Gwen Ifill’s first question to the candidates at Thursday night’s Vice Presidential Debate concerned their thoughts about the $700 Billion Congressional rescue (or bailout) bill, which had not yet passed. Republican Governor Sarah Palin (net worth $1.2 Million; 2007 income $230,000) responded:
PALIN: One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let’s commit ourselves just every day American people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again . . . .
The Governor’s running mate, John McCain. really loves Joe Six-Pack. Senator McCain’s wife Cindy controls the third-largest Anheuser-Busch distributorship in the country. Joe Six-Pack bought multi-millionaires John and Cindy McCain all their houses, cars, a fat investment portfolio and a private jet, 12 ounces at a time.
Of course, Anheuser-Busch doesn’t just use those profits to make Cindy McCain rich. It creates thousands of jobs — in Belgium and Brazil, for Jan- and João– Six-Pack and new multi-national corporate owner InBev.
Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com.
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NotionsCapital 
October 6, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Well, more accurately, InBev cuts jobs in Brazil and Belgium while increasing profits for the executives (Brazil lost almost 20,000 jobs when InBev started consolidating plants; Belgium’s strong unions have had to fight tooth and nail to keep what they have).
October 8, 2008 at 9:47 pm
This is a very sharp parody/satire spoof…
I do the same, but have done less political stuff than i should..
but im inspired…see you on flickr..
chron.ron
October 9, 2008 at 8:58 am
chron.ron: Enjoyed looking at your blog — great name, too.
Frankly, I’m posting more political stuff than I would like, but this campaign inspires outrage. The election is only 4 weeks away; perhaps I can file more cultural, science, foreign affairs, and local issue posts after the first Tuesday in November.