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This might not be such a terrible political cartoon if I had some idea of what the fuck was going on. (there's a dead sea cow that smells bad, but some people like the smell? Also, health care and "crazy spending" are somehow related to the smelly sea cow?)
something smells fishy about spending and healthcare.
Maybe a plausible hint that healthcare debate is a red herring.

Throw in bloated, dead and etc..... You get the picture
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Glenn McCoy people! Lets give him a hand!
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Crossroads Inc. wrote:Glenn McCoy people! Lets give him a hand!
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I don't understand, why is this in the Terrible Political Cartoons thread?
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The press is laying a wreath at the death of the Kennedy Camelot image, while Mary Jo Kopechine lays there forgotten, her grave covered in leaves and unmowed grass- FYI she was the girl that drowned at Chappaquiddick
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Azazal wrote:The press is laying a wreath at the death of the Kennedy Camelot image, while Mary Jo Kopechine lays there forgotten, her grave covered in leaves and unmowed grass- FYI she was the girl that drowned at Chappaquiddick
I was being sarcastic.
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GHETTO EDIT: To clarify, in case you still don't get it.

I don't think it's a terrible political cartoon.

To be blunt, the whitewashing of Kennedy by my fellow liberals has been shameful.

He killed a woman. Yes, it was an accident, it happened a long time ago, and yes he did many good things since then. This does not absolve him of the sin. But apparently, to quite a few people(has a poster even mentioned it in the Ted Kennedy is Dead thread?) think it's okay to ignore what can charitably be called a major event in his life.
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Well lets see:

Joe jr. - Blown up by an experimental airplane he was flying
John- went from sleeping with the enemy*, to war hero (despite being at fault for the loss of his boat), to president created the camalot image, assassinated
Robert- Decent AG, his being part of the McCarthy witch trails forgotten, Ran for president, assinated.
Ted: The GW Bush of the family, turned king maker of the Democrats, finally died of a brain tumor this week, now martyr of healthcare reform.
Now the rest of the family?: Lets see, we have the now unpopular govenator, Is the wife of the Sienn Faine guy who was falsely inprissoned for years still in Congress?,

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Serafina wrote:The second one actually is accurate - bush-era problems propably DO cause the democrats serious pain.
I thought it read a different way. The paper says: "Liberals: Deal with Bush-era abuses." And Obama is going "Noooo! Please!" because he doesn't want to actually do that.
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Well, I took it as being from other Liberals, as that's what's been going on.

People on the Left have been asking him to do something, and he's been rather openly reluctant (to say the least) to do so.
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This is being sold at the Alaska State Fair:

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Dominus Atheos wrote:This is being sold at the Alaska State Fair:

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:wtf:

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

This is, hand's down, the MOST racist thing I have seen in the last 5 years. Please, tell me it's a joke... please?
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Kodiak, you know damn well that there are people out there that would happily put that on their car and that it's likely real.
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You know, i always found Obamas slogan funny - i always had to think of the South park episode where zombies beggars ask for Braaiins "Chaaange".

But thats propably not the context of that sign.
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Er, that actually is the context of that sign. Not the relation to South Park, but the concept that all black people are bums. Let it never be said that racists are intelligent.
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Executor32 wrote:Er, that actually is the context of that sign. Not the relation to South Park, but the concept that all black people are bums. Let it never be said that racists are intelligent.
Oh, ok.
I actually did not think of that stereotype, i just noted that it is the same word (Orthographically, at least).
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The Onion can no longer be distinguished from the truth. Again.

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Dominus Atheos wrote:This is being sold at the Alaska State Fair:

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neoolong wrote:The Onion can no longer be distinguished from the truth. Again.

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Oh wow, I didn't even get the bit about change. I thought that was just reversing Obama's slogan and the racist bit was talking about having a black man in the White House.
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Dominus Atheos wrote:This is being sold at the Alaska State Fair:

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Given how broke the US is after Bush, the answer to this is yes....
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Collection of 9/12 teabagger protest signs:

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I know its off-topic, but I need to feel better after seeing that:

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When seeing these signs calling Obama a facist or claiming that Obama would be responsible for an George Orwellian world i doubt that these idiots actually know what the fuck it means. It almost seems like they look at protests against Bush, copy the signs and take them to their own protests. They seem to think that if these comparisons could be used against Bush they can be used against any politician so they put them on a sign tack the name Obama on and feel clever.
This Obama = Fascism bullshit is utterly nonsensical but apparently not very uncommon. It´s disturbing.
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salm wrote:When seeing these signs calling Obama a facist or claiming that Obama would be responsible for an George Orwellian world i doubt that these idiots actually know what the fuck it means. It almost seems like they look at protests against Bush, copy the signs and take them to their own protests. They seem to think that if these comparisons could be used against Bush they can be used against any politician so they put them on a sign tack the name Obama on and feel clever.
This Obama = Fascism bullshit is utterly nonsensical but apparently not very uncommon. It´s disturbing.
There have been some pretty good deconstructions showing that the rightards are simply parroting Glen Beck et.al for their slogans. The number of signs w/ misspellings shows that these people put zero thought into it- it's all about "gut".
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Pulp Hero wrote:I know its off-topic, but I need to feel better after seeing that:

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