My mentor would have been 95 years old today. Bless your ever lovin' blue-eyed heart, Walt Kelly. Walt, a newspaper cartoonist, and his friend Pogo loved the political season leading up to the conventions, probably because Pogo himself usually was a candidate or a non-candidate candidate for the high office. Yes, Walt Kelly was a Democrat, but most of all he was a true-blue American. I don't think he would like the political shennigans that have gone on since his death in 1973.
I remember when he portrayed the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro as a pig and a goat. This was during the cold war when each of these gentlemen was plotting against the US of A. Many American news editors thought the the two might take it as an afront and declare war on us, so they temporarily or permanantly dropped the Pogo comic strips from their newspapers.
Here is a link to my last year's post and Walt's autobiography:
http://looselaces.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-mentor-happy-birthday-walt-kelly-and.html
----
Obama selected a sure winner when he chose Biden as a running mate. Just what America needs to go with Barack's fresh blood approach and promises. Biden is one of the regulars and part of the same do-nothing Congress that helped or allowed the Bushies to get by with nearly destroying everything good this country stood for. If McCain has sense enough to select a middle-of-the-road minority or woman outsider as his political help-mate, he should be a shoo-in as our next president. I suppose though that he will follow the party barf and get a good ol' boy much like Biden or worse, a Bushie.
----
I've been reading some of O. Henry's short stories again. Most of them are online at: http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/
I highly recommend them, and a good one to start with is: The Last Leaf.
----
We are getting a bit of moisture from TS Fay, but it is mostly in the form of cloudy skies, hot tropical stickiness, and a little drizzle.
4 comments:
Funny to think that Pogo could cause people to get upset enough to drop the cartoon. Sounds anti-American.
I think Biden will verbally punch the Republican team in the mouth. I know he will be able to get under their skin. He may play some part in the do nothing Congress however I lay the blame on Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. They are both big blowhards full of hot wind and pockets full of money.
Some papers dropped it when Kelly drew LBJ as a near-sighted longhorn steer, too. J. Edgar Hoover was portrayed as a bulldog. Sounds reasonable.
Biden can help the ticket, but not as much as some fresh blood would have. I'm saying that and hoping the People have had enough of the same old same-old. If they are still as gullible as the past two presidential elections, it doesn't make any difference and that means they fear real change.
Our Republican Congressman was first elected in the last election, and he got beat this time in the primary. That has never happened before in this district. I hope it means people are going to hold these jackasses accountable.
Well now I need to get a book of Walt's cartoons and check them out.
I have several of the Pogo books, but I've handled them so much they are falling apart.
Here is a link to one they are putting online:
http://www.pogopossum.com/gofizzicklepogo/go01.htm
Post a Comment