Pandering at the Pump
We love political cartoons, and Bill Mitchell, a former newspaper cartoonist who’s abandoned print media for the online world (gotta love animated GIFs), is one of our favorites. Check out his great work if you haven’t before.
Earlier, we posted a political cartoon dealing with the staggering cost ($5k/second) of the Iraq war and the farce of the U.S. economic stimulus plan.
Now here’s one about the proposed gas tax holiday, which some presidential hopefuls support. Note that Barack Obama is conspicuously absent below.
Shameless pandering, anyone? Fill ‘er up!
NATIONAL
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Nothing personal to this blog, but I wanted to get this message out of my brain somewhere so badly that I did a google search for any venue showing Bill Mitchell’s comics with a comment box attached:
Bill Mitchell is the worst cartoonist in the world. His comic today is Bush in a track suit running out of the oval office and giving a baton to Obama. That’s not clever, it’s not witty, it’s not even ironic or some kind of amusing observation about the situation. It’s exactly what the situation is - Bush is leaving, and passing the job to Obama. It’s not funny, it’s freakin’ stupid.
Thank you for providing a venue for me to get that out. Have a great day!