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Toon: Wrong Direction (Original Post)
n2doc
Apr 2013
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daybranch
(1,309 posts)1. fooled me
the title made me think that this was going to be about President Obama's cuts to social security.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2. I made that mistake before I learned the facts.
Oy!
nxylas
(6,440 posts)3. That got published in an actual newspaper?
I'm not complaining, it's just that I was expecting a ton of twee "St Peter meeting Thatcher at the pearly gates and making some vaguely humorous remark about how he hopes that God realises what he's in for" toons in the MSM, with cartoons like the one above being confined to the alternative newsweeklies.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)4. 90% are exactly as you describe
How Bennett survives in TN I don't know. But he is good, and pretty fearless.
4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)7. Believe it or not, our big cities are mostly blue.
And some of our rural counties too. Still, even I wonder how he survives here, and in the reddest part of the state!
dickthegrouch
(3,170 posts)6. ROFLMAO /nt