Duck Goes Moo!

The latest national polls show Hillary in a virtual free-fall and Obama rising higher than ever. Is this a sign that America is finally losing faith in Hillary?

She doesn’t seem ready to concede and is now is 31 million dollars in debt. It was thought that she was perhaps staying in to raise enough money to pay off her debts, but now it looks like she is trying to break into the White House and the poor house at the same time.

Even if she wins the democratic nomination, is America ready for its first debtor president?

I guess this could be considered the first “Strange Bedfellows” strip, but it was more about working on the character designs than anything else. The conservative character has come along well, but I am still struggling with his progressive spouse. Her look here is still not what I was looking for, but is getting closer. The glasses help define her character, but I don’t know about the blond hair or her outfit.

As for the content of this comic itself, I did a one-panel comic instead of a multipanel (“Strange Bedfellows” is intended to be a multipanel comic like Doonesbury or Garfield) because, once again, I was just working on the characters and not trying to make a real strip. Still, this one is a bit funny an poignant, though I worry that it makes “Dora” seem stupid and clueless. Really, this is okay as I am going to try to play both sides as a little clueless and missing the point from strip to strip.

Still, a definite step towards an actual comic.

I think I may be done drawing cats for a while, and with drawing teenage mice and cyborgs. I really got to reduce the number of things I am doing at once.

Good thing same-sex marriage has been legalized in another state.

Seriously, though, I would like an Obama/Edwards ticket. Make it so.

Yup, it’s official.

Did you know that Oliver Stone is releasing a movie about George W Bush’s life? And that it’s coming out in October? And that Josh Brolin is playing our current president?

No Fooling

I don’t know why, but I just love this picture. With all the attention of Hillary doing whiskey shots and chugging beers I guess Obama decided he’d give it a try to show he is not so “elistist”, though from this shot it would look like he is not digging the beer too much. I really hope Obama does not start a condescending “I’m part of the proletariat and he’s not” tour like Hillary has been.

Personally, I think Hillary calling Obama elitist is very funny, though I admit it seems to be working with the polls. Is American anti-intellectualism so strong and so gullible that all a rich, elitist person has to do to get votes is slap on an exaggerated southern accent, drink a bud, and call someone else elitist? This whole business with Hillary giving speeches from the back of pickup trucks and talking about how much she loved shooting guns as a kid (even though she has backed gun-control bills) seems really hack, but it does indeed seem to be working in the polls.

Hmm… Maybe because her phony, infantilizing schmaltz doesn’t work on me it means I’m an elitist too.

Wow, take a look at this. Ever since Hillary’s 9 point victory in Pennsylvania she has been climbing in the polls and Obama has been dropping like a rock, his first major drop since the start of the campaign.

Also Obama’s polls in the North Carolina and Indiana have been falling as well.

Is this the moment when Hillary breaks forth and claims the nomination? Her husband was a late bloomer in his 1992 race for the white house, so it might still be possible… but unlikely.

Take a look at this.

If we are to believe these numbers then Obama needs 285 more votes to win and Hillary needs 432 votes to win, and there are about 700 votes left. This means Hillary needs around %60 percent of all future delegates to win while Obama needs only %30.

I get the feeling that Obama will be able to muster %30, save his fall in the polls continues at its current pace.

Is Matt Blunt in some kind of trouble? I saw this political cartoon online but I haven’t heard about Mr. Blunt getting into any legal issues.

Obama is way ahead in national polls, but is still a little behind in Pennsylvania.

Tonight should be an interesting primary to watch.

This is part of a poorly animated but very enthralling series that takes a critical look at our current monetary system and potential doomsday scenarios that may come from it.

Very interesting stuff. I don’t know if it is all true or not, but it does make one think.

The only part I am concerned about is that the narrator proposes that human population must be controlled and that the number of births should equal the number of deaths in a society. This is something only a police state could really enforce.

I recently watch a documentary about the belief that some people have that anyone who is age 50 or under has a chance at immortality due to life extending technologies that are being developed (sorry mom, sorry dad). It was very cool to watch, but they never touched on the issue of what we would do with so many immortal people.

It wouldn’t be a problem if only the rich could afford to never die, but if it became cheap and inexpensive then the human population would skyrocket.

Perhaps technology to house and feed that many people would develop too, but it cannot be guaranteed.

We shall see how it all turns out.

I love a good conspiracy theory and this one is about as good as they come:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

It’s by Aaron Russo, the now deceased producer and politico, and it details the idea that there is no law allowing the IRS to place an income tax on private citizens and that it’s all part of a plan to conquer the world.

Pretty convincing stuff if you give it the chance … then again, so was “Dianetics”.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/24/AR2008022400481.html

Barack Obama visits John Edwards

One of my original posts on this blog was about my desire to make a political cartoon called “Strange Bedfellows” that would star an elephant married to a donkey.

Today, I have made the first step in making that a reality:

This is just a preliminary design for the characters, but it’s a step in the right direction.

I actually like the idea so much I might drop the daily Duck Goes Moo! cartoon and just work on this comic. There always will be plenty of fodder for jokes and story lines with all the politics that go on.

I’ll have to make a couple of strips and see if it seems to work.

Well, it looks like once again Edwards will not be our next president.

I’m a bit crestfallen about this, as Edwards was my choice for the presidency in the last election and now this time he’s dropped out even before Super Tuesday. I think he could of pulled ahead by then, but in the end he may just have served as a spoiler for Obama or Hillary.

Well, if Edwards isn’t going to be president I think he should not think about being vice-president and instead seek out becoming the next United States Attorney General.