Super Dave – Sep 7, 2008

3 Responses to Super Dave – Sep 7, 2008

1. Joshua says:

   September 7, 2008 at 12:01 pm

   Nice touch with the “Mavrick” sign.

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2. Erich says:

   September 8, 2008 at 8:53 am

   Either you haven’t commented on Sarah Palin, or I’ve missed it. I enjoy your point of view, even when I don’t agree with it.

   So………

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3. neal says:

   September 8, 2008 at 9:38 am

   I haven’t, mainly because most of my cartoons are local. I do have a rejected sketch on that topic that I was thinking about posting.

   Short answer — I think she’s a laughable choice that only helps undermine every rhetorical point McCain is trying to make about his campaign — change, maverick, experience, fight big oil, etc. — but it’s not like McCain wasn’t doing his best to undermine those points anyway. But it appears to be enough for voters, who don’t seem to mind that virtually everything McCain proposes is in direct contradiction to the words he uses to describe his campaign or that virtually everything he and Palin say about Obama is a lie. I thought her speech was petty, mean and juvenile, and then McCain says 24 hours later that he will end bitter partisanship.

   I knew I disagreed with her politics, but I didn’t really have anything against her personally until that speech. If someone is willing to get up there and recite that many lies about someone just to tear them down and get some frat-house cheers from the crowd, I definitely think they’ve crossed the line to scumbag (I am, of course, making the assumption that she’s informed enough to know she was reciting lies). It’s shameful how they can’t address Obama-Biden on issues, so they just make up what the rabid crowd wants to hear.

   I read a poll this morning that more than 50% of Americans believe Obama will raise their taxes. McCain’s adviser, Steve Schmidt, is going out and telling anyone who’ll listen that Obama will raise everyone’s federal taxes, and none of the “journalists” interviewing him correct him. I realize I’m getting off point and I said this was the “short answer,” but quite simply there is nothing experienced, reformist, small-government or maverick-esque about Palin, yet that is how she is packaged and sold. But in that respect, she’s a perfect fit for the campaign she’s become a part of.

   I suppose as long as people are buying it, though, what can you say?

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