Bush seems to be stealing Obama’s foreign policy strategy: © Tom Toles
© Steve Benson UPDATE: Well, I just had to add Vanity Fair’s take-off cover:
“Today on television, President Bush assured Americans that he is taking steps to resolve the financial crisis. Well, that’s good enough for me. Come on, let’s go to the park.” -David Letterman “President Bush lifted the presidential ban on offshore drilling that was imposed by his father, the first President Bush, 18 years ago. But […]
On Thursday, McCain communications director Jill Hazelbaker attacked Obama’s upcoming trip to the Middle East, saying “Let’s drop the pretense that this is a fact-finding trip and call it what it is: the first-of-its-kind campaign rally overseas”. McCain disagreed, saying that he was personally “glad” that Obama was making a trip to Iraq and Afganistan, adding […]
Jones Cola Company has a new way to buy an election. Well, at least their soft drinks. They are selling four kinds of cola: for Obama, McCain, Clinton, and Paul, and encourage you to vote for your candidate by purchasing their drink (regardless of age or residency, they helpfully remind you). Unfortunately, their democracy isn’t […]
The Chinese are becoming security paranoid in advance of the start of the Beijing Olympics, which start in 8 short weeks. Here are some of the things they have done: Bars around the city are being prohibited from allowing dancing. Bars are also being prohibited from serving black people or Mongolians, because of fear of […]
© Ruben Bolling What I find especially interesting about McCain’s proposed car battery contest is that like other poorly-thought-out government incentives, it warps the market. McCain’s contest assumes that the solution is a chemical battery, and ignores equally valid solutions — for example, the hybrid car that is about to be built that uses compressed […]
© Matt Davies Just in case you don’t get this, it is a parody of a very famous New Yorker magazine cover from 1976.
© Matt Bors Incidentally, Bors did a cartoon with the same theme as the New Yorker cover months ago, and some people think he did it clearer and funnier.
The website 23/6 makes a disturbing observation for beer drinkers everywhere. In 2000, the US elected two oil men — Bush and Cheney — and gas prices went through the roof. Now, the Republicans are trying to get us to vote for McCain, whose wife owns of one of the largest beer distributorships in the […]
As Electoral-Vote points out, for Republicans NY-13 is the congressional district that keeps on giving: First, Republican Congressman Vito Fossella tries to prove his love of family values by having two families. Fossella decides not to run for reelection. The Republicans pick Francis Powers to run for his seat, but his son (Francis Powers Junior) announces […]
