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This cartoon is brillian! I noticed something that I think it very important to interpreting this cartoon. The image of Bush is a "Caraciture"... much more so than other cartoons Ramirez has done of Bush in the past... while the rest of the cartoon is drawn much more realistically while still maintaining the cartoon genre. There MUST be a reason for this difference.

My thesaurus lists two synonyms for "caricature." The first synonym is "cartoon" and that certainly can fit the bill... but the second synonym is "misrepresentation," which fits MUCH CLOSER what is being done to Bush.

I believe that what Ramirez is depicting is the fact that the left has erected a CARICATURE, a misrepresentation of Bush by falsifying what he said in the now famous 16 words. It is that caricature that "Politics" is attempting to kill in this cartoon, not the real Bush and his very true statement.

This has to be the reason for the differing styles drawn by Ramirez... and it is profound. This is a very DEEP cartoon... and brilliant!

This cartoon is a political pun in cartoon form... to my mind the title of this work of are should be:

"Caricature Assassination!"