Has Trudeau even come up with one yet?
Not that he’s told us yet, AFAIK.
Trudeau filtered most of the campaign through the ubiquitous “talking television” or through Alex’s activism. I don’t think Obama has “appeared” in a strip yet.
Whatever it is, I can guarantee my father will be bitching about it next time I hear from him.
I really should get mom to cut that strip out of the paper before he gets to it.
A quarter? (You know, for change.)
It’s not great but I can’t come up with anything better.
I can think of a tremendously long list that it would not be, I’m ashamed to say.
Too close to the “flipping coin” icon I think he used for Clinton, with a waffle as the alternative.
I can picture a wheel, for wheels of change.
Wheels of change?
I thought he might go with a halo.
I almost made this jab, too.
I’m pretty liberal when it comes to my politics, but, damn, Trudeau’s just batshit loco anymore.
I wasn’t jabbing Trudeau, I thought it would be a good jab at Obama’s reputation as the messiah.
He could go with a Lincoln hat.
I’m voting halo too. If he doesn’t go with that, it will be because it’s too obvious.
Quick trivia: who was the first president to be satirized by a Doonesbury “icon” like this? I think I know, but I’ll check back.
Pretty sure it was GHW Bush - Nixon through Reagan were just voices over the White House, unless you count “Ron Headroom,” but Trudeau portrayed Bush in person, as a voice emanating from an empty chair. Dan Quayle was a similar empty space with a little feather over it, Clinton was a coin or a waffle, GWB was…what, a cowboy hat?
Roman Legionnaire’s Hat, as I recall.
I don’t know which way he’ll go but the halo is a good one. It can get more battered as time goes on, he can lend it to other people, etc…
According to the Doonesbury website, this is the list of icons used in the strip so far:
George H.W. Bush – point o’ lite
Dan Quayle – feather
David Duke – swastika
Newt Gingrich – bomb
Bill Clinton – waffle
Dubya – asterisk (wearing cowboy hat)
He used Max Headroom for Ronald Reagan.
Max Headroom was supposed to be a different character then the actual President, wasn’t he? IIRC, he was the auxiliary Regan for when the real one didn’t want to go to work or something.
Trudeau traded in Bush’s cowboy hat for an increasingly beat-up Roman soldier’s helmet as the presidency went along.
I wish he’d dump the stupid icons and just learn to draw caricatures.
Trudeau could go with:
a Blackberry or cell phone (reflecting the tech-savvy of his campaign)
a blank slate (reflecting his relative lack of a track record in Congress)
a small mirror (reflecting his admirer’s tendency to project onto him what they want him to be)
a basketball sneaker – Air Jordan, classic Converse, etc.