Cartoons

I love the first cartoon --"Napoleon" Lieberman (4.00 / 1)

May the August 8th Democratic Primary be your Waterloo, sir.

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by: Larkspur @ Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 02:45:49 AM UTC

I think I'd make the analogy something like... (0.00 / 0)

"Mr. Lieberman, may August 8 be your march to Moscow. May November 7 be your Waterloo."

Napolean I

Over the course of little more than a decade, he fought virtually every European power and acquired control of most of the western and central mainland of Europe by conquest or alliance until his disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, followed by defeat at the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in October 1813, which led to his abdication several months later. He staged a comeback known as the Hundred Days (les Cent Jours), but was again defeated decisively at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium on June 18 1815

The first cartoon fits the complex. :-)

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by: notcho @ Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 03:16:57 AM UTC

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I like the portrayal of... (0.00 / 0)

..."CONN DEMS". Is that what the rest of the country think we look like? Bald with thick glasses and plaid shorts? It does come across as kind of intellectual-preppy, which certainly describes at least some Connecticut Democrats.

That guy does look like, for example, the kind of dude you might see standing in the corner of a Yale alumni function.

Lieberman, however, in the bottom cartoon, looks maybe like the prime minister of a small northern European country IMHO.

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by: bluestater @ Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 03:51:54 AM UTC

Just Luckovich, I think (0.00 / 0)

Nobody comes off as particularly attractive in his cartoons.

I'd say the look is less about what he thinks "Conn Dems" look like and more about his idea of what Mr and Mrs J. Random American look like.

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by: D for Demsbetta @ Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 15:56:49 PM UTC

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His Shrub is pretty bad, too (0.00 / 0)

The other guy holding hands.

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by: Scarce @ Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 16:06:12 PM UTC

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Even If Joe (0.00 / 0)

does manage to keep his job in Washington (though I don't think he will), he will do so as a diminished figure, one who nobody takes seriously.  He is an object of ridicule in his own state.

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by: bob h @ Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 10:47:37 AM UTC