Tag: barack obama

Obama’s Secret Weapon

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.

November 7, 2012
Editorial Cartoon: Osama Dead

Can anyone tell me what joke was repeated over and over on Sunday night? If you said “Donald Trump is demanding to see Bin Laden’s Death Certificate” you would be right. Go see for yourself.

In fact, the first time I saw the joke, I thought it would make a cute editorial cartoon. By the 20th time I saw it, I thought it was a little overdone. I guess that didn’t stop these editorial cartoonists.

The basis of the joke (for the uninformed) is that Donald Trump is toying with running for President. So his first public act of late has been to join the birthers in their efforts to say that President Barack Obama wasn’t actually born in Hawaii so he shouldn’t have been eligible to be President. Trump had been calling for Obama’s Birth Certificate. Of course when Obama did share it, Trump just took credit for being able to put that rumor to rest and allow the country to move on. Ever the opportunist.

So I thought I would take the joke (which you see in panel one) and go a slightly different route for the punchline. Did I use an outdated reference with the title “Weekend at Donalds”???

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May 4, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: Obama and Clinton

I know I don’t post editorial cartoons typically on Friday but this was so timely (thanks Mike) that I couldn’t pass it up before it became old news or someone else shamelessly stole my idea.

So it seem President Obama has been getting some slack for passing off his press briefings to the Clintons. Last week it was Bill when discussing the reasons he negotiated the tax cut deal with the Republicans. And this week he passed off questions on Afghanistan to Hillary.

I’m all for delegation but he seems to be running out of Clinton options.

December 17, 2010
Editorial Cartoon: Obama isn’t Muslim

I rarely have a cartoon on the back burner but this one I originally drew two weeks ago when a poll was released that now 18% of Americans believe that President Barack Obama is Muslim versus his self-professed Christianity.

The absurdity of this pushed me to draw the above as it is like saying anyone that is circumcised is Jewish.

(My wife got the joke immediately but then wondered if some might take offense as if I was implying that Jewish men may not be endowed. I told her I hadn’t heard that stereotype and besides aren’t there many Jewish men in porn including including Seymour Butts and Ron Jeremy?)

September 26, 2010
Bearman Cartoon: Where’s George

Noel Curry of DJ Bogtrotter fame had a challenge to cartoonists to do a cartoon without dialogue. He designated May 14 as Dialogue Free Comic Day. This is what I originally planned to post as he said dialogue on signs, etc was OK. But I came up with one that may be a little less obvious but fits the entire bill that I will post on Friday. So that is TWO…count em TWO Dialogue Free Comics for your enjoyment.

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May 9, 2010
Free Political Characters Icon Set

I was going to name this post “Funny you don’t look Il” but I figured there is only one person that would appreciate it.

Hongkiat has worked out a deal with IconShock to give away a free set of eight different Political Characters including the above Kim Jong-il, President Obama, Hugo Chavez among others. Click on the pic above or here to go directly to Hongkiat to download.

So Kim Jong fans and political junkies have at it.

January 27, 2010
WTF: Caganer Pooping Christmas Statue

I have been to Spain. I have been to Spain at Christmas. Unlike the crappy manger scenes that Americans make that is limited to the manger only, in Spain they make a scene of the entire town with the manger being only a part of it.

And while in America, you can barely get people to notice when a manger scene is erected, in Spain they line up for a half mile in some places just to see it. I guess I didn’t look close enough to notice the Caganer. Here is one of Queen Elizabeth.

Yes hidden in Spanish scenes is a pooping statue. It started in Catalonia but has since moved to other areas. Somehow it symbolizes equality because in the end it doesn’t matter how famous you are, everyone poops.

One company creates many varieties poking fun at various icons and celebrities. There is even a Barack Obama with the words “Yes we Can” on it. Check out the video.

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December 23, 2009
Bearman Cartoon: Obama wins Peace Prize?

My friends on the right at Big Hollywood and also on the left at the Cincinnati Beacon are a flutter about President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Seems the President himself was a little confused as he is only the third US President to win while in office. Maybe he just misunderstood the call.

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October 10, 2009
Bearman Cartoon: Obama and Carter

I firmly believe that there are people who oppose President Obama and everything he stands for simply because of the color of his skin. As Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post does, I would tend to throw most of the “birthers” in that group (these are the people who say Obama shouldn’t be President because they think he wasn’t born in the United States).

But former President Jimmy Carter does nothing to further real work done in race relations or even bring to light real racist attitudes toward the current President, when he said, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.” An “overwhelming portion”???

It is a huge disservice to the sitting President to make a comment like that. So now instead of opposing plans and creating dialogue about it, Obama’s foes will simply oppose everything without dialogue for fear of being charged with racism.

On the other hand the Right doesn’t do a good job of protecting themselves against charges of racism. When 5% of a anti-Obama policy rally contains racist imagery or signage and there isn’t a strong stance within the group itself to weed those people out, it is no wonder that those are the people that end up on the news.

I like what Bill Clinton had to say in response and would be more in line with my thinking: “I believe that while it is true that some of the most extreme opponents of President Obama may also still have racial prejudice, I believe that 100 percent of those who are opposing him now would be against him if he were a white Democrat.”

Much like Joe Wilson disrupted the President’s address, Carter is distrupting the President’s agenda. Jimmy does a great job of building houses. He should stick with that.

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September 22, 2009
Bearman Cartoon: Obama the Socialist

It doesn’t matter the President or the opposition, nothing seems to change. No matter how benign a comment or action by the U.S. President, the opposition has to turn it into a rallying cry. This week in the United States, President Barack Obama gave a speech on education aimed at students and taking personal responsibility for their education.

Some conservatives applauded the effort while others had a different attitude. “It is not the President’s job to lecture my kids on responsibility. It is MINE.” Funny these same people would probably wonder where the truant officer was when they see other peoples’ kids roaming the mall during school hours.

But liberals, please don’t take a high and mighty stand either. This is the same thing you did to Bush, they did to Clinton, you did to Bush I, you did to Reagan… My problem is that these spout offs become the boy who cried wolf. You might have an important point on an important subject but by then I have stopped listening.

So I bring you today’s Editorial Cartoon.

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September 11, 2009