Mike Luckovich

By @@

December 13, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Oooohhhhhh maaaannnnn!

Midori, congratulations. You’re the headliner on ml’s marquee. His cartoon matinee.

You and Jimmy. Whodathunkit?

Please tell me you look nothing like Jimmy though.

By Shawny

December 13, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Here is a good ‘toon regarding the Jews:

http://www.townhall.com/funnies/cartoonist/LisaBenson/2006/12/1

By candide

December 13, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

It’s about time someone talked back to the Isrealis who have managed to avoid following international resolutions for 50 years or more, have used US aid to build illegal settlements to steal Palestinian lands, and only want peace on their own terms. They have exploited the holocaust for selfish purposes. Good for Jimmy Carter. Also good for James Baker. The only two to tell them the bitter truth.

By Proud Pinko Liberal

December 13, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

Arianna’s response to Tom “felon” Delay’s new blog. Funny stuff.

By I Voted for the War and then ran and hid under my bed

December 13, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter likes peace. I like war, as long as I don’t have to fight.

I’m Andi, the little coward.

By I Voted for the War Even Though I am a Coward

December 13, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

25,000 dead and wounded Americans in Iraq.

This gal ain’t one of them!

By Shawny

December 13, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Is that the same olive branch in Jimmy’s mouth that was offered to Iran as they held Americans hostage for 444 days?

By Brian Curtis

December 13, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

The funny part is how many so-called “Christians” really HATE Carter for endorsing peace, justice, and diplomacy… you know, all those terrible anti-Christian things that get in the way of righteous bloodshed.

By TommyT

December 13, 2006 08:22 AM | Link to this

Good job Mike, this is a great representation of Jimmy Carter and a honest one at that. I agree totally that the guy is some kind of freak mutant, a weird deranged person filled with obsessive hatred. A true liberal.

And the olive branch represents the treachery of dealing with the ignorant left.

Perfect!

By Scooter

December 13, 2006 08:29 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter is naive sucker with a good heart, a big mouth and a bigger ego. He must have blacked out his presidency. Talk about a President that was in over his head.

By Lord Help Us

December 13, 2006 08:32 AM | Link to this

- Carter is being panned for committing the ultimate sin of penning a fair portrayal of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

I challenge ALL to read this summary before knee-jerking to the superficial, dishonest, sound-bite criticisms of the right-wing echo chamber (the usual suspects…sigh).

There are two interrelated obstacles to permanent peace in the Middle East: Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and aggravated Palestinians; and Some Palestinians react by honoring suicide bombers as martyrs to be rewarded in heaven and consider the killing of Israelis as victories.

Carter has tirelessly championed this cause from the early days of his Presidency through today.

It is disappointing to see those who only view this conflict from the Israeli perspective seek to discredit Carters’ sincere efforts.

The dishonest smears and cherry picking of facts is the desperate bastion of those who do not wish to appreciate the intent of this provocative tome.

By Mike

December 13, 2006 08:54 AM | Link to this

No one is mad that Jimmy Carter is talking, Mikey. People are mad that he is distorting the truth. Of course, since you work at the AJC, I can see how that would be acceptable to you.

Didn’t know you hated Jews too.

By Truthman

December 13, 2006 09:05 AM | Link to this

I was going to post, but Brian Curtis captured my thoughts quite eloquently!

Good job!

By Dusty

December 13, 2006 09:18 AM | Link to this

So what’s new?

Israelis are fighting terrorism so Luckovich portrays them as some kind of bird brain.

Americans are fighting terrorism so Luckovich portrays our leader as some kind of brainless basket case.

So, now, just whom does Luckovich support?

By Randy

December 13, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this

Mike, It’s just like a dumba$$ liberal to confuse who the real enemy is.

Carter is a pathetic lying POS. Put him in a group of three sore losers and you’ve got three communist sympathizers who are FREAKING IDIOT DEMOCRATS.

Ask Kenneth Stein, former Director of The Carter Center what he thinks of Carter. I’ll help just in case you want to hide the facts in your satire.

“President Carter’s book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.”

By Andy

December 13, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

Google Waziristan.

Then blog.

till then, stfu

Today’s words for conservatives: Fatah…..Hamas……Mujahedin…..Hezbollah

Dont blog another word till you know what reality is.

What’s the Saudi Royal Family saying? They will fight with the Sunnis in Iraq if we pull out?

Looks like we are trapped in Iraq by the Saudis.

We’re trapped in Iraq by a dozen different reasons.

I’ll bet the neo-newts on this blog cant name three.

And I think it’s a damn shame.

Developments in the Middle east are advancing quicker than ever before. We are rushing faster and faster toward some destiny set in motion by W.

The Doomsday clock, (made by diebold) has been moved to 2 seconds before midnight.

And you dittoheadwounds are having your pathetic little open mike hack blog of the gospel according to Elvis crossed with flag waving and Dick cheney sucking.

You cant make a silk parse out of a sow’s earmark.

(Oh, dont reach for THAT one, @@, it’s WAY over your head)

dented head, that is.

By DebbieDoRight

December 13, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this

Talk about a President that was in over his head

who dubya?

By gerald

December 13, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this

Very good portrayal of what is actually the Israeli albatross around our nations’neck.

By Diogenes

December 13, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

Mike, Great cartoon.

On the other blog, Jim is lamenting our “fragile value systems,” and has just recently stated in print that he would take Kenneth Stein’s opinion over that of Jimmy Carter on very fragile evidence that Stein’s opinion is even significant in this debate. Why is in that the conservatives tangle themselves up in their logic so easily? Jim needs to do an essay explaining conservative doublethink to us moderates so that we may follow their jumps and leaps and twists of logic, although sometimes their mental gymnastics are all they have going for them.

The cartoon satirically strikes at the heart: Carter in an effort to advance the cause of peace has angered those who felt their position was unassailable, who believed that they hold the American conservatives in their vest pockets.

Mike, well done. President Carter, Diogenes admires your courage.

By Political Deckhead

December 13, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

The customer holding the dove complains about the bird talking back. I’ll bet the bird droppings at the bottom of that bird cage are all pearls of wisdom. If there’s one thing that ignorance hates it’s wisdom.

You cant make a silk parse out of a sow’s earmark, you know. I dont know what that means.

By Lord Help Us

December 13, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this

R(Andy),

Are you saying that Carter is the ‘real’ enemy???

I wonder if we could invade and occupy Plains, GA any more successfully than Iraq???

Also, your characterization of Carter as both ‘pathetic’ and ‘lying’ are interesting choices as BOTH terms appear much more appropriate to Bush than Carter…Hmmmmm….

Just take a look at how Carter stacks up against Bush in some of these polls…

History will NOT be kind to your hero…

By Huge

December 13, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

TommyT,

Noticed you didn’t respond to my post yesterday evening regarding your scintillating analysis on Sunday alcohol sales in Ga. And rather than let you put your tail between your legs and cut and run from the topic (typical neo-con tactic), I thought I’d repost it and give you a second chance. So here it is again:

Heathen? Is that like an infidel?

That says pretty much everything anyone needs to know about you Tommy Boy.

Other than your diatribe, I see that you’ve offered what as a repost? Nothing?

You can’t debate the issue on it’s merits. In fact you’ve offered not one single reason why the law is worthwhile or not. And you know you can’t, so you pose as an intelligent debater.

“In all reality, you and I both know that Sunday blue laws do not really concern you at all, this was just an opportunity to express your heathen, demented hatred of the Church.”

Know? Oh really? Your crystal ball must have broken years ago. No big deal. That’s your problem, and a big one. But not mine. You assume much and look foolish by doing so. But it’s your lack of logic and even the semblance of arguing a counter position that makes you terribly ill equipped to debate.

So lay it on us, William Jennings Bryant. Why should the blues laws exist? This should be fun…

Here’s your chance to shine, big boy. If you don’t totally crap the bed on this one, maybe you can enlighten all of us with your cogent analysis of the Carter presidency!

RW,

You are such a real man. I chastise you for being a coward and doing your hit and runs at 6:59 and sure enough, the very next night you do it again. Although, this time, you waited til 7:04. No wonder you love chickenhawks so much. And the bigot is right there with you. What a gutless couple!

By @@

December 13, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

Before I leave PoliFore, why are you posting under Andy’s name?

Waziristan is under the microscope.

I’m looking over your “head” with one right now. O— What do I see?

Uummmmm, an Itsy Bitsy “Teeney weinie”.

See ya Jack!!!!

By getalife

December 13, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Great toon Mike.

Want to make wingnut heads explode, just mention President Carter.

Israel lost its war and their people are very angry with their government.

Just like us.

By TommyT

December 13, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

“Noticed you didn’t respond to my post yesterday evening regarding your scintillating analysis on Sunday alcohol sales in Ga.”

Huge: You posted your message at 7:06 with the blog closing for commenting at 7:00, giving me zero chance to respond.

This is your idea of a victory?

I stated clearly in my previous post, which the exact quote you cut and pasted later, that blue laws were of no real concern to you and you were just using the premise to attack your personal weak minded boogey man, religion.

“So lay it on us, William Jennings Bryant. Why should the blues laws exist?”

I already have. I called you a moron for not being smart enough to buy your Sunday booze on Saturday.

How has anything changed??

Why must I join you chasing your own tail??

You’re not that bright, are you?

By Proud Pinko Liberal

December 13, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

Doesn’t the photo that accompanies this blog post remind you of yesterday’s cartoon? Oh yeah and the post is a hoot as well.

By getalife

December 13, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

Told ya w will send more troops.

If he does not the Saudis will invade Iraq to fight with the Sunnis.

Iran will invade to fight with the Shiites.

Then you will have a full scale regional war.

Right now, there is civil war in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.

This is the consequences of w’s disaster. It is far from over.

I bet all you good Christians love to see more Americans killed in this ongoing disaster because you are scared.

Pathetic.

By Edwin Williams

December 13, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

I guess my last blog was too inflamatory to post. I just told the truth. Jimmy Carter and Mike Luckovich are anti-semites, plain and simple. Also to Tommy T, the man’s name was William Jennings BRYAN not Bryant as in Anita. Get literate and a little more familiar with history. Bryan was a committed Socialist!

By RE

December 13, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

It is time to start the conversation in this country to move away from Israel.

Supporting the country is all liability, no benefit. Why do they need 3 billion a year in aid from the US anyway?

By Huge

December 13, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this

Poor little Tommy,

I’m not interested in victories. Unless they are against worthy opponents. So far, you haven’t demonstatrated that you’ve made it out of the instructional league, much less to the show. But again, here’s your chance to improve your game.

So for the third time, TT, try not being just another ranting neo-con with no rational arguments and answer the question, “Why should the blues laws exist?”

Can’t your weak mind come up with even ONE reason? Just one?

If you have no useful countering ideas, just be a man and admit it. People won’t laugh at you. They laugh at you when you pretend to be smart enough to debate a topic, then can’t.

By TommyT

December 13, 2006 12:18 PM | Link to this

Huge, I believe this would be for you:

“Also to Tommy T, the man’s name was William Jennings BRYAN not Bryant as in Anita. Get literate and a little more familiar with history. Bryan was a committed Socialist!”

By Lord Help Us

December 13, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this

Outstanding Ed,

A man that has dedicated an enormous part of his life in an effort to bring peace to Israel is ‘an anti-semite.’

You must be a real genius…

You MAY question the results, but to question the intent of Carter and his brokering of the Israeli/Egyption treaty (still holding to this day) to his efforts in Oslo to his current efforts at jump-starting a process that died when Bush came in to office is ONE OF THE MOST RIDICULOUS conclusions I have ever witnessed.

You have plumbed a new depth in ignorance…

By HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

December 13, 2006 12:25 PM | Link to this

TOO FREAKING FUNNY TOMMY T.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Huge

December 12, 2006 07:06 PM

So lay it on us, William Jennings ((((Bryant.)))) Why should the blues laws exist? This should be fun…

IT WAS FUN!!!!! LMAO!!!!!

By Huge

December 13, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this

TommyT,

Yes, my bad for adding a superfluous T.

You do know who he was, don’t you? Look up Scopes Monkey Trial for some history that you and other “heathen haters” are sure to love.

Still awaiting your thoughtful response to the necessity of “blue laws” question at hand…

By candide

December 13, 2006 12:43 PM | Link to this

Israel will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the peace table. The necessary first step is a ban on all foreign aid to Israel, including that from private individuals.

By RE

December 13, 2006 01:20 PM | Link to this

Israel needs to make peace or make war on thier own. Watch how quickly peace can be reached when they no longer have the US covering for them at every turn

By Political Deckhead

December 13, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this

If Baker is a surrender monkey then this must be the planet of the apes, man.

Neo-newts labeled the Iraqi Study Groups Rec’s as fruit salad. The only fruit salad around here is on Rummy’s chest, man.

man.

By Hornswoggling the Suckers

December 13, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The 2006 congressional election campaign finally came to an end, with Democrats reclaiming a US House seat from a Republican incumbent in the last undecided legislative race.

{The upset Democratic victory for the House seat from Texas proved a final insult for Republicans whose showing in the disastrous 2006 congressional campaigns was the party’s worst in some 30 years.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usvotefinal2006)

Chalk up another “mission accomplished”. King George is the best thing that has happened for the Democratic party since sliced bread. He has unequivocably PROVEN to the American public the failure of Repulican ideology.

George W. Bush has PROVEN beyond any doubt that supply side economics, tax cuts unbalanced by spending cuts, nation building, war-mongering, and the notion of an imperial presidency are ideas that only worked during the colonial age if they ever worked at all. 21st century politics requires delicate diplomacy, patience, and intellect that Republicans simply have never demonstarted any ability to muster.

Thank God that we have Democrats to clean up the messes that Republicans have always left. Now the Republicans will have to once again wait for a couple of decades until the public has forgotten their total ineptitude before they can hornswoggle the next generation of SUCKERS!

By Mike

December 13, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

Its time for Israel to come out of the closet on Nukes… Peace was reached with the former Soviet Union using the Mutually Assured Distruction scenario and I think it would be wise for Israel to assert itself as having a nuke arsenal. Iran and Syria should be put on notice thru the stregnth of the nuclear power of Israel. Peace thru strength is the best way to handle the tyrannical leaders of Syria and Iran

By Political Deckhead

December 13, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this

The cartoon works because Israel is our canary in the mineshaft. Thus Jimmy Carter is a peace dove. Ahmadinejad is a hawk. And the US is an eagle. That’s why the CDC in Atlanta warns that the entire world is susceptible to the bird flu. I dont know what I just said. Now I’m afraid.

By getalife

December 13, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this

Mike,

Olmert did yesterday in Germany. Try to keep up with current events.

Do you people read before you spew?

Geez.

By RE

December 13, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this

Mike,

I am almost certain that Israel formally revealing it’s nuke arsenal will only increase the pace of nuke development for Iran and other countries, perhaps with Pakistan providing those weapons to the surrounding areas. I still think we need to let Israel make it’s peace without US support.

By Dubya

December 13, 2006 01:42 PM | Link to this

More troops to Iraq, eh. That’s good. That’ll fix all the fires that Bush set in the Middle East. Any of you Bush Freaks embarrassed yet??

By Abe

December 13, 2006 01:52 PM | Link to this

No doubt about it. The Israelis have proven time and again thru their history that they are great users and takers. Can’t erase those facts regardless of everything else. You don’t agree? You’re a bigot.

By Political Deckhead

December 13, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this

If Baker is a surrender monkey, then this must be the planet of the apes.

By Mel Gibson

December 13, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this

Right on brother Abe!!

By Mel's dad

December 13, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

Holocaust, my a$$.

By Adolf

December 13, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this

Danke Abe, Sie sind korrekt!

By Jimmy The Greek

December 13, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this

Not only that Abe, but they are not good athletes either.

By RaisinBran

December 13, 2006 03:50 PM | Link to this

This is one of the funnier debates I have read in a long time. Keep it up everyone!

By Midori

December 13, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

@@,

I didnt’ know you had it in your retarded brain to recognize that I am about peace, dove.

Will wonders never cease?

First the American electorate woke up to Bush and the GOP’s crap, and now this.

2007 is looking better and better.

By @@

December 13, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

Israel is no fun to blog about. There’s nothing funny about the intifada. it’s boring. oh! are people struggling to survive? gee, that’s only every tribes story that every lived. like come up with another epoch narrative, you know? Why cant the jews be the people who invented, oh, I dont know, say, something fun, you know, it could really be anything, having a mental block here. somebody help me out here…..why cant the jews be the people who started the naked conga line!

There! The naked conga line. now that’s a story I’d like to read about.

But noooo, all we get is killings and bombs and massed artillery barrages. Boring!!!

I SAID BORING!!

By TommyT

December 13, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

Huge: Usually, when someone poses the same exact question to me that I’ve already answered 3 times before, I would be done with that person. In your case, however, my proper Christian upbringing compels me to help the weak and lame, that being your obvious mental inferiority.

Shall we-

“So for the third time, TT, try not being just another ranting neo-con with no rational arguments and answer the question, “Why should the blues laws exist?”

Considering that I am someone who has no problems at all conducting the normal day to day activities of my life without the assistance of the government, blue laws are an almost inconsequential hindrance; it’s like you can’t drive on the left side of the road into oncoming traffic so most normal people accept that and keep to the right. For some reason you liberals find the most minor issues to be so incapacitating, so impossible to overcome. I do not suffer the same life altering foolishness. If I wish to drink on Sunday, I stop at the convenience store on Saturday. Pretty smart, huh?

What an interesting coincidence that this argument should unfold during the Christmas season, amidst all the shock and hubbub from you liberals that Christians would have the audacity, the nerve to mention the Name of Jesus Christ during the Christmas season, gasp, gasp. And in a country founded upon the principles of Christianity too!! Blue laws just go to show you how much our laws in the United States are based on the teachings of Christianity.

I’ll bet you can go to Iran and buy beer on Sunday, I think. If not, you can throw a fit and badmouth allah like you did Christ, see what happens.

I’m hoping that this explanation unwads your panties because frankly I find this debate to be sort of dull.

By Glenn

December 13, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this

Dubya, don’t expect the neocons to feel embarrassment over Bush. The only emotions those inferiors possess are hatred and bitterness and jealousy.

By David

December 13, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this

Israeli actions? Very much on a par with the 1,000,000 plus Cubans who have taken over my city and dare to call themselves “exiles.” Among the most ungrateful, selfish, falsely-arrogant people on the face of the earth. The similarities are striking.

By Buy Danish

December 13, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this

Huge Hypocrite,

I seem to recall numerous occasions where you chose to post at the deadline so no one could respond.

Tommy T,

The Blue Laws need to be abolished. What you do is irrelevant. If people choose not to purchase wine and beer on Sunday that is their choice. Why do you object?

By RE

December 13, 2006 06:20 PM | Link to this

Sen Johnson D SD may have had a stroke today, I am sure all the folks here have him in your prayers. Not sure if you are praying for him to live, but I am sure you are praying

By Buy Danish

December 13, 2006 06:21 PM | Link to this

I forgot to make my cartoon comment. Why is this bird a Parakeet and not a Parrot?

David,

Would you like me to detail some “similarities” among Middle Eastern Islamists and depraved Barbarians for you?

“Ungrateful, selfish, and falsely- arrogant” would be a compliment as it would assume a hint of humanity.

By RE

December 13, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this

BD, I am pretty sure he is supposed to be a dove, you know, a symbol of peace

By nuff-said

December 13, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this

George W. “Bumper Sticker” Bush. “Shock and Awe”, “Cakewalk”, Compassionate Conservative”, “Mission Accomplished” “Reformer with Results”, “Bring ‘em on”, “Cut and Run”, “Stay the Course”, “Last Throes”, “I’m the decider”, “With us or agin us”, “Freedom on the march”. Oh, cry, the beloved country.

By Buy Danish

December 13, 2006 06:43 PM | Link to this

RE,

I got that - thanks.

Sheesh.

By nuff-said

December 13, 2006 06:58 PM | Link to this

WSJ Poll on Bush on Iraq, Approval 23%.

By more-said

December 13, 2006 07:06 PM | Link to this

A Gallup poll taken for USA Today over the weekend indicated that only one American in five has a “great deal” of trust that President Bush will do the right thing in Iraq. Confidence in the Democrats is even lower. Only 14 percent think Congressional Democrats will chart the proper course.

By RW-(the original)

December 13, 2006 07:07 PM | Link to this

Huge dipwad,

What time is it now, freak?

I post when I want and where I want. How can someone be cowardly on an anonymous blog anyway? Just repost your childish questions and insults the next day if you want.

Of course if you had a brain occupying that space between your ears you would hold a discussion with whomever happened to be here when you were.

By LuckoDull

December 13, 2006 07:14 PM | Link to this

Doesn’t anyone else find it to be so tawdry and tedious listening to the liberals tell you how smart they are without them ever having to prove it?

“WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, who incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped to head the Intelligence Committee when the Democrats take over in January, failed a quiz of basic questions about al Qaeda and Hezbollah, two of the key terrorist organizations the intelligence community has focused on since the September 11, 2001 attacks.”

And they got the nerve to call Bush an “idiot.”