Humor In Politics

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of politics. This campaining (misspelling intentional) seems to last forever. Most disturbing is how the election has turned into a competition. No longer is its purpose to elect the most competent leader for our country, but a sport-like contest with the media as its judge. It's all about winning, no matter what.
Fortunately, people are clever and use the crazy political statements as fodder for humor. Gabriel forwarded me what must have been an online communication between two opposing speakers/bloggers. The first speaker is upset about how the liberals twist anything McCain does to make him look bad:

"I am now convinced that you liberals could put a negative spin on anything: 'McCain saves baby from burning house, successfully delaying the presidential debates.'"

The online opposition answered:
"Except in this case he and his friends were paid to throw the baby into the burning house, did nothing to save it, passed laws to make it easier to throw babies into houses, said the baby was fine and then when it became politically expedient they said, hey, someone should save that baby!"

Political cartoonists are having a field day, but interestingly, there are very few cartoons about Obama. The two I saw were about him trying to distance himself from Jesse Jackson and Reverand Wright, not particularly funny or worrisome. Perhaps the paucity of cartoons about Obama should tip off the voting public about quality of the two tickets.

Enjoy the following political cartoons.

I think the above cartoon can be supported by the following video:















To those of you out there who haven't made a decision yet, take your guidance from the cartoonists. Cartoonists simply state the obvious in clever ways.