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Inspiration for cartoons comes from all places and at all times. I'm sure some of my detractors have their own notions of where I pull my ideas from.
This one was the direct result of a conversation I had with a newsroom colleague. We had both decided to place the quarterly notices from our 401K's, which had arrived earlier in the week, in the File and Forget Drawer. It was best, we agreed, to take them out and examine them later, when things had begun to look a little better.
Like, twenty or thirty years from now.
CHAN LOWE
Comments
Visiting from Bob Geiger's site. You are bookmarked.
Thank you for your terrific cartoons. And peace and good health to you and your family.
Posted by: jharp | October 11, 2008 9:26 AM
Great stuff, Mr. Lowe and glad I discovered you via bobgeiger.com. I'll be checking back to make sure I see everything Bob does not run in The Saturday Cartoons!
Posted by: Colton Ross | October 11, 2008 10:40 AM
Reading the weekend and Monday morning campaign items, there's a hopeful sign...for all of America...that the McCain campaign is now looking to try 'the high road' and have John McCain address the real issues in the final weeks of the campaign.
Unfortunately for them, it's pretty obvious that the only reason they're doing so is because the nasty 'fear and smear' strategy they adopted for the past few weeks is backfiring on them in all the polls...and is also backfiring on the entire Republican party in gubernatorial and legislative races throughout the country.
The one thing this new focus on the real issues by McCain MAY bring, however, is to allow McCain to regain some semblance of dignity and recognition for his service to the country as the campaign comes near a close. Such a strategy might well work with a few undecideds and might well ensure that a few more Republicans heretofore repulsed by the smear strategy will actually turn out to vote for McCain.
On the other hand, of course, they still have Sarah Barracuda out there today distorting (read that as my nice word for blatantly lying about) Obama's comments, record and tax plans to try to scare undecideds away from Obama/Biden. It would seem most voter opinions on her, however, are now hardening into the 'not qualified to be President' fold by a wide and significant margin...which I find greatly reassuring about the people I share citizenry with in the U.S.
In the end, I think that McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as VP...along with allowing Rove disciple Steve Schmidt to take over his campaign strategy...have done him irreparable damage in the minds of voters. Even if not for the economy issue, this election may truly be about 'judgement' as the McCain camp wants to assert..and if so, the candidates have clearly shown, and the voters being polled clearly say, which one has the better, most consistent and more reliable judgement.
Posted by: George Mihaiu | October 13, 2008 12:13 PM