As G.B. Trudeau goes, so goes the nation

There's a tempest in a teapot brewing about Trudeau's comic strip, Doonesbury. Trudeau has already submitted his strips for next week, and they assume an Obama w--.

The teapot comes in because

newspaper editors around the country are debating whether to publish the comic no matter the results of the election.

Trudeau's got steelier nerves than I have. Even with-

polling data giv[ing] McCain a 3.7% chance...

-you are not going to see the "W" word, the "L" word" or the "V" word on this blog until this thing has been called by at least one cable and one broadcast network; maybe even PBS, and maybe not even until I see the headlines the next morning.

Superstitious? Maybe. But there is such a thing as, what?

Tempting fate, that's right.

As I say, this is seriously meaningless, but it helps kill time until election day. In that spirit, I offer you the following pieces of information, and leave it to you to put them together.

Yesterday:

In March 1995, John McCain denounced Trudeau on the floor of the Senate: “Suffice it to say that I hold Trudeau in utter contempt.” This was in response to a strip about Bob Dole’s strategy of exploiting his war record in his presidential campaign. The quotation was used on the cover of Trudeau’s book Doonesbury Nation. (McCain and Trudeau later made peace: McCain wrote the foreword to The Long Road Home, Trudeau’s collection of comic strips dealing with BD’s leg amputation during the second Iraq war.)

"How cool is that?," Trudeau commented to Nancy Shute in U.S. News & World Report. "I thought his participation would underscore the point that caring for our veterans isn't a partisan issue."

In the foreword, McCain wrote,

"Biting but never cynical, and often wickedly funny, these comic strips will make you laugh, reflect, and--in the end--understand."

Today:

From the John McCain camp, spokesman Tucker Bounds said: "We hope the strip proves to be as predictive as it is consistently lame."

lame adj...Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible

Good one, Tuck.