One of the best Doonesburys ever. Unfortunately it's not satire.

[Merlin]

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20030713

In a single cartoon strip he explains what it would take a 5-pages of words to do.

[JackSwift]

1. You can do both

It is useful to see the points of view of the opposition. It is not an ability that our opponents have, and we do. But we do have to know when to use it: in private, among ourselves. We do have to be aggressive and ruthless in public argument, like Carville is.

[deneb]

2. It's a good one

But do you remember when Mark, some lo 30 years ago - did a poll on his radio show asking his listeners if they thought Nixon was innocent or guilty?

I can still picture him, almost insanely reading off the tally:

"Guilty, Guilty, GUILTY!"


for some reason I'm reminded of that these days...

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

4. We must be the same age

I distinctly recall laughing my butt off at that one!

[noonwitch]

7. I remember a similar one he did about Reagan and Iran-contra

It's in one of the Doonesbury books I have around the house.

[Stanchetalarooni]

3. I don't think that it is within our genetic makeup.

These battle lines have just as much to do with nature as it does with nurture.
WE have a type of hardware or hardwiring that sets the basic perameters of our abilities.
THEY, likewise.
The type of genetic hardware predicts to a degree what type of software can be uploaded and proccessed.
Take a look at Mac's and PC's.
Then take into account differing proccessor speeds and memmory capacities and the like and it is no wonder that Mac's understand and work with other Mac's and PC's understand and work with other PC's and rarely if ever do they work and understand each other.

[Atlant]

5. The truth hurts...

I'm pretty sure that, in my two local newspapers (The (Nashua)
Telegraph and The Boston Globe), that strip ran WITHOUT
the first two panels ("What Liberal Media? Maybe I'm it!").

Atlant

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. jays'us...sad and true