Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding editorial cartoons.
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Jonathan said, 5 months ago
John Locke said, 5 months ago
How did we fall so far so fast? Great cartoon!
ARodney said, 5 months ago
“We the people.” “…and promote the public welfare.” It’s right there, folks.
lonecat said, 5 months ago
What’s the point of this cartoon? Yes, I’m aware that the Founders by and large were Christians, and I’m also aware that when they wrote the Constitution they built in separation of Church and State. But as Obama said, God (even if you believe in God) doesn’t do the job for us — we have to do it for ourselves.
Jase99 said, 5 months ago
Assuming you believe in a “Creator” as the Founding Fathers did. What exactly is the point of this cartoon?
Xabulba said, 5 months ago
Endowed by their creator is correct, the founding fathers weren’t sure the “christian god” is the only creator out there.
Chillbilly
said, 5 months ago
As far as I’m concerned, there is no “Creator” but you don’t need to be superstitious to understand the point that was trying to be made. Jefferson (the wealthy, elite, adulterous, slave-owner who invoked God) was an articulate power-player in grabbing land from the English King — and later using government funds to buy land from the French.
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That’s a pretty shaky moral foundation to stand on in spite of the many truths that are self-evident.
onguard said, 5 months ago
The Dem Lib position…….rewrite everything….it must feel good to be relevant .
jack75287 said, 5 months ago
@ARodney
So is rights endowed by our creator. Rights were not endowed by we the people. or collective action but by God. Can’t wait for Clark Kent’s rant today.
jack75287 said, 5 months ago
@Mr. King
Yet you can’t explain why.
ReFlex-76
said, 5 months ago
- Another templatoon Mr. Ramirez will get paid +$100,000 a year for.
- As for content:
- “Collective,” as in the collective action taken by our Founding Fathers to liberate us from the United Kingdom.
- “Collective,” as in the collective bargaining of unions, who gave us our middle class. Unions like Lech Walesa’s Solidarity, which almost single-handedly brought down Communism in Poland.
- Officially, President Obama will be the best US President since FDR on 2017. Unofficially, he already is.
DavidGBA said, 5 months ago
Our creator endowed us with the right to keep and bear arms? Where’d they get that. Oh, different doc!
charliekane said, 5 months ago
The D of I. A great document of the ages!
And yet, an ignorant cartoon. Of what legal effect is the D of I in securing any right under the Constitution?
BTW, I don’t believe Tommy J can be classified as an adulterer. Martha Jefferson died long before any fornicating with Sally began. And to my knowledge, Sally Hemmings was not legally married to anyone.
jack75287 said, 5 months ago
@Chillbilly
And yet he and other dead white slave owners produced a system that allowed this nation to have the more freedom while having the greatest wealth. That is a good foundation. While the lefts loss of wealth is accompanied by a loss of freedom.
Wraithkin said, 5 months ago
@ARodney
You do know what the definition of “promote” is, right? It does not mean “to provide something for another person.” But, like many others, you miss the point of this cartoon.
The whole point here is that Obama and his liberal friends are intent on removing “certain inalienable rights” from the people.
The 1st Amendment is to protect us from government censorship, like we see in China. However, despite liberals being the party of individual liberty (the root word of liberal), they censor/attack anything that doesn’t agree with them.
The 2nd Amendment was written to protect us from people just like Obama and the current incarnation of liberalism. Unfortunately, Obama through executive fiat or through Congressional action is attempting to infringe on our right to bear arms. The Constitution doesn’t say “bear arms, except these kinds of arms.” It just says “…right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The 4th Amendment is protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, but Obama authorized the use of Unmanned Aerial drones to fly over US Soil. That, to me, toes the line of the 4th Amendment on violating individuals’ privacy.
The 10th Amendment is probably Obama and today’s liberals most frequently violated Right. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Congress has 18 specifically enumerated powers. Period. Many issues have been relegated to the federal government over time, but never before have we had such an activist group of people that are so blithely discarding the 10th Amendment in the concept of “providing” for the people.
People forget that the US originally was set up for the states to dictate their own path, and if something didn’t work in a state, the people had a choice to move somewhere else to escape a particular program with which they disagreed. You see this in practice with the emigration of businesses and people out of California, and the immigration of businesses and people (in droves, mind you) to Texas. New York is losing people. Wisconsin is gaining businesses. That’s how this little experiment was meant to work.
But now that we have a federal government that believes its mandate is to overstep and re-write the Constitution with what they feel is best (because 536 people apparently are so much smarter than all 330 million of us). Judges no longer are impartial interpreters of the US Constitution, they are now partisan hacks that seek to make the Constitution a “living document” that needs to change with the times. If you want the Constitution to mean something else, convene a Constitutional Convention and add an Amendment. Otherwise, we are getting what we see above: The Liberal complex is attempting to overwrite the Constitution to mean what they want it to mean. And not for the betterment of this country.