A nominated finalist for the Pulitzer 6 times since 1999, Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.
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garynorton said, 4 months ago
And a horse’s ass.
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
Chuck Hagel and John McCain were once BFFs.
I think losing in 2008 made McCain crazy, or maybe he is off of his meds.
StCleve72 said, 4 months ago
I will always think of McCain as the guy who was so desperate for power that he was willing to put Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from being President of the United States (it’s painful just to type that). As such, anything he says at this point is completely discredited or as my old mother said; you’re judged by the company you keep.
dtroutma
said, 4 months ago
Allowing Palin on the ticket, did prove poor John was not only over the hill, but rode too hard, put away wet, and sway backed too badly to ever ride again.
Robert Landers said, 4 months ago
@dtroutma
Was the decision to place Sarah Palin even McCain’s own?
Somehow, knowing what eventually she did to his candidacy, I am not so certain.
After eight years of GW Bush, and the level of his popularity (lower than any other president in history), somehow I am not even certain in any way that the the Republican Party’s true leadership wanted to win in 2008!!
ahab
said, 4 months ago
John has served the country well. I disagree with him for most of his recent posturing. I suspect his party will replace him with another dribbling tea party fool.
disgustedtaxpayer said, 4 months ago
Hagel is the GOP RINO, with a history of choosing the wrong sides on world issues…..and McCain is a horses ass??
Hagel is on the record with siding with America’s enemies!
Dycel
said, 4 months ago
@disgustedtaxpayer
No grumpytaxdodger you forgot when McCain was the rebel of the party and hung with Hagel.
Now he is but an ass in a party of jackass’s
pirate227 said, 4 months ago
The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be…
Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
Interestingly, this is the same day hillary ‘retired’ and that could be her name on the horse and every comment here is equally credible.
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
@Robert Landers
Nice trick with the three stars, have to try that myself.
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To your post (and StCleve’s above): Sarah Palin was an experiment, i guess. They knew they had to do something, anything, to stand a chance against whoever ran for the Democrats after Bush. They would have lost to a bucket of warm spit, but they never, ever stood any chance against a sympathetic young black man. All their attempts to smear him just made their situation worse. When he came to Germany there were 250.000 people waiting for him. 250K! Overseas! For a effing candidate! I watched and recorded it at home, but only because I couldn’t be there myself.
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And then came that fateful interview with Katie Curic. I believe everybody knew that it was over after that. But what could they do? Drop her, this late in the game and get another rich, old, white man to run alongside McCain? No way. But it was McCain’s decision to accept her, nobody can (or should be able to) force anything on a candidate for the presidency. In the Oval Office or the Situation Room nobody can help you either…
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PS: “Game Change” has a special place of honor in my DVD-collection
omQ R said, 4 months ago
@Robert Landers
& @ C Downs & @ Morty
For formatting text go to my post on a stale thread:
marshallramsey/2013/01/29
I just noticed I had replied to Robert & C on an old thread and it wasn’t likely to be seen. I’m redirecting you to it because it was a pain to format & create it and I’m lazy ;-)
disgustedtaxpayer said, 4 months ago
choosing Sarah who was Alaska’s governor, and very popular, was what saved McCain from a landslide LOSS; much of the GOP vote was conservatives like myself voting for Sarah for VP and holding our noses to vote for McCain.
-A President Palin would have pulled the USA out of recession before the 2010 election, and we never would have been plagued with Obamacare. Jobs would have been created by a business sector unafraid of what they face under Obama’s marxist regime.
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“IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan will be $20,000 Per Family”
1/1/13 article at http://cnsnews.com (the lowest plan, Bronze, premium cost in 2016) ..“…the penalty for not buying insurance will be the annual average of Bronze or 2.5% of taxable income, or $2,085.00 per family”…
kamwick
said, 4 months ago
A long time ago, before I knew more about his history (such as his womanizing and endangering other sailors with rogue actions during the VietNam war), I used to admire his occasional unwillingness to go along with every GOP move. Observing with more focus, I’ve come to the conclusion that every move of his has been self serving. What a pitiful man. Thank goodness we don’t have to deal with him and the similar (self-serving) “rogue” from Alaska. His latest hissy-fits show just how unfit he is to lead.
kamwick
said, 4 months ago
@disgustedtaxpayer
“A President Palin would have pulled the USA out of recession before the 2010 election”. Why do you think that? because the TeaBots told you so? Considering that the recession hit bottom in the summer of 2009 and growth resumed ( officially the “end” of the recession), your comment shows you to be simply another low information Sarah worshipper.