March 21, 2008

Obamamania on the comics page, and it's not a strip you would expect. I am a longtime fan of "Over the Hedge" (not even CGI and Bruce Willis could ruin it for me) and, well, "Yes, folks, he can talk to animals... even at 3AM" is cool on top of cool.
posted by wendell 16 years ago
  • I don't really understand except that it's cute.
  • It is kind of story-arc-dependent. R.J. the mischievous raccoon 'adopted' a cute pit bull puppy and exploited the bad reputation of pit bulls to use the pup to scare people away so he could raid their refrigerators. But he went too far, as he usually does (hijacking a twinkies truck) and the poor puppy got empounded. Now he's calling in the biggest name he can get to help... and it turn out to be Barry O.
  • Ah yes, that old chestnut.
  • How can a squirrels talk?
  • well, nothing else has convinced me to vote for Obama so far, but this just might...
  • .... yeah, right.
  • What does Mallard Fillmore say on the issue?
  • Same thing as Woodchuck Wilson, I imagine.
  • It's probably not any more crazy than what Pat Buchanan says: First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. ... As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?... Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
  • Ho. Lee. Shit.