Foul Smell From Beijing More Than Olympic Pollution

This week’s Friday Drawing for a Reader, speaks directly to China’s human rights record on the eve of the 2008 Olympics, notably in reference to Darfur. Cooper’s blog, Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth, inspired the drawing.

While I understand China’s made progress on its Darfur stance, it continues its repression of human freedoms, notably political expression. This is a freedom you suddenly appreciate more fully when you realize you’re drawing something that in another country could get you imprisoned.

NOTE ABOUT THE DRAWING: The inspiration for this cartoon came from a Chinese propaganda poster.

Clinton’s Boys, Dodd and Biden, Gang Up on Barack Obama

With Hillary Clinton breaking out in the polls, the Democratic candidates who realize they have no chance to stand out, have started taking sides, jockeying for a favourable position in the next White House. It appears from the AFL-CIO debate which White House Biden and Dodds are hoping to join.