Some Cartoonists Cutting Obama Slack Others Not

Read an exchange between two cartoonists on how a cartoon is drawn to cut Obama some slack.

Here's an example of a cartoonist who isn't willing to cut Obama any slack. See his ugly cartoon here. Here's his "reasoning" for his cartoon: 

We can’t find the middle in America with both hands. We’re either salivating for our President to take a bullet (Bush) or we’re j*cking off to him (Obama). Give me a break.

The whole “yes we can” horse squeeze is like listening to the pan flute. Sounds nice at first but after ad nauseam your looking for a pump shotgun and a Madonna concert. Setting BHO’s speeches to music (Will I. Am), pledging to “serve” BHO (Ashton and Demi), 13 issues w/ of Newsweek with BHO on the cover BEFORE he was elected, expecting BHO to get you a 40″ plasma but more importantly, his complicity in the whole cloying exercise is dangerous. Historically dangerous. Whether intentionally or not, he’s promoting a “cult of personality”.

Own a home? Kept up your payments? Too freaking bad. The guy next door didn’t and BHO’s gonna’ bail him out (”yes he can”) and guess where he’s going to get the money? Meanwhile, you’re making payments on a house w/ half it’s value eating off the dollar menu at MD’s. How’s that kool-aid going down now?

Obama Political Cartoons

Daryl Cagle has bunches of political cartoons here. More here. Slate's cartoons. More.

How to Draw George Bush

Political Cartoonist Daryl Cagle tells how he draws George Bush and he has posted some funny Bush cartoons:

Around the world, cartoonists almost always draw President Bush as a cowboy. Outside America, a Texas cowboy is seen as: uneducated, ill mannered, a “trigger-happy marshal” or outlaw who is prone to violence. Cowboy depictions of the president by worldwide cartoonists are meant to be insults, but Americans see cowboys differently. In the USA, cowboys are noble, independent souls, living a romantic lifestyle by taming the wilderness and taking matters into their own hands whenever they see a wrong that needs to be righted. We are a nation of wanna-be cowboys.
The image of President Bush evolves with each cartoonist’s personal perspective. Back in 2000, Bush started out as most political cartoon characters start out, as a caricature of a real person, meant to be recognizable from a photograph. The cartoonists soon stopped looking at photographs and started doing drawings of drawings, then drawings of drawings of drawings, so that the George W. Bush drawings morphed into strangely deformed characters that looked nothing like the real man, but are instantly recognizable because we’ve come to know the drawings as a symbol of the man. It is surprising that each cartoonist’s drawings of the president look entirely different, but each is easily recognizable as representing the same character.
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