Re-elect Obama 2012

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This cartoon is called Re-elect Obama 2012. In the cartoon, there is a poster of Obama which was advertised for the 2008 presidential election, but it says "No hope, no changes, no promises." These three things is what Obama persuaded us would happen if we elected him. However people think none has happened and that Obama hasn't really done much. The other part of the cartoon shows Obama and the caption reads "...I'm a little older and a little wiser!" It shows that Obama probably knows the real deal on running a country, that change isn't that easy. During the 2008 election, "change" was his motto. He promised the people of the United States that he was going to create change. However that change hasn't come so easily.

Government Shut Down

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The cartoon is called Government Shutdown. The elephant in the red represents the Republican. The donkey in the blue represents the Democrats. Both of them have shirts on with an arrow pointing to each other that says "He shut down the government." The message of the cartoon is that, the Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other for not coming to a budget agreement, causing a government shut down. The Republicans are saying that we need to cut a lot of spending due to the past excessive spending of the Democrat, vice versa for the Democrats. The cartoonist is unbiased so it's hard to tell of their political ideology. This cartoon relates to the current event that just passed. The House, whose majority is Republicans, offer a budget spending amount and then when it gets passed to the Senate, whose majority is Democrat, and the President, it gets turned down. Since they cannot come to an agreement, a government shut down where all federal jobs would stop getting pay, could occur.

Sprinkler of the House

As I was looking for political cartoons relating to current issues, I came across this about Boehner. The cartoon is called Sprinkler of the House, which is obviously John Boehner, the SPEAKER of the house. He has a reputation for crying about almost everything. In the cartoon, there is the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and she is telling him to do what she did, "have your tear ducts removed". Boehner is saying "I cry for the kids who will have to pay for these tax cuts for the rich!", and the cartoon is showing that he is crying, when he shouldn't be because he is rich and we have to pay the tax cuts for him. The funny thing about the cartoon that caught my interest was the "Sprinkler of the House" title. I think it's clever how they turned speaker into sprinkler. This cartoon doesn't have any relation to a current political event but in class, while we were watching Jeff Smith, he started to cry and the comment about Boehner was made.