Four Flusher

Readers- It's been a busy week since Hope n' Change took a little time off, and an awful lot of excrement has hit the fan in a highly kinetic fashion...

Yes, Barry really claims that our nation's future depends on the kids in our country illegally, whom he calls the "Dream Kids." They're currently flooding across our border in record numbers in an apparently coordinated action (subject to risks of death, rape, and abduction along the way) - young pawns in a political game which seems to be orchestrated from Washington DC.

Meanwhile, the situation in Iraq has gone straight to Hell...as everyone knew it would from the moment Barry announced the date he was going to withdraw all troops (and failed to negotiate a "status of forces" agreement to maintain our gains on the ground).  The situation in Iraq was additionally destabilized thanks to Barry's abject failure to confront Syria over the (ahem) "red lined" use of chemical weapons on its citizenry.

Now, a desperate Iraq is turning to Iran for help...meaning that this president (and, oh yeah, the former Secretary of State who's currently pushing her "Hard Choices" book on the Home Shopping Network) has screwed up the entire Middle East about as thoroughly as possible.

Speaking of screw-ups, the IRS is now telling Congressional investigators that they can't supply Lois Lerner's emails about targeted attacks on conservative groups because a computer crash wiped out two years of her email. Mind you, any technical expert will tell you that such computer emails should routinely be backed up elsewhere - and in fact, the government usually requires such a backup by law. Meaning it's very likely that those emails can't really have been wiped out...by accident.

And as the Middle East burns, Hope n' Change can't help but reflect on the many times B. Hussein has boasted that through his efforts Al Qaeda was all but destroyed. Oops!

On a happier note, a lot of people in Washington (in both parties) were back-slapping each other over the presumptive death of the Tea Party - until Eric Cantor's primary election defeat reminded the old guard that we're still here and we're still pissed.

After an appalling week like this one,  only damn fools could be anything else.

From The Vault: Penalty for Early Withdrawl

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DEC 19, 2011
This cartoon and commentary is being republished exactly as it appeared two and a half years ago. The current disaster in Iraq was absolutely foreseeable. Including, we assume, to Barack Obama - who didn't care.

 

The Iraq War is over. The last convoy of American troops has crossed the borders into Kuwait. And Barack Obama has already turned it into a campaign ad - a video called "A Promise Kept" which is not about the promise of freedom nor America's promise to the people of Iraq, but about Barack Obama keeping his campaign promise to pull the troops out, no matter what his generals said.

It is perhaps the most sneering and self-serving way for the president to end an American war imaginable. A war which Barack Obama called the "dumb war," the "rash war," and "the war of choice, not necessity."

You'd think that a war described as pointless by America's commander-in-chief would therefore be easy to wrap up. But the ever self-aggrandizing Obama chose to take to his presidential podium and declare that "It is harder to end a war than to begin one," neatly praising his own magnificence while taking yet another potshot at President Bush.

But does Obama's troop withdrawal really amount to "Mission Accomplished" if the mission is anything other than his re-election? Senator John McCain certainly doesn't think so, saying "It is clear that this decision was dictated by politics, and not our national security interests. I believe history will judge this president’s leadership with the scorn and disdain it deserves.”

History, however, will never doubt the integrity, honor, and sacrifices made by America's troops and their families over the course of this nine-year war. Over 1.5 million fought... more than 32,000 were wounded... and over 4,500 killed. There are no words sufficient to express our gratitude, nor our sorrow for their losses.

Whether those losses were in vain will be determined in the very near future as we find out whether Barack Obama's "Promise Kept" was to the Iraqi people, our nation's military, or only to Democratic voters who have been losing enthusiasm for their ineffectual president.

In the meanwhile, perhaps Mr. Obama's re-election team would like to raid their 2008 video vaults to make more "Promise Kept" commercials - showing how well the president has fulfilled his campaign promises to lower unemployment, balance the budget, end earmarks, bring peace to the Middle East, close Guantanamo, end partisanship in Washington, create a post-racial society, have the most transparent administration in history, and cause our planet's rising oceans to recede.

All of which were dumb promises. Rash promises. Promises of choice...and not reality.

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Weeking Off

Our news hound is always digging for stories

Hope n' Change Cartoons is taking a week off to catch up on a few personal projects which have gotten shoved aside in recent months. Nothing exciting and, happily, nothing health-related. Nope, we just need to set aside a little time to untangle some health insurance problems, work on employment issues, do some budget balancing, train our laser-like focus on revenue enhancement, and organize priorities overall.

In other words, we'll be doing the kinds of things that Barack Obama can't do worth a tinker's damn - all of which have become harder for those of us in the peasantry since Barry took office. 

One of the more pleasant things taking up a lot of our time lately is Penny, the official news hound of Hope n' Change. As you can see in the video, she's grown a bunch - and is an absolute dynamo. At 8 months old, she's entering the "teenage" developmental stage in which she doesn't like taking orders, wants to run around at all hours, and likes to experiment with "forbidden" substances (by eating furniture, for instance). We love her dearly, and will do so even more when she calms the heck down.

Truthfully, taking a week off will also help recharge our personal battery; the day-in day-out scandals and idiocy in the news take a genuine emotional toll. And the "Gitmo Five" travesty has done so even more than usual. So for the next seven days, Hope n' Change plans to let Life and Liberty take care of themselves while we put a little more emphasis on The Pursuit of Happiness.

Feel free to leave remarks in the comments section - there will no doubt be plenty of things to talk about!    -Stilton

 As a matter of fact, Harry, they did.