Posted on 01/26/2009 3:43:00 PM PST by 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.
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These sissies don’t want to appear racist. What a bunch of pussies.
There is plenty to make fun of but Zero himself is the most humorless president we’ve seen. There’s something disturbing about that.
Sounds like a bunch of people who aren’t very good at their jobs.
They’re just not trying hard enough.
y’know it hasn’t stopped me! :)
I've got a feeling that most will be as sickening as this one.
Someone forgot to mention the ears. They’re huge. Probably from carrying around the ego.
LOL
Strange ... some folks don't seem to have any trouble at all.
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?
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.
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
Barf! is right! From this idiot’s drawing, you’d think Obama had unusually small ears.
I would be willing to bet that they are waiting for the polically approved portrayal guide lest they be thrown in the GULAG.
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