Sunday Morning Bagels
Cidu Bill on Sep 21st 2008
Is the joke here that McCain wanted Joseph Lieberman as his running mate but got Sarah Palin by mistake? Far Left Side happens to be a very liberal (well, “Far Left Side,” duh) and a rabidly anti-McCain strip, but that still doesn’t explain this comic.
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Far Left Side, John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, comic strips, comics, humor, politics | 13 responses so far
AMC Sep 21st 2008 at 12:29 am 1
Yes, it is a McCain wanted Lieberman and got Palin joke.
Moose powered Mayor, bagel powered Senator, and “John McCoyote” are tell-it-from-the-mountain tells.
No question.
Cidu Bill Sep 21st 2008 at 12:30 am 2
But since McCain chose Palin, what’s the joke here?
Dave Van Domelen Sep 21st 2008 at 12:42 am 3
The crate started as ACME, but that’s been crossed out and replaced by Halliburton. He ordered Joe from ACME, but his desires were thwarted by a subcontactor.
Arvy Sep 21st 2008 at 12:42 am 4
John told them “get the Jew!” but the company (i.e. the Republican party leaders, represented here by Haliburton) didn’t send him want he wanted - they sent him what they thought he needed.
It doesn’t work because there are too many parts that are stretched too far to correlate the reality with the allusion e.g. having to cross out Acme and write Haliburton, the name John Wile E. McCoyote, “bagel powered”, etc.) And what’s with Moose powered Mayor? Does alliteration trump accuracy? She is currently a governor.
Arvy Sep 21st 2008 at 12:44 am 5
Not sure if I got my point across. The joke is playing on the supposed inside the beltway scuttlebut that John McCain did NOT pick Palin; she was selected for him.
AMC Sep 21st 2008 at 01:05 am 6
“These guys” are the powerful far-right members of the Republican Party - read: the Council for National Policy. James Dobson and company:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352178/secretive_right_wing_group_vetted_palin
http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080901_3695.php
Whether you believe it or not, that’s what the cartoon is about. McCain wanted Lieberman, but had to take Palin to get the far right on his side.
And it would be hard to argue that the selection of Palin energized a segment of the Republican Party that had been more than stand-offish to McCain prior to his VP selection.
Richard Sep 21st 2008 at 02:46 am 7
There have been numerous reports that McCain wanted Lieberman for the ticket, but was told by his advisors that the right wing would detest him if he went with Lieberman - or anyone else who did not want to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Charlene Sep 21st 2008 at 11:40 am 8
The rumours also state that they didn’t want a person of the Jewish faith on the ticket. That was fine for those godless Democrats, but not for God’s Only Party.
I think Lieberman would have been a million times more attractive to moderates than a woman who allowed the police force to charge rape victims over $1,000 for the forensic tests - and who wouldn’t press charges unless they did. (Funny, too, how stories are coming out that the charges were only asked of women who weren’t middle-class whites. Sounds like a way to make it impossible for Indian women to charge white men with rape, but hey, what do I know?)
anonymous Sep 22nd 2008 at 03:09 am 9
charlene, apparently not much, that’s another viscous lie being spewed out by the left-wing hate-propaganda machine.
David Sep 22nd 2008 at 09:45 am 10
The picking of a VP candidate seems to fit the pattern of just about everything else a presidential candidate does. There’s the best thing to do, there’s what they want to do, then there’s what they have to do in order to get votes. Also, I’m glad that someone explained “bagel-propelled senator”, I’m not sure I would have made the Lieberman connection on my own, I guess I don’t automatically think in Jewish stereotypes the way that Stanfill does .
The Vicar Sep 22nd 2008 at 12:03 pm 11
Well, how about the fact that it’s a moose-powered mayor in the middle of a desert? That isn’t going to help, either.
Scott Sep 22nd 2008 at 12:26 pm 12
There is one more aspect to this joke - that the Acme products the Coyote gets never quite work as expected. Maybe Palin energized the base, but she’s done nothing to win over the Hillary voters and the independents, and given Troopergate and the drip, drip, drip of scandals she might blow up in McCain’s face - just like an Acme product. And she doesn’t bring a lot of economic smarts, to put it mildly.
Chuck Sep 22nd 2008 at 01:45 pm 13
A lot of Christian Republicans I know are pissed off about the choice, too. Everyone already thinks we’re stupid and evil (which some are, of course. Goes for every group). We didn’t need this.