katrina, and the financial system bailout.
Obama has botched Wall Street reform and health care in only a year! Three things if you count restoring the rule of law, but only pinkos care about that. In fact, he's botching things so frequently he has had hardly any time to do anything.
A wiser politician would spend more time doing something for his base and less time botching everything. But not Obama! He's going to try the opposite and appeal to Republicans instead! Again! He truly is a "different" kind of politician. Kind of like the Manchurian candidate, don't you think?
before one of Dubya's relatives arranges a city (likely Seattle or a place in California) to be nuked for a new "Dark Vision of Hatred and Fear".
A true fear. And then they can have their full scale war with Pakistan/blaming it for the attack.
America will lose a few more cities if God forbid that comes to pass. My poor old Pakistan will be completely destroyed.
And it won't be Mad Max Anarchy fun in the old U.S of A. No sir; somebody once said that if a nuclear exchange had actually happened, that would have left a scarred and crippled public, more fearful and deeply and irrevocably dependent on a paranoid quasi-government.
Anon@5:43, you may have titles for the future, those at the other end have to look at the total scenario.
Sorry for the bummer.
Sincerely
Y_S
Blogistani
Maybe a little post on Howard Zinn, who just died, before January ends.
He was the one who popularised the People's History idea.
Maybe a comment by Susan or Ted?
Hopefully we'll have a "Mini 90s" just long enough I can make enough for a "SeaStead" and get out
This is the American mentality now.
We have a bubble-based economy.
People are waiting for their turn to play the lottery again. This time I'll be the smart one. Just one more fix baby.
America needs a scapegoat for the as-yet unpunished domestic and war crimes of the Bush administration. Obama is so easy, so convenient. If we can't get him on the merits, we can question his citizenship. Dirty money promotes dirty deeds. The media calls the current new crop of conservative hypocrites 'pranksters.' Indeed! Karl Rove was one of those pranksters way back when he had long sideburns and hair on his fat head.
Beady-eyed, shrunken George W. Bush next to Bill "Blow Me" Clinton asking Americans to "Send Cash." They should send THEIR personal fortunes to Haiti first.
The only thing is that the Dems would be charging those homeless for those posters.
The Bush administration could be counted on to botch something roughly every 18 months: 9/11, Iraq War, Social Security "reform" (in a rare victory for progressives), Hurricane Katrina, and the financial system bailout.
I don't think Bush "botched" anything. To botch something, you first must have the intent to do something right in the first place. Bush supported "ordered disorder." He allowed 9/11 to happen, he wanted blacks in New Orleans to drown, he wanted to bomb Iraqis while giggling the whole time, etc. But it's unfair to say he botched anything.
Albert, stop getting your news from Michael Moore. Try to think for yourself.
You might technically be right over a year later, but I still think it was inappropriate to make that cartoon at that time.
Unlike Ted, some of you forgot that the structure of our government is so corrupted by entrenched corporate interests* that it can only function within the narrow parameters of their needs.
Obama's election was only a public relations ploy, and it has worked perfectly. He's continuing all of Bush's policies and making everyone hate the Democrats so that the Republicans can shortly return and push the country even further right.
The function of the modern Democratic Party is to be a pressure valve and regulate the right-wing engine's speed so the train doesn't go off the track. The Democrats don't actually have an engine to go anywhere themselves.
I'll admit that I hoped that this wasn't the case last year, but deep down I knew it was even as Ted was bravely publishing this cartoon. Jesus, Obama pretty much told us what we were going to get!
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*Carefully worded so I don't have to hear Incitatus champion the noble nature of those poor corporations that don't currently have political clout.
Grouchy,
You are intellectually lazy and dishonest or you'd also be ranting like a loon about union's control over the government. But you don't so you are.
I am so sick of people making excuses for the Republican policies of the Obama administration.
You are intellectually lazy and dishonest or you'd also be ranting like a loon about union's [sic] control over the government. But you don't so you are.
Huh?
In my region of the country, there are no unions. They have absolutely no control because they were crushed decades ago. I don't rant against them because they don't exist here. Their power is, at best, regional, and is always declining as corporations move their operations to Asia in search of cheaper labor and less environmental regulation.
Regional labor unions are nothing compared to big business, which is everywhere in the US.
Grouchy,
go research SEIU
Grouchy,
Just because you don't have a union in your area doesn't mean they don't influence politics.
Here you go:
"We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama -- $60.7 million to be exact -- and we're proud of it," boasted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to the Las Vegas Sun this week. The behemoth labor organization's leadership is getting its money's worth. Whether rank-and-file workers and ordinary taxpayers are profiting from this ultimate campaign pay-for-play scheme is another matter entirely.
Since 1990, labor unions have contributed over $667 million in election campaigns in the United States, of which $614 million or 92 percent went to support Democratic candidates. In 2008, unions spent $74.5 million in campaign contributions, with $68.3 million going to the Democratic Party. Already, unions have contributed $6.5 million to the 2010 elections, and $6 million has gone to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C.
Since 1990, labor unions have contributed over $667 million in election campaigns in the United States, of which $614 million or 92 percent went to support Democratic candidates.
You're a moron. Really.
These amounts are tiny compared to how much elections cost. The 2008 elections cost $5.3 billion alone.
Your post is a good example of why idiots shouldn't play with numbers.
Grouchy,
Since you don't have unions where you live I'll educate you how things work outside where you live. In industries where unions are strong (hospitals for example), workers are forced to join the union and their dues are used 92% of the time to elect Democrats.
Try to look outside your "region" k? (By region, I mean "your mom's basement")
BTW are you earning a living yet?
Anonymous 8:10 PM,
Your ad hominem attacks are boring me.
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