October 13, 2004

Cheerleader-In-Chief

Posted By Chris Crosby at 2:36 AM

Leno asked Edwards if he could beat the president in a foot race.

Edwards, who said he jogged about five miles Tuesday, reminded the audience he played football as a student. Bush, he noted, was on a cheering squad.

Bush "was on the side, with his pompoms," the North Carolina senator said. "I don't know, can you run fast with those cheerleading outfits on?" * 31 comments

31 Comments:

Stop being so faggy.

By Anonymous, at 12:19 PM

Hahaha
Man, Bush is such a he-bitch.
Good times, good times.

By Anonymous, at 12:56 PM

Oh come on, how can you not find that funny? I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than vote Kerry/Edwards, but just sit back, close your eyes, and imagine Bush giving a speech or something and then busting out pom-poms and leading the audience in a cheer. XD!!!

By Anonymous, at 12:57 PM

This is officially the most puerile election ever.

By Anonymous, at 2:07 PM

It was pretty funny, but Edwards played football in High School. He didn't make the college team.

These are the two most ridiculous candidates in the history of the election. I'm voting 3rd party, because it's the only vote that isn't wasted.

Edwards should stick to pretending he's Jesus and trying to raise Superman from the dead with stem cells.

By Anonymous, at 2:58 PM

Where does it say Edwards played football in college?

Bush and Kerry may both be ridiculous in their own ways, but at least they're not voting for THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES in 2004. That's the HEIGHT of ridiculousness. And that's coming from someone who supported H. Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996!

By Chris, at 3:09 PM

That was funny. And pointless. I don`t know, are you saying that cheerleading is a girl's sport then? It's predominantly females, mostly because football is predominantly male, and it's an unwritten (was a written) rule that females didn`t play football. So here's Edwards inferring that Bush was a 'girly-man' on a cheer team while Edwards is 'big-burly man' on the playing field. Personally, I`d rather have a person in office who was strong enough to break through the ridicule a guy goes through while cheering on his team, rather than the guy who makes fun off him as he goes off the field.

As an aside, ever hear the phrase "grasping for straws"?

By Anonymous, at 7:12 PM

Well as another person on another board said, instead on having tactile interaction with large sweaty men, I'd rather have fun with the girls in short skirts, and I'd vote for Kerry.

By Anonymous, at 1:15 AM

"I don`t know, are you saying that cheerleading is a girl's sport then?"

I'm sorry, I'm foriegn (and therefore evil, Bush fans!), so i don't understand... I know football (even american football) is a sport, but I didn't know Cheerleading was too!

We have cheerleaders in England too, they're called 'Milwall fans' and their cheers usually invoice stabbing other fans with sharpened screwdrivers and setting fire to minorities....

And to those who say they wil vote for a 3rd party candidate (and yes I know I'm not voting) try this Hypothetical situation on for size: Satan is about to take over the whole planet, and you can vote for him, someone who you don't like very much who can stop him, or someone else who you like very much, but who hasn't a snowball... you know if Satan wins there may not BE another vote EVER.... who do you vote for?

and as a personal note, I don't believe physical fitness, physical appearance or past war record should count for anything in a leadership election - its the media that tells you that it should...

By Jon UK, at 6:36 AM

Bush played rugby in college. Rugby > American Football. Vote Voldemort in 2004!

By Anonymous, at 4:10 PM

'As an aside, ever hear the phrase "grasping for straws"?'

Edwards made a joke on a late night talk show. It's not a big deal. :?

By Anonymous, at 4:46 PM

I think cheerleaders are so hot ;) well minus bush.. but I know that there are guy cheerleaders and it takes guts to do that...it also takes guts to bomb a third world country that has never laid a hand on you, while letting a mastermind terrorist slip away. I am not trying to persuade anyone to vote for kerry and my name is not Micheal Moore, just some food for thought. Vote (fill in the blank) for president! :)

By Anonymous, at 8:49 PM

I'd pay money to see Bush dressed as a cheerleader with pompoms. :) I dunno, something about that ALMOST revs my engine in a masochistic sort of way...

By Anonymous, at 9:57 PM

Bush is still a cheerleader. Only now he's cheering on Team Rumsfeld.

By Anonymous, at 3:26 AM

So, I can assume that you're sexist and a homophobe for thinking less of Bush because he was a cheerleader, and that you're a puerile fool for thinking that it's funny enough to be mentioned here. But then again, gauging from the strips recently, you wouldn't know what funny is, would you?

By Anonymous, at 8:36 AM

I'd say if anything's gay, it's football. All that running around in tights, slapping each other on the ass, passing balls under legs, jumping on big sweaty guys, those big gay shoulderpads...

By Anonymous, at 9:36 AM

Actually, there's nothing wrong with being a male cheerleader. Think about it for a second. You get to manhandle all the hot female cheerleaders. Lift them up and all that stuff. That being said, everybody running in this election has no brain.

By Anonymous, at 10:34 AM

I may be alone in this, but I think less of people in general who are cheerleaders... but to that token, I'm willing to cut females at least a little slack because of the enormous peer pressure involved therein.

But seriously... they're basically the football team's groupies... what self-respecting human being would want to sign up for that?

Anyone who truly believes that a vote for a third party candidate isnt a waste is clearly too stupid to live. They should be dragged out onto the street, stripped naked, and shot in the mouth

By Anonymous, at 11:41 AM

Bush can fly a jet...this automatically negates any cheerleading and launches him into the 'way cooler than a football jock' crowd.

By Anonymous, at 11:53 AM

Fukk george bush, fukk him and fukk everything about him. Yes my spelling of the word Fukk is bad, but i dont want it to block what i am saying in case it does. Anyone who votes for him is an imbecile who deserves acetone peroxide planted on the rim of their eyelids so that when they blink it blows their head off their bodies. If you cant see he has been lying his arse off through his term in office, then you should be murdered.

It doesnt MATTER if you have republican views in this election, at least wait til the republicans have a representative and leader who doesnt lie and jeapordise the life of EVERYONE on the PLANET. At least wait til its JUST what the republican parties prime objectives that are at stake. DO NOT vote for someone who beleives he is doing the work of the christian God by killing moslems and stealing oil. He is a weapon of mass distruction, and an IDIOT.

VOTE HIM OUT DAMNIT!

Vote him out as the british will do for blair.

Vote him out as Mugabe should be.

Vote ALL THE DAMN ARSEHOLES OUT!

I cant do much, im in guernsey.

By Anonymous, at 12:27 PM

Hey, you can post anonymously without registering! SWEEET!

This webcomic is hilarious. Anyone who disagrees is clearly a nazi communist childmolesting terrorist.

Sawyer Kaden for Prez in 2004!

By Anonymous, at 3:46 PM

Bush can fly a jet...this automatically negates any cheerleading and launches him into the 'way cooler than a football jock' crowd.Him, and a certain merry band of Saudi Arabians we all know (retrospectively). And Hitler could paint. This argument is fucking ridiculous. How about we vote for somebody who's not showing characteristic signs of pre-senile dementia?

Not that I'm saying Bush is going senile. But I wouldn't bet he isn't, either.

By Anonymous, at 3:46 PM

..whoa. Did I hear someone say they don't consider female cheerleaders as bad as male ones BECAUSE of how they have all the peer pressure to do it?

Usually, "I'm dumb enough to give in to peer pressure" is a reason to like someone LESS, not more. Unless of course you like mindless zombies obsessed with being "cool" or "popular" (concepts that just wouldn't even exist in a "perfect" world.. not that that's even possible, but oh well)

By Anonymous, at 6:59 PM

It's amazing to me. If a candidate makes a joke like this, then there's all these ramifications for it, but if he refuses to make jokes, then he's stiff.

Lets face it, if you don't like Kerry or Edwards, they'll piss you off no matter what they say. The same goes for Bush (how he thinks education will help a 50 something year old person who's job got shipped off to India is still beyond me [see last debate]) and Cheney.

They are politicians and lets face it, we won't cut the other guy any slack. If Bush had made that same damn comment, plenty of people would be acting like it's ok.

I'm so sick of the republican party that I could vomit

By Anonymous, at 6:09 AM

HEY. GUESS WHAT. This is a COMEDY-based webcomic, meaning it exists to make one LAUGH. Senator Edwards make a crack on a late-night COMEDY, meaning exists to make one LAUGH, TV show.

So, by Law of Transitive Syllogism...
Edwards' comment = dialogue on comedy shpw
Dialogue on comedy show = jokes
THEREFORE
Edwards' comment = jokes
THUS
This site quoted John Edwards' JOKE into a COMEDY website blog area, thus JOKE.

It's amazing how that works, isn't it? Oh, by the way, you want to get into sexism and political correctness? Let's get into it.

Y'all are WAY too damn worried about political correctness, a recent institution embraced by society as a whole by influence of mass media originally used as an anti-prejudice measure regarding mainly women and blacks in the United States of America. Nowadays, however, it is widely used and abused as a complete deterrent of emotional hurt for people who feel vague self-pity for themselves or someone associated with due to some birth and/or later-afflicted abnormality or difference they feel insecure about.

Well, guess what, people? That's what life is fucking about. You can't go about living your hundred-odd years on this green earth never expecting to feel any sort of pain from other people; it's, well, a rather retarded notion.

Case closed. Honestly, people, let's all play nice and read the comic. If you don't like it, leave?

By Anonymous, at 10:21 AM

In all honesty, it doesn't even matter who votes for whom. Something will happen like last time in Florida, and whoever the government chooses, not the people, will win.

By Anonymous, at 6:23 AM

Kerry managed to answer every question in the debates. I think we all remember how Bush began rambling on about education, something that he had already spoken about earlier in the evening, when asked about something completely different in the third debate. He either doesn't know what to do about the jobs lost while he was in office, and/or he doesn't care. Besides, I have trouble taking someone seriously when they preach about new education programs and can barely string together articulate sentence themselves. On the other hand, I also question Kerry's intelligence quotient since he has failed to gain a decisive lead after the debates... Elect morons, or whimps? Republicans, or democrats? You decide, and no matter who wins, God help America...

By Anonymous, at 7:10 PM

I think everyone is forgetting what is REALLY important here.

"WHICH CANDIDATE LOOKS BEST IN A CHEERLEADER UNIFORM?"

When do we get to the swimsuit competition? Forget talent. They are politicians. We're lucky any of them remember the proper rhythm for breathing.

By Anonymous, at 5:10 PM

Looks aside, Bush isn't nearly coordinated enough to be a modern cheerleader. As for Kerry (who was wearing a much different uniform in the era that that pic of Bush was taken), he looks like he could hold up the entire pyramid on his own. A little stiff, yes, but at least we wouldn't see him fall flat on his ass very much... Plus, I doubt Bush could remember something as complicated as 'sis-boom-ba'.

As for which of them actually looks best in a cheerleader uniform... Ugh, this is far too disturbing a notion to give any serious thought to without eroding what remains of my fragile human soul...

Oh, who am I kidding? The internet stole my soul long ago! I likes my transvestite candidates with long legs man, so Kerry it is!

By Anonymous, at 9:05 AM

Just want to say I'm a fan of the comic... most of the time.

Honestly I have to agree with the person who posted earlier saying it was just Kerry cracking a joke, it's not a big deal. It barely registers with all of the mudslinging that's been going on in this campaign.

By Rozinante, at 12:08 AM

Do we really want to choose our presidents based on a foot race?

By Anonymous, at 10:42 AM