Yeah, the Green party.

You can't mean the Dems, after all, since they totally enabled the Reps for the last 8 years and now won't pursue justice because they'd have to admit their own culpability.

Keep eating the crap they feed you, while the unjust wars and white collar crime continues.

1+1=2.

The masses are told Nader can't win, mainly because he can't. He doesn't have mass appeal. Hell, Democrats have, much to the chagrin of leftists, campaigned on largely centrist platforms because that's where the voters are.

Calling on them to vote for Nader is about as politically cynical as getting conservatives to vote for Buchanan. We don't live in a parliamentary system - both the Democratic and Republican parties are evolving coalitions bent on winning elections in a two-party system.

That said, one of those parties essentially settles on general principals of good governance and wide-scale populism and the other, to quote, lives by the destructive philosophy of, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help,'" played to the ludicrous extreme of the anti-intellectualist faux-populism of a "maverick" that happens to share the same party as the incumbents that got us in this mess in the first place.

As Tom Lehrer observed in 1973, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger made political satire obsolete.

The masses are told, "Nader can't win," and they believe it.

Well of course he can't win if folks won't vote for him because believe what the liars-in-charge tell them!

It's amazing how most people apparently can't even add 1+1 and get a rational answer.

How could you even tell?

We shot the last liberal Democrat in office.

Politics and elections are all about bamboozling the dumb asses that are the electorate. Not so hard to do really.

People often vote for Democrats or Republicans, believing that these two corporate sponsored parties haven't done enough to destroy the entire idea of American democracy. They've substituted sham democracy (consisting of massive fraud and supposed capitalism) instead.

How about opening up the election process to include others like Barr, Nader, McKinney and Paul? Let's hear what they have to say! If the dumb asses can hear!

This means for the next 3wks Biff and his ilk will push their idiotic, cruel, selfish agenda even harder. That will turn those weeks into one long lesson for the rest of now mostly awake America on the nature of the beast they truly should fear, the Republithug Social Conservative nightmare, and I hope engrain such a high level of distrust for them, that they never again regain such power in this country.

I didn't write that the Dems were just as bad as the Reps. The difference between the two parties is that one is more progressive on social issues (abortion rights, civil rights, etc.). But other than that, both support the financial status quo of continued huge war funding, blocking renewable energy, and letting the crooks get off scott free, obscenely wealthy, and without impeachments or prosecutions of any kind.

LOL

That was as funny as Tom's cartoon! I hear ya, man.

Forgetting the intellectually dishonest brush by which you paint the "Democrats are just as bad" picture, normbreyfogle, can you give us a reason why we should follow your version of events - I mean, impeachment?

The guy didn't even get blown by an intern or anything!

Now that last panel was a real revelation. I had no idea that Obama was friends with George Bush. TT was a little vague though, so perhaps Obama's friends with Dick Cheney? Or possibly both I suppose. Damn liberals never say what they mean!

...but the truth isn't about left and right, it's about MONEY.

Yes, that nearly brain-dead mindset of the right is hilarious when it's not demoralizing, but the Obama and the Dems support the same military machine spending and amnesty for the worst criminals in American history that the right does.

Without impeachments and criminal prosecutions, the fascist machine will only increase in power.

What he actually said:

"[w]e've got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Yep the only thing we are doing there is "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians". We are "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians", and nothing else! That is soooo typical of the U.S. to go "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians". It's what we do! It's ALL we do!

I guess this proves that Obama can use a half truth as well as anyone.

Indeed. With all of the problems facing the country right now, nothing says detatched from reality or evasive of the consequnces like 'the other guy is...' Come on Republicans, take credit for all of the work you've accomplished in the last decade.

It's funny because it's true.

For god's sake, Fox was became hysterical last week, shrieking that Newsweek was a liberal disgrace for not applying the same airbrush techniques to the cover shot of Sarah Palin that they would use for supermodels. How can anyone lampoon that?

-- goodape

When Tina Fey recounts, word-for-word, one of Palin's actual answers during her Katie Couric interview skit, because it stands on its own for comedic genius, you know these have to be trying times for the satirist, indeed!

...there's a whole host of Republicans all battling to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Where does one start?

-- rott635

William Kristol, anyone?

I was talking with him yesterday as he swept leaves off his sidewalk, and he was saying how awful it is that Barack Obama is a Muslim who hangs out with a terrorist. I'm afraid he's not the only ignoramus out there. Even with a 7-point lead in the polls, I'm nervous.

By the way, my conversation with my neighbor ended when he said to me, with a concerned look on his face, "You sound like a liberal." "From the top of my head to the tips of my toes," I answered.

We shook hands, but I have my doubts about the future of our relationship.