Ted Rall for November 17, 2008
November 15, 2008
November 27, 2008
Transcript:
In accordance with custom, the media demand that the new Democratic president tack to the ideological center. (Man: Obama won the campaign as a centrist. But he'll have to govern from the center.) (Woman: Obviously.) How can a centrist become more centrist? (Man 1: You must reach out to the fagbashers, racists and Jesus freaks.) (Barack Obama: What, no skinheads?) (Man 1: Passe. Totally 1987.) Because of the media's inexorable shift to the right. Obama's pre-november centrism is now considered the equivalent of socialism. (Barack Obama: Of Bush's two wars, I only dislike one.) (Man 1: Unless he changes course, he'll be a stalinist by January.) The center: It just feels right. (Barack Obama: Somewhere in Afghanistan, there's a wedding going unbombed.
mhenriday over 15 years ago
What with Rahm Israel Emanuel as coming White House chief of staff and, according to persistent rumours, Hillary Rodham Clinton as possible US Secretary of State, Ted Rall’s cartoon looks, alas, like an all too apt description of the shape of things to come….
Henri
TheGreatSatan over 15 years ago
“The Media’s inexorable shift to the right”
Now that Liberals got what they wanted they have to make stuff up to complain about. I swear you nutjobs are just like children.
tourgent over 15 years ago
Won as a centrist? Am I missing the humor, or is left the new center??
DALLASDAN over 15 years ago
Henri but the “sage” Joe the Plumber said Obama’s election would mean the “death of Israel”. You right wing wackos need to stay on script.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 15 years ago
Israel? The guy is president-elect of the US. Doesn’t he have better things to do than take care of a biblical sandbox?
curiosity1 over 15 years ago
As opposed to the last eight years of off the right-wing cliff…? Yes, it is the center.