Sunday, April 15, 2012

the tables have turned

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/412438/april-12-2012/the-other-war-on-women

In this video, Stephen Colbert talks about how Mitt Romney and President Obama are fighting back and forth for the women's vote. The video says that right now Obama is ahead but this could change since one of his campaign advisers attacked Romney's wife for never working a day in her life. Women are starting to rally behind Ann Romney and this could negatively affect Obama's campaing.

Zimdecision

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-12-2012/zimdecision-2

In this video, Jon Stewart talks about how the Florida government has finally charged Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case. The main point that he makes is that the media gets involved way too much with their opinions even though it should only be the close family's. It seems like the media wants to blow all of this out of proportion to keep the story going. If the family is getting satisfied then so should everyone else.

Boomerang Test

This cartoon shows the recent failed missile test of North Korea. This was a problem because they were dangerous missiles and they had already agreed with the U.N. and U.S. to cease this testing. This leads them to believe that North Korea will continue to nuclear testing. The joke is that it was meant to be long range but it crashed much closer than intended.

Everyone Wants a woman voter

This cartoon shows Obama and Romney kind of fighting for the Statue of Liberty as their prom date. This is saying that they will both need to find a way to bring in the women's vote because it could be essential to their election. It is also funny because it's almost prom season.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Look out below



This cartoon shows a Bank Executive, assumed from how high is office his, jumping from the window to the street below. However, he landed on a taxpayer. The purpose of this cartoon is to make a point against the fact that government uses taxpayer money in order to bail out banks and other big businesses. This is shown by the fact that the taxpayer saves the executives life.

Its not his fault


This cartoon shows former president George Bush passing a series of torches to the current president, Barack Obama. These torches represent the issues that Obama inherited back when he became president. This is relevant now because a deciding factor in whether he is reelected in 2012 is how he has addressed these problems during his first term. If the public feels like he has handled these sufficiently then they might reelect him. If not, then they'll probably think the republican candidate can do better.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

As seen on tv

This cartoon shows President Obama in an info-mmercial setting. It seems like he is selling a device that'll make jobs, a problem that needs to be solved in our struggling economy. However, Obama has been criticized a lot over not creating enough jobs. That's why he's advertising the useless lawn sign, to kind of show how many false promises his campaign made, and how it just offered things like signs, buttons or "Hope" posters. It can also be looked at that the job machine is as useless as the lawn sign, since not enough jobs have been produced.