2 October 2008
Political Cartoons
Last week, 5th graders class re-assembled to listen to the presidential debates. Even though they started at 9 PM (unlike the 8 PM initially publicized to the parents), this was possible since it was a Friday night. C-boy and Jonski Papa went, while I stayed home with the sleeping siblings. Neither one was particularly impressed by the debates themselves (“they didn’t really say anything”), but one comment by Obama had C-boy cheering: “so parents will have more money to buy computers for their kids.” Appeal to their hearts and purse strings, that’s the ticket.
Anyway, apparently C-boy drew cartoon while listening to the debates. He left them in his notebook at school, so I haven’t seen them yet, but here is the dialog as it was described to me.
First cartoon:
Moderator: …”the order of which will be determined by the flip of a coin.”
McCain: “I like to save money, can we flip a penny?”
Second cartoon:
Obama: …”so that the parents will have a few extra million dollars to buy their kids computers.”
Audience kid: “Computers – yay!”
Moderator: “The audience has promised to remain silent”
Audience kid: “Sorry.”
They aren’t scheduled to listen to tonight’s vice-presidential debates (presumably since it’s a school night – plus a parent-teacher conference night!), but I would just love to see what cartoons he would come up with, given the cast of characters!
NWHiker said,
3 October 2008 at 12:44 am
Did you ever get to see the actual art?
Tricia said,
4 October 2008 at 9:38 pm
Not yet! We were there Thursday for parent-teacher conference, but needed to scoot out of the room afterwards so I didn’t ask him to pull it out. I plan to go in one morning this coming week to take a peek. I think if he’d been listening to the VP debates, he would have used “gosh darn it!” in a cartoon. :^)
NWHiker said,
5 October 2008 at 1:15 am
Hee! I heard she winked too!
Post ’em if you can, ok?
Ruth said,
11 October 2008 at 1:17 pm
Those cartoons sound awesome!