These presidential races are getting painfully predictable. The Democrat is slightly ahead, the GOP machine unleashes torrents of slime, the media spread said slime by discussing it as though it were legitimate, and idiocy carries the day. One hardly needs to bring up issues anymore -- just feminize and exoticize your opponent, and if he's black, sexualize him (but couch it in other messages just enough to give you plausible deniability). It's no happy accident that the McCain ad discussed in the cartoon echoes the ad against Harold Ford of Tennessee, which featured a white bimbo imploring Ford (who is black) to call her. I find this all very depressing, if not surprising.

McCain's eagerness to leap into a new Cold War with Russia gives me the willies. While Googling the McCain logo, I came across this image on Democratic Underground:



Simple but effective, methinks.

In the last panel of this cartoon, I wanted to take McCain's absurd message (delivered via some guy they found a newsclip of) that "hot chicks dig Obama" to its logical conclusion, but I came up against the problem of not wanting to sound like those mean-spirited "no fat chicks" t-shirts. So I tried to make my ugly chicks as goofy as possible, a la Basil Wolverton's famous Lena the Hyena (Wolverton specialized in drawing laughably hideous people of both sexes). I think it's pretty clear from the context that I'm mocking McCain's boorishness rather than picking on women with Neanderthal brows and both eyeballs on one side of their head.

PS-- Speaking of ugly, check out these finalists from the Sonoma-Marin World's Ugliest Dog Contest.