Daddy: Who lied to the UN, the American People, and the International Community to gain support for a unnecessary, preemptive invasion, all the while destroying the environment, giving tax breaks to the rich, and creating a massive deficit that will strangle future generations?
Dubya: Not Me!
Aaaand…once again, the thread goes political and loses all interest for non-United Statesians. Maybe we could get a forum that is all politics, all the time, and keep them out of the interesting threads. Sort of like limiting witnessing to Great Debates.
Oh let’s see.
First, France, Germany and Russia sign on for 12 UN resolutions over the last decade+. All ignored and thwarted by your buddy Saddam. When the shit hits the fan, suddenly they are the only other countries that exist. Forget all the countries that supported action. (Any Aussies want to stand up and be counted for?)
Tax break lessened our tax bill this year. Whoo-hoo! We’re rich! :rolleyes:
Oh, did I forget to mention the Dems overwhelmingly voted in favor of all of the above? :smack:
Er, except for Kerry, who seems to have voted both for and against everything, ever, and always. How the hell did he vote, anyway? Oh, never mind, it’ll just change tomorrow anyway.
Color me confused. You’re concerned that a thread about Doonesbury is “going political?” As a plethora of other posters pointed out, Doonesbury is political humor. Its entire history is one of using humor to make political points, and using political points to create humor. And you’re bitching about that? Perhaps you confused it with a Marmaduke thread. That one where Marmaduke took his owner for a walk, but ended up pulling him wildly somewhere was a classic!
My buddy Saddam? The pathetic attempt to equate dislike of Bush to support for Saddam would be horribly sad if it wasn’t so cliche and overdone. You couldn’t do any better than that? Although looking at this and your posting history, I don’t find this much of a surprise.
Here’s what I’d actually like to see. I’d like you to do a bit of research into the use of hyperbole in political humor. You could start with Gullivers’ Travels, work your way through I Go Pogo, and end with pretty much any cartoon on the Op-Ed page of your local paper. Then, I’d like you to watch the complete Monty Python collection, because you seriously need to build up that sense of humor muscle. It appears to have atrophied. Along with other, more cognitive “muscles” of yours.
It was an attempted joke. Hamlet’s riff on it was much funnier.
Ah, I should’ve known. I tend to be comedically-impaired at 1:30 in the morning.
I think it’s safe to say that a lot of non-Americans are very interested in the latest happenings with American federal politics these days. It isn’t every day that the world’s greatest superpower is being led by a sock puppet, after all.
apologies for the inaccurate link–copied text from address bar instead of trackback.
Events have proven that the predictible result of ruling an alienated majority with a priveleged minority is not pretty (think electrodes and genitals, ya’ feel me?)
Indeed, we ourselves are, at this moment, turning to the Republican Guard for managerial talent.
Accordingly, I propose we replace Negroponte with a man who has a proven record of successfully providing Baghdad with electricity and security to (most–not all, but most…) Iraqis.,
To Wit:
Submitted for your approval, a new man in an old man’
s body
He’s tanned, rested, and ready.
The tailors are pulling basting stitches,
The makeup girls are ready.
Back,
better than ever,
(with $35000. worth of bridgework)
You loved him in '90,
Now show him love today
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Leeetts Get READY TO RUMBLE,
Welcome back to the squared circle,
Sadam “El Guappo Sincro” Hussein.
Don’t you people realize that by far the most earth-shattering development in Doonesbury is that B.D. has doffed his helmet for the first time in 35 years?
Not Joanie, Boopsie. Joanie is unrelated to B.D., Boopsie, and Sam.
I am not, as is evident, a habitual doonesbury reader…