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ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 12:55 AM Jun 2012

Toons: Face-Eating Economy, Romney's "Charisma Deficit," Summer Jobs and More. - 6/13/12


By Christopher Weyant, The Hill - 6/13/2012 - "Middle Class Eraser"


By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 6/13/2012


By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 6/13/2012 - "The Spanish Economy and the Euro"


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 6/13/2012 - "Face-eating Economy"


By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 6/13/2012


By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 6/13/2012


By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 6/13/2012


By Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen - 6/12/2012


By Lalo Alcaraz, June 13, 2012


By Tony Auth, June 13, 2012


By Matt Bors, June 13, 2012


By Matt Davies, June 13, 2012


By Walt Handelsman, June 13, 2012


By Chan Lowe, June 13, 2012


By Mike Luckovich, June 13, 2012


By Jeff Stahler, June 13, 2012


By Tom Toles, June 13, 2012


By Dan Wasserman, June 12, 2012


By Pat Oliphant, June 13, 2012




By Jeff Danziger, June 13, 2012

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Toons: Face-Eating Economy, Romney's "Charisma Deficit," Summer Jobs and More. - 6/13/12 (Original Post) ellisonz Jun 2012 OP
These are extra fabulous flamingdem Jun 2012 #1
Too many cartoonists are lazily taking the low road on the private sector comment n2doc Jun 2012 #2
Lalo Alcaraz nailed it. ellisonz Jun 2012 #5
Agree. n2doc Jun 2012 #6
I think I just flat don't understand the Oliphant Sentath Jun 2012 #3
They are window cleaning... ellisonz Jun 2012 #4

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
2. Too many cartoonists are lazily taking the low road on the private sector comment
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 08:48 AM
Jun 2012

Oliphant is just the latest. I have found it hard to find any cartoonist who doesn't take the easy route out and accepting the RW meme of Obama being out of touch. Kinda sad.

ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
5. Lalo Alcaraz nailed it.
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 01:26 PM
Jun 2012

I think Oliphant's window cleaning metaphor is just too laborious. I weeded out the really wrong one's on the topic as I'm sure you notice.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
6. Agree.
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 01:39 PM
Jun 2012

I have been surprised how many normally liberal cartoonists have fallen for that meme, though.

Sentath

(2,243 posts)
3. I think I just flat don't understand the Oliphant
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 12:41 PM
Jun 2012

I see Uncle Sam, is that supposed to be Obama falling off the other end?

ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
4. They are window cleaning...
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 01:24 PM
Jun 2012

and Obama is falling off the end. The little feller on the bottom right is Oliphant's universal character "Punk."

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