NY cartoon appears to link Obama to dead chimp, page 4

Originally posted by MemoryShock

Originally posted by sos37
MemoryShock, you and the OP can get off your high horses, sir. For one, the cartoon does not directly imply that the chimp = Obama.

Yes it does. As far as it represents the Administrations pushing of the bill and the party lines that were clearly shown in the House's vote.

Wow, you're getting all of that from a drawing of a dead monkey with two bullet holes in him and two cops mentioning the stimulus package? Partisanship? The fact that no Republicans supported the stimulus package in the House and three in the Senate supported it?

Your imagination is REALLY working overtime to be able to see all of that with this cartoon. You might as well be reading tea leaves to predict the next bank to go belly up.

I submit that you are seeing what YOU want to see.

The cartoon clearly implies that even a chimpanzee could have written what was in the stimulus package and now that the chimp is dead, they're going to have to find another monkey to do the dirty work.

A picture is worth a thousand words...and implying a devolved mentality could have written the bill is ignorant...as many people aren't versed in the legalese and business rhetoric to accomplish such. Which highlights further the partisan lines being played.

Again with the partisan lines. I seriously don't know where you see a distinction of partisanship in a drawing of a dead monkey. What is one bullet hole supposed to be Democrats and one Republican? I suppose the Republican bullet hole is bigger since Republicans tend to do more damage?

As for people not knowing what they are doing, it's very clear that no one in Obama's administration knows the first thing about how to fix this mess and that can be EASILY proven. Look at Obama's cabinet members! Here's a good paragraph from an article about Timothy Geithner's first failed attempt at the financial crisis:

The lack of a detailed plan is important not just for investors but also for the average worker, mom and student because it means there really is no easy way out of the global economic crisis. It means we have assigned the job of fixing the banking system to the smartest guy the government could find [Timothy Geithner] and surrounded him with every possible resource, and given him plenty of time to think, and still he came up with bupkis.

articles.moneycentral.msn.com...

That's it. That's all it implies. If you see more to it than that I would say it's a reflection of personal issues that you, yourself have. Perhaps some counseling would help?

I implore you to not assume my personal issues; an indirect Ad Hom isn't going to gain my ire.

On another note, you can argue that this administration is different, the people are different, blah blah blah blah blah but the fact is if this were a political cartoon about killing Bush you would probably be laughing it up or finding some means to justify it, so I'll thank you not to play the wounded advocate.

I don't advocate the death of another individual and I don't advocate partisanship. Again with the assumptions...

It's becoming very clear where you stand on things. You just appear to be in self-denial when called on it.

[edit on 18-2-2009 by sos37]