Mike Luckovich, editorial cartoonist of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for cartooning. His work also appears in Time, the New York Times and other media. He is distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate.
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prfesser said, 8 months ago
Yeah. Yup. That’s what happened. Obama forgot to show up. Guess he was trying to pretend to be the empty chair Eastwood was talking to.
There’s no excuse for Mitten’s lack of ability to play by the rules, but O should have fought back. After all, Romney is just one big NO-NO waiting to be called out.
Radish
said, 8 months ago
Meanwhile Mitt the great gop hope is backtracking on his 47% misstatement and moving toward the center.
AgentSmith101 said, 8 months ago
Yeah, pretty much Mike. Pretty much.
dtroutma
said, 8 months ago
Yes, MIke, very atypical, agree. But Mitt was still working the earlier Republican debates, kept expecting him to offer up a bet.
Machado
said, 8 months ago
Obama can afford the bet, since he’s been in office he has made millions off selling books full of lies and fabrications to the gullible .
I guess Luckuwich had no choice but to reflect reality in one of his panels instead of Liberal fantasy… it must have been hard for him,…
Jeddidyah said, 8 months ago
Yes, it was a disappointing out come. It does not change my mind about who will win this election. There are still two more debates to go and I think the next one will be decisive but I can not predict what will happen, that remains to be seen. Making excuses or trying to feret out some arcane reason for Obama’s performance is useless. He delivered the facts, he just didn’t really engage in real debate, but neither did mittens. We shall see what happens next.
Larry said, 8 months ago
It was the altitude in Denver.
Romney used to it, Obama just arrived.
They say.
Dycel
said, 8 months ago
Not trying to justify what we saw, but what if his strategists believed the best way to gain the high ground was to let Nitt be a fool and bury himself?
In hindsight they were right!
Ms. Ima said, 8 months ago
O crashed and burned there.
MortyForTyrant said, 8 months ago
Accurate. Painful, but accurate…
Jeff Justice
said, 8 months ago
Omg! Mike actually pulled his nose out of Obama’s butt and said something honest about him. Sign of Armagedden?
Gypsy8 said, 8 months ago
Don’t rule out the rope-a-dope strategy. Look how much effective campaign ad material Mittens delivered to them, enthusiastically, free of charge, and potentially devastating.
kamwick
said, 8 months ago
@Gypsy8
In the past it has seemed that Obama was using that strategy ( give ‘em enough rope to hang themselves) but this time around he was simply unprepared for an opponent who had " etch-a-sketched" his positions into something completely different, constantly interrupted, talked over everyone, and basically ignored longstanding debate rules. Thankfully, by letting Romney run his mouth it does seem as though Romney’s multitude of lies is coming to the forefront of voter attention. Except inthe righty echo chamber, which sees motor mouthing as a good strategy.
Gypsy8 said, 8 months ago
@kamwick
I agree.
amesababe200 said, 8 months ago
I have a speculation. He was nervous and they gave him some Lorazepam.