Life Under Palin
CNN has spent all of Labor Day wondering whether the news that Sarah Palin’s 17-yr-old daughter’s pregnancy is a “political bombshell” or “a family matter that is nobody’s business,” to borrow the delicate phrasing of Larry King.
There is a third option. To quote Bill Murray in Meatballs, “It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter!” Repeat until drunk.*
Here are aspects of John McCain’s selection of Palin as his Vice President that actually matter: Palin is a Creationist; doesn’t believe that global warming is caused by humans; doesn’t think the oil industry should be inhibited by potential polar bear extinction; is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest; and has the foreign policy experience of a dog catcher.
Sorry for the lack of new material last week. Every last week of August I hit a weird funk that makes it difficult for me to do any cartooning. Instead, I sat around watching the Democratic National Convention. Had I done a cartoon relevant to that event, it probably would have portrayed me giving Wolf Blitzer the middle finger. Was anyone really that shocked that the vast majority of Hillary Clinton supporters united around Barack Obama as the party’s nominee? If there were any hold outs by the end of last Thursday, Friday morning’s news regarding Sarah Palin probably drew them into the fold.
Or pushed them into the Cynthia McKinney camp. Hey, good luck with that.
*Thanks to Grimmtooth for correcting my original attribution of the quote to John Belushi in Animal House. I should turn in my Juvenile Humor card now.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Oh, this cracked me up. Thanks.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Thank you! And you had tried to dissuade me from doing a Palin cartoon.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
GREAT palin poster
this is just like one big soap opera. i’m kind of amazed that whatever kid actually knocked up her daughter is even willing to get married in this day and age. he’s probably all of 19 or 20 years old. i’m sure it is a ‘you WILL get married’ kind of thing but still. a future divorce is better than an unwed teen mother!
and what kind of name is Trig? i follow all this stuff by remote osmosis and putting the snippets of news that i do hear together. i kept wondering what trigonometry has to do with anything? (well, yes, what does ANY of it have to do with anything…it just doesn’t matter!)
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
It goes with her other children: Calc, Alg, Geom, and Pre-Calc.