Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 07, 2010

Yikes!

I was going to comment about how it’s just an expression … but actually, being thrown underneath a real bus might be preferable to what happens in politics.

Recently elected U.S. Senator, Scott Brown, employed his daughters as political surrogates. Prez Bill Clinton used James Carville, and others as surrogates, especially when dealing with negative issues. Candidate John Kerry touted his own service in Vietnam, which sounded too much like bragging (using a surrogate to say the same thing would have been the better way convey the information). Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Michelle Obama serve as political surrogates for the sitting president. Perhaps Sam has a smart career idea here….?

Squishy squashy wishy washy

Not so sure about Michelle Obama. First Ladies haven’t been out in front on policy issues since Hillary got pilloried in the 90’s. (They usually get a minor war - on drugs, obesity, illiteracy, etc. to champion)

Liz Cheney and the Palin kids are surrogates. Even Trig.

God forbid you grow up to be Lanny Davis.

Well this is certainly something different today!

Dan Quayle, Spiro Agnew, the entire fox network, Sarah Palin, GWB, Rush Limppaw. Just listing the Republican surrogates, Flor. And at least Kerry actually served in Nam and saw some real fire. He could have been hiding home with Dick and George if he’d had enough rich relatives.

I disagree w/ all Garry’s politics, but he sure can nail it. Great strip as always.

So, THAT’S what happened to Sarah!

Actually…

…if you foul it up often enough you get a column at the Washington Post.

I’m sure there’s some sort of point that’s being made, but since I don’t spend my time watching the tabloid, “news” networks I really don’t know what it is.