Political Cartoon 4: Soldiers and Jobs

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/44ef54f8-4e3c-46fd-8a7b-2015423932ca.html
The link above will take you to the cartoon.
So this cartoon is all about the war veterans from Iraq coming back home. It was drawn by Joe Heller. The key elements in this cartoon are the veteran and Uncle Sam, who represents the US. There is also a pamphlet with the US Job market statistics on it. This cartoonist isn't really using an technique to get his point across, its a pretty literal cartoon. His message is that now that the war veterans are home, they all need jobs and based on how the US job market is looking, they are going to have a hard time finding them. This guy is obviously on the side of the veterans, and to be honest so am I. I think that they all deserve jobs so that they can get back to their normal lives, but I also think that its going to be easier said than done. We got a pretty high unemployment rate right about now and so finding all of these people jobs is going to be a tough task.

Question of the Week: HOLIDAY MEMORIES??!!??

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. Its always a happy time at my house, and we usually go to visit family. I think that my favorite christmas was one that we experienced while we were living in Ohio. It gets pretty cold up there around christmas time, and this particular christmas sticks in my mind because we were snowed in. I'm pretty sure that we didn't have a car back then so it's not like we  were going anywhere anyways, but I was really small and it was the first "white christmas" that I had ever had. We didn't really do anything special besides just sit around the house and do nothing, but I will never forget how it looked outside.

Political Cartoon 3: Herman Cain

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/4f678e7a-4fa3-4dd6-b9ef-3a854b3a2cc1.html

The link above will take you to the cartoon. This cartoon is all about Herman Cain's presidential run. The train represents his campaign, and the lady at the end of the track's represents his alleged affair. This cartoon was drawn by Milt Priggee, and this guy is using satire to lampoon the candidacy of Cain. This gigantic train was stopped by none other than a girl. It seems almost impossible, but it happened. The message of this cartoon is, if your going to run for president, make sure that your personal life is in order first, because even the smallest doubt can lead to the derailing of your campaign train. The cartoonist is obviously not a Herman Cain supporter, but rather someone who thought that Cain's presidential bid was shot right from the start.

QOTW 3: Obama on the polls

So I went on gallup expecting numbers that were way worse than what I saw. Obama's not doing to shabby a job! 42% of people approve of the job that he's doing and 51% do not. While it seems that he has a minority in terms of approval, it is not too much and on election day i doubt that any other candidate will have the approval that he does. Perhaps I am a bit biased towards Obama, because I supported him from the moment he began to campaign back in 2008. I think that Obama has pretty high odds to getting the presidency. He big thing that he's got going for him is the simple fact of his incumbency. People know Obama. On the other hand, the republican candidates sound good on paper, but nobody really knows how they are going to act when the get in the oval office. I don't know about specific odds, but I'm pretty sure that he's going to get the presidency again.

Political Cartoon 2

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http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/4c5c7d4f-3f70-4177-aa87-3d0c4e0ff15c.html

Another occupy wall street cartoon. I don't know why, but these cartoons always manage to make me laugh. This cartoon was drawn by Bob Englehart. The major devices in this cartoon are the gigantic shoe, and the protesters under the shoe. The shoe represents the general public and the government, and the protesters represent the protesters. This cartoon is pretty satirical. It deals with the occupy movement, and it basically is saying that it has lost almost all speed. People just don't care about occupy wall street as much as they used to. The protesters are starting to get desperate for ways to keep their attenton. The point of view is definetely told from the point of view of someone who is not a strong supporter of the movement. I think that this is a great cartoon. I've been pretty neutral on the occupy movement for a long time, but I think that they have made their point. They're just dragging things on longer than they should have.

Question of the week: The candidacy of mitt romney

In my mind, Mitt Romney has been the only "sane" republican candidate from the start. He's been the only one that I thought even had the slightest chance of getting the presidency. Right now, I think that the biggest thing that Romney has going for him is the fact that he's been for forerunner for so long. He one of the only candidates who hasn't messed up big time yet. When people think of him, they think of a guy who has had a pretty solid campaign throughout, and who, despite being a mormon, has had a good following for a very long time. I think that there are two big reasons that Romney could lose this race though. Firstly, he falling behind Gingrich right now. In the polls, people seem to like Gingrich more than they like Romney. This could change very soon, but if Gingrich keeps it up, then Romney could lose. Another thing that may play against him is his indecisiveness. One of the main points that the democrats are trying to hit home is that Romney has changed his platform more than once. I think that he needs to get a platform that he's ok with, otherwise people are going to remember him as the candidate who couldn't make up his mind.