more Doonesbury on dean-supporters....remember this important

[diamond14]

statement: DO NOT LAUGH....THIS IS NOT FUNNY...

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[otohara]

4. Well He's Got The Washington Insider Now

to get the inmates in shape, happy now? God forbid he got the kids excited about his campaign and they got carried away. It's their future Bush is running into hell and if it weren't for Dean the others wouldn't have grown a spine

[buckeye1]

17. Spine?

Dean had X-ray pictures to the contrary. He served them up before they were asked for. Sking was alot more fun than the war.

[Clark Can WIN]

34. yeeeeeeeeoooooooooowwwwwwwwww

I feel the burn from here.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. And we so crazy!

[diamond14]

7. saddens me that dean runs campaign on backs of underaged

(< 18 years old) children....

which is illegal by Federal Election Laws....Doonesbury has brought the 'underaged' issue up in numerous cartoons, but dean still won't stop....

and then, dean partied-hardy and wasted all those children's money....it's real pathetic....espectially for a doctor to take advantage of children.....

[LiberalTexan]

Oh yes! The Dean Sweatshop!

Thanks for the laugh today. :)

[otohara]

9. He is Dr. Evil

send him to Gitmo

[ibegurpard]

11. OMFG!

Are you serious? Those statements were even FUNNIER than the cartoon! ROFLMAO!

[LoZoccolo]

13. Wave.

:hi:

[buckeye1]

18. I think your pos is silly.

n/t

[buckeye1]

21. silly post

n/t

[RetroLounge]

23. Oh yeah, right! Dean's Sweatshop!

you be funny person. I laugh long time...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. Comedy is not dead.

[corporatewhore]

37. I find that offensive as a politically active youth

i am old enough to vote but teens getting involved with campaigns and such is our way of trying to shape the direction that the world WE ARE GOING TO INHABIT DAMN IT!!!while i dont think dean is alot different from dlc dems some people do and it is a way to call attention that you old farts who are bound by "politics as usual" and "I'd love to but.."

[HFishbine]

44. Calling BS on this one

I just called the FEC. There are no age restrictions for volunteers on presidential campaigns. None.

1-800-424-9530, and press 1, then 3.

[LoZoccolo]

10. Wave.

:hi:

[girl gone mad]

2. Fair criticism.

But, it's also fair to say those old guys in union jackets haven't brought much change to Washington in the last couple of decades.

Maybe it's time the "kids" had a voice.

[molly]

12. Those old guys in union jackets saved this country from

corruption years before you were a twinkle in you grandfather's eye. Study business law. Kids should learn and study as much as they can until they are old enough to cast a vote. That is where HD went wrong - he rallied the troops like some sort of rock concert, forgetting that they could not VOTE!!!!

[MercutioATC]

22. Hey, I'm pro-union (even belong to one), but unions saving this country

from corruption??? THAT'S a laugh. From worker exploitation, maybe, but certainly not corruption...

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

46. actually, yes, from corruption

GOP propaganda aside, unions are some of the *least* corrupt organizations in the country. Compare them to corporations - or churches - and you'll find the incidence of corruption and crime is significantly less.

[buckeye1]

20. Of course.

kids need to learn. Dr. Dean teaches first grade. Or something like that. Be aware! Politics is a war without casualties. That is why it is one of the only improvements humankind has ever made. Politics has a mixed record. The joy is that people seek it,the job is to make it work and be fair.
Thats what Liberals do. Check their record. If you are not amazed you should be.

[Julien Sorel]

38. So the key is change.

Change itself is good for its own sake -- not improvement, not progress: change. And people say Dean had no positive message :eyes:

[ibegurpard]

3. I'm a Dean supporter

And I found that very funny.

[Hav]

6. "statement: DO NOT LAUGH....THIS IS NOT FUNNY..."

I think even if the comic weren't funny,that line of the poster made it way more funnier. :D

[LuminousX]

8. I guess this is tempered by the fact

Trudeau and Dean are on good terms.

[Bill McBlueState]

14. kids?

What's all this about Dean using "kids" who are too young to vote? I just assumed the "kids" were college students. People 18-22 or so get referred to as kids pretty frequently.

Right??

[diamond14]

15. under 18 years old....and those children are NOT allowed to

solicite votes....by Federal Law....

[mouse7]

32. *SMACK*

I was soliciting votes when I was FOUR. Nothing is more American than volunteering on a campaign.

Hell, even Ritchie Cunningham volunteered for the Stevenson campaign in the first couple of seasons of Happy Days. It is absolutely impossible to get any more "All-American" than the behavior of a Ron Howard character. Look it up.

[HFishbine]

43. Link? Source?

Anything to back up what you are so certain of?

[HFishbine]

45. FACT CHECK

I just called the FEC. There are no age restrictions for volunteers on presidential campaigns. None.

1-800-424-9530, and press 1, then 3.

[justinpower]

50. My Three Year Old Son

was handing out Kucinich literature at our community fair last summer.

[Bucky]

16. Where is her HAND coming from in that 2nd panel? It looks creepy.

BTW, I didn't laugh. I had to bite my lip, but I didn't laugh.

[elcondor]

19. I would have NEVER noticed that

Thanks for pointing that out! :D

I, personally, like this one: ;-)

[mdmc]

29. Trudeau hates drawing hands and feet

:dem:

If there are teen agers calling for Dean, who do you think their parents will support? I think that Michael Doonesbury might be voting for Dean, if he gets a chance.

[dsc]

25. I age 36 canvased for him this weekend

I was paired with a lady who is clearly older than I (no one asks a lady her age). The other people were all older than I save two who were the teen aged kids of the man in charge. Thus at 36 I was below the median age. I met one Dean supporter (we did a lit drop) she was very young. Age 82. Yep 82 years. So many youths.

[Hoppin_Mad]

26. Thanks - I needed a good chuckle -nt-

[progressivebydesign]

27. Yeah.. funny.. but has Trudeau been to a Dean Meetup lately?

The ones that I attended, the people that were taking phone lists.. all at LEAST 40. There wasn't a person under 40 in that room. The flashmob for Dean that Doonesbury immortalized? Most were middle aged there... While the comic is funny. It is really perpetuating the myth that Dean only appeals to high school and college kids. There is a group of supporters that are young, but look at any of his rally photos.. mostly middle aged and up. We do him and his supporters a disservice by buying into those offensive ads in Iowa about Dean supporters.

[not systems]

36. Same at the meetup I went to average age about 45.

Why deal with the truth when the fiction is so much easier to grasp.

[John_H]

28. The "Dean Machine" proved It's how, not how many.

As a party we should take a lesson from the Dean/Trippi strategy. No, not as Doonsbuery seems to suggest, that college kids with cool hats do not an organization make, but that we're going to have to win by turning out our existing base through the tried and true methods--building relationships and spending money.

If we get caught up in the fashionable "bringing new voters in to the process" shtick that even McAuliffe is paying lip service to, we'll lose.

Dean brought a whole bunch of new voters in, and then got summarily whipped by old fashioned politicing.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

30. sadly true. nt

[Hep]

31. Did someone receive such a phone call?

Or is this m ore playing from the playas?

[mdmc]

33. Well, DFA made lots of phone calls in Iowa

and the votes didn't show that.

[HuckleB]

35. More of the same pitiful schtick from a washed-up cartoonist.

This is so sad to see. He didn't know when to quit, did he?

[tkmorris]

40. Yeah, that Trudeau

He's SO washed up. Sure mate, whatever you say.

:eyes:

[HuckleB]

49. Sorry, but the reality makes those eyes roll backwards.

:eyes: indeed.

[mdmc]

41. He donated 2 grand to Dean

Does that curb your hatred?

[HuckleB]

48. It's called criticism.

No, my criticism remains the same. Trudeau should have ended the strip years ago. It's turned into its own worst parody, at this point.

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[mrgorth]

42. Pretty cute

unlike the hateful remarks.

[ProfessorPlum]

47. When I canvassed for Dean this weekend

I met a lot of union guys who were voting en bloc for Dean - their unions had endorsed him.

I also met a lot of old people - plenty of women in their 80s, who were voting for him becaues "he was the only one showing any enthusiasm" (re: I have a Scream).

So, I don't think there is anything to worry about here.