wooOOOooo! Bush's military record is starting to surface for real

[Mairead]

[catzies]

1. Great cartoon! Do you know the literary reference in the text?

I'm thinking Dr. Seuss... ?

[Richardo]

2. The famous "Hughes Mearns" apparently...

Googled:

"Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away."
Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

9. I thought it went:

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. He must be from the CIA."

:evilgrin:

[DemoTex]

15. Or our version in Vietnam

What I do
I cannot say
I am with
The XYZ

[Mairead]

3. I halfway thought so too, but it was really

(William) Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

And there seems to be some question whether the last line should be 'go away' or 'stay away'.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Nope, poet Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/hughesmear144414.html

[CatWoman]

6. I am just a pampered ham

I refusted to go to Viet Nam
I refused to fight for Uncle Sam
But your kids? I don't give a dam
They better help me get out of this jam
I am just a pampered ham

[Karenina]

10. Yes...

"Hypocrisy and also mendacity and reichousness I would offer"

Response to Reply #10
28. None of these qualities

square with visceral American "core values."

Imagine a couple thousand Vets, accompanied by any and/or all of the Democratic candidates, senators, congresscritters (to insure the cops don't start pushing folks around unnecessarily), everybody's got photocopies of their military records, signs, buttons and bumper stickers to pass out to spectators, all gather in the closest "free speech zone" to the TV studio where the MTP slobberfest is taped with mock coffins, whistles, bullhorns drums, chanting in unison, "Dubya, Dubya, Dubya, WHERE WERE YOU IN 72?" Oh yeah, and don't forget the sea of flags. Ya think that would pose the question LOUDLY ENOUGH?

Man-o-man, this picture engulfed my brain as I was reading today and I just keep re-posting...

[Eric J in MN]

13. Catwoman - did you write that poem? It's good. (nt)

nt

[Doctor_J]

14. Applause

:toast:

[CatWoman]

25. *bows*

thank you, thank you :D

[Myra]

5. Thanks to Michael Moore and Wesley Clark

NO thanks to John Kerry, who said Moore's comments were over the top.

[radwriter0555]

7. Yes, but it's just to distract from the illegal war and the lies that lead

to it.

As rove would say, STICK TO PRINCIPAL.

[Terwilliger]

8. LOLOL

GREAT symbolism!

[Eloriel]

11. And the style of the cartoon --

Isn't that in a style of a famous WWII era cartoonist (whose name I obviously can't remember)? Or am I just dreaming?

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Bill Mauldin?

[Eloriel]

17. YESSS!! Thanks. n/t

[Doctor_J]

16. My father in law

won't see this cartoon. Alas, he cancelled his newspaper when they refused to cancel Danziger (I think the July "Body-Count" one put him over the edge.

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23. Excuse Me? If you've been lurking, you MUST have learned something

Even a simpleton can figure out that cartoon. His war record is an issue, since he sent over 500 GIs to their deaths in Iraq based on a lie.

[stevedeshazer]

21. Brutal. Hard-hitting.

Wickedly funny, yet seeing it pisses me off.

Thanks for posting it.

[Wapsie B]

24. Great!

Things like this may have a more lasting impression than a TV interview that people may or may not see. Pick up the paper and there it is.