Mike Luckovich

By Glenn I, Crossing Guard of all the Peachtrees

July 3, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Hope you got my earlier msg. Over and out for a good long while.

All the best to you and your fellow wingnuts…

By Midori

July 3, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thanks, Mike :)

By GodHatesTrash

July 3, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Fabulous, Mike. Thanks.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 3, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

Finally!

Something funny from the cartoonist.

Maybe you should plagiarize more often, you reckon?

By the way, I’m pretty sure this is a parody of the drive by media Doom and Gloom “reporting.”

Are you poking fun at yourself, mikey?

By Donovan

July 3, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

The day President Harry S Truman became Citizen Truman once again, so one saw him and his wife and daughter off from Union Station except a few of his personal (Oval Office) staff and their spouses, and a handful of other White House staff. There were no ceremonials, and no speeches, and the Trumans just boarded the train back for Missouri. They arrived quietly into the embrace of their old friends and neighbors, with no fanfare whatever.

The next morning, the dapper former President (and former haberdasher), donned his morning suit and hat and took a turn ‘round the neighborhood just as he’d always done. “Good morning, Mr. Truman,” the passersby and front-porch neighbors would say. “Good morning,” he would reply. When I was a young teenager I asked to go to Independence to see Mr. Truman’s town, his home. As I walked around his neighborhood, there I found him, by himself, hatted but with a walking stick now. “Good morning, Mr. Truman!” I hailed. “Good morning to you!” he hailed back.

He died the next year.

The young people in their 20’s and 30’s today probably haven’t a clue what it was like for the nation to awaken to the bitter, tragic, courageous, prudent decisions that were forced upon that humble man, which decisions history shows he made in our interest and not his. There’s a list floating around of all the people who shunned the Trumans that day Harry’s presidency ended. (I bet Alice Roosevelt compiled it.) It’s one of the nation’s great sh!t-lists. It belongs to the nation’s patrimony.

You should look it up sometime.

By Ted

July 7, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Very good, Mike.

And now that low-life is in Japan. How deeply embarrassing and humiliating for the United States.

By jethro bodine

July 7, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

I just read that the cartoon will no longer include a blog. I’m really glad. I only blogged because of a compulsion to slam Andi and the neocons.

By Gary

July 7, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Thank you, Mister Luckovich. Have enjoyed your thoughtful cartoons. Tis time to shut this blog down - it has become too redundant and a complete “home” for too many who lack lives of their own. But you have provided an important service. You have allowed us to gaze into and measure the degree of maladjustment and destructive mindsets and behavior that exist within our midst today. The Republican hatred, bitterness, jealousy, anger, bigotry and so very much more. It is an epidemic of human filth and ugliness that exists among the great unwashed masses.

By Gary

July 7, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

(Con’t) It seems like only yesterday that I returned to my big-city home after 5 long years in the military - 31 straight months in the Pacific Rim, 19 months in harsh combat. Yet it has been decades now. Went into college by day and a full-time big-city beat-cop by night. 6 years and 3 degrees later. Became involved in the upper echelon of the local Repub Party. Dozens and dozens of fancy dinners and meetings. I watched and listened and observed and recorded. It was a solid, never-ending drumbeat of varied human uglinesses and repression and oppresion and regression, and so very much more. 6 years later I departed this inane/insane group - and became one of their worst enemies. Leap forward to today. The situation has only multiplied and grown yet deeper. These people have erected roadblocks of human ignorance and stupidity in the path of all things of postivity and goodness. They vomit forth the same lame, tired old words of the 1950s: Phony “patriotism,” “welfare state,” “socialized medicine,” “commie,” “liberal,” “pinko,” etc. It is/they are…endless. Savage law and order fanatics, enjoying their version of twisted fundamentalist religions which destroy and cripple all reason and thought processes in this country. “Jesus” this and “Jesus” that. It is a close encounter with the great unwashed masses in our midst. They have given us BUSH and his/the gang of goose-stepping criminals and goons of conformity. They have laid waste to this once-great Nation, and have provided us with torture, the collapse of an already inferior health care system, and a wretched, unforgivable economic meltdown. People who NEED to be told what to do - and when to do it. Little merchants of hatred and bigotry who possess no moral center or intellectual coherence whatever. And insist upon more of…the above destruction. So thanks, Michael. You have provided an opportunity to be reminded that such uglinesses exist and are on the rise - they spread upon the land like an evil mist. It has been an eye-opener. Thanks again - all good things to you!