Yes, Tom Tomorrow is merciless. Tom Tomorrow hits the bullseye every time. But Tom Tomorrow is, after all, aiming at a very easy target. Even though the right wing is getting smaller, it's now backlit by the bright fluorescent tubes of the insane asylum. And when the inmates gather in herds for a group freak-out, as they did this past week, they give a satirist an opportunity the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Personally, I wish TT would stop picking on the clueless, the delusional, and those who are out of power, and start looking at the new president. I don't know why he doesn't zero in on the blatant and disgusting hypocrisy and broken promises of this phony Obama administration. I know he's not scared of the Obamaniacs or how they might react, 'cause I've seen enough of Tom to know he's fearless.
When Obama made a surprise visit to Iraq earlier this month, he made a speech to the troops there in which he said ""From getting rid of Saddam, to reducing violence, to stabilizing the country, to facilitating elections -- you have given Iraq the opportunity to stand on its own as a democratic country. That is an extraordinary achievement."
How's about TT doing a "now and then" strip, comparing the way Obama used to talk about Iraq (or a number of other things) to the mealy-mouthed boilerplate that dribbles out of his mouth now.
Obama has gone 180 degrees, from not wanting the United States to become involved in a "stupid war" when he was in the Illinois state senate, to applying the "D" word to Iraq, signaling that he's now on board with the Bush/Cheney version of reality.
I guess if you want to be president these days you have to drink the Kool-Aid the Pentagon and the CIA hand you, or they'll find something else for you to do.
In recent weeks Tom Tomorrow has been incessantly targeting the wingnutosphere, and his subject week before last was that lunatic Glenn Beck, a guy who really should not be walking around in public unsupervised. Isn't this kind of like hunting game in one of those wild beast parks where rich guys go to shoot an animal? I'd much rather see him turning his sights on that phony double-crosser in the White House.
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I wonder if TT thinks that the reason Obama can't do like he did in his earlier years is because the power of the unknowledgeable right. Unfortunately, they get motivated by the counterparts on the left. The best path usually resides in between two extreme sides.
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