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Friday Funnies

Obama's budget cuts

Henry Payne | 5.29.2009 7:00 AM

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  1. Michelle   16 years ago

    Why'd he draw Barack doin' the white lady's nails? He is the President, not some shoeshine boy.

  2. Untermensch   16 years ago

    Would have been better without the caption. But this one isn't bad.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   16 years ago

    I believe he's suggesting that Obama appoint a Korean lady to handle budget review. And I feel that's racist.

  4. Cab   16 years ago

    During the campaign, Obama chided about spending cuts McCain by saying something like, "we need a scalpel, not a chainsaw." I remember thinking, "that's odd, I was thinking we need more than a chainsaw."

  5. Cab   16 years ago

    again - rearranged

    During the campaign, Obama chided McCain about spending cuts by saying something like, "we need a scalpel, not a chainsaw." I remember thinking, "that's odd, I was thinking we need more than a chainsaw."

  6. Spoonman   16 years ago

    Fuck cutting implements, we need a flamethrower.

  7. Xeones   16 years ago

    That's... racist? I guess?

  8. ed   16 years ago

    The federal budget is Sonia Sotomayor?

  9. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    Golf Clap, Henry Payne - I chuckled.

  10. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    But I laughed at ed's comment...

  11. P Brooks   16 years ago

    If it's not raaaaaaaaaacist, it's definitely faaaaaaaaattist.

  12. WTF?   16 years ago

    WTF?

  13. WTF?   16 years ago

    "Why'd he draw Barack doin' the white lady's nails? He is the President, not some shoeshine boy."

    Hey Obama! Go home and get your shine box!

  14. P Brooks   16 years ago

    Was that supposed to be a white lady?

  15. P Brooks   16 years ago

    'Cuz that definitely makes it raaaaaaacist.

  16. David (not that one)   16 years ago

    Maybe I just don't like political cartoons.

    Any cartoon where something has to be labeled to indicate what it represents just has FAIL written all over it for me. A cartoon should be more than just an illustration of a watercooler conversation:

    "Obama's budget cuts are like he's giving a manicure to a grossly obese woman and she's complaining about how much it hurts."

    "I should draw a cartoon of that"

    "But how would someone know that the obese woman represented the budget?"

    "Oh, I'll just write 'Federal Budget' on her."

    Where's the funny? Any joke that needs indicators of what stands for what is a FAIL.

  17. WTF?   16 years ago

    "Was that supposed to be a white lady?"

    No. Look at her hair. She's half black and half white just like Obama. NTTAWWT

  18. Spoonman   16 years ago

    In high school, we were shown the OGRABME cartoon from the War of 1812 and supposed to think it was brilliant. Didn't work.

  19. Forty-Two   16 years ago

    If it's not raaaaaaaaaacist, it's definitely faaaaaaaaattist.

    P Brooks,

    The enlightened call this "body shaming," and know it's every bit as bad as racism and rich people.

    Mr Payne clearly needs some lessons in tolerance.

  20. PR   16 years ago

    oh no he di'nt!

  21. neener   16 years ago

    Why'd he draw Barack doin' the white lady's nails? He is the President, not some shoeshine boy.

    Maybe it was Joe Biden in blackface?

  22. P Brooks   16 years ago

    He should be putting lipstick on her piggish snout, too.

  23. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    Pretty good. Props to H.Payne.

  24. Team America   16 years ago

    The federal budget should have been drawn as an anglerfish, with Obama announcing that he's going to cut of the little glowing doodad...

  25. Ed   16 years ago

    WTF?,

    I believe you meant to say: 'Go home and get your fucking shinebox!'

  26. Lucy   16 years ago

    I forgot how much I enjoyed the bitchy comments that come after every not funny political cartoon. Well done, Reason readers.

  27. Scarpe Nike Italia   14 years ago

    is good

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