McCain is a Progressive on Energy Says Bill Clinton

Straight from the lips of Bill Clinton himself, in an election year, when he knows fully that McCain’s energy positions shift with the same regularity as winds in a cyclone…yes, this is political WTF?

Now that the primaries are done, and we’re running as one big party, its easy to see how Bill Clinton screwed things up for Hillary. The guy can’t stand it if people don’t like him, and he’ll say anything just to get a few hookups later.

Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.

Shout from the Couch: Podcast: Episode 1

Well, here’s my second podcast. I decided to give my podcast a title. Shout from the Couch was an idea I had a while back for a politically-themed graphic novel, but now I’m thinking an audio podcast is more appropriate. Basically it’s me, hashing and remixing my dialogue with the media. I do this all the time when I watch TV (and now YouTube) and I’m sure you all do as well. So here it is.

As for cartooning, I’m also going to get back to drawing political cartoons, but I’ve been having a lot of fun with this (and it’s also giving me practice for my eventual goal of producing animations). Plus isn’t that the whole point of blogging? To have fun, and to of course contribute in some way to the enormous amount of user generated content that flows out into the pixel-ether.

Here’s a run down of this episode.

• Obama Takes a Vacation and CNN Captures “Exclusive” video
• George HW Bush and George Bush Speeches Overlay-ed to commemorate the 4000 US soldiers killed in Iraq
• Hillary and the Sniper Gaff Part II (She’d leave Obama’s Church, but Stays with Bill???)
• Top 10 Reasons to Not Be a McCain Republican

And I want to give some thanks to soundsnap.com for the great selection of free MP3 sounds available for download.

There you have it. Thanks for listening.

Note: This podcast is part of a slow evolution of Irish Spacemonk as a character. The reason I point this out, is because Irish Spacemonk is a space monkey lost in orbit. He floats around with his cadre of mice and watches the earth spin. He’s based loosely on the real character of Gordo, who on his last mission was lost at sea. Irish Spacemonk was launched on a similar mission, however on his return, his capsule was picked up by a British cargo shop, and eventually the chimp to be known as IrishSpacemonk was delivered to an Irish monastery for an undisclosed about of money…yeah I know a stretch but I had to get him to Ireland somehow.

By the way, it looks like 2008 might be the summer of Space Monkey’s as there’s a new animated film coming out. Pretty exciting.

Hillary Gets the 3 AM Call from Bill

By now the 3:00 AM call is old news. But this cartoonist couldn’t pass up a chance of contemplating exactly what would happen at 3:00 AM. And what more, who might be actually be making that call.

For a great summary of the whole parody situation on this 3:00 AM call, check out CNN.

Also a couple of things to note (not necessarily my own observations):

• The phone Hillary answers is white - not the “red” phone from the original Mondale/Hart ads of yesteryear
• Anyone notice how many times the phone rings (6 times before anyone picks up)
• A lot of people actually think this is a McCain ad, not Clinton

Let’s hope Hillary does call it quits on Wednesday.

Good luck Obama!