Promise Her Anything
The American electorate is like the ultimate perfect mistress, soaking up candidates' promises and never complaining when they go unfulfilled. "I'm going to bring the troops home." "I'll provide health care for everyone." "Better education." "More and better jobs." It's all the equivalent of "I'm going to leave my wife and marry you.... right after Christmas." Little wonder that when voters assess the character of those running they turn off their brains and overlook the avalanche of lies that make up a large part of the campaigns. One of the flaws of democracy as we experience it, an otherwise wonderful and unattainable ideal, is that the pathological ambition of those running for the highest office renders them unqualified for the job.We're excited that yesterday one of our cartoons was included in the Michael Levine E-Lert, a newsletter digest of events and opinions that is e-mailed daily to over half a million people worldwide, including White House staffers, corporate CEO's, journalists, and Academy Award winners.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:56 AM
8 Comments:
Gosh... just wish I didn't have to sign up to view! Darn it. LOL Congratulations John. Getting out there!
knew you could do it! Congratulations, John.
Ellie
Could you tell us which cartoon was used for the "newsletter?" since we can't log onto it?
I noticed that you used the plural, "we." Does the "we" include your wife?
Congratulations!
Katherine or Kat
>>The American electorate is like the ultimate perfect mistress, soaking up candidates' promises and never complaining when they go unfulfilled.<<
Is the American public really the ideal mistress or have we in fact just become a nation of Kristens --the ex-governor’s hooker, should anyone out there not read the papers or watch TV? Kristen had no cause to complain; no client need promise to leave his spouse and marry her; instead they all paid extremely well for her occasional services. (Her hourly wage exceeded the national average but many percentage points.) Come Spring, with the economy in a recession, our president here is sending us all a check, a little mad money to spend as we wish, the theory being that if all the nation’s compliant sex workers get together and shop our economy will again prosper.
Katherine or Kat, the cartoon was posted here last Monday, the 10th. It was the one with W commenting about gas prices. Michael Levine has asked me for a couple of cartoons a month, but you'll be pleased to know that in the interest of a range of opinion he doesn't want them all to have a liberal bias.
Prof, I love the punch line but I'm not sure I get the analogy. Unless you mean to say we're all getting screwed by the government in exchange for a few bucks. In which case, unlike Kristen, we still have "cause to complain."
Kat, I meant to add that one doesn't log on to Michael Levine's newsletter, it's e-mailed to subscribers. Subscribing, however, is free.
I apologize for the lack of clarity. What I should have said is that all of us are getting screwed, but some of us –-viz. Kristen-- are demanding more per screw than others.
Way to go, il professore and congratulations John C.
Post a Comment
<< Home