Comments on: Actual Quotes

By: n.

n. — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:08:44 +0000

it’s wrong to conflate Bush’s probable language-processing disability and his evilness. lots of people can’t grammar [intentional] and yet do not screw up the country or the world.

i think i remember Bush’s spanish being at least passable… perhaps better than his english? he at least tried to be bilingual, and he was fairly ok to immigrants (this is the only thing i liked about him).
on the other hand, the mexican guy has more of a point if you contrasted him with the majority of anti-immigrant regular citizens, and their monolingualism* or less-than-mastery of their first/only language. of course some of that is due to language difficulties and/or faulty education, too. but there IS a double standard going on (so your point is accurate, even if i don’t agree with how you showed it).

*i assume most xenophobes are monolingual. as a language teacher, i’ve noticed it’s fairly common that trying to learn a foreign language helps you realize that its speakers are real people.

generally, i like your cartoons, though.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:26:19 +0000

Beautiful comic. The expression on the latino guy is fabulous.

By: deephurting

deephurting — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:42:26 +0000

In response to many of the comments here: This cartoon was drawn in 2006–see the date in the bottom-right corner of the seventh panel?

So how could I know Obama would be President someday, and would say those things jaycee noted?

I may seem to have prescience on some matters, but believe me, it’s just a coincidence. If I could see 2-3 years into the future, do you think I’d choose to put it towards being an unsuccessful cartoonist?

By: phuc-ewe

phuc-ewe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:09:52 +0000

I is like obama and his my friend. Bush was soooooo dum and didnt get the how to talk to the best.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:07:00 +0000

benny bergall I ask you, how do you know that Obama is a “roaring retard” without his teleprompter? Have you had many discussions with him? Do you think Bush didn’t have a teleprompter? I assure you he did. I would find bush more “entertaining” as well if I could forget that during his term as president he failed this country miserably. Perhaps you find the fact that he lied to the world on numerous occasions as entertainment. If you didn’t know, the presidents primary duty is to uphold the constitution. That is, uphold not violate. I don’t recall reading anywhere that he is supposed to entertain us like some clown. benny if you have the capacity try thinking for yourself and stop watching fox news. If your comments weren’t so pathetic I would find your ignorance as being entertaining.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:36:40 +0000

Sure, every politician screws up from time to time while they’re speaking, but Bush wasn’t a very good public speaker at all. Regardless of your opinion of him as a president, you pretty much have to admit that.

By: benny bergall

benny bergall — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:18:39 +0000

Bush may have been a true gaffer, but neither of you 2 a-holes are willing to concede on the same issue. The fact is, Bush botched freely and often…and Obama is a roaring retard without his teleprompter which he needs as much as Charlie McCarthy needed his puppeteer’s hand up his jacket. Of the two, I find Bush much more entertaining, and Obama to be a lying deceitful sack of liquid garbage who sullies the office he occupies.

By: Steve Olsen

Steve Olsen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:06:37 +0000

unerlion: If you only see “two minor gaffs” and “otherwise perfect English,” you need a freshman bonehead English refresher course. bush has NO grasp of grammar or syntax, and apparently neither do you! You didn’t learnt rite, maybe you just be too dumb.

By: micah

micah — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:19:06 +0000

my favorite quote is:

I’ve been fighting alongside of Acorn on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote in Illinois, Acorn was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.

By: John McKee

John McKee — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:42:15 +0000

Give up, jaycee – you make yourself look as challenged as lil’ Bush. Whole books have been filled with the man’s idiotic quotes.

They say the triumph of America is that just anyone can grow up to be President. And the tragedy is that he did.