Posted By: Bill Graves  on Thursday, January 03, 2008

It seems likely you've never been to Iowa if your cartoon is an indicator of your knowledege of the state. Many people in Iowa are educated(even the farmers), and we even have the internet.

Posted By: Floyd hollandbeck  on Thursday, January 03, 2008

It's petty, I know but I grew up on a farm in central Indiana spending many hours sitting between tractor wheels.  It's great to see a cartoonist that knows which way driving tractor tires are properly mounted!  However, proper soil conversation practices are not being followed.

Posted By: Eric Long  on Thursday, January 03, 2008

  The cartoon may not accurately reflect the voting populace in Iowa, but I believe it does play well, in reverse, that the rest of the country's voters tend to follow the Iowa lead. That is not because the Iowa farmer or rural resident is all wise and powerful, but because they are hard-working, clear-thinking, well-educated people who don't get fooled by campaign promises. No, those folks vote for candidates who have real substance. The candidates who don't have the right stuff shouldn't even set foot in Iowa.

Posted By: Steven Brumer  on Friday, January 04, 2008

So this cartoonist finally got it right... big city people not not what they do... so they SHOULD ask the small town folk how to lead them... I've lived in some of the largest cities in the U.S. (NYC, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland), and I've lived in small towns (Petersburg, KY, etc.), and I can honestly say that life is real in small towns... overrated in big cities, where $$$ is their god...

Posted By: Aspasia  on Friday, January 04, 2008

The cartoon is funny, but the language rubs me the wrong way.  The "th" ending in Shakespeare and the Bible (inter alia) only applies to the third person singular.  But many writers ignorantly/innocently use it whenever they want to sound Biblical.  Faugh!

Posted By: Ed  on Friday, January 04, 2008

I think Iowa is a great state of wholesome people. Next election season someone should throw a dart at a map of the USA to select a new guide state!

Posted By: Bill Arnquist  on Saturday, January 05, 2008

The plowed field image is a good one.  Candidates like Clinton and Romney have been campaigning (plowing and planting) in Iowa for months only to see Obama and Huckabee harvest the votes at the caucus.  Go figure.

Posted By: Carole McKinnis  on Saturday, January 05, 2008

Even though most Americans would agree with the thought expressed by this cartoon, could somebody PLEASE teach writers not to use King James English for any purpose whatsoever,unless they've spent a life-time reading the King James Bible?



F'rinstance:

"Showeth" would be third-person singular. "The Earth showeth forth His handiwork" would be the same as "The Earth shows forth His handiwork."  For the second-person singular: "Oh, ("you" implied) Great, Wise and Powerful One", the verb would be "show" just as it is in Current Era American English.  Also, "Whom we shall follow".  Using the King James English incorrectly undermines the message.