Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 26, 2008

Hey, now that’s funny!   Apropos, as well. Obama doesn’t know a thing about being president, but he agrees with you about taxing the rich.

Just one more thing I have to mention before I go off to do more important things –   You remember what I complaining about with people voting without knowing anything about what they’re voting about? Well, I just found out that my daughter – who I convinced to register – thought that Obama was Governor of Illinois.  

  She wasn’t going to vote at first, and I had to go open my big mouth.

Wasn’t that G.W. Bush’s qualification for head of Iraqi banking (or pretty much anything else)?

Stow it Unc. Obama is vastly more qualified than Caribou Barbie, who’s so stupid she thinks the Vice President is, “IN CHARGE OF the Senate!!!”

I’ll go with UncaAlby on this one. It’s the president who has the power and needs the qualifications - the VP is just backup so whining about the VP is pretty pointless. Being the VP means you get on-the-job training without being as much of a target.

Well, remember all the rumors about how VP Cheney makes all the decisions and P Bush just signs the paperwork. (I have no links handy, and some wouldn’t believe anyway, so I’ll just say that they’re rumors.)

Neither of them fills me with confidence. However, the president doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist, so long as he is smart enough to hire the right cabinet members and stay out of their way. And listen to them sometimes.

Good ol’ common sense! You betcha.

John Nance Garner described the office of the vice presidency as being “not worth a bucket of warm piss.” That pretty well sums it up, but it’s too bad nobody ever mentioned this to Cheney.

P.S. Hey, Unca, wouldn’t you have more fun with the “Mallard Fillmore” crowd?

Gee, should we apply the same standards to picking a VP as to our selection of a plumber?

The hilarious part is that after a week’s run of Doonesbury characters refusing to answer questions a la Sarah Palin, I just watched John McCain flat-out refuse to answer a question about Rush Limbaugh on Meet the Press.

Life truly does imitate art.

I have to agree with you Unc, you need to follow your own advice.

Those arent just rumors, Cheney makes top level policy decisions, on both diplomatic and domestic issues. This isnt just a nmatter if someone abusing his Constitutional authority, it is assuming control of our government. And if McCain/Palin get elected you can count on this policy continuing.

LameRandomName says, “And now, the poor guy who did nothing more than ask a perfectly reasonable question gets to be personally attacked by a CARTOONIST.”

Don’t forget LRN that it was John McCain who brought the plumber up and thrust him to the forefront. Everyone else had already gone on to the next big zero news story when McCain decided to dredge up old What’s his name the plumber during the debate.

Well Lame, it turns out the guy was lying, he’s not licensed and he’s in no position to buy any business, let alone one that nets, not grosses, $250K. He would actually get a tax break under Obama. After all the deductions and loopholes are used, the upper 1% pay 9% of their income in taxes. The middle and working class pays 17% of their income on taxes. Is it socialism to expect the ultra rich to fork up as much as the rest of us?

Who the hell is this Joe the Plumber guy anyway?!The guy’s got a gold plated wrench.

Good on y’ Unc! We all need a good chuckle nown’en - re taxing the rich - only a fair share - does it seem fair that someone who ‘makes’ $400k/annum pays 10% or less, when someone else, who ‘earns’ $75k/annum pays 20%, or more? - even if the absolute number of dollars is greater in the former instance? After all - that 20% represents a much bigger proportion than the 10%. Besides, cutting taxes for the rich is sort of ‘double-dipping’ anyway, cuz they’re the ones who largely benefit from buying the Treasury instruments that are generated by the Fed to loan the gov’t money it has to borrow to make up the difference in reduced revenue, because the interest on those T’Notes, Bonds and Bills are paid by … the taxpayer … go figger. No wonder Forbe’s ‘flat-tax’ made no headway - no wiggle room, at all.

But, let’s remember that no matter who’s elected, neither will have any authority, or control, or oversight of the Federal Reserve System, which is the source of this problem we’ve got … nor will Congress - absolutely none. It always interesting to watch Congress put on a show of calling the Chairman of the FedRes to D.C. to explain the ‘crisis’, but never issue any orders or instructions to said Chairman to ‘fix’ the problem. And by now the Fed ‘leadership’ is so inept, and has allowed so much shady ‘leverage derivative’ speculation to happen, that it’s likely to collapse of it’s own weight. The Fed has outlived its usefulness, anyway … if it ever had any - except to make the already filthy rich, obscenely rich.

Can’t wait to see your humor when Obama brings back the draft:

http://blog.hillary-clintons-voice.com/is-a-military-draft-in-obamas-future-plans-2095

”Not true at all. Barack’s people were already savaging him that VERY day, kept at it and are STILL at it. “

Absolutely correct, and the Plumber has been ’Blacklisted” by the Obama supporting Plumber’s Union and can’t find a job now…

Today they destroy a plumber in Ohio, tomorrow they’ll come for you….

http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/i/mixmach/joeplumberweb.jpg

“The top 10 percent pay 68 percent of the tab.”

So? How much of the income do they make? How often do they have to decide between eating and paying for heat? Idiot.

HAHAHA! Listen to yourselves! Them’s fightin words! One posts a bunch of made-up numbers as fact and another points to someones blog as proof of political policy. It’s The Misguided Vs. The Uninformed….who will win? Stay tuned folks! (gotta luv how UncaAlby instigates these arguments and then sits back and watches the fireworks, good job Unca!)

Really everywhere you go on this site that a comic might have any political connotation, there you’ll find heated debate. Nothing wrong with that..until things get silly..and on this comics site..silliness will not be tolerated!

Brilliant.