[ml/nj]

Can you elaborate further?

It's not bad enough that the chimp is Obama and Obama is the chimp. "Look at that little monkey run." almost finished Howard Cosell, and this is much more direct and obvious. I don't know how much clearer it could be. (What do you think of the cartoons that depict some unshaven fat guy with a hook-nose?) Cosell's comment was actually on honest complement IMHO. This is no complement as the monkey is shot dead apparently justifiably over the stimulus bill. Are we not looking at the same thing?

ML/NJ

[WayneS]

No.

[WayneS]

ml/nj,

I recommend reading Post #41; I think it comes the closest to “hitting the mark” on the intent of the cartoonist.

I think you might be reading too much into it.

[ExTxMarine]

“It’s not bad enough that the chimp is Obama and Obama is the chimp.” & “...much more direct and obvious”

Obama did NOT write the stimulus bill, so THAT is the most direct and obvious thing!

Just because the NY Post and apparently YOU decide to compare/see Obama as a chimp doesn’t mean that is what the artist intended.

[justiceseeker93]

In the cartoon, the shot chimp is explicitly sympolic of the writer of the stimulus bill. Although we don't know precisely who wrote the bill, it is reasonable to presume that it was done literally by a group of Democrat congressional staffers, most of whom are probably white. And yes, many, including most of the posters on this thread, are ticked off at the stimulus bill and and its authors. The cartoon is merely a benign way to express legitimate anger and opposition at the bill itself. That's why I suggested that the cartoonist would have better off to have labeled the deceased chimp as "Stimulus Bill," and to have changed the policeman's comment accordingly. That would have made it clear that the target of the cartoon was the policy embedded in the bill, not any particular individual.