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Friday Funnies

Obama's presidential legacy

Henry Payne | 2.18.2011 7:00 AM

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  1. heller   15 years ago

    Are you trying to be unfunny? Are these anti-jokes?

    1. Sal Paradise   15 years ago

      Think of it like Jim's Journal.

      1. Oh, those ears!   15 years ago

        Carter, Bush, Obama: from Dumb, to Dumber, to Dumbo.

        1. Bush is not there...   15 years ago

          He's hovering unseen in the background.

    2. BeltwayLurker   15 years ago

      Finally funny. Once per century.

    3. Ron   15 years ago

      I laughed, for once.

  2. TheOtherSomeGuy   15 years ago

    He'll be lucky if we think of him as favorably as we do Carter.

    1. John   15 years ago

      No kidding. Carter for all of his faults, did deregulate the airline and oil and gas industries.

      1. Isaac Bartram   15 years ago

        He also said no new spending or new social programs until the ones we already have are being paid for.

        The idea was, of course, flawed. But the Democratic Congress made sure it was never tested as they kept piling on spending as fast as they could shovel it.

        1. Sal Paradise   15 years ago

          I actually gained new respect for Mr. Carter after reading Cadillac Desert. He was actively trying to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from continually building new dams for the sake of building dams. And, of course, his buddies on Team Blue hung him out to dry.

          Today, he would probably be considered one of the crazy Tea Party/Libertard/Freeper/Militia members.

          1. BeltwayLurker   15 years ago

            I still consider him crazy.

            1. Concerned Citizen   15 years ago

              Selective Service resurrected.

          2. Ron   15 years ago

            if global warming finally ever happens you'll be wishing all those proposed dams had been built.

      2. Mr Whipple   15 years ago

        ...and BEER!

        1. robc   15 years ago

          Yeah, Im wondering what is wrong with John, skipping Carter's #1 achievement.

      3. Bucky   15 years ago

        didn't he also create the Dept. of Energy and the promise of freedom from evils of foreign oil...

        1. Isaac Bartram   15 years ago

          Yes, and even worse the Dept. of Education.

          And in spite of promises to do so, no one in three Republican administrations since has even tried to abolish them.

          One of Carter's major flaws is that he is a genuine goody two-shoes. he really believes what he spouts. Another is that much of what he believes is nonsense.

          1. The Ex-Prez Klub   15 years ago

            When Obama's an 'ex', he and Jimmah will be fighting over who gets to suck the cocks of tin-pot dictators around the world.

            1. Kreel Sarloo   15 years ago

              Carter will have a lot more free time from the job than either Nixon, Reagan or either of the Bushes.

          2. Bucky   15 years ago

            "a genuine 'anti-Zionist' goody two-shoes"
            fify...

            1. Kreel Sarloo   15 years ago

              What's wrong with being an 'anti-Zionist'? The Israeli Knesset and American Jewry is full of them.

              Do you have your bags packed ready to give up your land to the Indian tribe that lived on it less than hundred years ago.

              In the Palestinians' case, it was a question of being asked to give up their land (much of it having written land titles going back five hundred years or more) to a bunch of people that had a highly questionable claim of having lived there two thousand years before.

              1. Bucky   15 years ago

                i think you're a little "highly" yourself...

      4. Rhayader   15 years ago

        Carter is also the only President in our history to seriously think about dialing back drug prohibition. This was at a time when public support for marijuana legalization was polling just a bit above 30%. Now it's essentially 50/50 and Obama laughs at us.

      5. Warren   15 years ago

        ... and trucking

    2. CaptainSmartass   15 years ago

      Is that who that is in the mirror? I thought it was Bilbo Baggins.

      1. mr simple   15 years ago

        Are you calling Obama a burglar? Racist.

        1. ?   15 years ago

          I thought it was Don Knotts. Seriously.

        2. Gandalf The President   15 years ago

          BILBO BAGGINS!!!! I AM NOT TRYING TO ROB YOU!!!!

    3. Howie Ever   15 years ago

      Habitat for Humanity is the main reason John Q. Public thinks ever fondly of Carter.

  3. a penny a day keep Obama away   15 years ago

    Let me be clear, this is moderately funny.

    1. Other Derp   15 years ago

      I thought this one was pretty decent, myself.

      1. Warren   15 years ago

        by Reason Friday Funny standards this one is an A+
        But that's one hell of a curve.

  4. Sovereign Immunity   15 years ago

    Is that supposed to be H. Ross Perot in the reflection? If so, much funnier than if the reflection is Jimmy Carter. Then it becomes depressing as it's so true.

    1. Fargin Bastage   15 years ago

      Anyone can clearly see that the reflection is Woodrow Wilson.

      1. mr simple   15 years ago

        At first glance I thought it was W.

        1. Bucky   15 years ago

          BDI

  5. NotSure   15 years ago

    I thought that Reagan was supposed to be the left wings anti Christ, why on Earth is he now trying to look like Reagan ? Surely Roosevelt or Peron (Argentina) is what he should be trying to emulate.

    1. BakedPenguin   15 years ago

      Yeah, I was wondering this myself.

    2. Rhayader   15 years ago

      Actually the new thing on the left is to talk about how Reagan was really a redistributionist who was economically to the left of modern Democrats, let alone the GOP.

      1. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

        Reality-based community, indeed.

        1. Bucky   15 years ago

          imagine that...
          from the party that brought us rainbows and unicorns

        2. Rhayader   15 years ago

          Yeah, sorta like how the constitution was "destroyed" by security/defense policy from 2001-2009, then suddenly everything was quite reasonable and prudent without a single change in security/defense policy.

          1. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

            The GOP distresses and offends me mightily, but they simply do not have the delusions of the left. Their errors tend to be the usual about valuing power more than principle and in having some poor assumptions, but they don't have the utopian bug. Which is why the whole "reality-based" meme was such a fucking joke.

            1. Rob McMillin   15 years ago

              they don't have the utopian bug.

              Wilsonian imperialism for $500, Alex.

              1. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

                Yes, that's true. I was thinking of that sort of thing being more based on faulty assumptions, but it does have some utopian stink to it as well.

                1. k2000k   15 years ago

                  I'm slightly more sympathetic to the neocons on the right than the loonies on the left, though that still means not very sympathetic. I can understand the world viewpoint of needing to be vigilant and ready to blast the crap out of people that want to do us harm. The problem is that it seems everyone wants to do us harm in their world view. Which makes the rest of them want to hurt us, which makes us blast the crap out of them again...sigh..at least with them I can keep my babies i.e mah guns.

                  1. Rhayader   15 years ago

                    The cons care about defending your right to own a gun about as much as the libs care about defending my right to smoke a little grass. Which is to say, not at all.

  6. Racist Profiler   15 years ago

    Racist.

  7. Alan Vanneman   15 years ago

    Does Henry pay you guys to run these cartoons? Because he ought to.

    1. John   15 years ago

      Just because you pay people to read your dumb ass blog and your rewrites of the Sherlock Holmes novels, doesn't mean everyone does the same.

      1. MNG   15 years ago

        Isn't it great how despite a half a dozen posters mock this as terribly unfunny John lashes out at the one that he sees as a liberal. Rage, rage oh kulture warrior!

        1. Sal Paradise   15 years ago

          Is it time for the daily John / MNG cat fight?

          Can you two just have sex and get it over with?

          1. MNG   15 years ago

            I guess you don't see the irony in accusing others of homosexual urges and your handle from a Jack Kerouac character...

            1. Rather   15 years ago

              Come on MNG! I'd by tickets to that show-Helle could be my date when he gets over being mad at me

              1. Rather   15 years ago

                I know! I's great to be me! It's all about ME ME ME-The world is so rectal-centric!

                1. rather   15 years ago

                  are you still mad at me little boy 🙁

                  1. My God,   15 years ago

                    rectal. Just go choke on your dad's cock and get it over with. Your pickled cunt is tiresome.

                    1. rather   15 years ago

                      speaking of tiresome, your insignificance bores me-I had to incif you

                    2. generic Brand   15 years ago

                      Hahaha rather using incif... that's ironic!

                    3. rather   15 years ago

                      Wait how do you incif people?

                    4. God's buddy   15 years ago

                      will just take over, rectal. You're soooo self-absorbed. You'll be back to check, and comment on this, too.

                      It's amusing, your small, meaningless, cloistered life, you pickled cunt.

            2. cynical   15 years ago

              Sorry, it's Hollywood's fault. We've been trained to assume that whenever any two people bicker and argue with each other as much as you do, you're about five seconds away from abruptly transitioning from yelling to making out.

              1. rather   15 years ago

                No and I'd rather slit my gut, rip-out my intestines, and feed them to sugarfree-does that make it clear?

                1. I told you   15 years ago

                  you'd be back. Pickled. Cunt. Hurts, doesn't it?

        2. John   15 years ago

          Who sees Vennamen as a liberal? I always thought of him as an all purpose douche. I have no idea what political views are.

        3. Almanian   15 years ago

          Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.

  8. Mango Punch   15 years ago

    Racist.

  9. Rather   15 years ago

    I did a video on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4oe9D2xpg

  10. Johnny Longtorso   15 years ago

    To quote a review of "The Love Guru", that wasn't just not funny, it was anti-funny. It was so unfunny I was left wondering if I'd ever laugh again.

  11. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    Is Jimmy Carter holding a piece of paper under his arm with "Jimmy Carter" written on it?

    1. Almanian   15 years ago

      No. And since Obama needs a piece of paper to remind him of his own name, thereby bringing into question his intelligence:

      Racist.

      1. Howie Ever   15 years ago

        Payne thought just someone might confuse his rendition of Obama with Mubarack.

  12. Rather   15 years ago

    Jimmy's looking a bit Chinese-I wonder if that was a subtle reference about opening up U.S.-China relations.

    1. Almanian as "The Troof"   15 years ago

      The only relationship of the US to China is as servile underlings. They're beating us in EVERYTHING.

      Also, teh Trainnz!!!!!1!!

      1. rather's "Troof"   15 years ago

        Almanian, think of the fantastic Chinese food we will get when they take over all of the US 😉

        1. k2000k   15 years ago

          I'm thinking of perfecting my pico de gallo for the illegal alien overlords that will soon control this great land.

          "I for one welcomes our illegal alien overlords....now go clean my pool mr overlord."

  13. CaptainSmartass   15 years ago

    Anyone seen the video of the retired CIA-analyst who was beaten by security guards at a speech by Hillary Clinton? A speech in which she lambasted foreign despots who stifle free speech?

    A collection of stories on it:
    http://www.google.com/search?q.....d=0CCoQqAI

    Hopefully it'll make the Morning Links.

    1. MNG   15 years ago

      "Anyone seen the video of the retired CIA-analyst who was beaten by security guards at a speech by Hillary Clinton?"

      Is this a sequel to Burn After Reading?

  14. capitol l   15 years ago

    Oh, I get it!

    Obama, aboard Submarine One, looks out the window to see a Carteresque gremlin chewing on the sub's hull(ala "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" the Twilight Zone segment). But he is so stoopid that he has to carry around a piece of paper with his name on it, because he'll forget otherwise.I'm thinking 'Hey man alert the captain to the gremlin gnawing on the hull'. He's insane though, he thinks that he's Reagan, and doesn't even notice the impending doom. I cannot wait until next week to see how this all plays out; maybe you could do a backstory that explains why Obama's arm is out of its socket hole...

    Dang Payne, you really brought the funny this week!

    1. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

      The part of Barak Obama is played tonight by William "The Shat" Shatner.

      1. "The Shat" as Obama   15 years ago

        Please... letmebe... CLEEEEEEEEAAAAAARR!!!

  15. Jen   15 years ago

    Silly me, there was no Friday Funnies last week, and I actually thought maybe they finally put Payne out of his misery.

  16. Hades   15 years ago

    Better Friday Funny -- big fat woman labeled "Wisconsin Teachers" reclining on a couch. Another person labeled "Wisconsin Taxpayers" is hand feeding the fat woman grapes.

    The caption: FEED ME!

    1. Bucky   15 years ago

      ^^what Hades brought^^

    2. Rhayader   15 years ago

      Sounds like Hedonism Bot.

      "I apologize for nothing!"

      1. generic Brand   15 years ago

        Jambi! More chocolate icing!!

    3. Colonel_Angus   15 years ago

      Needs the cop union pointing a gun at the taxpayer.

  17. P Brooks   15 years ago

    That's the worst caricature of George W Bush I've ever seen.

    1. duster   15 years ago

      nailed it

  18. Jim   15 years ago

    Wait, I thought it was Don Knotts in the mirror.

    1. George V   15 years ago

      That's a lousy thing to say about Don Knotts!

      1. James Ard   15 years ago

        No, Eric Holder looks a lot more like Don Knotts than Carter does.

  19. James Ard   15 years ago

    What's the point of the pad with Obama written on it. Does Obama forget who he is?

    1. rather   15 years ago

      I thought it was a reference to Reagan's alzheimers

      1. Rather   15 years ago

        I really thought it was a reference to me and my menopause-because I'm everywhere and it's all about MEEEEEE!

  20. waffles   15 years ago

    I don't get it, he turns into Dennis Kucinich? Where's his hot firecrotch wifey?

  21. P Brooks   15 years ago

    Once the Ascended One imposes wage and price controls, Payne can put Richard Nixon's mug in the mirror.

  22. Almanian   15 years ago

    As sage would say,

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    1. Epi   15 years ago

      Hey, that's my line!

      1. God's buddy   15 years ago

        No, it's not

  23. clark   15 years ago

    Payne sucks and Reagan was a lousy president.

    1. lois   15 years ago

      "Did you take blue tights again?"

  24. Jim   15 years ago

    how so?

  25. Bill Bixby   15 years ago

    Must remain calm...

    1. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

      I just saw your show on RTV, and I was wondering why you didn't just take some sort of medication to control your temper.

  26. oilfield7550   15 years ago

    Jimmy's lovin' Barack more and more each month for making his 4 years look better and better by comparison.

  27. Concerned Citizen   15 years ago

    Selective Service

  28. Tony   15 years ago

    I agree, Obama is a lot more like Carter than Reagan, which is a good thing.

    Carter was a moral, capable president. Most of the problems of his administration were beyond his control.

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