At last, the McCain campaign has a direction

Wouldn't a gutter also serve as a proper destination for McCain's campaign in this drawing?

For war rhetoric, well, McCain's foreign policy seemingly has been coopted by Neocon ideology: democratization by force. And if he is going to annoint himself the foreign policy expert, perhaps McCain can get his facts straight: Iraq doesn't border Pakistan, as he claimed; Iran isn't training al-Queda, as he claimed (and Lieberman had to correct him; and the Sunnis and Shiites are different factions in Iraq, as he has confused them.

Tornoe-- how about a cartoon of Obama riding some tasty waves while the world around him implodes?

Martin--I appreciate your strong knowledge of local and state politics but please just stick to embracing big government, wet-nurse programs with which the taxpayers of NJ can finance the downtrodden as they suckle at the public breast. When you dive into deep waters of international politics, it is clear you can’t swim as you bob along wearing the water-wings of party talking points and regurgitation of youtube clips and punditry one liners. Democratization by force? Has Democracy ever come forth any other way? I’ll take Democracy by force over totalitarianism by appeasement every time.

McCain’s response may seem like rhetoric to you but to fledgling Democracies throughout Eastern Europe it provides more comfort than Barak Spicoli Obama’s gnarly response of everyone is to blame but no one is at fault. Let’s all sit down and talk it over. He might as well have said, “Heading over to the Australian and Hawaiian internationals, and then me and Mick are going to wing on over to London and jam with the Stones!”

Black and Gold Brad: One of the keys of satire is being able to discern what is being satirized. Hence, you're assessment, that Tornoe is critiquing Georgian independence from Russian, is completely off base; he's instead critiquing the vapid campaign rhetoric of the McCain campaign, which has no message (perhaps that's unfair: He's pro-Iraq War, even if facts belie his anti-withdrawal claim, and the Iraqi government wants U.S. troops to leave their country), unless chest-beating and provocation constitute a coherent "foreign policy."

ResurrectingReagan: May I politely suggest some self-reflection on the consistency of your views? You posit that "I’ll take Democracy by force over totalitarianism by appeasement every time." But this is a misguided view; the Iraq War was a mistake, invading Iran unilaterally via a pre-emptive war would be catastrophic, and yet you're still carrying water for a destructive, antiquated war policy that even one of its original proponents, Francis Fukuyama, calls a mistake in today's Wall Street Journal.

I'm rather surprised that you find McCain such a palatable candidate, in all honesty. Here is someone who invokes Reagan, an overrated president (but that conversation is for another day), who in his final speech railed against the influence of special interest groups and PACS in American politics. Yet the McCain campaign is nothing if not a phalanx of lobbyists at its core, funded by corporate special interest groups and oil companies who favor McCain's dishonest cry to "drill, drill, drill" as an energy policy.

Just trying to figure your ramblings out.

So you're cool with Obama's tepid and Carter-like response to an invasion of a idependent nation so close to the stage where he universially called on the people of the world to look at Berlin! To look at the Democratic response to trannical invasion; to look at the strategic creation of NATO (a military alliance READY to use force at any moment to sustain Democracy)as a shining example of defending freedom and Democracy whenever it is threatened.  Obama told me to look to Berlin and the invasion of Georgia looks to me a lot like what happened to Berlin.

You're cool with his hang loose flip flop on protecting freedom around the world and sustaining Democracies? 

And whatever your criticism are of John McCain, it seems that Obama is following McCain's lead on what to do with Russia.

... on everything, it seems.

From the Russian invasion, to the DC gun ban, to public financing of campaigns, to domestic oil production, to complete withdrawal from Iraq, to the Stregic Oil Preserve, to a divided Jerusalem, and on and on.

Don't like Obama's position on something today? Don't worry - it will change.

What would else should we expect of an Editorial Cartoon? I just have to wonder how the leftists on the editorial staff will feel when, as Queen Pelosi is pushing for, they have to provide equal time under the so-called "fairness doctrine" to those that oppose their own views?

.......more blood, more war more money and higher oil prices when the Russians cut the flow through the pipelines...and it all distracts from domestic issues and how we got into the foreign policy messes in the first place.

Meanwhile McCain's chief advisor on all this is a lobbyist paid off by a foreign government: Georgia.

Hey, if McCain is really "lucky" maybe some terrorists will......

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.