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Archive for January 18th, 2012

This Week’s Cartoon: “Romney Straps Worker to Roof of Campaign Bus”

I assume most people have heard about Mitt Romney’s dog-on-car incident, especially now that even Newt Gingrich is attacking him over it, but to recap briefly: back in the ’80s, Mitt stowed the family pooch in a carrier on the roof of the family station wagon for the duration of a 12-hour drive to Ontario. After several hours, the dog, an Irish Setter named Seamus, developed gastric distress that made itself evident on the windows of the station wagon. Mitt stopped at a gas station to hose down the dog and the car, and continued on his merry way, Seamus still riding aloft.

As I drew Mitt’s bus, I got to thinking about the Romney campaign logo. I find the symbolism of these things fascinating. The Romney logo divides the “R” into red, white and blue stripes. It sort of looks like three people standing in a row, or an abstractly-shaped waving flag. But what I see most is an R within an R within an R: the rich protecting the rich protecting the rich.


Jen Sorensen is a cartoonist seen on Daily Kos, The Nib, and in magazines and
newspapers throughout the US. She is a 2017 Pulitzer finalist and recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

 

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