Wed 10 Sep 2008
Yes, I went there.
Way back in the day – think the 60’s, my Mom taught me about being polite. These days, politeness is called political correctness.
Over the last 8 years, I have been lied to, called a communist, a criminal, had my bags searched for no reason, had my email monitored, had my phone calls monitored and I actually caught a guy in a blacked out Suburban going through my trash.
I am done with politeness. McCain is offended? Fuck him and the Moose he rode in on. I am tired of all this petty bullshit while America burns… while the world burns.
The glaciers are melting, sea level is rising, crops are failing, our planet is a mess. China owns too much of our debt, industry has mostly moved out of America and the GOP sees nothing wrong with this.
Sick. To. Death.
I am sick of the mother fucking war – all fucking war for that matter. I am sick, tired and miserable with the GOP in power. Yes, the Dems have problems, don’t get me started on the traitorous Blue Dogs, I will get back to those assholes once I get Obama in office.
But for now, McCain and Palin need to be beat like rented mules (yes, I am trotting out all sorts of anti-pc phrases today).
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September 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Hey, I’m there with you. Politeness is sickening. How do you politely claim “I’m undecided” as you acknowledge the 4200+ deaths in Iraq, $4/gallon gas, and the prospect of a presidential team that would take US back to the dark ages – let me put it bluntly, McCain/Palin scares me more than Bush/Cheney in both 00 and 04.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I should add – I’m using the rhetorical “you” – just in case anyone get’s confused.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
If this cartoon is the best the Democrats have to offer, then now more than ever we need to elect REAL leaders with a REAL plans! It’s almost as if everytime Obama opens his mouth he reinforces his BAD judgement and outright lies. My favorite is when Obama tells us that even though he was a member of Rev. Wright’s church for TWENTY YEARS and Rev. Wright married he and Michelle and baptized both of their daughters, Obama never once heard him say anything racist or devisive. Yeah, I’m SURE that’s true.
Obama launched his first campaign at the home of Bill Ayers…you know the guy who is not his friend…the guy whom BOMBED the Pentagon! Now he claims he barely knows the man.
So far his judgement is underwhelming…
He claims that his Lipstick on a Pig remark was not aimed at Sarah Palin, but you and everyone of his “followers” knew that it was….here’s a newsflash – so did we NON-FOLLOWERS. Let’s go wild and give him the benefit of the doubt…let’s say he really didn’t mean to imply that Sarah Palin was a pig. What a STUPID comment to make – clearly another lack of good judgement on his part.
But hey – you just keep on following the man blindly and chanting…. “HOPE” and “CHANGE”; “Hope and Change”!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Obama deserves some recognition for the skillful way he converted Palin’s Pit Bull joke into not just one speaking remark, but enough press play to be challenged on it in nightly news, and multiply explaining plausible deniability that obviously suggested Palin’s a pig into an entire additiona day of free media attention.
Hmmmm….. I could use some training in CS3 Design Premium. I bet the tools are there to show how the same lipstick shape could fit the faces of all of a pit bull, a pig, and Palin. But, on which would it look best? (Remember, it has to be drawn into the strip before the seminar, or at least be part of an unpublished working example, to be fair game and not a cheap shot at the pig, ahem, Ms. Palin.)
On further thought, maybe a Pentecostal pig pandering predatory prayers is too polite a depiction of Palin? P-ewe! How unfair to the pig.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I am with you on the issues, but that last line is probably not going to be funny to a lot of women. It’s instantly reminiscent of the kind of sexual quid pro quo (e.g., paying for dinner) that used to be commonplace and that too many men still assume.
More stuff in this world is sexist than any man will realize, and it’s insulting for men to just throw the word around when they really have no idea how sexist the world is on a daily basis. *Everyone*, from Web cartoonists to Chris Matthews and back again, needs to be more careful with the term.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:04 am
/sign. I think mccain could use some lipstick. his pig face is getting annoying.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Love your screed today. Especially if one remembers that we have a 9/11 because the REPUBLICAN Administration did not pay attention to the intel.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Lest we forget, McCain repeatedly used the “lipstick on a pig” metaphor for Hillary, rather than stick to others like “fat ankles”, or just address issues where neither of them are qualified for office.
That reinforces Obama’s obvious jab at Palin, as doubly invited by both her pit bull joke, and McCain’s choice of jabs at Hillary. At the same time, Obama’s region being a farming one even if he’s more of a city boy does give additional plausible deniability for the obvious intended target of Palin.
Obama got what would be a $10 million free media buy out of it, with IMHO mostly positive spin except among those who don’t matter anyway.
To the extent major network morning shows made comparisons of Michelle Obama’s dress to Hillary suits, and that what they program is ratings driven, that’s mostly a perversely sad reflection on us as an electorate. At least the pig jokes are metaphors for Palin being incapable of holding office and complying with Constitutional law.