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Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

McWell,DUH!!!

  • Posted: 2008-08-06T03:54:44Z
alvmitchel
alvmitchel says:

America is truly a great country. We’ve survived seven years of the most immoral (not amoral), corrupt Administration in our nation’s history. I’m not sure we can make it through another four.

  • Posted: 2008-08-06T12:12:44Z
daddy-o
daddy-oPro says:

As stupid as that sounds alvmitchel it actualy makes sense

  • Posted: 2008-08-07T02:26:31Z
StewieZ
StewieZ says:

I didn’t know that Paul Conrad was now the Official Kos Klown Kartoonist…

  • Posted: 2008-08-07T23:16:22Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

Just like YOU’RE the official Go-Comics Gnuckle-Dragging, Gneo-Con Gnitwit, Gnotalent, Gnobody, Stewie.

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T02:57:03Z
ForThePeople
ForThePeople says:

“The president and I agree on most issues. There was a recent study that showed that I voted with the president over ninety percent of the time…” - John McCain

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T05:37:36Z
DHLEAKY
DHLEAKYPro says:

“The president and I agree on most issues. There was a recent study that showed that I voted with the president over ninety percent of the time…” - John McCain
Thanx, For The People, it should precede every song and dance of a McClutz appearance on TV, and print..

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T09:24:55Z
StewieZ
StewieZ says:

Better to agree 90% with Bush than 100% with Ayers, Wright, and Davis.

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T12:39:49Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

Which no one does, Stew, except in the mind of screaming neo-cons, who would set themselves on fire if a rightie-radio talker told them to.

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T12:50:43Z
StewieZ
StewieZ says:

Funny though how you libtards still give the Dali Bama a pass for that. I guess maybe you didn’t hear about Wright, Ayers, and Davis the same way that the Dali Bama didn’t hear all those sermons over the last 20 years…

Selective hearing must be nice.

Selective reasoning isn’t.

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T20:46:03Z
Machado
Machado says:

I’ve seen this cartoon’s punch line before, …Jim Morin did a similar take on 3.6.08.

  • Posted: 2008-08-08T23:56:47Z
ReFlex-76
ReFlex-76Pro says:

What’s good for one post, should be good for another!

Oooh where to start?!

An actual plan to get out of Iraq, and out in 16 months.

An actual plan to get us off foreign oil, and eventually off oil altogether; sorry, the “he just wants tire gauges” thing’s just not flying.

Rev. Wright:

The one who got “thrown under the bus.”

The one whose career is apparently based on a one-minute YouTube clip.

Of whom we are yet to hear of even one “racist speech” in those other twenty years.

William Ayers:

The one who was never found guilty of anything.

The one whose “relation” is living in the same block, and once serving in the same committee.

Davis:

Everyone: “Who?”

Amazing how ODS (and maybe listening to Slanthead) can wreck someone’s thinking ability …

  • Posted: 2008-08-09T00:30:36Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

Selective reasoning Stew? Uhhhh, what’s that?

Is it like…bashing Obama non-stop over Reverend Wright, but giving McCain a freebie on HIS association with the Very Reverends Rod Parsley and John Hagee?

Is that what you call selective reasoning, Stewzie?

Coz any SANE person would call it that.

  • Posted: 2008-08-09T03:12:50Z
ForThePeople
ForThePeople says:

“The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.”
“I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” -John McCain

  • Posted: 2008-08-09T05:18:35Z
StewieZ
StewieZ says:

Reflex, time for school again!

I have to give you credit for at least trying reflex, but prepare to be owned… go…

1) Wright -

The following is a list of some of the inflammatory and anti-American comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., during his sermons at Trinity United Church of Christ.

– September 2001: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”

– September 2001: “We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.”

– September 2001: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”

– April 2003: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America. No! No No! God bleeep America … for killing innocent people. God bleeep America for threatening citizens as less than humans. God bleeep America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”

– December 2007: “Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich, white people. Hillary would never know that.”

– December 2007: “Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”

– Jan. 13, 2008: “Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”

– “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. … Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.”

– “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. … We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. … We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.
And … And … And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shite!”
2) William Ayers

Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.

Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.

“I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

3) Frank Marshall Davis

“…through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What’s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations…

So, in essense, nice try.

Now, if you are ok with The Dali Bama’s associations with these kind of ilk, then just stand up and say that “I support The Dali Bama and I don’t care that he associates with known racists, terrorists, criminals, and communists. I support The Dali Bama’s socialist policies. Yes We Can!”

Incidentally, the filter is really interesting - cannot say dam with a n but can say the dreaded n word. I guess it’s ok because it was a black who said it…

  • Posted: 2008-08-10T02:49:21Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

What are your sources for those claims Stew?

For all we know you could be pulling them out of thin air.

And owned? ROFL!

Only in your mind, Stew…NO one else’s.

Y’see…there’s one teeny, weeny little problem with that assessment of yours. It tells us who these guys are…but says zippity-do-dah about their association with Barack Obama.

So where is that part anyway, Stew? And remember, YOU said that Obama was with them 100 Percent of the time. That means our next President would have to have been voting with them every simgle time, and they would have to be raising funds for his campaign.

Oh, and there would also have to be pictures of Obama embracing them.

And even then, that would only be the EQUAL of McCain’s association with President Sockmonkey.

So, where is it, StewZie? And remember, you said 100 percent of the time. If say, Barack Obama only visited them, that would expose you as a clumsy deceiver at, trying to push a crude non-sequitur on this board.

  • Posted: 2008-08-10T06:12:40Z
StewieZ
StewieZ says:

Nice try simple simon. I never said 100% of the time that the Dali Obama was with them.

As for the sources they are out there on the internet and elsewhere. Why don’t you navigate off the Kos Klown page and research it yourself? You may learn something (though will you understand it?) and also you may learn how to do something for yourself as opposed to having to have things spoon fed to you, although that is what you are accustomed to.

  • Posted: 2008-08-10T15:36:28Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

LOL!
Ohhhh YES you did, Stewzie.

Here are your words, cut and pasted for your safety.

”Better to agree 90% with Bush than 100% with Ayers, Wright, and Davis.”

In case you’re wondering what that loud, gurgling sound is, it’s what little credibility you thought you had left, going down the toilet.

And btw, when you post to any forum, it’s YOUR job to back up YOUR claims, genius.

  • Posted: 2008-08-10T15:43:17Z
ReFlex-76
ReFlex-76Pro says:

Yes, he has nothing!

Now, to prove, bit by bit why that is!:

Rev. Wright:

Since the last quote was in 2008, we’ll presume the “twenty years” started in 1988 …

1988: NOTHING!

1989: NOTHING!

1990: NOTHING!

1991: NOTHING!

1992: NOTHING!

1993: NOTHING!

Ok, obviously nothing ‘til August of 2001, but what since then?:

2002: NOTHING!

2004: NOTHING!

2005: NOTHING!

Except for a few quotes, some literally years apart, there’s nothing to indicate “twenty years of preaching hate,” much less the “anti-Americanism” which genuine critique of policy is too often confused with.

Oh, and no mention that Barack disassociated himself from Wright months ago anyway.

William Ayers:

Admitting that he was never found guilty of anything.

Admitting that he’s a respected member of the community as a university professor.

Still not admitting that he has no credible relation with Barack anyway.

Frank Marshall Davis:]

He’s a communist.

Wait, that’s it??!! What is this, the McCarthy Era?!

Sorry, being a communist is no more wrong than being a conservative, and most people simply don’t care about that anymore.

Oooh, mention of his persecution by the shameful HUAC; thanks for mentioning his being wrongly oppressed by his own government! I guess he’s a counterpart to MLK, or Nelson Mandela, just the kind of person Barack would want to be associated with!

Anyway, thanks for proving yourself so wrong, Veggie Stew! Please post more, I love proving the irrational wrong again and again!

  • Posted: 2008-08-11T04:26:42Z
Alexus_The_Great
Alexus_The_Great says:

To the Forum: After the Soviet Union got rid of the Communism back in the 90’s, there is no substantial reason to be afraid of such political way of thinking.
Right now, China is a Communist country WITH a free market economy among many other examples.
Most of the former Soviet enclaves in Europe also got rid of it, too.

Why the fear, then?
This is sooooo Fifties, men…

  • Posted: 2008-08-11T15:12:33Z
StewieZ
StewieZ says:

So much idiocy, so little bandwidth!

1) Alexus the clueless - you have truly outdone yourself with your last post. There is no reason to worry about Communist lines of thought? Are you serious? Or is that just your way of trying to tell us that the first viable CPUSA sanctioned Marxist candidate in the form of the Dali Bama is nothing to worry about?

Dam-n you are a truly useful idiot.

2) Simpleton - I am flattered that I annoy you as a moonbat so much by the truths I speak that you would even make an effort to remember past things I have posted. You are indeed a victim of quintessential ownage. Wow, not even to mention that you have so completely missed the point that I am not sure I can guide you back even using monosyllabic words.

Massive fail. Yet again.

  • Posted: 2008-08-11T18:43:40Z
HUMPHRIES
HUMPHRIES says:

Truth ?????

  • Posted: 2008-08-12T08:55:36Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

Stew…it’s like this.

No one else except YOU thinks that you’re speaking the truth…and that includes the other conservatives on this board. I have never once seen even a single one them respond to you with a ‘Spot-on’ or ‘well-said’.

In fact, I would hazard a guess that your fellow conservatives on go-comics wish you would go away more than any of the libs do. ( Something I’ve seen with other neo-con trolls, on other boards. ) You only annoy us…but you’re an embarrassment to them.

Noooo, I take that back. I don’t really find you annoying any longer.

Now, I just pity you.

  • Posted: 2008-08-13T01:57:21Z
acellist
acellistPro says:

Lookie, Loki!

  • Posted: 2008-08-13T03:41:39Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

Loki?

I always thought I was more of a Hermes type.

Oh well….

  • Posted: 2008-08-13T04:41:05Z
acellist
acellistPro says:

Wasn’t about you, it was a reference to the movie with Jim Carrey.
I don’t generally indulge in personal attacks on colleagues in a forum… what’s the point? Fast response though, Hi Yo, Quicksilver!

  • Posted: 2008-08-13T12:58:07Z
Simon_Jester
Simon_Jester says:

No offense taken, acelist

Hermes and Loki were the Trickster Gods of their respective Mythologies, don’cha see.

  • Posted: 2008-08-13T13:33:40Z
runar
runarPro says:

And Bush is the trickster of his own mythology - except that he comes off looking more like Bung.

  • Posted: 2008-08-14T00:16:02Z
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Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad’s trenchant political observations give readers a short, but never sweet, look at the issues. As satirist Art Buchwald wrote, "Conrad’s name strikes fear in the evil hearts of men all over the world. Where there is corruption, greed or hypocrisy, everyone says, ’This is a job for Conrad.’"


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