Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 20, 2009

I remember when having a cell phone was the epitome of being a jerk … and now it’s just the ringtone?

I like occasional visits with old minor characterw like Thudpucker, but Inauguration week?! GT couldn’t come up with anything topical and positive (that would improve upon last week’s lame, tired parting swipes at W by a character (Roland) so buffoonish that the edge to any commentary is immediately blunted)?

Buffoonish because GT wanted it to be understandable to GWB apologists.

Given this is a historic day, and that the president is elected and change from one president to the next is an ordinary part of our nation; below is a link to background on the one sentence Oath of Office that every president has repeated. And, NO, it doesn’t have ‘state your name’ in it(he he) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99323353

and here is the oath itself*

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Note - even the president is to protect and defend the CONSTITUTION!

O Happy Day! gg

Does that mean my ringtone determines me as a psychotic mass murderer? It goes “Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!” from Doctor Who.

plus4 - yeah but you have to remember that Thudpucker only knows two chords.

I watched my country, the one that I defended, die today, although the death throes may take awhile

shoooo Redskins … away with your nonsense. I’ve seen you post on this site before and have seen you post far more positive and enlightened thoughts.

If you cannot at least accept that people are as proud as you are to be an American today, than you are blind to your own hypocrisy.

Hey guys, regarding redskins - just ignore him. This snert is just trolling. He’s posted the same line on at least four different strips today.

BirishB-thank you for your compliment. It is BECAUSE I am so proud to be an American that I feel this way. I will take your counsel to heart, and contemplate it with an open mind. God Bless! BTW I strive to not be hypocritical, just strong in my convictions.

I just want to add to gg015879’s post on the Oath of Office. Before the election everyone was concerned about Obama taking the oath on a Koran. Nowhere does it say the Oath must be administered on a Bible. President John Adams, in an effort to seperate church and state, took it on a copy of the US Code of Laws. I have taken a federal oath many times, as a soldier and a civilian. Never was I expected to use a Bible.

Lets hope the next time the election does around we don’t lapse into another of Heinlein’s Silly Seasons.

I somehow couldn’t believe that GBT didn’t have anything else to say today. Anyway, here’s a gem from his earlier works.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/craws/images/05885r.jpg

To be correct, members of Congress have ringthuds.

Dear Garry Trudeau, Why are you not delighting your fans with nasty artful swipes at the President? Even though he is new to the office, surely you won’t want to lose all your fans (and income). I wonder why you are so silent today? The new president has already stammered through his oath of office, if that had been George you’d have devoted a whole Sunday paper to it. Well, talk, talk, talk,. If only I had a comic strip.

Skulker, hes done at least seven I’ve seen. Its a bit pathetic that, on the day the we have a black president, a goes on a comic site a does dozens of posts about watching his country die.