January 22, 2009 12:01 AM
Lofty
Carrying forward the theme from yesterday's cartoon, I decided to have some fun with the drawing. I could have made it work in the horizontal format, but it makes the point so much better like this.
The presidency
January 21, 2009 12:01 AM
Miracle Man
President Obama--that does sound nice, doesn't it, after eight long years of George W. Bush--took the oath of office yesterday amid high hopes that he had the right stuff to turn around a nation in serious trouble. He did his best to play down any notion that the road ahead will be easy or short, and did in his first speech as president what his predecessor never did: he asked Americans to take personal responsibility for shouldering the burdens we face. Still, a spirit of hope carried the day. We Americans are by nature an optimistic people. Still, are expectations for this president just a wee bit too high?
January 20, 2009 12:01 AM
New Chapter
Barack Obama assumes the presidency today, and takes on a list of problems longer than any chief executive since FDR has had to face. I'll leave those for another day. There will be ample time to assess Obama's performance during the next four years. For today, I simply want to mark the historic moment.
January 13, 2009 12:01 AM
Unhappily Ever After
As the George W. Bush presidency comes to an end (not a moment too soon), the assessments of his reign are pouring in. The only remotely kind one is, of course, from George W. Bush himself, who, with characteristic myopia, thinks he did an okay job. Oh, he wishes the intelligence on Iraq would have been better (of course, he doesn't mention the lengths to which his administration went to jigger the evidence and then to misrepresent it), he did a fine job during Katrina, the economic disaster just happened to occur during his watch, but he really had nothing to do with it, his people didn't torture (because they just decided that things that used to be considered torture no longer qualified), America didn't actually lose it's moral standing in the world, and on and on.
Dubya may be leaving, but the harm he and his minions did will live on for many years.
Our children should be very afraid.
November 13, 2008 12:01 AM
Waiting to Hear
I admit it: I'm as hooked on Sarah Palin as the Republican party base is. We ink-slingers haven't had cartoon fodder this good since...
