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Cartoonists draw blank on Obama
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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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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bds; cartoon; humor; liberalmedia; obama; obamamessiah; oliphant
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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?

1 posted on 01/26/2009 3:43:01 PM PST by Lucky9teen
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To: Lucky9teen
"I don't know that I've ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like."

Compromised
2 posted on 01/26/2009 3:46:01 PM PST by Norman Bates (Steele for RNC)
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To: Lucky9teen

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


3 posted on 01/26/2009 3:47:23 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: Lucky9teen

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


4 posted on 01/26/2009 3:47:38 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Lucky9teen

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


5 posted on 01/26/2009 3:47:53 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: Lucky9teen

They’re just not trying hard enough.

y’know it hasn’t stopped me! :)


6 posted on 01/26/2009 3:49:46 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Lucky9teen
Barf alert!!!!

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

7 posted on 01/26/2009 3:50:37 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Lucky9teen
Try this, Oliphant... you fey idiot.


8 posted on 01/26/2009 3:50:37 PM PST by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now.)
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To: Lucky9teen
"My ears are bigger and I wear lipstick"

Photobucket

9 posted on 01/26/2009 3:51:02 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: SparkyBass
Sometimes, even the humor is to true to be funny

10 posted on 01/26/2009 3:51:12 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Its as if the US said: I give up...cant stand the shrillwhining anymore. U run it & c what happens.)
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11 posted on 01/26/2009 3:52:23 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Its as if the US said: I give up...cant stand the shrillwhining anymore. U run it & c what happens.)
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To: JimSEA

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


12 posted on 01/26/2009 3:52:30 PM PST by HungarianGypsy (Love of country does not mean I have to follow my government blindly.)
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To: Lucky9teen

LOL


13 posted on 01/26/2009 3:53:52 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Lucky9teen

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

14 posted on 01/26/2009 3:54:01 PM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Lucky9teen

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?


15 posted on 01/26/2009 3:55:59 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: mortal19440
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.

16 posted on 01/26/2009 3:56:40 PM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Lucky9teen

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


17 posted on 01/26/2009 3:56:58 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: HungarianGypsy

18 posted on 01/26/2009 3:58:25 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Its as if the US said: I give up...cant stand the shrillwhining anymore. U run it & c what happens.)
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To: JimSEA

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


19 posted on 01/26/2009 3:58:41 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Lucky9teen

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


20 posted on 01/26/2009 3:59:07 PM PST by Fred Hayek (Leftism is a mental disorder.)
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