Obamanos!
Talk about hitting the ground running. After a grueling two-year campaign wherein he slew not just John McCain but--lest we forget--the most well-oiled political operation until now, the Clintons--he barely gives the confetti time to hit the ground before he's choosing a cabinet and fielding snarky demands from Hamid Karzai, of all people.
My guess, as illustrated here, is that Inauguration Day is going to be pretty much a formality. The "Uniter" seems to have already packed up his comic books and checked out, so somebody is going to have to move in to fill the vacuum, especially at this time of crisis.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
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Well, from past experience he must be aware that the news media will label him an abject failure if he hasn't filled every single one of the 47,621 appointed positions in the federal government by the end of his first afternoon in office :-).
Though he did make a smart move with the puppy. Instead of spending all their time talking about how Obama hasn't accomplished this or that, at least half the media's time will now be taken up trying to second guess which breed of dog he'll get (though he does risk being crucified for not rescuing a shelter puppy if it turns out he buys a purebred).
Posted by: Tom | November 6, 2008 8:18 PM