Retro Cartoon: Campaign Promises
I did this editorial cartoon about 2 years ago after an election. In the states, the landscape is cluttered with yard signs that promote candidates and issues in the month leading up to the election. While the volunteers are quick to put up the signs they are slow to remove them.
Locally we have laws that say you can’t put the signs on public property, yet no one pays any attention to that because there really isn’t a penalty for violating it.
So be a good citizen and clean up your campaign yard signs, recycle them and please STOP recycling your campaign promises. I am sure the Tea Party folks would love if I had made the sign an Obama one.
November 6, 2009 at 8:52 am
This is why I just throw the signs away and forget about them, like politicians also do with their promises.
November 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Aha…so you put them up. Who has graced your yard?
November 6, 2009 at 9:00 am
so true!
November 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Of course…I always tell the truth.
November 6, 2009 at 9:12 am
still funny, two years later
November 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Of course…see above. Not only do I tell the truth but in a humorous way..haha
November 6, 2009 at 10:14 am
Campaigns should be like the game show ‘Truth or Consequences’. That way they’re FORCED to follow through – or else they get a pie or something thrown at their head (that’s my version of the show).
November 6, 2009 at 4:01 pm
My favorite game show of all time…why couldn’t that show last instead of Wheel of Fortune
November 6, 2009 at 10:49 am
I agree with Nate..
Except we should let each registered voter punch them one time.
I figure that would get the point accross….
Well, with as thick as those politicians heads are, maybe not…
November 6, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Then do I get to punch all the voters who revote for the same politicians.
November 9, 2009 at 1:20 am
yep, they need punchin’!
November 9, 2009 at 11:57 am
Yes!!!
HA! That just might work!
November 6, 2009 at 12:51 pm
There are some great ideas coming out here! Anybody feel like running for office?
November 6, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Chris…I am all for you jumping on the political bandwagon. I’ll even put a post about it here.
November 6, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Bob, eh?!
November 6, 2009 at 4:02 pm
That was before I knew you…but…if the shoe fits.
November 6, 2009 at 10:49 pm
It definitely doesn’t … still, I couldn’t resist.
November 6, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Ha! I love that one… and not to steal from yorksnbeans but it’s true… so true.
November 6, 2009 at 4:03 pm
YNB will be so happy someone agrees with her.
November 6, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I love those signs. Without them, I wouldn’t know who to vote for.
November 6, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I can see you with 10 year old yard signs hanging in your garage.
November 6, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Conjures up all sorts of images of shanty towns built from the remains of recycled promises.
November 7, 2009 at 7:24 am
That’s why I vote for the guy who says he will do nothing. I can believe him.
November 6, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Nice cartoon Bearman. I hate those damned signs. What an enormous waste (and Bob won’t get my vote until he stops using “4″ to mean “for.”)
November 7, 2009 at 7:25 am
Can’t he uses it for everything…including 4nicate
November 6, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I still see campaign signs rotting away in people’s yards. It’s like they want fashionable credit if their guy won.
November 7, 2009 at 7:25 am
The sad thing is seeing the losing guys bumper sticker on cars for years to come.
November 9, 2009 at 1:22 am
uh…that would be me with my ron paul bumper sticker…next election i can scratch out ron and write in rand.
November 9, 2009 at 10:54 am
Rand?
November 6, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Run out of colored crayons Bearman? I was a bit worried I was going colored blind
November 7, 2009 at 7:25 am
I didn’t start using color until 2008.
November 7, 2009 at 8:14 am
Ah, that will explain it
November 6, 2009 at 11:21 pm
OK, lose the -ed!
November 7, 2009 at 11:57 am
I use them to make bird houses. Most of the political promises are for the birds anyway. You do good in black and white as well as color. (If you removed the newspaper would there be a finger pointing behind it?)
November 7, 2009 at 12:10 pm
There you go making fun of my drawing skills again. One hand has a yard sign and the other a recycle bin. Where would the “newspaper” be in the picture.
November 9, 2009 at 10:03 am
Oops, I meant to say sign, sorry about that. I would never criticize your drawing skills. Please consider me thougoughly chastized and humbled in the presence of your greatness. I am still wondering about the finger though.
November 9, 2009 at 10:55 am
haha…I wouldn’t call myself a “hack cartoonist” if I couldn’t poke fun at my own stuff. No fingers. It’s only for the special ones.
November 8, 2009 at 12:57 am
Spot-on toon Bear. I glad to see that 2007 is kicking it old school.
November 8, 2009 at 9:18 am
Glad to know I can still kick.
November 8, 2009 at 8:09 am
bearman u should start up a grave yard of campaign signs.. then whenever a new election comes around actually recycle… eg paint over the name or put up the new sticker if they change their slogan or if the name changes for that party…hehe itll b an artist way of telling them u know that they know that you know wat they know about knowing how to recycle promises
November 8, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Wouldn’t you know I already did that cartoon.
http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php?/contents/comments/editorial_cartoon_pepper_wins/
November 9, 2009 at 8:46 am
Lol…. This really hits the nail on the head bearman!
November 9, 2009 at 10:55 am
Thanks J
November 9, 2009 at 10:04 am
I don’t get any signs in my yard. I am not affiliated with any party and wich I could say my vote goes to the best candidate, but in the current political environment, if I can claim that I voted for the lesser evil, I guess I was succesful.
Nice retro!
November 9, 2009 at 10:56 am
How do you know the lesser evil until after one is elected.
November 9, 2009 at 11:52 am
Tell everyone to send the signs (and promises) to me, Bearman…I’ll make sculptures out of them.
November 9, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Recycled Art is the best.
November 10, 2009 at 2:45 am
It’s the same here in Tasmania, they leave them up for months after the election. They are, in my opinion, a real eyesore. They sure do recycle the promises, but I guess if the promises aren’t put into practice then they’re still good as new next time around