(Community Matters) At dinner on Wednesday night, Michael Mitchell brought up the question of which symbol Doonesbury might adopt for President Obama. It begged reminding which symbols Garry Trudeau adopted for presidents starting with Reagan.
- Reagan – Ron Headrest (depicting artificial intelligence)
- George H.W. Bush – invisible, often depicted as a point of light
- Bill Clinton – a waffle
- George W. Bush – originally a Stetson Hat atop an asterik (all hat, no cattle – the asterik adopted after Bush’s loss of the popular vote and installation by the S. Ct) then a Roman military hat on top of an asterik, representing imperialism.
Other popular symbols include: an unexploded bomb for Newt Gingrich and a feather for light-weight Dan Quayle
hmm, okay, so if I were assigning symbols to our City Council today, I might use the following:
Not ready to say who is which – and don’t let gender identity fool you. Have to think about ’em a bit more
or this set:










