Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 15, 2010

well, yes I want you to lose…again

(I don’t like this new “squeezed” look)

He doesn’t look any thinner this way, if that was the goal.

Was this done with a fisheye lens, or something?

You should be able to click on the comic to see it properly.

You can “un-squeeze” the image by clicking on it.

it’s here http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html

I’ve seen Maverick many times. I know Bret and Bart Maverick. John McCain is no Maverick.

baslimthebegger said, no matter it’s a re-run anyway…

No, it’s a new one. It refers to McCain’s denials in April.

Fox News has bought Ucomics!

Doesn’t matter what it looks like - Mark’s on radio!

A perfect example of how modern politics ruins viable candidates. Political handlers, strategists, focus groups, polls, etc. ad nauseum turn every election into a process instead of a referendum on differing views.

A good to place to start fixing this would be to ban political ads on TV.

Sandfan: we have nobody to blame but ourselves. While the rest of the world debates issues and gets its campaigns over with in a few weeks, we debate appearances, the entertainment value of the candidates, and speculation about whether we’ll fall for their latest lie (ever notice how it’s getting hard to tell the New York Times from Variety or even Advertising Age these days?). Evidently this is what we want. And so, this is the government we get: not since Ike (in my observation, anyway) have we had a president who actually had some idea of what he wanted to *do* once he took office. All the TV-spawned politicians seem to be little more than campaigning machines who never make the transition from candidate to office-holder.

Argyle Sweater is messed up too…. others ?

puddleglum1066, it’s not entirely “our fault”. Corporate marketing is a science that has been perfecting itself for more than 50 years. Its capacity to manipulate has become almost irresistible.

When we try to change the system, corporate marketing convinces us to leave it the way it is. The ‘Citizens United’ case will only reinforce this.

This is interesting – I’m seeing no distortion in the original comic on my browser of choice (Chrome), but when I open it in Firefox or Internet Explorer there it is. Yikes.

Maybe y’all should try Chrome. And no, I’m not of Google’s payroll :) – I just like it. It loads faster than the others, and while it doesn’t have all the configuration bells and whistles, like toolbars, I don’t like them and I don’t want them…I just want, you know, a browser. Worth considering, anyway?

billdog…as an Arizona resident, we can only hope. As for McBoring’s ads being controlled by others, He always signs off by saying “I’m John Mc. .and I APPROVE this message. Retirement can’t come soon enough for him. Maybe very soon. One can only hope, that is a message that “I would APPROVE of!”

In a state where we had multimillionaires financing their own campaigns vs politicians wanting to pig at the pubic trough, we had a number of court challenges. The result was a success, I watched my tax dollars used to tell me one candidate had a discrimination suit against his company eight years ago. Ten seconds later his opponent’s ad pointed out the anti-business voting record of the first.

I didn’t get a clear understanding of the candidates views of the issue, we need jobs to generate revenue to get the state out of debt. Instead my tax dollar was used to inform me that Candidate A had knowledge that his great grandmother ran a bordello. But candidate B supported sex, drugs, and violence (didn’t know it needed support) on TV.

The pollsters call and ask if my opinion may change before the election. Yeah, I’ve been watching these clowns for years and am going to change my mind because candidate A has cute kids. Voting record? This guy got the rock group Zero behind him.

In case the techies at GoComics are reading this, the strip showed up smooshed in my daily email, but it displays correctly on this page. I use Mac Mail and the Camino browser.

(I just figured it was an html glitch - forcing a Doonesbury Sunday strip into a box sized for other Sunday strips. If I right click the smooshed strip in my email, copy it, and open it in an image-viewing program, it looks correct.)

Bei mir it’s not squeezed using Firefox.

Funny thing, it looks OK to me. I’m using Firefox 3.6.8. On some strips, like Calvin and Hobbes today, I have to click on it to make it larger; but not this one today.

edit: I clicked on it and it came up the same size. Very curious.

It looks fine for me here on the GoComics.com site but was compressed in my GoComics Yahoo! app I get to from the comic module in MyYahoo! Strange thing is that the comic is not compressed in the MyYahoo! module, but the module display is (always) too small to read the text. I’m using SeaMonkey 2.0.6 (built on Mozilla 5.0) if that helps the techs at GoComics.

Hhmm, I wonder if it’s been fixed. Looks fine on my Mac.

“McCain” in the comic said, “I am my own man …” Folks, think about it for a moment: Do we really elect our representatives to actually be “their own man (or woman)”, beholden to - nobody?

Late night & early morning posters often complain of glitches that are fixed by late morning Pacific, early afternoon Eastern time.

McCain was better in 2000 when he ran against the neocons. The primary system is an abomination to free thought. Make the parties pay for it, not taxpayers.

puddleglum: I totally agree, especially the part about campaigners never making the transition to office holders. Their re-election campaign and fund raising start as soon as the final vote is tabulated. Well said.

corzac: That is a very cynical point of view, which I happen to share. I guess it is incumbent on us to recognize what is happening, and to be smart enough to make our own decisions.

When I checked back today at 1300 CST, the resolution problem had been solved and the comic showed normally. So any of you just checking in can disregard the previous complaints.

No visual problems. But, then, I’m using Safari on an ANCIENT iBookG4.

btw – sometime ago somebody complained that we were getting Doonesbury free instead of paying our local newspaper… ah.. would be very interested in how he gets his Internet access “free”..

Wow. I guess the way to shut up all the complaining about politics is to create a problem with the graphics so people only think about themselves and not the political issue or the real good of the entire country. Oh, I’m sorry, that’s the fact you were all patting yourselves on the back for knowing. The concern was only cause you couldn’t read it clearly, and later the issue didn’t matter.

Palin sank Mac and she’ll take the whole party down with her if they give her the chance.

No problem reading on my computor

The Palin nomination resulted in increasing Mac’s poll results, so I don’t know where freeholder1 gets the idea that the opposite happened.

McCain was doomed from the get-go. The Big Issue was the economy. McCain’s a fiscal moderate, which means he has no answers to the Big Issue. Obama didn’t have answers either, but “We’re gonna give you free stuff” plays well for the Democrats when the Republicans don’t offer an alternative. A fake vision will beat no vision at the ballot box every time.

Charisma (real or fake) is also a plus. McCain was the bland tofu candidate. With a teleprompter and a good speaking voice, you can fake charisma pretty well.

I’d like to know what freeholder1 thinks McCain could have done to give himself a shot at beating Obama.

McCain lost me befor Palin,she would have been enough, he was giving in to the right machine like his life depended on it.

What the hell did Mark do to his hair?

I liked McCain until he picked Palin. There are plenty of intelligent/knowledgeable women in politics. How about someone like Condoleeza Rice?