Cartoonists draw blank on Obama

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[Lucky9teen]

After poking fun at George W. Bush for eight years — often drawing him with big ears and a severe overbite, or as a gung-ho Joe College type, or simply as a clueless doofus — political cartoonists are finding Barack Obama a more elusive target.

"I had all my villains in place for eight years and they've been taken away," lamented Pulitzer Prize winner Pat Oliphant, one of the most widely syndicated cartoonists. "I don't know that I've ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like. This is an antagonistic art. We're supposed to concentrate on finding things wrong. There's no point in drawing a cartoon that's favorable."

Amid a worsening recession, there is the question of what appetite exists for ridiculing a chief executive seen as earnestly trying to guide the country toward recovery. Racial sensitivities also are an issue, as reflected in last summer's uproar over the New Yorker cover of the Democratic candidate giving his wife — depicted as a gun-toting, Angela Davis look-alike — a fist jab in the Oval Office.

"It always takes a while to get a handle on new administrations, getting to know the players and working on developing effective caricatures," said Ann Telnaes, who draws the animated cartoons for Washington Post online and won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. "My earlier George W. Bush changed quite a bit over the first year."

Professional drawers suggest that Obama may prove an inviting target once ensconced in the White House, though for reasons distinct from his predecessor. Signe Wilkinson, editorial cartoonist at the Philadelphia Daily News, said Obama's penchant for attracting academic eggheads and over-achieving intellectuals will be one way to poke fun at the new president.

[Lucky9teen]

Oh paleeze, there's plenty to make fun of.

The ears
The uhs and ahs and stammering when he doesn't have a teleprompter
The nose in the air, elitist attitude
All the Biden gaffes
The messiah complex

And soon...
making fun of how fraudulent and corrupt he and his administration is

I can wish can't I?

[Norman Bates]

"I don't know that I've ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like."

Compromised

[mortal19440]

These sissies don’t want to appear racist. What a bunch of pussies.

[cripplecreek]

There is plenty to make fun of but Zero himself is the most humorless president we’ve seen. There’s something disturbing about that.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Sounds like a bunch of people who aren’t very good at their jobs.

[SparkyBass]

They’re just not trying hard enough.

y’know it hasn’t stopped me! :)

[JimSEA]

Barf alert!!!!

I've got a feeling that most will be as sickening as this one.

[Dr. Thorne]

Try this, Oliphant... you fey idiot.

[SkyDancer]

"My ears are bigger and I wear lipstick"

[Lucky9teen]

Sometimes, even the humor is to true to be funny

[Lucky9teen]

[HungarianGypsy]

Someone forgot to mention the ears. They’re huge. Probably from carrying around the ego.

[Drango]

LOL

[Malone LaVeigh]

Strange ... some folks don't seem to have any trouble at all.

[RegulatorCountry]

Obama: big ears, chicken neck, nose in the air while mouthing shopworn leftist platitudes, all atop an empty suit. What’s so hard about that?

[SteamShovel]

These sissies don’t want to appear racist.

I suppose if there is one good thing that will come out of Obama's presidency is.....

.....The PC crap will get too difficult to continue and regular communication will begin to flow again. It is only a matter of time before the journalists, columnists, TV reporters, and everyone else get tired of using 50 words where one word could suffice.

So in a sense, Obama could become the racism plunger, clearing the written and verbal pipes after a generation of PC pluggage.

[Arthur McGowan]

There’s so much that’s hilarious about Obama:

big ears
dead babies
crooked buddies in Chicago
dead babies
lavish mansion in Chicago
dead babies
terrorist buddies
dead babies
secretiveness
dead babies
expensive restaurants
dead babies
ACORN brownshirt thugs
dead babies
Obama Youth brownshirts
dead babies
uhh uhh uhh breathalyzer
dead babies

[Lucky9teen]

[Arthur McGowan]

Barf! is right! From this idiot’s drawing, you’d think Obama had unusually small ears.

[Fred Hayek]

I would be willing to bet that they are waiting for the polically approved portrayal guide lest they be thrown in the GULAG.

[Lucky9teen]

[Lizavetta]

Racial sensitivities also are an issue, as reflected in last summer's uproar over the New Yorker cover of the Democratic candidate giving his wife — depicted as a gun-toting, Angela Davis look-alike — a fist jab in the Oval Office.

That cartoon had nothing to do with race. It had to do with Zero's closet Muslimism.

[OpeEdMunkey]

Those aren’t dead babies. They’re post-harvest stem cell donors.

[Texas Fossil]

Can you imagine constantly being on guard to never ever reveal the true agenda.

The ultimate deception.

He knows that if the nation new he is a Real, born & bred, Commie, he would be through.

[HungarianGypsy]

When he does smile, let’s not forget the grin is very Joker (Batman) like.

[hometoroost]

One can hardly blame Oliphant for not being able to draw an Obama charicature. After all, it’s hard to see someone’s face when your nose is buried in their buttocks.

[leenie312]

This is a good one..made me chuckle...serious irony

[Daffynition]

Why do we need cartoonists when we have photoshop?

[mrsmith]

LOL!

Zobama is going to do more monkeying with the economy than any president and they won’t say a word.

Yet they spent 8 years calling President Bush “the chimp”.

[Sig Sauer P220]

a more elusive target = we’re ch1ckenshiites and are afraid of being labeled racists

[blondee123]

There’s also the drugs & gay lover angles! Septic pool he came from: Crook County!!

[autumnraine]

Maybe that’s why he looks so creepy when he smiles. Have we ever actually heard him laugh?

[Tzimisce]

In other words, they’re extreme liberal and don’t want to make fun of their guy...

[blondee123]

I just saw your list, one we both forgot:

THE PURPLE LIPS!

[westmichman]

Oliphant might as well go back to mocking Christianity. He couldn’t mock little Hitler, cause he loves him so. Oliphant is a first class Jerk.

[Coldwater Creek]

Michael Ramirez and his best bud Paul Shanklin will have plenty of material to entertain us for the duration.

[Nonstatist]

"I had all my villains in place for eight years and they've been taken away," lamented Pulitzer Prize winner Pat Oliphant,

Well, Pat, what would Pravda do? Thats your answer.

[3niner]

Time for a bunch of cartoonists to retire.

[BenLurkin]

bkmrk

[chris_bdba]

The man has a head that looks like a double handled soup bowl and they can’t find anything to make fun of? ROFLOL

[AdaGray]

Liars. They had no problem drawing Condi.

[1000 silverlings]

Andy Roony gushing on 60 Minutes "I've looked and I've looked and I can't find anyone who dislikes Obama"

Um Andy, try taking your cranium out of your posterior

[R_Kangel]

Found this one last week.

Kind of matches the guys character and personality.

[Ukiapah Heep]

How's 'bout Chimpy McHitler?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Damn - that took me a couple seconds.

But then - are you sure it’s Photoshop?

[giotto]

There's no point in drawing a cartoon that's favorable."

Well then, I guess it's time to pack up your drawing board and go away. Let someone else have a shot--someone who still remembers what political cartoons are supposed to do.

[freekitty]

Well, I guess they will be out of work and will have to work digging ditches for the new infrastructure.

[Bender2]

Re:

And if ya'll complain any at all... I'll pull this trigger for all you Conservative Republican racists!

By jingo, Roy... I think he means it!

Gadzooks! I think he does... too!