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July 12, 2008
Meet Vaughn
Yesterday: Winslow and Carmen interviewed an armadillo for the position of finance director on their campaign. All he could say was that they're doomed.
Today: We learn that...
- Winslow and Carmen hired the armadillo. I guess they likes them some "straight talk" (which is different from John McCain's Straight Talk, which is to tell everybody that everything is going great even when it's not).
- The armadillo is named Vaughn. Not sure if that's a reference to Vince Vaughn or what.
- Vaughn the Armadillo is going to set fire to himself. Winslow thinks he's going to burn the campaign's financial information - nope, Vaughn just wants to commit suicide. Good morning, kids! Hope you enjoy the hilarity of self-immolation while you're eating your froot loops!
I looked for the funny in today's strip, but I haven't been able to find it. Is it funny that the armadillo is so depressed by the job he interviewed for (despite saying they were doomed over and over) that he wants to kill himself? With gas costing over $4 a gallon why waste it when he's got all that paper around him? Sorry, I'm spending more time thinking about this than Stantis did.
Maybe Vaughn should spend some time with John McCain's leading economic adviser Phil Gramm. He'll tell you that things aren't bad - the recession is "mental" and we're a nation of whiners. Straight Talk!
Then again, considering Gramm's ties to Enron and the mortgage crisis, maybe Winslow and Carmen already interviewed him for the job this past Wednesday.
