Comments on: Sunday Morning Bagels

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:45:42 +0000

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.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:26:34 +0000

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.

By: The Vicar

The Vicar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:03:32 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:45:19 +0000

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 .

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:09:26 +0000

charlene, apparently not much, that’s another viscous lie being spewed out by the left-wing hate-propaganda machine.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:40:30 +0000

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?)

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:46:47 +0000

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.

By: AMC

AMC — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:05:15 +0000

“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.

By: Arvy

Arvy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:44:33 +0000

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.

By: Arvy

Arvy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:42:36 +0000

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.