Giving thanks today for the ending of the most dishonest, corrupt, and incompetent government in the history of the United States. Giving thanks today for the opening of a new era of progress for the people of the United States under an administration that will do as Jesus Christ said: feed and care for the poor and the ill.

I am thankful today that the work wrought by the wrecking crew which has been in office for the last eight years to overcome more than 100 years of anti-trust and labor law will be reversed. I am thankful that overcoming these and other attempts to turn back the clock now is seriously likely to happen and that the kind of support for capitalism represented by those laws is now on track.

I am thankful that finally we have a government that will pay attention to real energy policy, better tax policy, better environmental policy, better health care policy, and better employment building policy. I am thankful too that at last we have a government that will attempt to recover the world's respect and change the direction of our diplomacy.

I am thankful today that we once again have a center-slightly-left government that gives mainstreet the benefit of the doubt. I am also thankful that once again we have a government that will give gay and lesbian citizens the benefit of the doubt. Finally!

There's much more that I'm thankful for -- I'm approaching age 78 and still in decent health. I'm economically safe. And last but not least, I'm thankful that all of us are not hungry.

And in another attempt to defeat the @#%$^&*!!!! spammers, I'm going to have to approve all comments before they are posted. Hopefully, you won't notice it that much, but your comments won't post immediately-- at least for a while until the spammers give up.

Sorry about the lameness of the comments, but you have people like:
turkmagazin
ya-ra@live.com

magmas
caglar@microfix.com.tr

to thank for this.

Keep commenting and we should be able to take back the site! Thanks,

-Mark Fiore

Okay people, hate to do this to you, but from here on out only people who have signed into this site can leave comments. I loved having the ability to quickly add comments without logging in, but the spammers were way to persistent. May they burn in the eternal fires of internet ether.

Commenting should function better now, although I'm sure some spammers will still log in and do their thing.

Thanks!

-Mark Fiore

Well at least it gives you the right to complain for the next four years.

Of course one old man in West Virginia said that he pushed down for Obama on his voting machine and the thing lit up for McCain.

Well, the world is going to hell anyway. Well probably all will be waiting in soup lines next year.

And so at last it happens...

Obama achieves full-blown messianic status in the mind of our esteemed Mr. Fiore.

He'll 'calm the economic storm with decisive, intelligent action'. If anybody anywhere has ever said anything soundbiteier than this, I haven't heard it. Bravo.

He'll calm it how? By spending it to death? By passing a law that makes it illegal for hyperleveraged derivatives to unwind? By banning inflation? By hiring the 750,000 Americans down-sized in the last nine months as government workers so they can collect pensions from a bankrupt pension system?

The U.S. is broke. You don't have the money to pay for road repairs, let alone fix your education system, fund healthcare, or fight another war.

Obama will 'bring peace to wartorn nations'. Of course. You'll be greeted as liberators when you go (back) into Afghanistan. And Pakistan. And Georgia. Peace for all! Why not sit down with Iran for a bit of lip-service to nuclear disarmament while you're at it?

It won't cost much. See, all you've got to do is pull out of Iraq (so that turns into the same quagmire that Afghanistan did), and invade Pakistan. Then, when Pakistan is hunky dory, you can go back into Iraq to do some fine tuning, then in Afghanistan again for a spot, then Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Iraq again, Afghanistan... It's like musical chairs! Why finish wars when you can start new ones?

It boggles the mind. Obama is spending you into absolute oblivion, just like Bush. He's abandoning one unfinanceable war to fight another, just like Bush. He knows squat about economics and defers to the advice of Paulson, Bernanke and their ilk, including a glowing endorsement of the worst financial decision in world history: the 'bail out', like Bush. He's owned by special interests, like Bush. He's a firm believer in state-sanctioned spying, like Bush, which is unlikely to change if he wants to maintain the loyalty of the intel brass.

You're getting four more years of the Bush doctrine bundled up in a 'Hope and Change' wrapper, but since he's the lesser of two evils, heaven forbid you should criticize his terrible policies. Or perhaps you've been driven so insane by 2.5 years of non-stop election campaign that you actually believe the 'Hope and Change' soundbites. Like I say: it boggles the mind.

Enjoy your election. I'll be singing for joy come November not only for the privilege of not having to vote for two abysmal candidates, but because I'll not longer have to hear anything election-related.

You had your chance to craft Obama into a candidate worthy of the U.S. Presidency. You squandered it taking pot-shots at Sarah Palin with one hand and condemning 'negative campaigning' with the other. And when Obama is elected, as the African proverb so aptly puts it: you'll get the politician you deserve.

As Gen. Happy Swellspin puts is: Good bye, and... ugh... good luck.

- COTO

P.S. Am mad as I didn't get my daily dose of funny today. In the final three weeks before an election, political cartoonists stop being funny and metamorphose into the nastiest, scum-flingingest attack dogs on Earth.

Then the election comes and they go back to being funny and informative. Go figure.

You didn't indulge this week, and so I thank you. :)
But sheesh... just cut the pretence and draw him standing in the middle of the Potomac already.

We Canadians went to the voting booths last week and the Conservatives were elected again (yuck!)! However (thank God!), they do not have enough seats in Parliament to do whatever they want. This being said, less than 60% of voters actually voted. If more people took time to vote, we would probably have elected a greener party. Shoot! But the US elections is a lot more serious issue, because the world is at stake! For those who have enough of Republican neocon policies, please vote! You have an opportunity to add your voice to change your country and its influence on the world for the best!

OH MARK, I just saw your next cartoon material. "Palin Says God Will do the Right Thing on Election Day." I am not kidding -- she said this. Google the comment to find the article, and work your magic with it.

See? Just like the Vice President can "really get in there and influence Senate policy", GOD is actually in charge of voting in America! And not just when Putin rears his head, either! So THERE!!!!

Sarah Palin, Dontchaknow! You Betcha! She knows the general direction of where Russia is! It's okay to vote Republican again and remain knee-deep in sh!7, okay, because she's such good friend with Joe the Plumber and he can put in a drain. You Betcha!

Who has the power to lead us out of this mess? Hmmm . . .

-Mark