I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find something George McGovern said during the closing days of his 1972 presidential campaign. It was about a president who only makes speeches in front of military personal and avoids all confrontation. There don’t appear to be any McGovern campaign speeches online, save his acceptance speech in a few places and his announcement speech in one spot. I should probably check this out against Barry Goldwater, who he is forever linked with as the landslide loser who lost to a president who went down in disgrace, but in Goldwater’s case we have a better… panache toward electoral victory.

Not finding that, I guess I’ll content myself with some editorial cartoons from today’s newspapers.

As though torn from today’s headlines!

Yes! Those Diebold machines are uncertain items. Did you hear that quote about “I will deliver Ohio to Bush”?

Okay. I have no other purpose but to say than that we do not live in interesting times. I’ll scour the Teddy Roosevelt cartoons and see if I can see one carping on his usurption of presidential powers. Then we can pretend that Bush II is Teddy Roosevelt. Just as we can pretend that Abramoff is Tammany.

And the Railroads that owned the Republican party in the last two decades of the 19th century are… um… Halliburton maybe? I don’t know.

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