Santorum's Sweaters

Haha, so the title of the cartoon is pretty straight forward and self explanatory; It's a cartoon explaining the making of Rick Santorum's sweater vests. In the picture, Santorum is charging towards the microphone planning to sabotage Mitt Romney which would make Barack Obama appear to be the most appealing candidate in the race. Behind Santorum is probably a Republican trying to prevent him from getting to the mic and in doing so, tearing off the sleeves to his sweater. Of course, this is suppose to be humorous because Santorum wouldn't actually say that, but apparently that's what his actions are showing. He's just making Obama more favorable by making his "rival" Romney look bad to the voters. 

Scenarios like this seem to occur often in between the Republican candidates, they don't seem to realize how awful they make each other look while they're trying to make their way to become the one Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election. It's just giving Obama the upper hand (as if he doesn't already have it) and that sucks for the Republicans... oh well.

Obamacare

The title of the cartoon is "Obamacare", referring to Obama's healthcare plan, of which Republicans oppose. So in the cartoon it says, "The Health Care Games," imitating "The Hunger Games", a popular movie currently out in theaters. Instead of the bird being a mockingjay, which is shown in the actually movie, the bird in the cartoon is an eagle, representing Obama's healthcare plan (America). So the picture speaks for itself, showing that the Republican party wants to hunt down the "Obamacare".

The cartoon is portrayed in a creative way that attracts people due to it's imitation of the story The Hunger Games. 

The cartoon shows all of the 2012 candidates in the boxing ring fighting for the title, or more like the Republicans fight and Obama just chilling on the side. Notice Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are much smaller then Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney because at the time Gingrich and Romney were doing most of the fighting against each other. Obviously this cartoon was back before Obama was really in the quarrel and McCain and Palin already gone. For a while, President Obama was just sitting back and watching the Republican candidates getting rid of each other for him.

Now of course is a different situation where we're starting to hear more about Obama and there are also more attacks on Obama from the Republican candidates.

Mitt Romney is the biggest hypocrite in the election and this cartoon displays that pretty well. Romney says in the the picture, "At one time or another, I've been in complete agreement!" to all the beliefs listed on the side. Which, from what has been going on seem to be true because he has changed his opinion to satisfy his voters. It's as if the man does not have an opinion of his own a something. (ding ding ding! problem!) How could someone who wants to become president not have a definite opinion? What is this man's purpose?! (doesn't have one... just wants to run the country). Of course no one could disagreed with him because he agrees with EVERYTHING! (which is not actually the case) 

Romney's indecisiveness is one of the reasons why he's continuing to go up and down the the elections. It's hard to tell what his thinking because he continues to jump around and it makes voters uneasy.

NO ROMNEY, I DON'T CARE THAT YOU AGREE WITH EVERYTHING... IT'S NOT OK!

The cartoon shows Newt Gingrich talking the a guy from the airport saying the he wants a trick to the White House, basically meaning the he wants to become president. The person responds the say his extra baggage, referring to all the issues Gingrich had in the past, will cost him. All of Gingrich's past problems from his divorces to the 1995 Shutdown will make his goal to becoming president difficult, hence its go to "cost" him. 

From the the cartoon is portraying, it seems like Newt Gingrich will never become president. All the problems write on his luggage have been brought up in many incidents through out his campaign. This cartoon is right on because Gingrich's past is definitely haunting him. 

Courting The Women Vote

Comparing the title of the cartoon to what is actually happening portrays irony. The title of the cartoon is "Courting The Women Vote", basically Rick Santorum strategizing on how to gain the votes of women with his committee. The irony starts with the captions in the picture; Santorum says, "Lets take a minute to talk about how to attract the baby-making machine vote...". Already this would make any female voters uncomfortable because Santorum sees women as "baby-making machines" which also hints his idea of anti-abortion. Then the papers that counsels are handling says "Opposes access to the pill.", "Attack on prenatal testing.", and "Belittles women in the military." are also other things that Santorum believes that is a turnoff to women. Rick Santorum is a crazy pure conservative who not only can't appeal to women but perhaps even makes women feel belittled. 

This cartoon relates to how women are still not as superior as men in general and how women are still struggling to "break the glass ceiling" because of people like Santorum who believes that women are just "baby-making machines" and what not.  

"African Americans and White Americans have faced similar problems when wanting to participate in politics."

The title of the cartoon states that both African and White Americans have similar issues when is comes to voting which is clearly not the case in the cartoon, in fact it's the completely opposite of what the cartoon portrays. The picture shows the way to the voting booth which is an obstacle for the African American man because he has to go through a literacy test, pay poll taxes, and still face the Grandfather Clause, not to mention white men trying to kill him (KKK, noose). The white man, on the other hand, does not have to go through these obstacles and he get a shortcut straight to the voting booth. The cartoon shows that the White people try to prevent Blacks from voting even with the 15th Amendment in place because of racism back in the day.

Currently, things like this are none existent and there are no more racism when it comes to voting. But this does relate to our class discussion of how, even though the 15th Amendment was passed to not discriminate people of race, color, and previous condition of servitude to vote, this was interpreted very loosely and other laws still prevent Blacks from voting. 

9 Problems With This

I would like to start off this blog by introducing you to the 9 problems I have with running a political blog.

1. I have senioritis.
2. I already got into college.
3. I don't do anything.
4. Every post I make kills me a little inside.
5. This is just evil.
6. I don't care about anything.
7. We already did blogs... and I didn't like it.
8. I already know Mr. Levy is a conservative.
9. I have senioritis.