Toon: Why are you even mounting a challenge?

[n2doc]

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Ouch! K&R

[Electric Monk]

2. At least he hasn't started a new war with Iran

yet...

:popcorn:

k&r

[L0oniX]

4. Does Libya count yet?

[spooked911]

32. yes, it's a war, and seemingly an illegal one too

[DirkGently]

3. One way to beat the Republicans ... steal their platform.

[appal_jack]

15. Gives Repubs room to move further rightward

As Obama governs to the right of Reagan, the Republicans still love to call him a 'socialist,' etc. This gives them room to push for more corporate power, more tax cuts for the rich, more Military Industrial Complex, more intrusions into our private lives, and on and on.

The Democrats love to pre-compromise, then give-away the rest of their hand during negotiations. Meanwhile, Republicans ask for the moon and stars and keep fighting until their cronies get every bit of what they want. And we wonder why the country has been on a rightward slide for ~35 years...

:argh:

-app

[Lorien]

17. Exactly. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

5. A million recs (only one of which count, of course)

why does ANYONE fail to see this?

Especially here??

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[Divernan]

8. They work hard for their money, as the song goes.

By which of course I mean they must be at their day jobs, but will show up here later.

[xchrom]

7. Recommend

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Double ouch!

Rec

[Chris_Texas]

10. Nailed it.

[Dr Fate]

11. Who drew this outrageous tripe? West? Belefonte? How can I trash & discredit this evil cartoonist?

Little help?

The cartoon people will destroy us unless we come up with counter responses- and SOON!!!

[Capitalocracy]

16. If Obama was afraid of what a cartoonist has to say...

maybe he wouldn't do the things in this cartoon.

[Hugabear]

22. Which one of those panels is "evil"?

Do any of the panels feature false claims?

[QC]

24. I hear that he sometimes farts and blames other people for it.

Scoundrel!

[Angry Dragon]

25. If all we had to do was to be afraid of some cartoonists

then I would think this country was in pretty good shape
However that is not the case

Unions attacked
The rich get richer on the backs of others
the list could go on forever

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[jtuck004]

29. Oh, maybe get Obama to propose a real jobs program? eom

[slay]

12. Ouch - truth hurts

for all of us. GOP couldn't have a better candidate than Obama. Ugh. K&R.

[Oldenuff]

13. It's terribly disheartening....

but the "toon" nailed it.


Where is the "I'll vote for him rather than a Republican" chorus?...well it is early yet.

[progressoid]

14. That six panel cartoon could easily be extended to a dozen,

or more.

[sellitman]

18. Spot on!

Unfortunately.

[hay rick]

19. With Obama it still looks like a democracy.

The plutocrats have a good thing going with BO in the white house. So far, the Republican candidates all look like they are emerging from a clown car. Of course, if Obama starts getting some real populist notions that could all change...

[russspeakeasy]

20. K and R...Funny/Sad

[Raffi Ella]

21. Because

President Obama appointed a Sotomayor and a Kagan to The Supreme Court-

That's why.

[obxhead]

33. Who both just voted to abolish the fourth amendment.

[Dragonfli]

38. And sadly that is all they have, more justices like that and they can finally ditch the constitution

Another win/win for fascist "center-rightism" in this country.

At one time what we now call "centrist" would have been called the far right by what was once a left wing Democratic party, the apologists can try to contradict the history of this but the facts are not on their side. They may even try to claim that the Communists were what I describe but actually they were much farther to the left of the Democratic partry even then.

In another 10 years I am sure they will call the TeaBaggers Centrists and the Radical Right will be full blown Fascists calling themselves The New Republicans or something.

[treestar]

23. Easy. Because they want way more than that.

That's nothing to them. Even if it were all true.

[Nye Bevan]

26. "... and marriage is between a man and a woman" (nt)

[SidDithers]

27. Sotomayor & Kagen...nt

Sid

[obxhead]

30. The reason no serious candidates are even running.

The GOP agenda is in full swing and they even get to blame the Dems for doing exactly what they would do. They call it a win-win.

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[GeorgeGist]

34. Psssssssssssssssssssst ...

jokes on you if you think they're mounting a challenge. Obama's the best they've got.

[RC]

35. Why do we allow this?

This was not what Obama campaigned on.

[Hippo_Tron]

36. Meh, Tom Tomorrow is at least funny

[Raffi Ella]

37. This thread is fulla

nothing but right wing smears against President Obama.

You can disagree with him all you like. You can argue that this cartoon is right all you like. But you cannot sit here and act like the President is no different than a right wing LUNATIC that would make Bush Tax Cuts permanent; That would no only escalate the War in Afghanistan but fucking BOMB IRAN; that would not have enacted ANY KIND OF HEALTH REFORM whatsoever; that would abolish medicare- ON and ON I could go-

Let's try to keep it real around here shall we? I mean afterall this IS Democratic Underground, right? We're all gonna be voting for the man if not outright campaigning for him to be re elected in 2012, right?

Right.

[Distant Observer]

39. We are all campaigning. But gotta face the truth. The Repugs screwed us outta real change

[Ramulux]

40. What?

How are the things mentioned in the cartoon right wing smears? They are all 100% true. No one forced Obama to support any of those things, that is where he stands on the issues.

Obama is a moderate conservative who supports our imperialist foreign policy, neo-liberal free-trade deals that destroy our economy, coup governments in South America, the destruction of our civil rights through the Patriot Act, the torture of whistleblowers, and massive arms deals with Saudi Arabia.

Thats just the first few things off the top of my head. He does not believe in the things that most liberals in this country believe in. He thinks we should be the police of the world, that low taxes stimulate the economy, and that free-trade will somehow magically create jobs here. There is also the fact that he doesn't support gay marriage, which to me is just fucking baffling and disgusting.

[Dragonfli]

41. They pay no attention to what he does, only what he said in '08, Cult of personality blindness /nt