pixrox1 Review of Popeye for President

Popeye for President (1956)

This picture mirrors Real Life, torn directly from the . . .

[7/10 · 12 March 2023]

. . . headlines, as U. S. presidential candidate Pluto runs on the same platform as Thomas R. Marshall, the Indiana Pluto-Crate who a few years earlier had stated "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar" when he voted in favor of having a Second World War. At the time POPEYE FOR PRESIDENT was released, noted womanizer "I-Like-Ike"--infamous for demeaning most of his female subordinates as Pluto always mistreats Olive--was the incumbent Pluto Party White House occupant facing anti-tobacco crusader A. "Eat-Your-Spinach" Stevenson. The bald out-of-shape brutish duffer bamboozled enough of the electorate--or election counters--to "win" the day against the slimmer, more fit Stevenson, who would NOT have surrendered Cuba to the Communists, inherited the Vietnam War from France or allowed South America to turn Pinko.