SUNDAY'S DOONESBURY - Trudeau's Pre-Election Dig Connects BUSH & McCAIN (The Imperial Helmet!)

[Hissyspit]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_el_pr/obama_doonesbury

'Doonesbury' strip assumes Obama will win

By ANDALE GROSS, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 31, 4:48 pm ET

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It's not exactly "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN," but some newspaper editors are pondering how to deal with a "Doonesbury" comic strip to be published the day after the election that assumes Barack Obama will win the presidency.

Comic creator Garry Trudeau delivered a series of strips for next week's papers showing his characters reacting to an Obama victory. But he offered no such option in the event of a comeback by John McCain, who's trailing Obama in the polls.

Trudeau's syndicator is offering papers a series of rerun strips from August. But the Obama story line is forcing some editors to question whether "Doonesbury" could put them in a spot — albeit in the funny pages — similar to 1948, when the Chicago Daily Tribune infamously declared in huge, front-page type that Republican Thomas Dewey had beaten Democrat Harry Truman for the presidency.

The strip shows three soldiers watching TV and reacting to this announcement: "And it's official — Barack Obama has won ... Making him the first African-American president in history!"
"Hoo-Ah!" one of the soldiers says.
"Son of a gun! What a great, great day! We did it!" another soldier says.

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[Staph]

2. And off to the Greatest page you go!

I just love Jane Pauley's husband.

[Mira]

3. Me too K & R for sure

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Trudeau sure knows how to hurt a guy...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[NWPatriot]

5. Did you happen to know that he's already predicted an Obama win?

He's already drawn and sent out next week's strips...and he has drawn them to reflect an Obama win. I saw this online today. His editors said that some editors may choose not to run these strips, in which case they also sent out a re-run from last summer (I think).

Trudeau himself said something to the effect that if it goes the other way, "we're going to have far bigger problems than just a blown cartoon"

[NWPatriot]

6. And here's the article about it...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_el_pr/obama_doonesbury

[Hissyspit]

7. I had seen that, but many probably haven't. I'm gonna add it to my OP. Thanks.

[NWPatriot]

1. You are most welcome! n/f

[mdmc]

13. kick

[Hissyspit]

8. .

[dysfunctional press]

9. does it really matter...?

[Hissyspit]

10. .

[surrealAmerican]

11. K&R

[Hissyspit]

12. Think I'll kick again. nt

[CatWoman]

15. i'll help ya

:kick:

:)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. I love how tattered the helmet is

Sadly, it's as tattered as our reputation around the world :grr:

[Hissyspit]

16. I didn't think it could get anymore tattered.

Any vestige of leather, plume or other decoration is gone.

Be funny if it wasn't so sad what it represents.

[Laelth]

17. Brilliant. n/t

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth