Pat Oliphant for April 03, 2012

There is no truth to the rumor that old people are afraid Mitt Romney is going to eat their medicine for fuel.

I have to agree, sort of. With so much competition it’s hard to be certain. We’ll all have to agree that it would be close though?

But this is just wild phantasy!

It’s interesting how cartoonists draw large crowds. Sometimes there’s no facial detail, just circles; or only the first few rows have details. The best is when the artist makes individuals of the crowd real people or has, if you look closely, embedded jokes. What famous artist painted tormented souls in the background with the faces of his enemies and critics? Never offend an artist – you might be forever on display, as if trapped in carbonite.

So this is how Oliphant will portray Romney from now on? Sort of the body style he did for George HW. Bush. I wonder if he has reference templates for the physical dimensions of any recurring characters, such as comic strips do. Templates serve to keep characters drawn consistently, especially if assistants are hired. Somehow I think Oliphant wings it each time.

It seems to me he seldom got Obama right – too dark. That must a decision each artist has to make in drawing African-Americans for the black-and-white dailies – should they be shaded, or left unshaded with only facial features to distinguish them.

With reference to cartoonists drawing Obama. Most of the cartoons I’ve seen usually make Obama look like a post Civil War construction South, Jim Crow, “black sambo” like character. Really too bad as it makes the cartoonist look racist even it he/she is not.

@emptc12Was it Oliphant who always drew Dan Quayle as a baby in a carriage, and the first President Bush usually had a purse? I’m thinking it was but that seems a LONG time ago by now……

Romney can afford fresh lithium batteries

Do you REALLY believe that rethugs DON’T use teleprompters.

As usual, you are WRONG.

Just another stupid Gooper meme. If you repeat a lie often enough, stupid people will believe it.

By the way, Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet either.

Dream on WrongisWrong…that all you’ve got?

Are your sure it uses batteries and not a wind up key?

Really? Of the 100 or so canidates and remember Aaron Burr was also a canidate for president.

Robo-Mitt!

As bad as Romney may be he’s better than what’s in the White House now. Of course a ruptured chimpanzee would be better than what’s in the White House now.

Ahhh look on the right side, Lefties… now you know what to complain about for the next 8 years.

The pitch that Robo-Romney is using to sell himself to the American people is this: ’ Hi, I’m Mittens Romney and I want to be your next Republican President because I am a businessman and I understand the problems of business." The last businessman who sold himself to the American people with that pitch was none other than Herbert Hoover and we all remember how that worked out, don’t we ? ? ?