Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 15, 2008
October 14, 2008
October 16, 2008
Transcript:
Barack Obama: So after I sink the first shot, this soldier says to me, "Senator, there's more than one letter in 'horse.'" So I say, "You talkin' smack to me, soldier?" And she says, "yes, Senator, I AM talkin' smack to you." So we play two games, and I make eight out of ten three-pointers! Rick: Wow... so the story's true... Obama: Hell, yeah. Got hundreds of witnesses. Is this for page one? Rick: Um... no. It's for my blog. Obama: Gotta run.
I notice none of the right wingers who were complaining that Garry never takes on the left have anything to say here. He’s clearly showing Obama as only interested in major attention and not actually as folksy as he was acting in the first three panels. In short, he is criticizing him. This whole series is meant to make fun of Obama. Gently, yes, so far, but only in a relative sense. What he’s said through these strips is that Obama can’t be trusted (the comment on the first strip about the story ‘not being credible’ even though it supposedly came from the man himself, the emphasis on hundreds of witnesses), that he is a glory hound, and isn’t as authentic as he acts. Not exactly softball. But it’s not calling him a Muslim terrorist, so I guess that wasn’t good enough for the right.