Oh man, I’ve been asking that question in my cartoons for over a year now. It’s just sad.
Presidential candidates
I have always wondered that myself. The only thing that I can figure is that they all look so dorky because they have so much money. When you are a millionaire you can pay people to think you are cool…. Doesn’t McCain look like an old turtle?? tehheee
Because they are presidential candidates
Target practice.
It’s an exercise in picking the least of all possible disasters. In fact, the very first time the phrase “…lesser of two evils” was uttered was during a presidential race.
One word people…
GENETICS!!!
I rest my case…
its all the money that special interest groups bribe them with…
all that weight in their back pocket that makes them walk funny. they’re not really lame, just immoral and ignorant!
NADER FOR PRESIDENT! NADER FOR PRESIDENT!
don’t forget.. there are third party candidates who are way better than the corporate-owned schmucks in the lead.
An improbable option
I’ve long felt that there should be a legal requirement to have one additional selection on each and every ballot for public office: “None Of The Above”.
Unfortunately, it won’t happen…the problems that would result from “None Of The Above” winning almost every election would outweight the potential benefits.
‘Nuff said.
It would seem a few cases.
The first glaring problem being that the public has been trained to believe that there are only two parties. People don’t want to look beyond the first two obvious and easy choices. We’ve had Nader in the background for years, and every independant party doesn’t necessarily promote a Perot or Buchanan, which unfortunatley seems to be the case these days.
Also, now it seems that every politican has the agenda of being president almost from day one, and therefore lives their whole life grooming themselves for that position of power.
Hopefully, if nothing, this election year will show the public that the two party system is doomed to fail, and both parties are becoming more and more conservative, and are not reflecting what we want. Perhaps this will in some way persuade people to actually look at the different options and not be happy with the choices being made for them any more.
Of course, voter turn out was at an all out low 4 yrs ago, so I can’t imagine it being much better this year, as we’re more lazy and apathetic now then ever.
apathy. great.
Max headroom?
See, one visit to the big house and you’re feeling spacey again. Now wait till you live there, you’ll think you’re an astronaut.
Prez candidates look lame, cuz the majority of the today Merkins want them to. They don’t want a candidate that looks way too leftish. It’s the heritage of the Merkin Dreem, where everything has to look clean, successful, wholesome and secure (but actually is boring you to pieces). ??
They’re dull because they want to get elected
There appear to be two classes of candidate: major party and other …
The major party candidates are invariably cookie cutter dullards who don’t dare express any opinion that might offend anybody more than 15 degrees off the center — because they WANT to be elected. So you get “All Hat No Cattle But Daddy Will Tell Me What To Do” and “Tipper Won’t Let Me Listen To Rock And Roll So I’m Boring”.
The “other” candidates are there to make a point, and you can’t make a point without making ‘way too much noise about it and going to extremes, which they can do because they know they’ve got the same chance of being elected that I do. So you get your Pat Buchanans, Lyndon Larouches, Ralph “can I borrow your Corvair?” Naders.
Once in a blue moon a politician that seems to have a modicum of self-respect and character shows up. They represent random fluctuations in the space-time continuum and generally die shortly thereafter. (Tsongas)
Oh man, I’ve been asking that question in my cartoons for over a year now. It’s just sad.
Presidential candidates
I have always wondered that myself. The only thing that I can figure is that they all look so dorky because they have so much money. When you are a millionaire you can pay people to think you are cool…. Doesn’t McCain look like an old turtle?? tehheee
Because they are presidential candidates
Target practice.
It’s an exercise in picking the least of all possible disasters. In fact, the very first time the phrase “…lesser of two evils” was uttered was during a presidential race.
One word people…
GENETICS!!!
I rest my case…
its all the money that special interest groups bribe them with…
all that weight in their back pocket that makes them walk funny. they’re not really lame, just immoral and ignorant!
NADER FOR PRESIDENT! NADER FOR PRESIDENT!
don’t forget.. there are third party candidates who are way better than the corporate-owned schmucks in the lead.
An improbable option
I’ve long felt that there should be a legal requirement to have one additional selection on each and every ballot for public office: “None Of The Above”.
Unfortunately, it won’t happen…the problems that would result from “None Of The Above” winning almost every election would outweight the potential benefits.
‘Nuff said.
It would seem a few cases.
The first glaring problem being that the public has been trained to believe that there are only two parties. People don’t want to look beyond the first two obvious and easy choices. We’ve had Nader in the background for years, and every independant party doesn’t necessarily promote a Perot or Buchanan, which unfortunatley seems to be the case these days.
Also, now it seems that every politican has the agenda of being president almost from day one, and therefore lives their whole life grooming themselves for that position of power.
Hopefully, if nothing, this election year will show the public that the two party system is doomed to fail, and both parties are becoming more and more conservative, and are not reflecting what we want. Perhaps this will in some way persuade people to actually look at the different options and not be happy with the choices being made for them any more.
Of course, voter turn out was at an all out low 4 yrs ago, so I can’t imagine it being much better this year, as we’re more lazy and apathetic now then ever.
apathy. great.
Max headroom?
See, one visit to the big house and you’re feeling spacey again. Now wait till you live there, you’ll think you’re an astronaut.
Prez candidates look lame, cuz the majority of the today Merkins want them to. They don’t want a candidate that looks way too leftish. It’s the heritage of the Merkin Dreem, where everything has to look clean, successful, wholesome and secure (but actually is boring you to pieces). ??
They’re dull because they want to get elected
There appear to be two classes of candidate: major party and other …
The major party candidates are invariably cookie cutter dullards who don’t dare express any opinion that might offend anybody more than 15 degrees off the center — because they WANT to be elected. So you get “All Hat No Cattle But Daddy Will Tell Me What To Do” and “Tipper Won’t Let Me Listen To Rock And Roll So I’m Boring”.
The “other” candidates are there to make a point, and you can’t make a point without making ‘way too much noise about it and going to extremes, which they can do because they know they’ve got the same chance of being elected that I do. So you get your Pat Buchanans, Lyndon Larouches, Ralph “can I borrow your Corvair?” Naders.
Once in a blue moon a politician that seems to have a modicum of self-respect and character shows up. They represent random fluctuations in the space-time continuum and generally die shortly thereafter. (Tsongas)