Wouldn’t I have had egg on my face today if I had drawn today’s editorial cartoon and my prediction that President Obama would win was wrong? Well I was right. If you asked me 10 days ago, I would have gone with Romney. Interestingly none of the pundits are talking about how the poll numbers moved back into President Obama’s favor after his several visits to the East. As I allude to in the cartoon, he finally showed the leadership that has been missing in the past several months. HOWEVER, if the election were another two weeks away, it may have swung back to Romney with the issues surrounding recovery and returning to normalcy.
Hopefully the President and the Republican lead House will be able to reach across the aisle and actually start compromising on some issues and do the job we need them to do. Four more years of posturing and sticking their heads in the sand isn’t going to do a damn thing for the country.
UPDATE
Christina of Pop Smoothie sent me this picture of an Obama bobblehead doll she got at a Cincinnati Cyclones Hockey Game. You can see Obama wearing the Cyclones jersey! Nice.
Comments
82 responses to “Obama’s Secret Weapon”
Okay. Now let’s see the one you did for Romney.
jk
Now entering the lame duck season . . .
I didn’t I am too lazy, hedged my bets and figured I could share it and say I succumbed to a Dewey beats Truman faux pax
XD
This is very true.!!!
Thanks T
I am just glad this part is over. I can handle them smacking each other around, just not the non-stop coverage. Isn’t this why we invented cable…so the pres would not be on every channel?
He wasn’t on the History channel though some people wished he was..haha
Where’s a LIKE button on your site? That was a good reply. I’ll have to email you a nifty drumroll. 🙂
I just figure all my comments are likeable
I watched the Spongebob marathon on Nick!
Who won Patrick or Spongebob?
I know what you mean Red, it has been none stop coverage here in the UK too, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad that it is over for another four years 🙂
Another great cartoon Bearman, it’s brilliant 🙂
Thanks A
And if the hurricane hit this week, I couldn’t imagine what that would have meant for voting. Circumstances played a huge part in this. This thing could have gone either way. Obama was quite lucky (or blessed, depending on how you looked at it).
Very apt cartoon, but the way. And your Obamas keep getting better and better. 🙂
They keep changing and changing. As a cartoonist Romney is easier for me to draw
Hopefully you won’t be gettin’ an opportunity to draw him soon.
It is kind of ironic that Christy, a conservative actually pushed Obama over the top.
Well noone is able to push Christy
He is definitely a heavy weight in politics…and everywhere else.
Bearman I am from the lost cause state of Kansas and that thing you got standing next to the president is not a hurricane, it’s a tornado!!!
Hurricane’s cause funnel clouds…ok maybe I needed to make it a little bluer
The typical toon-ish icons I see on weather news reports n’ such, look a bit more flat, and with some clouds in a spiral pattern, orbiting the top.
Maybe you can take it as a opportunity for a mulligan, and draw another hurricane next time, if ya toon something about Sandy’s aftermath or whatnot.
True but I do my crack research and they are always showing a top view because you are looking at a map. If you look at pictures of a hurricane from the side, they are indeed funnel clouds.
Yep. Tru dat.
I suppose I was trying to say, just squash it down a little and add some clouds up top.
I’m just glad it’s over.
Amen
Me toooooooooooooooooooooooo 🙂
Love the cartoon. I agree too. I don’t think there will be much reaching across the aisle from either side. Way too divided for that.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
Let’s hope there is something….we can’t keep going down the same path
I did my civic duty. I voted. I don’t have to tell anyone who I voted for and but I still have the right to complain about the government because I did my part.
You voted…you earned your complaining right
It’s awful…it’s terrible…Washington is full of Democrats and Republicans and the rest of the country is full of real people.
LOVE this one….you are a genius Bearman 🙂
Can you tell that to my wife
Who really knows what helps and what doesn’t. I’ve heard it said that Abe Lincoln was too awkward and gangly and would never get elected today which is an interesting thought.
Neither I am sure would half the Presidents before JFK
Was Sandy the one blowing around all the confetti after his victory speech?
No…Biden must have been trying to talk
All elections are won by the blowing of hot air. If only politicians saw the economy as hurricane damaged . Then they might just all rally together to repair it .
Great observation
Politicians working together for the good of the people.
Well, it could happen.
No it can’t. 🙂
WE can hope
That is more of a fantasy. Politicians have one goal…to get re-elected and to bilk as much money or power from their position as they can. (Hey…I voted remember. I can be obnoxious) 🙂
Where is Cincinnatus when we need him
I think theres a difference between how politicians work, or not work together in congress vs a national crisis. I would think for the good of us all affected by this storm, you’d want to see leadership, not mock it.
Now put your hand out, I’m gonna slap it with this wet noodle! …no, no… it’s an actual noodle, it’s not a euphemism my good sir! [wink]
I’m not mocking his leadership during the crisis. I was mocking that it took a crisis for him to show leadership beacause in 3 debates it was lacking. Either he was a pushover or a bully, but not a leader.
We must have watched different debates, cause while I thought Obama phoned his debates in, I thought Romney was aggressively bullish and rude in all 3. He was rude to the moderators and he was rude when talking to the President. It’s one thing to be assertive, it;s another to talk down to everyone in the room like he’s the superior one.
The debates aren’t what swayed me one way or the other though, its the fact Romney was my Governor [I lived in MA during his tenure] and the man who ran for President, Isnt the man we New Englanders have met before. He was promoting an alternative Romney, not the Rockefeller Republican he really is! [fiscal conservative [although fee happy governor] and socially moderate].
It was quite entertaining to watch the rest of the country buy his cool-aid! He truly re-wrapped himself in a newer Romney packaging! People bought it! I was ready and willing to vote his way until he re-introduced himself to me as a man I’ve never met before!
I have said since the beginning Romney biggest mistake was that he didn’t run like he governed. That was the flip flop. He had to seem bullish during the primaries and then try to show his real self in the election. It never works. It is the same strategy that Kerry had that allowed Bush 2 terms.
Obama did terrible in the first debate, but I thought he soundly won the second two. It was a good thing that he was able to step up to the plate in a crisis… that’s what you want in a president!
Lost 1
Tied 2
Won 3rd
Excellent Obama likeness. Wasn’t Sandy just a little bit bigger??? I guess many would liked her to have been that small. Were you anywhere near the destruction zone???
No everything happens 5 years later in Cincinnati
What is funny about that cartoon is that we have a bobblehead they gave away at a Cyclones game in 2009 of Obama wearing a Cyclones jersey. I should snap a picture of it to add to your post. It is uncanny, your Sandy kinda looks like their mascot 🙂
Your caricature is getting better of him.
It will get worse the next time. I can’t find a look that I like in my style.
I might even try drawing one of him
next, now that will definitely freak
you out 🙁 lol
Can’t wait to see it.
Actually, his real victory speech should’ve been this:
“I would like to thank the media for helping me get elected. Their absolute fawning and groveling over me prevented them from talking about every single scandal and economic screwup that I’ve done in the past four years, and now I’m confident that they’ll ignore the continuing scandal and economic screwups for the next four years.”
Now he really wouldn’t want to admit that….hehe
I am with Loon on this one.
Smartest comment she has ever made.
I was thinking that too 🙂 lol
shhhh…she might come back.
I missed that part. It was past my bed-time.
🙂
Mine too
The huricane was interesting timing. I like all the confetti in your cartoon it gives it a very festive feeling. The billions that they spent of ads could have come in handy right now as they are rebuild.
I would love for them to kill the PACs so they couldn’t hide behind someone else doing their dirty ads
I agree. I cannot believe the money wasted on these campaigns. Imagine the good it could have done if it was used to build infrastructure, schools, etc. Heck, if these billionaires would just use the money to actually pay their employees instead pouring it into campaigns… I know, crazy thoughts, right??!!
I promise when I run for office that I will make people print their own signs online and instead of raising funds for the campaign I will tell people to volunteer their money and time in honor of my campaign. That way when I lose, I will still have done more than many who have won.
Winners and losers are two of a kind.
Thankfully I am one of a kind
Obama won because of the hockey jersey! LOL! I didn’t realize how close the race was. Just like everything else in life, timing is everything!
I knew you would like that addition
Basically true. Although it’s pretty easy to get on the right side of the hurricane issue.
True but timing is everthing
The hurricane is the Republican’s version of the Florida re-count errors back in 2000.
Very true
Well done! I recognized Obama before I started redding the comic 😀
Well that’s half my battle done…
No offence, but to say that Hurricane Sandy is the reason why Obama was reelected is an insult to the victim’s of Hurricane Sandy.
In times of tragedy we expect our leaders to stand up. Obama did and I think that is what swayed some last minute undecideds. Doesn’t minimize what happened to the victims
Awesome caricature 😉
Thanks Cha