2nd Blog- Political Cartoon

I chose this cartoon because its on a topic that is on the news 24/7.  The issue is the economy.  The economy is in a really rough place right now and quite honestly I don't believe it will ever get better.  But anyway in this cartoon Obama is in a firetruck and is talking to a burning building.  The clear an obvious point of this cartoon is to show that he talks and talks but nothing gets done.  In other words it's one thing to say something but it's a completely different thing to act on it.  This cartoon shows a perfect example of what has been going on with the economy and the government in genera;.  They have plenty of ideas but none of them have been executed effectively.  The target audience for this cartoon is anyone that knows about the US economy.  The cartoon was originally published online and the author(Eric Allie) usually does political cartoons that are aimed at Obama.  The argument in this editorial is a valid one because not much is being done, or it seems that way because the economy is plummeting.  The cartoon is full of color and there are a couple of different text fonts but the colors aren't that important and neither is the varying text.  But the labeled smoke cloud is absolutely necessary because without it you wouldn't know what the cartoon was about.  The tone of this a pretty much a comic but it is about a serious subject so essentially its an average editorial.  In closing I think that this is a clearly stated and not to complex of a c cartoon because there is not much of a reading that goes into it.  But the important thing is that it's a good example of a political cartoon.  I hope you enjoy it!          

http://www.cagle.com/news/ObamaEconomy11/main.asp