The
Race-Based Space Race
 As
we all know, the
Affordable Health Care Act was essentially
a Republican idea implemented by a Democratic
president.
(It's not single-payer, but we'll get there.)
Conversely, the Apollo moon program was the
brain-child
of
a Democratic
president,
even though
it's ultimate goal was achieved during a Republican
presidency.
(This back-handed analogy would have had more gristle
had a black man attained the presidency
in 1960, though LBJ would have probably still
become president in 1963, if you get my morbid
drift.)
It's an odd thought but if the Democrats back
in '69 had practiced modern Republican
obstructionism there
would still have been Americans on the moon
that summer but not without a
lot
of socialist-this and marxist-that. Although
justifiably so, in this case, as Nixon turned
out to be quite the treasonous little cur.
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Note: In the eight-plus year
history of this comic I've used photographs
instead of art
very
rarely.
Very, VERY rarely. That I've used photos in
two comics in the last week is just curious
circumstance, owing
much
to the holidays and, in the case of today's
comic, an idea that just begged for the image
I eventually used. I won't say that it won't
happen again any time soon but... SQUIRREL!
=Lefty=
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