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Obama's recovery summer

Henry Payne | 9.3.2010 7:00 AM

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That Chick from OH 15 years ago

Good morning, Suki!
That Chick from OH 15 years ago

Oh...was I supposed to say something about the cartoon?? Ummmmm.....we could actually use some rain in this part of OH. I mean literally.
Nelson Muntz 15 years ago

Ha ha!
? 15 years ago

Anyone notice how shrill and desperate the left is becoming as we approach the elections? November is like a slow-moving hurricane. They see it coming and they can't do anything about it. The recriminations have already begun. The propaganda is never-ending. This could be the ugliest political season in memory.
1. sarcasmic 15 years ago
  
  They're going to take away your Social Security check because they hate old people!
  
  They're going to repeal Obamacare because they hate sick people!
  
  They're going to repeal Welfare because they hate poor people!
  
  They hate these programs because they help people, and they hate helping people!
  
  Obscene profits! Corporate greed! Failed policies of the past!
  
  Bush!
  
  Cheney!
  
  Aaaauuuuggghhhh!
  1. ? 15 years ago
    
    Calm down, Rachel, calm down. Mommy has a treat for 'ums.
  2. William Walsh 15 years ago
    
    That's interesting. It appears you were being sarcastic but I actually DO hate all of those people.
    
    Plus I'm a racist.
2. Chad 15 years ago
  
  No we're not!
3. Tony 15 years ago
  
  No we're not!
  1. Max 15 years ago
    
    Fucking Kochsuckers!
    1. shrike 15 years ago
      
      Christofags!
4. El Duderino 15 years ago
  
  As the plane gets closer to the mountain they are going to go totally unhinged and just start full on raping their republican enemies and throwing their own feces at reporters who keep asking them to explain where the jobs are.
  
  The jobs are like the WMDs. They were there once, a long time ago, but then the government went an sent them all to Syria and buried them in the desert.
the power of one 15 years ago

"Obummer Summer"
mr simple 15 years ago

Shouldn't he be doing something like holding the umbrella over himself with a sun lamp and saying, "things are looking up!" Your cartoon suggests things beyond his control are ruining his summer, rather than his policies are making things worse, or at least keeping things the same.
1. Jen 15 years ago
  
  I think the fact that he showed up to the beach on a rainy day shows he was ill-prepared and was deluding himself. I agree, though, that the cartoon suggests that he no longer is.
2. sarcasmic 15 years ago
  
  Maybe he doesn't want to pay the new tax he put on sun lamps.
  1. Snooky 15 years ago
    
    Maybe he doesn't want to pay the new racist tax he put on sun lamps white women.
    1. Real Chad 15 years ago
      
      White people.
      
      The only people I know who tan here are the local news guys.
      
      They look like shit too.
3. Chad 15 years ago
  
  Look, mr simple, Obama's energy policy is not helping to stem global climate change, therefore he SHOULD be rained on in the cartoon.
4. El Duderino 15 years ago
  
  Jobs are beyond his control. No matter waht the government does they cannot create jobs and for most part everything they are doing is making it harder for anyone to get a job. That is what is so sickly fun about watching this shitbomb explode in slow-mo.
  
  Yes I have a job. Yes I feel bad for those that dont. Yes it is still fun to watch as the Obama administration attempts every single Keynseian scheme at the wall to see if it will stick. Turns out all they are doing is making the wall dirty, but I am sure someone will have fun cleaning it up.
  1. Dan 15 years ago
    
    The gov't shouldn't try to create jobs, it tried under FDR & that was a disaster.
    What the gov't CAN do is lose jobs & that is exactly what the O Man's policies have done and will continue to do
Rorschach anarch 15 years ago

Behind a beaded curtain and in front of Pigpen ascending the horizon, a blind Japanese butterfly bisected by a lozenge atop a cloven driver stands in a Sasquatch footprint holding a personalized paramedic kit led by a French-flag swordfish impaled on a rotisserie against a star protected by a few coins. Ringlets of hair in various shades of gray retreat.

Mordant, but the symbolism's a little too obvious.
1. Rorschach anarch 15 years ago
  
  Disregard dadaist link.
kilroy 15 years ago

Better than last week but that's a very low bar to hurdle.
Michelle Obama 15 years ago

I told him he should have come to Spain with me!
1. Jason 15 years ago
  
  He could have gotten some ideas for new green power technologies -- solar power at night!
  1. El Duderino 15 years ago
    
    Moonbeam power is the next great green fad.
Attorney 15 years ago

Not bad.
Joe M 15 years ago

Why not a picture of a person with two broken legs, labeled "U.S. Economy", and Obama standing over them with a baseball bat shouting "Walk, damn you!"
1. Fiscal Meth 15 years ago
  
  A++
  1. Joe Biden 15 years ago
    
    Why don't you stand up, Chuck?
2. El Duderino 15 years ago
  
  Thats too close to reality. It might be seen as a legit policy statement rather than a political cartoon.
sage 15 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

It's nice to see Obama took some work with him on vacation, though.
1. Fiscal Meth 15 years ago
  
  There's a teleprompter in the briefcase. He's going to make the rain stop by giving a speech right after he commands the tide to not come in.
JoshINHB 15 years ago

Why is his upper body melting but not his head?
JoshINHB 15 years ago

Why is he holding a French swordfish?
P Brooks 15 years ago

Where are the oily otters?
Fiscal Meth 15 years ago

He's looking for whose ass to kick about all this irresponsible precipitation.
1. El Duderino 15 years ago
  
  Bad idea. if something happens to the rainmaker, then it may never rain again.
  
  Could get arid.
Paul 15 years ago

Looks just like Seattle's summer of... well, summer.

I knew that Karma would make us see 52 degrees in August when the Obama administration announced a Summer of Recovery.
Cap'n NoStar 15 years ago

Hey, when you do nothing but vacation, eventually you get bad weather.

In this case, Jimmy Buffet is right: everywhere you go, you take the weather with you.
Shitty Friend 15 years ago

Literally, not funny.
anarch 15 years ago

Shorter version.
Me 15 years ago

I don't see why he's so glum. he brought an umbrella.
Mr. FIFY 15 years ago

Just heard some guy on Jim Bohanon talking about how, if we don't undo the evil Bush tax cuts, it will "cost" us about 700 billion over the next ten years.

So... cut spending by seventy billion per year, for the next ten years. Same result.

Jesus, it's really not that hard.
1. Paul Krugman 15 years ago
  
  Heretic!!!
  1. blah blah 15 years ago
    
    which 70?
2. El Duderino 15 years ago
  
  Shit, there is probably 700 billion wedged in between the couch pillows in the oval office.
  
  Oh theres the red button...
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