Political Cartoons

come now. The rules. They do not apply to Him.

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drivebyluna.livejournal.com

lol

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Did he decide that?

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I've heard that he is the Decider.

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That's the word on the street.

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We all know he's a man of the people.

As long as you have the green.

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I just checked, and the word on the street is "XING."

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I'd suggest looking again...really close up, right on that word.

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It's a pretty old one -- likely back before a lot of people starting going "uh, wait a minute" in earnest, much less 2/3+ now.

EDIT: Take that back. Dates from 2006, according to a Google or three.

Edited Date: 2008-03-20 02:44 am (UTC)

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Is this photoshoped? We all know that the news would have been all over this if it was real. The placement of the hands looks off, kinda like one is floating.

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http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000407.htm shows that the picture is from at least 2004.
http://irregulartimes.com/flaggingsigns.html includes the paragraphs:

"Most recently, George W. Bush has spilled ink all over the American flag he insists that he is sworn to protect.

A little over a month ago, at a Republican political rally in Livonia, Michigan, George W. Bush signed his name as an autograph on the American flag. He did so not just once, but with several flags brought by his conservative fans solely for that purpose.

The funny thing is that George W. Bush has openly supported efforts by the Republican Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would outlaw not just flag burning, but any "physical desecration" of the American flag."

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/06/president_bush_defaces_flag/ suggests that this isn't the first time he's signed a flag.

http://www.americablog.com/2006/06/did-george-bush-deface-american-flags.html says he did it in 2003.

http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/lofiversion/index.php/t57243.html this one's just weird.

I'd say it's pretty clear that it's happened, even if this picture happens to be photoshopped, which I don't really know enough about to say.

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Ok, fair enough. He wrote on the flag. Thats well withing his rights. Now its up to you if that makes you not like him more or less. Or if it even matters. Now it would be hypocritical if you OKed this for other politicians but not condemn it because its Bush.

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Actually, no. It's not within his rights. It's expressly against the law -- and I would feel the same no matter who did it.

And not only is it expressly against the law, but he is a politician who has spoken out AGAINST flag burning -- which is NOT against the law when performed as political speech, and IS an approved method of disposing of a defaced flag!

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Finally, a hook on which to hang impeachment proceedings.

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one might hope it'd be the straw to break the camel's back, but it would appear no such luck.

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I know you want Bush to be the 2nd president impeached but it is not going to happen. Only in your wet dreams.

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tubaboy81.livejournal.com

Can't happen. Clinton was the second president to be impeached, Bush would have to be third.

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Who was the first?

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tubaboy81.livejournal.com

Andrew Johnson in the late 1860s.

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cool

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I do? That's news to me. I'm glad you can see my dreams.

(And there've already been two, incidentally.)

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Please name them? I would actually like to know this.

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Andrew Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson)
William Clinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton)

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Fair deal. Someone else mentioned that there were two before Clinton. Is that true?

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No, it's not. President Nixon would surely have been impeached if he hadn't resigned, though, since there were already efforts underway to start proceedings against him before he announced his departure; that's probably what that person was referring to.

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Typical answer. I was corrected. I learned from it. The fact remains that your wet dream of Bush being impeached like Clinton will not happen.

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Its a typical answer because you lost. It was pointed out to you that your wet dream wouldn't come true. So instead of say yeah you are right, you went into attack on something that had nothing to do with the topic to make yourself feel big. You are just mad because you know I am right.

As for my entry in my journal....Do you even know why that is there? Look at the date and figure out what was happening in MA at that time. Then you can talk without looking like an idiot.

Conclusion, you are mad because I am right and you don't like it. Well, come one now, post something else that has nothing to do with Bush NEVER being impeached. LOL. In the words of Obama, or close to the words, You are a typical democrat. HAHA.

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Its against the law to deface the flag? Isn't that free speech? Can you give me the law that says this?

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I believe that the flag-code is part of the law. It's possible I'm wrong.

But freedom of speech only applies to POLITICAL speech. I don't think that signing an autograph on a flag is political speech, although I'm sure his lawyers would make that attempt.

Certainly, if not against the law, it's mighty hypocritical of him.

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Its not against the law. So it really doesn't matter. The thing that bothers me is that the people who are bitching about it are the ones who burn the flag and wear it as clothing themselves.

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Burning the flag as a political statement is different from burning it as a tinder.

Nuanced people can tell the difference. But then, nuanced people realize that it's his hypocrisy that's the problem, not that he's signing a plastic flag, and that it's what the flag STANDS for that's important, not the piece of fabric itself.

Honestly, I don't get the whole wearing it as clothing bit.

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Either way, no crime was broken. So rational people will drop it.

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no, the crime has survived, unbroken and unbowed.

So. Bitched about Obama not wearing a flag pin lately?

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I was actually waiting for that typical response so I could proudly say that I have NEVER bitched about Obama not wearing a flag pin. Believe me or not, thats the honest to God truth.

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more power to you, then.

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malasadas.livejournal.com

The flag code are GUIDELINES for civilians and rules for the military.

It is not a criminal statute.

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fair enough. I was wrong.

Still mighty hypocritical.

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namey.livejournal.com

Yes and yes -- It is against federal law (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+4USC8), but rulings on it have been in favor of the 1st Amendment aspect of the action.

Just another example of him and his ignoring and disrespecting the laws of this country when it suits them, and calling it patriotic.

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