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This Cartoon is mocking the American political system and how it uses up money. The artist is using common symbols which are a clown and a fast food chain loved by most children. In the foreground there is a clown who is taking the place of Ronald McDonald now called Ronald McGovernment and The golden arches sign which normally says McDonald’s has become McCongress Billions and Trillions Robbed. The extremely overweight clown is eating a burger which has Obama’s stimulus written on it and the clown is saying that he is going to save the day by not underfunding federal agencies. This means that more money is going to a system and never getting used for anything productive, it also say that the government always find money for its own agencies and interest groups but when it comes to the people of the country the money never seems to be able to flow. “Ronald McGovernment Surprises Himself… Again” and the US belt that he is wearing could also mean that the government somehow manages to fit another large and expensive plan into the budget so we are loosening the belt instead of tightening it.  The money that was spent we will never get back but it does make a person wonder where the money comes from sometimes and if we do nothing but print money then are we really solving any of the financial problems in this country?

Nummer Drei

Most political cartoons ridicule an individual and their beliefs or the beliefs of a certain party in a single form of government. This takes the opportunity to mock two individual and their similar beliefs in completely different political systems a Democracy and a Dictatorship.

 There is a small bird in the corner that is saying “dictator of the Mid-East and Mid-west unite”. The bird is very small and appears t be scared and not enjoying what it is forced to do.  In the foreground you see Moammar Kadaffi writing a letter to Governor Scott walker about how much he loves the recent Union legislation and how it was passed. He praising the tactics that are usually viewed as war tactics (“Take no prisoners”) and in some cases going against the “Consent o the Governed”, this has no place in a true democracy . This makes Senator Walker appear to be a dictator so in a way this cartoon can also be viewed as mocking the power that this government gives to people and how they abuse it.

The satire in this cartoon applies more to Kadaffi than is does Walker because he is praising these completely unorthodox tactics for controlling a group of people. The adjectives that are describing these tactics are also in bold on the letter. It makes it appear as though he believe that that really is the way that he should be running his country.  This does not make walker look goo either because he used these tactics.

Numéro Deux

This political cartoon Eugene Payne who is most likely a liberal is mocking The NRA. My interpretation is that this cartoon is mocking The NRA. It does so by portraying the NRA as an immature adult who is exhibiting childish behavior sucking his thumb behind “The Security Blanket”. Eugene seems to be saying that the NRA hides behind the second amendment as a child would hide behind their blanket. There is an automatic machine gun which resembles an AK47 which is illegal when not being used for military purposes with a tag on it saying “Assault Hunting Riffle” with Assault crossed out.  Here the artist is saying that the NRA is trying to conceal the truth in order to get to get what they want.

Número Uno

This is a political cartoon that is most likely done by and artist with a liberal view. In the Cartoon Sarah Palin I holing a gun to two people who resemble her daughter and   . The daughter is pregnant and she is forcing them to get married by holding a gun to his head. There I a rabbit in the running away in the background because it said that it is hunting season and there are two deer on a hill realizing that “pro-gun and pro-life go together”. We can tell that Sarah Palin is the target of this cartoon because of the sarcastic manner in which everything is portrayed but, the main message of this is that she is a little too extreme. She is holding a gun to a man’s head because he got her daughter pregnant, and the animals are scared of her because she has a gun, this creates the pro-gun and pro-life correlation. There deer are most likely two politicians but their face and the name on the side are too blurry to decipher but from the looks of it they were probably moderates who had not quite made up their opinions about pro-gun and pro-life issues. The rabbit is also a politician who probably represents one of Sarah Palin opponents who to do want to be targeted so he is running away.