Palin fascinates me. I mean that in the true sense of the word "fascination" -- I am in thrall to the depth of her stupidity. I would be equally in thrall were she male, and I myself am female, so I don't mean this in a sexist way at all, but when she starts speaking (did anyone ever teach this woman how to diagram a sentence? And do people in Alaska actually HAVE Canadian-cum-Minnesota accents? I didn't know this -- you see, I'm FASCINATED!) I find myself enthralled by the emptiness of her mind. It's like the Wizard of Oz, except when the curtain is pulled away, nothing is there. She makes Bush Jr. look like Einstein. It's fascinating -- I didn't think such a thing could be done. Bravo!

Replace the grizzly bear with a mock of the famouse Teddy Bear cartoon (with Theodore Rosevel) and you improve this carton substantially.

I love it though.

Every woman in the United States should be totally offended by the garbage put out there about Sara Palin.
We all have different opinions about who should be elected and how our country should be run, but it should not necessitate vulgar, immature, untrue slander because we have a woman candidate. Wake up America; you are being manipulated by the big boys yet again.

CB

For those of you clamoring for the embed code for these animations, you'll notice that it's starting to appear! I've added the embed code for animations, beginning with last week's and going all the way back to April. (Just click on the embed link below the animation.)

More to come soon. Let me know how it works out for you.

Thanks,

-Mark Fiore

Quail is to Reagan as Palin is to Mc Cain.
'nuf said?

- StupidPeopleTrick

On a somewhat related note, check out this reaction to Palin's debate performance:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDYzMGFiNjQ0MWRjNmI0ZTlkYjgwZTE...

And the GOP's dead-enders accuse *us* of having a cult-like obsession with Obama? My word, these people are just *pathetic*.

Another aspect of Sarah you might include in future stuff....

(paraphrase)"....Well I sure dont know about the way you do things up there in Washington, but maybe I could bring a little bit of Wasilla mainstreet up there gosh darnit....."

Ever been to Alaska? Most places still have gun checks at the front door. Especially if they serve alcohol (which is most places).

She cant understand how in Washington you can be for something before you're against? Then she doesnt understand that people dont always tell you their real reasons for wanting something and the mechanisms in Washington are what they are.

So if Joe voted to give the Prez the option to go to war for potential leverage doesnt assume the president was prudent or wise in his use of that option.

But then in Wasilla Im sure people never change their minds. Unless they werent honest about what they wanted in the first place.

Like maybe a Bridge to Nowhere versus the cash to do associated capital improvements?

Good depiction of Mrs Palin as a bubble-headed mouthpiece/face. I respect everyone's right to their opinion and I suspect the people who actually watch these toons already set in their opinions.

Everyone (across all party lines) recognizes the ineptitude of Sarah. The difference seems to lie in where they take it. Rationalize it away in the interest of your party affiliation? Or Make a big stink of it based on your party affiliation?

Regardless of what you think of her, there are some basic assumptions that everyone seems to be missing.

There is no single cause of this situation nor is there one single solution. So what the candidates say to that matters little. However, both sides (to varying degrees) seem to assume that the cost of war is an inevitability. War in Iraq versus Afghanistan or anywhere else for that matter is simply a foregone conclusion that we will incur that expense.

In economics I believe it is called "Guns vs Butter". We need to stop focusing on the guns and focus instead on the butter. That simple theory applies to all aspects of our government.

Stop worrying so much about the outside world and focus more on making our own country as stable and well off as possible (without taking advantage of third world countries in the process).

I know. Easier said than done. But the way to that solution is to make america a more attractive place to do business and take care of our own.

Take out ideology. Take out the ability to move your business offshore. Take away our dependence on foreign energy/oil. Take BACK the control of our countries most fundamentals systems from foreign investors.

How do we do that?

For twenty years, Michigan has fallen deeper and deeper into an economic state that the rest of the country is finally starting to feel. All because of the greedy auto makers who refused to change with the times and government officials whose hands were permanently stuck in the cookie jar. Retool them to produce alternative energy (not just alternative fuel) vehicles and train the workers to build them. Make that the engine for revitalized growth and this country will come back from the (nearly) dead.

All the rest will work itself out (hopefully).

Franklin De-Lano Roosevelt was rather good but I almost thought you were going to end with "And you can take that to the bank. If you can find one that hasn't failed." None the less it was a great toon. (and the voice was perfect)

Snuppy

Good one Mark, I thought the lady who did the voice of Betty Boop, Mae Questel, passed away about 10 years ago! Where'd you find her?

This made my ears bleed, just like the real Palin. Good one, Mark.

Well by gosh, This is really close to the reaaal facts about what Sarah Pollin really voices. Golly .. you can be certain that this IS cor-rect! Bye, bye now, the Cat-gal

champion

"If you need fresh material, try watching the twenty minute segment of the presidential debates where Russert desperately tries to get him to explain what he'll give up to back the $700B bail-out."

McCain didn't explain how he'd do it either. He wants more tax cuts for the richest: like his wife. Why should those who just created the worst disaster since the Great Depression get rewarded with MY MONEY?

Obama also mentioned that ending the war on Iraq would free up $10 billion every month. That's $120 billion right there.

"Obama worries me because more and more he strikes me as the kind of man who will tell Americans anything they want to hear to get elected."

Like telling America before the war on Iraq that it was a stupid war and shouldn't happen? That sure is not " kind of man who will tell Americans anything they want to hear". It was gutsy and shows he's willing to go against the popular opinion even when he's in the 5% who were against it them.

No, that would be McCain who has flipped flopped so fast his head is facing the wrong way.

Before he was for tax cuts for the richesst: people like Cindy who got her money the old way: she INHERITED it. No wonder Gigolo John McCain wanted HER to get a big tax cut: she won't put one cent of it in his name so he has go keep her happy anyway he can. Or else.

Now he sounds like a socialist who says the rich are greedy! (I wonder how Cindy feels about that.....)

He was against torture before he was for it. He's voted with Bush more than 90% of the time. He voted for the war on Iraq and said the same things as Cheney etc: the IRaqis would greet us with roses, the WMDs would be found, etc etc.

Now he claims that he alone caused the surge that has meant that fewer innocents are getting slaughtered because of the war he still wants to last many more years.

Sure would be nice to have that $1 trillion that the war has cost us now, eh?

As for free spending the Republican party has decided that it's fine to spend far more than we take in, and just put it in a black hole called "US debt".

Obama has some great ideas to get more revenue: make it illegal for corporations to go offshore and still get big contracts while paying zilch in taxes. If the corporation gets mad, so what, others will take their places. Lots of people would be happy to get $500,000 to run a company and not whine if they didnt' get $40 million plus all kinds of goodies.

WS Rita

Come on, Mr. Fiore!

Obama is up nine points in the polls and you still can't bring it on yourself to drop the McCain/Palin onslaught to hold Obama responsible for his own deficiencies?

If you need fresh material, try watching the twenty minute segment of the presidential debates where Russert desperately tries to get him to explain what he'll give up to back the $700B bail-out.

I'll summarize it for you: Russert gives up. Meaning that Obama is either lying through his teeth or hammering the last nail into your economy's coffin. It's utter lunacy to believe that US home prices will recover in anything less than ten years, if they recover at all. Personally, I would demand to know whether my candidate was planning to saddle me with $700B+ in debt, or if not, which of his promises he intends to break.

The McCain/Palin campaign is safely behind in the polls. Let's stop with this sickening 'well, Obama is better than McCain', 'oh, McCain is worse than Obama' to actually expect something from your candidate.

I'll pay you or anybody reading this a crisp $100.00 US toilet-pa... dollars—one hundred dollars—to explain one specific thing that Obama is willing to do to rescue your economy from its death throes.

Your toon makes it sound as though deregulation of the market is the chief cause of the collapse, never mind the worthless US dollar, a corrupt treasury, the US's insane debt, corrupt regulation agencies, unparalleled spending, crippling deficits, souring demographics, and an utter collapse of virtually any consumer index or commodity index you can shake a stick at.

You're an editorialist! Grill Obama! What is the man going to give up? Demand to know for the sake of your countrymen!

I know. I know.
'Obama's policies at barackobama.com are better than John McCain's. Did you know that John McCain would... John McCain doesn't understand... John McCain's policies are so...'

You're flogging a very dead horse.

- COTO

That was a good one Mark. McCain still doesn't have any Idea about this country economy. With wall street nearly going broke and and banks won't give out loans, or credit this country is going to in for some hard times. And from watching McCain he seem to be clueless about this problems.

Sarah Palin is back! Er, I mean John McCain, talking about the economy. Suspended campaign anyone?

-MF