People are so sick of all the election blabbering and all the TV and Radio messages and most are ready for it to be over. This cartoon shows a house surrounded by people asking for votes. It’s on the television, airplane messages, newspapers, the pone, and there are all sorts of fliers through the door. This is basically how it’s been for the past few months. Radio adds, all over TV, and everywhere we look it’s election related. After looking around we see two people hiding behind a couch, terrified at all the people around them. They say, “Stay low. It’ll all be over Tuesday.” Yes, Tuesday: the day of one of the most important elections ever. No matter what it will be historic: either a woman or a black man in office. People really need to pay more attention because electing a president is both a right as well as a responsibility of American citizens. Yes, it’s going to end: and then the decision made is the one we will remain with—no going back. The truth is people need to suck it up because the decisions they make will be with them for years to come.

Through out this election there has been a lot of slandering, mudslinging and even name-calling. This cartoon says “The candidates sum up their positions on the issues of pressing concern to Americans…” So what would we expect and want them to say in this situation? We want to hear that they are going to do whatever they can to make sure that this election is a success and we want to hear about how they feel about the final issues that need addressing—and what do we get? “George W. Bush!” and “Karl Marx!” There are two messages portrayed within this. First, each has an important and “negative” political figure they are compared to and will allegedly be no different from. Second, are the reasons for comparing these people to them. First of all Obama is campaigning for change from our current government. His strategy is to say that McCain will be no different from George Bush because he agreed with him on 98% of all the issues. McCain is comparing Obama to Karl Marx who is “credited” as the founder of Communism [look at the entry “Obama: The Next Karl Marx” to find out more]. Both of these are put in negative light. What the candidates should be doing is talking about what they can do to better the country but instead they are bringing down the other candidates.

**No matter how true these “accusations” may be it is still not the right thing. J

A lot has come out about Barack Obama over the past few months. For example this cartoon depicts Obama sitting in front of a desk in what appears to be a job interview. The man is saying: “Do you have any character references that aren’t corrupt Chicago political fixers, loony racist preachers or unrepentant terrorists?” while Obama’s face looks slightly embarrassed. What this is talking about is the awful things that people have discovered that Obama has been involved in. Such as Jeremiah Wright, who’s “church” Obama attended for TWENTY years. Wright is a racist [against whites], anti-America, ant-God, CRAZY PERSON! But when questioned about his attendance and loyalty to this church—AFTER admitting having gone there for 20 years—he claimed he did not know his opinions on all of these topics! Then the cartoon says “…or unrepentant terrorists?” Barack Obama was part of a group that tried to BOMB the pentagon. He claims that that was “in the past” but do we really want somebody this…corrupt as our president? Running our country and making decisions that will affect all of us??????? If we would just stop and THINK we would realize that the answer is absolutely NO!