Comments on: 1960 election day comics

By: northierthanthou

northierthanthou — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:50:00 +0000

Yeah, just a little creepy.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:04:00 +0000

My first thought was why did he choose a Republican brain?

By: chellberty

chellberty — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:51:00 +0000

made the second one just one step Politically Correct.

By: Ito Kagehisa

Ito Kagehisa — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:21:00 +0000

“While all you stay-at-homes sat comfortably, your future was being decided by a handful of people who program voting machines!”

By: nyrge

nyrge — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:25:00 +0000

Yet another “Bob” cameo, secretly tipping us off to the Truth.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:46:00 +0000

I laughed about “a politician – honest or crooked!” Then I tried to make some argument about shades of grey, but realized I couldn’t. Politicians really do only come in those two flavors, don’t they.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:45:00 +0000

I thought it was a reference to the “straw man” concept of politics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:04:00 +0000

I thought that too. He’s “In the bag, man”

By: nowimnothing

nowimnothing — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:56:00 +0000

The orange one goes even further, good roads, good hospitals, nice playgrounds, clean cities.
Maybe that golden age of capitalism was just a bit more socialist than they have led us to believe. /snark

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:54:00 +0000

…or the dumb blonde in the office

Damn. Then all the guys went for a mid-town three martini lunch.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:38:00 +0000

That’s no dumb blonde…that’s Carol Channing!

By: tomrigid

tomrigid — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Man with white hood and noose tells me to vote.

Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Dr King and the rest…thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you.

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:31:00 +0000

It‘s in the bag.

By: big ryan

big ryan — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:29:00 +0000

yeah but a womans vote was either a ‘dumb blonde’ or your wifes vote

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:14:00 +0000

And what was that part about “fair labor policies?” No wonder that one is printed in red, comrade!

By: blueelm

blueelm — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Wow. People in the 50′s and 60′s were polluted with socialism. They even supported women’s votes! OMG! The GOP has it’s work cut out. Getting things back to 1852 is going to be so hard with all this pinko propaganda.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:02:00 +0000

The second comic (the red one) is even more surreal with it’s talk of unemployment benefits and the president acting to ensure the right to vote is not infringed.

By: ravenlunatick

ravenlunatick — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:55:00 +0000

LOL! My first thought was that he was going to set himself on fire with that cigarette.

By: big ryan

big ryan — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:54:00 +0000

yeah im trying to figure out what the bag head is supposed to mean, a scarecrow is the easy assumption but i have a feeling its some kind of more obscure reference to something that i don’t know about

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:49:00 +0000

I look at that character and can only imagine him singing,

“I could while away the elections,
Makin’ my selections,
If I only had a brain…”