Artist Political Formspring

Apr 12th

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  J.J. McCulloughSo is this thing over?
  Yes. This thing indeed.
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Nov 19th

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  ToviasYou seem familiar. Do I know you from somewhere? (by zellsbells)
  We may have met.
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Sep 20th

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  J.J. McCulloughIs it possible to salvage Canadian nationalism as something other than pure anti-Americanism?
  I think you can only be a Canadian nationalist through anti-Americanism. That's a central tenant of my whole philosophy of this country, I would say. There's a liberal strain of Canadian nationalism that champions superiority over the US via social programs and such, and a more reactionary strain that celebrates the monarchy and empire and such, but ultimately they're two sides of the same coin. Canada is a social experiment that requires the United States as a counter-example in order to function. I think you can be a happy and satisfied and loyal Canadian, as I am, without being anti-American, but you'll never be a great nationalist and your patriotism will never be very aggressive.
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  Sep 20, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughDo you ever look back on some of your comics written, say, five or ten years ago, and how they may have reflected more of the views of the world at the time of their writing than how the world actually turned out?
  I don't totally follow you, but yes. A lot of my early comics are ignorant or naive in various ways, often because I was very caught up in the myopic narratives of the present. I imagine that's also thew case today, but I don't have the perspective to notice it yet.
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  Sep 20, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughI live in North Carolina, which is in the eastern USA. Sometimes I find Canadian coins around here (mostly pennies). Being in Vancouver, do you find any US coins in your change?
  Once in a while. It's mostly pennies as well. For some reason I feel like I almost never see American dimes.
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Sep 8th

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  J.J. McCulloughIf Canada had, and were able to maintain, a population size similar to that of the United States, what might Canada have achieved, both good and ill?
  If that were the case, North America would be even more smotheringly dominant of the global culture than it is now. Just imagine the impact of a second Hollywood or a second New York City. There'd be more English-speakers in North America than people in all of Europe! Beyond that, I am not sure. It's hard to imagine a universe in which America and Canada are equals, since so much of what makes Canada distinctly Canadian is defined in opposition to American strength and superiority.
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  Sep 08, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughSome of the speakers at the Democratic National Convention criticized Mitt Romney for not having economic patriotism. What exactly is an economic patriot in today's global economy?
  I guess the idea would be if there's a conflict between your economic interests and America's interests, you side with the latter. That's the problem with the Cayman Islands stuff, Romney seems to be saying his duties/obligations as an American citizen/taxpayer are subordinate to his interests as a rich guy who wants to maximize his investments.
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  J.J. McCulloughThink Biden runs in 2016 to replace Obama?
  I think he will run, I don't think he's a shoe-in for the nomination, though.
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Aug 31st

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  J.J. McCulloughWhy did the Liberal Party change from Trudeau's Economic Nationalism of the 1970s to being Pro-Free Trade during the years of Jean Chreitien ?
  Because Trudeau's policies did not work. They did not yield substantial economic growth, while free trade, which was brought in by a Conservative government after Trudeau left office, did. Chretien was a pragmatic guy and was able to realize this once he became PM, even though he had opposed Free Trade while in opposition. Chretien and Paul Martin were very much part of the wave of born-again neo-liberal liberals who were popular in many western democracies during the 1990s.
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  Aug 31, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughWhat do you think the relationship between George W. Bush and Harper was actually like ?
  If I just had to randomly speculate, I'd say Harper probably venerated Bush as a symbol of conservative success, and Bush probably had his traditionally warm, but uncomplicated feelings of friendship towards a foreign leader that was on "his side." I think the more interesting question would be how Harper reflects on the Bush legacy today. I think a case can be made that Harper is now quite consciously trying to avoid some of what ruined the later years of the Bush presidency.
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  J.J. McCulloughIf you could reform the UN (short of abolishing it), how would you do so?
  I think limiting its membership to democratic states that pass some sort of civil liberties assessment would go a long way in improving its legitimacy. The security council should also be reformed, but that's trickier.
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  J.J. McCulloughYou're going to be doing another one of those charts for predicting the results of the upcoming presidential election, right? The previous ones were rather memorable.
  Of course! In fact, I should get cracking on that.
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  J.J. McCulloughWhy do you continue with forum when you have obviously outgrown it's discourse?
  Some people clearly like using it. Most cartoons I post get at least a dozen replies. I know a lot of the people on there clearly don't like me, but I'm all about giving readers as many venues as possible to engage with my work and ideas.
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Aug 12th

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  J.J. McCulloughKate Beaton/Hark a Vagrant has a new comic up about Canadians and the War of 1812, it's pretty funny.
  I saw it! It's pretty great. I like the line "well, we rebuilt it." I think that says everything about the difference between Canadians and Americans.
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  Aug 12, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughIt has been suggested that Ron Paul's long term plan is to subvert the GOP into a libertarian-based party, similar to how Pat Robertson helped transform the party into a Christian Right one today. What do you think of this analysis?
  I really don't get the impression Ron Paul is that smart or schemey. I think what you're describing is probably a better analysis of the Tea Party itself.
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  J.J. McCulloughJ.J., do you have anything to say about the politicization of everything in American life? That is to say, how so much music, food, recreational activities, etc, can be identified with either the Republicans or the Democrats?
  It's an interesting phenomena to be sure.
  
  I think it's mostly the result of a partisan, 24-hour news cycle. When the press is dominated by pundits of one ideological persuasion or another, there's this very strong incentive to respond to absolutely everything from a static left or right-wing perspective, even if the news item itself is barely ideological, let alone political. It's a bias of our news media more than a legitimate byproduct of a "increasingly divided nation," in my view.
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  J.J. McCulloughSome folks claim that Ronald Reagan and the US won the cold war. Are the same claims made about Brian Mulroney and Canada?
  Mulroney tries to take credit for being one of the leading Cold Warriors of the 1980s, but I don't think anyone takes this seriously.
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Jul 26th

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  J.J. McCulloughWhat do you think of the Canadian flag? Though I have lived in many countries, as an American, I have always felt the Canadian flag felt the most foreign.
  I think it's quite a handsome flag, design-wise. It's very distinctive and creative probably one of the most recognizable in the world as a result. I do dislike the fact that it contains exactly zero symbolism of anything, though. The problem with the pro-Red Ensign set, however, is that they idolize a flag with pretty dumb symbols. I guess both are flawed in ways the other is not.
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  Jul 26, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughMuch has been said that Rice for VP is DOA since her pro-choice views would doom her to the base. But do GOP voters really even care at this point given their Obama hatred? And if she's such a turn off to the base, why can she top VP preference of GOPers?
  I think they would care in time, honestly. There's a sort of "wow" factor with some politicians that can decline very quickly once their actual views are learned —just ask Rudy Giuliani. I think, however, that the GOP base would be quite forgiving if she just did a Romney-like flip-flop on the issue, though, because, as you said, the Obama-hatred is so high.
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  Jul 26, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughAs a journalist, do you approve of the mainstream media getting quotes approved or edited by the interviewees, especially if the interviewees are political figures?
  As a general rule, no, but it's not always as sinister as it sounds. You do want to report the facts honestly, and if a politician says something that seems quite out of whack with his previously stated agenda, I think it's fair to clarify quotes like that before publishing. I'm not sure that the public interest is best served by printing lots of flustered answers to "gotcha" questions or obvious flubs or misstatements.
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  J.J. McCulloughAre corporations people?
  People are corporations.
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Jul 16th

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  J.J. McCulloughIf tomorrow, America suddenly demanded the annexation of Canada (or else), how would your perceptions of Canadian-American relations, and America in general, change, if at all?
  I don't know. That's kind of an absurd, loaded question. Would I hate America if America was evil? Sure. But it's not so I don't.
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  Jul 16, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughDoes the desire of some Canadians to select a Trudeau to lead the Liberal Party have any similarity to the desire of some Americans to select Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2008?
  I don't think so, I think Trudeau is very much the Obama figure in this particular narrative. Young, charismatic, untested... some old-guard Liberal insider will run against him, and that guy will be the Hillary.
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  Jul 16, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughPlanned Parenthood has received a lot of grief in the USA for receiving gov. funding and providing abortions and contraceptives, even though the perform many other services. Would changing the name from Planned Parenthood to something less blatant help?
  I think it's pretty euphemistic already. I mean, it's not like it's called "Abortions-R-Us." If you're gonna be in the business of "family planning," don't hide from that label.
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Jul 4th

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  J.J. McCulloughWhy does the "Complete list of Cartoons" not go back before 2006?
  I'm not sure.
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Jul 2nd

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  J.J. McCulloughAre Canadians aware of the existence of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon? If so, what do they know (or think) about it?
  It comes up now and then as a sort of cutesy point of trivia. Like "how many countries does Canada border—WRONG WRONG WRONG!"
  
  I remember there was this great sarcastic quote, I forget who said it, some premier of Newfoundland, I think. He was skeptical of increased funding for the military, and said something to the effect of "oh yes, we're so defenceless against enemies. In fact, I lie awake every night fearing St. Pierre and Miquelon will invade."
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  Jul 02, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughAccording to Statistics Canada, as recently as 2006, less than half the population of Quebec spoke fluent English. This can be compared to Sweden, where 85% of the adult population speaks fluent English. How can this possibly be explained?
  The Quebec government exerts considerable effort to suppress English use, and particularly English education, among its French-speaking citizenry. It is an extraordinarily regressive, chauvinist, anti-globalist position I think all sensible western European nations have long since abandoned.
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Jun 22nd

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  J.J. McCulloughIf the GOP race was being held in Canada, how do you think it would have panned out? Would Perry have stood a chance? Would Paul have a dedicated fan base? Would Huntsman have fared better? Would Bachmann still just be creepy?
  Man, that's hard to say. I really feel like on some level Canada's political culture, especially its conservative political culture, is almost too underdeveloped to even engage in the thought exercise of an open primary.
  
  I guess a lot of it also depends on how the candidates would engage with Canadian issues. If someone like Bachmann, for instance, took some super extreme radical line against, say, the CBC, for instance, would that help her or hurt her with Canadian conservative voters? There are so many things right-wingers hate in this country but are rarely given a political vehicle to express those hatreds through. I personally think this country would elect fairly radical people if given the chance, just because of the pent-up demand.
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  Jun 22, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughWhich do you think are the best and worst official U.S. Presidential portraits?
  I like John Kennedy's a lot, although I could see someone arguing that it's a bit overwrought. I think most from the broad 1860-1960 period were generally pretty good. Anything earlier and you get into that overblown faux-Romanic gaudiness, while anything later and you get the tackiness of today.
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  Jun 22, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughWhat do you think of people who put those thin blue stripes on the flag, or insist on flying the Red Ensign? (by LordThorne)
  I think they're both dopes in different ways. Supporting the Red Ensign is just horribly reactionary, and if people want to be reactionaries I'd rather they channel that effort elsewhere, in to some social issue or something, which of course none of them ever do. And the blue bars is just this lame effort to ensure absolutely everything in Canada reflects this "two founding nations" ideology, which is itself a fairly reactionary idea too, now that I think about it.
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Jun 16th

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  J.J. McCulloughWhat are your thoughts on Gary Johnson?
  I like him better than Ron Paul, I think he's a much more human and charismatic fellow, and certainly more accomplished and qualified to be President of the United States. I don't agree with him politically, but I think he'd make a decent third party choice, and it would be cool to see him in at least one debate.
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  Jun 16, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughSpeculate on the current state of politics in Britain if the Profumo Affair never happened. If you can't, what if Diefenbaker had appointed someone from elsewhere in the Commonwealth as Governor-General instead of Georges Vanier? (by LordThorne)
  I really don't know enough about the Profumo affair, or mid-century British politics to comment on the former.
  
  On the latter, I imagine it would have just been seen as one more crazed Diefenbaker eccentricity, and would not have spawned a trend. But monarchists would probably constantly cite it today, and editorial pages would raise some high-profile Australian as a "possibility" every time the GG spot became vacant.
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  Jun 16, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughSo what are your thoughts, vis-a-vis metic and imperial?
  My thoughts are kind of complicated. On the one hand, I get the "idea" of the Metric system, and why it's more rational etc etc. But on the other hand, I'm also sympathetic to the idea that units of measurement are a very hard-wired cultural thing, and not something that can be easily changed by mere force of government decree, which makes me somewhat question the cost/benefit aspect of trying.
  
  Several decades after nominally "converting," Canada is very much a dog's breakfast of imperial and metric co-existing in an awkward fashion, and I think it's very hard to make the case that the nation, as a whole, is demonstrably better for it. Certainly it's needlessly complicated trade with the US, and I'm generally opposed to initiatives that do that.
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Jun 7th

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  J.J. McCulloughWhat do you think about the whole Putin re-election thing?
  What's to think? It's clear the man's rule has not been disrupted since 2000, so this is really just a technicality. It's like in the old USSR when the leaders would occasionally shift offices or titles, but their absolute rule of the country was never in doubt.
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  Jun 07, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughDo you think the likes of FDR, Kennedy, Nixon - leaders who undeniably accomplished a great deal in office - could even get elected in today's American political environment?
  No, but I don't think that's automatically AS terrible as everyone seems to presume. Mass media and the information revolution has helped turn us into a much more open, consultative, democratic society in many ways. I think the fact that presidents can't just do giant sweeping things without provoking significant critical push-back reflects a growing maturity just as much as the obviously unattractive purity tests and extreme polarization reflect a growing immaturity.
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  J.J. McCulloughWhat's your favorite pokémon?
  Either Dugtrio or Wobbuffet.
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  J.J. McCulloughWhat's your thoughts on causes for Americans now having a higher approval rating of Queen Elizabeth II than Canadians?
  That says a lot, doesn't it?
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May 24th

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  J.J. McCulloughHow similar would you say Mitt Romney and Stephen Harper are? And if Romney were President, how well do you think they would get along?
  I think they'd get along relatively well. They're both uptight, stiff, square conservatives who are mostly interested in economic issues and share a broadly similar philosophy in that regard. Harper and Obama, on the other hand, are probably the least alike of any modern US president / Canadian prime minister pairing. So relations can only improve.
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  J.J. McCulloughIn regards to conspiracy theories, who do you think has it worse: Bush or Obama?
  That's a tricky one. I feel Bush's are still generally worse, because they presume far greater malevolence. Obama is assumed to want to be a tyrannical dictator and enslave Americans to work in his collective farms or whatever. Bush, on the other hand, was assumed to want to wage perpetual war against the entire world and kill millions.
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  J.J. McCulloughCould you as someone who is republican on the issue of the monarchy use that as an excuse to avoid jury duty due to the fact you would be unable to commit to the juror`s oath ?
  I don't believe the juror's oath demands loyalty to the Crown.
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May 5th

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  J.J. McCulloughDo you feel there are any spiritual successors to Banjo-Kazooie 2?
  I'm not sure, I haven't really played many 3-D platformers since that once.
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Apr 26th

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  J.J. McCulloughDo you have a favorite journalist?
  Depends what we mean by journalist, I guess. I liked Mike Wallace a lot, and I really admire the whole team at 60 Minutes. I like pretty much everything Bob Woodward has written. Brian Lamb is my new hero as far as interviewers go, and I feel David Brooks is probably the best American pundit.
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  Apr 26, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughWhat's your favorite online game, FB game, mobile game or video game to play? (by Formspring)
  There's this iPhone game called "Scoops" I'm quite fond of. Like everyone else, I'm also quite into "Draw Something" at the moment, though overall I'm trying to play less of what the New York Times recently dubbed "stupid games."
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  Apr 26, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughHow does a government official working in an English-speaking city like Vancouver or Winnipeg maintain French fluency?
  With great difficulty, I'm sure. But it's not like he'll have to use his French skills much.
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Apr 16th

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  J.J. McCulloughWhat country do you want to visit? (by Formspring)
  In all honesty, I feel like I've been almost everywhere I've ever had a burning passion to visit. I would kind of like to visit a poorer country in Eastern Europe someday, though, like maybe Serbia or Kosovo or one of the other Balkan states.
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  Apr 16, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughThe President of Hungary recently resigned for plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation back in 1992. Have any other world leaders resigned for academic offenses?
  That's an interesting question. I'm not sure. But the Hungarian president is a figurehead, and it's easier to force a figurehead out on fairly minor charges, since the office is of only minor relevance in the first place.
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  J.J. McCulloughDo you think Scott Walker will successfully be recalled?
  I'm not sure. My hunch is no, because the Democrats don't seem to have a super strong candidate of their own.
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  J.J. McCulloughWhat do you think the chances are of a Romney/Santorum ticket come late August?
  Low. I think Romney will choose Rubio, or someone very lame and boring and inoffensive.
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Apr 4th

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  J.J. McCulloughHey JJ, I couldn't make it to ECCC, can you make it down to Stumptown?
  I don't really have enough money to make it down there, unfortunately. You should come up to Vancouver for VanCaf, though! I'll actually have a table there!
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  Apr 04, 2012 | J.J. McCullough of Filibuster Cartoons
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  J.J. McCulloughPres. Obama said the U.S. Supreme Court must hold up the new American healthcare law as, overturning it would go against the will of the people. Is he right, or should the Supreme Court only consider the law as-written, regardless of the people's will?
  I think it's an absurd and obviously political argument. The court has to determine if a law is constitutional or not; simply being passed by the legislature or having popular support is no defense in a republic of laws.
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