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Friday Funnies

Obama's administration takes shape

Henry Payne | 12.5.2008 7:00 AM

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  1. dhex   18 years ago

    oh man, he totally crossed out clinton's name and just wrote his own there!

  2. Warty   18 years ago

    Careful about the big lips.

  3. Michelle   18 years ago

    Why'd he draw Barack like a monkey?

  4. ed   18 years ago

    I didn't know Obama was from Easter Island.

  5. anarch   18 years ago

    Michelle, don't be so sensitive. You won the election! Enjoy it!

  6. anon   18 years ago

    Where's the crying Statue of Liberty?

  7. Untermensch   18 years ago

    I know complaining about Payne is like shooting fish in a barrel, but do the Reason folks have to make it even worse by using what looks to have beens scanned from a newspaper?

  8. JW   18 years ago

    Careful about the big lips.

    There's no rule about the ears. In your face, socially unacceptable, exagerated, racial characteristics!

  9. P Brooks   18 years ago

    Friday Funnies needs a bailout!

  10. Taktix?   18 years ago

    Friday Funnies needs a bailout!

    Win!

  11. economist   18 years ago

    There needs to be a troll war between LoneWacko and concerned observer. Really, it would be damn funny to watch.

  12. Jon H   18 years ago

    See, this is funny, because we all know he's supposed to draw his appointees from the staff of the Arabian Horse Association.

  13. Lamar   18 years ago

    And he's getting fellated under the table, another remnant of the Clinton years. (Don't tell me the cartoonist isn't making that very clear with Obama's expression)

  14. Ska   18 years ago

    Lamar -

    That's what I was thinking from the little cropped picture on the home page.

  15. JW   18 years ago

    And he's getting fellated under the table, another remnant of the Clinton years.

    Table? That's no table he's resting his writing hand on. They don't call him "Big Stick" for his foreign policy positions.

  16. Larry Edelstein   18 years ago

    That's right. They call him it because he's a tool of the shillelagh lobby!

  17. KT   18 years ago

    I have to be honest, that wasn't very funny. It is Friday, though.

  18. Fresno Bob   18 years ago

    You people are fools. This is comic genius. Henry Payne is second only to Chip Bok.

    MORE CHIP BOK! NOW!

  19. Paul   18 years ago

    I laughed until it hurt.

  20. Lefiti   18 years ago

    I don't get it.

  21. Egosumabbas   18 years ago

    I laughed until I stopped.

  22. ed   18 years ago

    Obama is our most-black president. 50%!
    It's taupe we can believe in!

  23. Eric the .5b   18 years ago

    The comic's a victim of internet time. This would have been grin-worthy if we were seeing this alongside stories covering Obama's picks. After days of hearing about them and noting just that point, it's just not funny.

  24. Francesco Sinibaldi   18 years ago

    Season of love.

    Over a dreamland
    there's the sound
    of a delicate
    sadness, and over
    the way there's
    a light that
    invites you to
    discover the sun.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

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