The title of this cartoon is "Barack vs. Obama" The words of the title describe the two characters that are the focus of the cartoon. President Obama is used as a symbol but he is used to represent two different times. The Obama shown without the suit jacket is used to portray the current President Obama, and the foreign involvement, and the Health care bills, and the budget crisis that followed, while the other is used to portray President-elect Obama with progressive promises of prosperity. The previous synopsis of the symbols in the cartoon is what I believe is the artist's meaning is. In the cartoon, the President seems to be choking a clone of himself. The message here comes directly from the short passage above the picture, "teaching a lesson". The artist believes that the President needs to be taught a lesson in order to improve his approval by the people. This cartoon is related to our in-class discussions of the role and powers of the president. Through our discussions we have learned that the president does not have half as much power as his constituents believe he does, and is responsible for half of the problems with this country. The irony of this cartoon stems from the fact that President Obama is being shown here as if he was a different person with different policies before assuming office, when in reality he had the same values, stressed the same policies, and had the same progressive views before he gave his inaugural speech.
This Cartoon was published by Dwayne Booth of Mr. Fish on 9-April-2011,
I found it on : http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/43b1d3d4-70e0-4d87-aed9-03430bcb876b.html
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