My wife read today’s strip, and after she stopped rolling on the floor laughing, she wiped away the tears and alerted me, “you are gonna get so much hate mail!”
Anyway, at my polling place here in Lewisville, NC, I had the choice of taking the unaffiliated ballot, the Republican Ballot and the Democratic ballot (I am independent). When I looked, he had only three Dem ballots left in the stack. I asked jokingly if he was going to run out. He said, “Oh no, I have more packs in the back – it’s just not many people are voting Republican so far today.” And yes, we had PAPER ballots that you marked with a pen – now black box voting and no chads. Paper and ink.
Afterwards, my wife and I went for breakfast and our waitress noted our “I Voted Today” stickers on our shirts and said she thought about voting, but doesn’t pay any attention to politics (WTF?). She liked Obama so we gave her our Obama pitch. The table next to us had a similar conversation with her and they were talking about how much they liked Bill Clinton and hated Hillary Clinton. They too supported Obama.
Should be an interesting evening.
SPECIAL REQUEST FOR TCD FANS: The San Francisco Chronicle is pondering the addition of new cartoons for their paper – a process that seems to be initiated by Darren Bell, creator of Candorville (one of my daily reads – highly recommended). You can read the Chronicle article here and please add your thoughts to the comments if you wish. If anything, put in a good word for Darren and Candorville.
I am submitting Town Called Dobson to the paper for their consideration. They seem to have given great weight to receiving 200 messages considering Candorville. I am asking TCD fans to try to surpass that amount. (I get more than that many hate mails a day, surely fans can do better?)
This is not a race between Darren and I, it is a hope that more progressive strips can be represented in the printed press of America.
So if you read the San Francisco Chronicle or live in the Bay Area (Google Analytics tell me there are a lot of you), please send your kind comments (or naked, straining outrage) to David Wiegand at his published addresses below. If you are a subscriber, cut out your mailing label and staple it to a TCD strip and include it in your letter.
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David Wiegand
Executive Datebook Editor
The San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Why would you get hate mail for raising a serious issue?
Electing “Billary” wouldn’t help change paternalistic politics, when she’s so invested in catering to power and money bases that are vested in proliferating the status quo far more than Obama.
Even progressive Democrat bloggers widely oppose HRC, as her age and connections to a corrupt political machine are problems all too similar to the Bush-RRR/GOP, that are part of the problem to eradicate or at least reduce if possible. One of the most scathing criticisms of HRC I’ve seen came from a female Psychologist, fairly aware of politics as the former girlfriend of a now deceased former Presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. To such astute and politically aware females, Hillary is a peculiar nuisance, as she does draw support from some females whose apparent attitude is a compulsive, “we’ve got to vote for the cunt”. That attitude of sexism rather than informed egalitarianism is one of the causes of a huge divide in feminism, and it reinforces negative stereotypes and justifies treating females with suspicion as incapable of making mature political judgments. As such, female HRC supporters are often shooting their own causes in the foot, when they act superficially in sexist ways while ignoring serious issues common to responsible adults, regardless of sex.
These days, no matter what stance I take on any given issue, the other side will send hate mail.
Very entertaining.
Voting for Hilary on the sole reason that she has internal sexual organs is about as stupid as voting against Obama because of the pigment in his skin.
Of course that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
I worked as a volunteer on the Obama campaign and my favourite reason for not voting for him:- ” I Aint votin’ for HEEM he’s skittish’. Our county went 70/30 Clinton in the end. A fellow volunteer spent quite some time with one voter talking them down from ‘He’s a Muslim’. While what we would like to say is ‘well so what if he was?’ that stance is a few years down the track yet.
I LOVE THIS LOL. I teach Gender and African American Studies and the whole discourse surrounding Hillary (cajones, turning her into a man) has just been crazy. Someone(especially James Carville) forgot Hillary does have a vagina. So thanks for reminding EVERYONE that it’s physiology, not a voting point, LOL.
And a very special thanks or the series on slavery. I have really enjoyed your write ups and encourage you to think about putting these into a book. It is so disheartening to see the comments made about Sen. Obama and the racial mudslinging that the media has engaged in. Having a sense of our shameful and complicated history that continues to affect our present can only help us as a Nation move forward.
All the best to you!
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it. As a radical I couldn’t vote for any of the final three fascists! There is no difference between Hillary and Barry, they’re both bought and paid for politicians except of course Barry wants to invade Pakistan. Yippee! Their voting records are 95% exactly the same with Antiwar Barry voting to support the war every time he had a chance. The American Sheeple are incredibly stupid creatures, without a doubt the dumbest on the planet. Yeah, we can’t have a women, that would never do, what we need is another Harvard educated bozo, I guess the last one wasn’t enough, eh?
Unlike you who are voting for another old boy I’ll be voting for a lady and a black, Cindy McKinney who is the only candidate left of center and who has the same chance to win as Barry, that is to say no chance at all. All you’re are doing is electing Johnny and hence another 8 years of the Crime Family Bush! Thanks just what we needed! NOT!
Oh and ladies that spinning noise you hear in the background is Abigail Adams spinning in her grave!