The Jeb! Bush campaign has decided to bet on the fact Americans have the collective memory of a gnat when it comes to a misguided war built on deception and political agendas. (cartoons from the archive:)
Tag: GW Bush
Looking back at the GW Bush presidency
I just returned from participating on a cartoonists panel looking back at the George W Bush presidency at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. Our moderator was Roslyn Mazer, a great supporter of cartoonists’ free speech rights who represented the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in an amicus brief for the famous Hustler v Falwell case in 1987. The other cartoonists on the panel were Mike Peters from the Dayton Daily News, Steve Breen from the San Diego Times Union-Tribune, and Mike Luckovich from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s always fun to get together with my colleagues and this particular group had me laughing most of the time. Especially Mike Peters. The evening before our panel Roslyn herded us to a local Italian restaurant (think The Sopranos) and watching Mike interact with our waiter was priceless.
The next day while we waited in the hospitality room before our panel I mentioned to Mike that the former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden was sitting over at the next table. Without missing a beat Mike rushed over to his table, introduced himself, and proceeded to ask the creator of the NSA warrantless surveillance program to “just forget” hearing that obscene phone call he had with his wife.
A sketch from another panel at the Hofstra presidential conference, “The Constitution, Executive Power and National Security Post-9/11. If you put everything Michael Hayden said during the discussion into one sentence it would be: The Obama administration is doing the same bad stuff we did. 
The King of Saudi Arabia dies
King Abdullah has died at age 90.
A cartoon from the archives
Fool me once, shame on me… fool me… you can’t get fooled again
The Republican National Committee is selling “I miss W” t-shirts. Really.
The poodle speaks
Former British PM Tony Blair is speaking out about Iraq, insisting that the 2003 war has no connection to what’s going on there now.
Two cartoons done for the Guardian in 2006:
Iraq and Father’s Day
From the archives, a cartoon from 2003:
So much for Mission Accomplished
Islamic militants have captured several cities in Iraq, including Mosul and Tikrit, and are now threatening to take Baghdad. 
The Guardian has a live blog on developing events and BBC News a good piece on the Sunni-Shia divide throughout the Middle East
Maleficent
“Maleficent” opens today, the live-action film based on the original animated character from Disney’s 1959 “Sleeping Beauty”. While I’m sure Angelina Jolie does a great job portraying the evil queen, I think they missed a casting opportunity:
from the archives
President Obama Afghanistan statement
President Obama is scheduled to announce today that combat operations in Afghanistan will be over at the end of 2014. That 13 year war (and don’t forget Iraq) was certainly worth it, wasn’t it?
Jeb Bush: ‘History will be kind to my brother’
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush made the Sunday morning news show rounds yesterday and suggested that his brother’s presidency will be remembered in a favorable light. I certainly hope our memories aren’t that short.
Oscar nominations announced this morning
Since I’m always looking for an opportunity to show former VP Cheney in drag…
Deregulation
Interesting column by Robert Scheer about R. Glenn Hubbard, “the man who will make your life miserable if Mitt Romney is elected president. Unless, that is, you happen to be one of the swindlers who has profited mightily from the nation’s economic pain”.
