another round of TERRIBLE POLITICAL CARTOONS

[The Yosemite Bear]

giving Bush, Chaney and toture fetishists rimjobs

[Crossroads Inc.]

"Ken Catalino" seems to have a real hard on for doing these "Obama hates our troops" cartoons, this is the 3rd one in the past three days:

[Akhlut]

He also has the flags going the wrong way, and in the wrong color. The flag always has the hoist-side in the front, because the soldiers are supposed to be 'charging' into battle. So, he can't even get a detail right about a group he's supposed to be defending.

[phred]

Sme more new ones

...

Where the hell were these guys during the last decade?

It's totally accurate. It's a difficult to execute war, that Americans didn't necessarily want, that he inherited from the president before him.

[kouchpotato]

"Ken Catalino" seems to have a real hard on for doing these "Obama hates our troops" cartoons, this is the 3rd one in the past three days:

Obama looks exactly like the other cartoon, with the addition of an arm. Such creativity

[PeZook]

So the military was incapable or unwilling to win Afghanistan through the ten years of Bush? Or was he tying their hands somehow, too?

[Ritterin Sophia]

He also has the flags going the wrong way, and in the wrong color. The flag always has the hoist-side in the front, because the soldiers are supposed to be 'charging' into battle. So, he can't even get a detail right about a group he's supposed to be defending.

The colors would also be subdued.

[The Vortex Empire]

It's totally accurate. It's a difficult to execute war, that Americans didn't necessarily want, that he inherited from the president before him.

I'm aware of that. I mean, why weren't these guys saying that when Bush was in charge?

[Zor]

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Is it just me or is he trying to depict Obama as a Zombie for some reason?

Zor

[Serafina]

Is it just me or is he trying to depict Obama as a Zombie for some reason?

Zor

Probably just you, that would be far to witty for these morons.

[Dominus Atheos]

Posted as yet another conservative cartoon where I have no idea what the hell is going on.



Something Obama is doing is undermining Keynesian Economics? But Asay is a conservative so he should be against Keynesian Economics.

[fgalkin]

No, no, he's mining Keynesian economics, as if it were coal, in search of Recovery. Or Something.

I think.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[wautd]

It's totally accurate. It's a difficult to execute war, that Americans didn't necessarily want, that he inherited from the president before him.

I'm aware of that. I mean, why weren't these guys saying that when Bush was in charge?

Because there were no problems with the Iraq/Afghanistan wars during the Bush years.
(If you only watch Fox News that is).

[Aaron]

So the military was incapable or unwilling to win Afghanistan through the ten years of Bush? Or was he tying their hands somehow, too?

He should be looking to the State Department. The military is there to provide security, kill insurgents and do the odd bit of rebuilding. A few companys worth or reconstruction troops isn't going to do much.

[Crossroads Inc.]

OK, the following I am posting more to illustrate a point then to show a "TERRIBLE poltical cartoon.


This is "Ken Catalino" Fourth cartoon in the past Four days that effectively drives at the exact same theme: "Obama hates our military"

The point here is that Conservative political cartoonists seem to have incredible hang-ups when they hit upon a certain theme. "Steve Benson" of the Arizona republic is a fairly center of the road cartoonists, if someone does something stupid, Liberal or conservative, he mocks therm. Something however that I have never seen him do, in his more then 20 years of nearly daily comics, is bring up the same theme twice in a single week.

Every day there are countless bits of stupidity for someone to mock. If your job as a political cartoonist is to do this, you should never have a need to repeat the same theme twice.
With that in mind, let us take a stroll down memory lane.


"Eric Allie" back during Obamas inauguration, ran the following:



To be fair, those three came out one month apart. Jan, Feb, and then in May.
However, in November of 09, when the now discredited "Global Warming Gate" hit, we got the following.




These were posted over the course of the 24th, the 25th and the 30th of November.
Different cartoons with the exact same message.
Now these are two instances by just one cartoonist, but Eric Allie is by no means alone. As many might know, the true King of the over used carton is Michael Ramirez.

In late 2009, over the course of 36 days, Ramierz proceeded to post
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
Cartoons all basically mocking Obama's policy on Afghanistan.
Again, there are many more examples throughout the archives of Conservative cartoons, but these are the most egregious. As always I invite anyone to try and find liberal examples along the same path, but I have yet to see anyone approach these levels.

[SAMAS]

Slightly off-topic, but how often do cartoonists on the left tend to post off a single issue?

[Coyote]

Depends on how you look at it. For example, Ted Rall is almost guaranteed to have something about one of the wars, military atrocities, industrialist/corporatist takeover, and Presidential ineptitude.

Tom Tomorrow almost exclusively dogs on corporate domination of American society.

But then, I don't know if that would count as "political cartoonists who can't break out of their box" or if it counts as "these are the themes the cartoon was made, specifically, to harp on".

[Prannon]

No, no, he's mining Keynesian economics, as if it were coal, in search of Recovery. Or Something.

I think.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

No, he's UNDERmining Keynesian economics. Undermining. It's a picture that's essentially a play on words.

[Tanasinn]

It's actually surprisingly clever for Chuckie-boy. Probably plagiarised it.

[Dominus Atheos]

They seem to just have labeled everything in the room with whatever scary word they can think of.

[PeZook]

Holy crap, Obama is able to combine and apply marxism, fascism and socialism? Why, he may not be a very good president, but he surely is the next great political philosopher!

[Gil Hamilton]

So, I think that one container has the Spanish Civil War in it. Both sides of the Spanish Civil War, in fact. I love when people boil their politics down to "SCARY BUZZWORDS! RAR!". But you'd think given how much of the early to middle 20th century was devoted to socialists and fascists trying their hardest to murder each other, those two particularly SCARY BUZZWORDS wouldn't be joined at the hip.

[Alphawolf55]

I think that actually gets the award as the worst comic I've seen in this thread.

[Serafina]

I think that actually gets the award as the worst comic I've seen in this thread.

Quite. It's just a meaningless collection of buzzwords.
Oh, it has the approaching teaparty and "we are loosing power", but that's still not coherent in any way at all.

[Alphawolf55]

What it's trying to say is that Obama's creating a frankenstein government thats composed and powered by all these liberal ideas, and that the angry tea partiers are coming to stop him.

But it's just so filled with pointless jargon and buzzwords that it seems like the author just decided to throw every pointless liberal strawman, I mean the only thing its missing is Professor and Hollywood Values. Plus you gotta love the fact that it has Mainstream Media then MSNBC next to it to say 'They're not mainstream news but they're still evil"

The one thing that's hilarious if you think about it though is that it's obviously a Frankenstein commentary yet in many tellings of the story the monster created was merely misunderstood and gentle, it was the raving mobs that actually caused the damage.