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The winner:
"I'm Dennis Kucinich and I approved this message!"
-- Douglas R. Cox of Albemarle
The runners-up:
"Finally, we have some alternatives to the two-party system."
-- Jibril Hough, Charlotte
“I owe it to my constituents to stay in the race until the election is over.”
-- Susan Smith, Concord
“I’ll take losers for $200, Alex.”
-- John Crowell, Charlotte
"I'm the REAL Green Party candidate!"
-- submitted by many, many folks
Thank you for all your entries. As usual, feel free to discuss any of this in our "Comments" section. Just click the blue link below this post and add your observations, criticisms or additional captions!
Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
"Take me to your superdelegates!"
"We are all after the alienated vote."
"Wow, Its great to be sharing the stage with other Martians!"
"Don't laugh, my polling numbers are better than either of yours."
"Not-you, Not-you!"
“The chances of either one of you winning are out of this world.”
"No thanks guys. I want you to take me to someone who actually has a chance of being your leader."
"They don't understand what I say, either."
"The choice is abundantly clear, far right, far left or far out!"
"So it is true! Anyone can run for president."
"I want to set a precedent. Two Presidents in a row from outer space."
"Don't give up yet. Remember, all the others could die before the election!"
"I have the utmost respect for my colleagues...Darth Nader and Barr-Barr Stinks."
"The city of Roswell is pleased to host another off-the-radar event."
“Speaking as the mainstream candidate on this stage …”
"I'm planning to pick up where Ron Paul left off!"
"You guys are sooo last year."
Please join us again Monday, June 2, for a new cartoon caption challenge.
Great selection this week...love them! CONGRATULATIONS DOUG!!!
Posted by: LT | May 30, 2008 at 12:45 PM
As they would say in the 70's "Faaaaaaar out, man." Let's light up another one and do it again. Seriously, really good week.
Posted by: Tom Haines | May 30, 2008 at 09:16 PM
My e-mail must not be working. These winners suck!
Posted by: Phillip Hough | May 30, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Some high quality captions this week!
Posted by: Carolyn Hudson | June 01, 2008 at 01:22 PM
I agree, these suck. Kevin Siers needs to de-fog his glasses.
Posted by: AP | June 01, 2008 at 06:23 PM
The "alienated vote" one was a favorite of mine. Perhaps this is a precursor to the election where there will be no true winner, only the least "sucky"...
Posted by: D. Cox | June 01, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Mr. Hough, the only e-mail this week I found from you had the caption, "Show me a real leader and I'll fly you to that planet." I'll post it here and let others decide where it ranks on the suckiness scale. I apologize for leaving it out of the initial list, and thanks for the constructive comments.
Posted by: Kevin Siers | June 02, 2008 at 09:47 AM
In response to Kevin's posting of Mr. Hough's caption, I see his as an okay caption. I do agree partially with Mr. hough in that I felt "I'll take losers for $200, Alex" was a better choice than the winner because it better represents the picture. Three podiums with three people behind them look like a televised debate, but it also looks like it could be a Jeopardy stage, making it funny. Saying "I'm Dennis Kucinich and I approved this message!" doesn't fit the picture, as such caption would make sense if only the alien was alone in the picture and not two other candidates behind a podium. Calling Dennis an alien, sure, funny, but with the other two candidates in there, doesn't fit so much. But that's just my humble opinion.
Posted by: Brandon | June 02, 2008 at 04:27 PM
I agree that the Jeopardy spin-off caption was quite good, and that's why it's up there in the runners-up section. Everyone's take on these will be different, and that's why I'm glad we can offer this "comments" section for discussion purposes. I don't usually go into why we picked one caption over another, but this one might be worth a look at. While the "Losers for $200" quote was good, we felt it didn't quite explain why the alien was there -- that same quote could have been offered by almost any presidential candidate at the third podium, with the exception of McCain and Obama. Also, this caption wasn't the only one we received to notice the similarity between a debate and a game show. The Kucinich caption was a little off the wall, but it got points for originality, and it most succinctly tied together the alien with the concept of "fringe candidates" which is, I guess, what I had in the back of my mind when I drew this. The idea that a candidate would spout a campaign commercial in a debate setting didn't really bother me that much -- isn't that what constitutes most "debates" these days anyway?
The beauty of this contest is that everyone is going to have different ideas of what makes a good caption, and that's what this feature needs -- if everyone had the same outlook, every caption would be pretty much the same. But as we say in the Guidelines, "The decision of the judges is final, no matter how deluded it may be." And, as Sean Connery says in "The Untouchables", "Thus endeth the lesson."
Posted by: Kevin Siers | June 03, 2008 at 09:07 AM