Ted Rall for January 26, 2009
Transcript:
Adventures of Obamaman: The somewhat Super Hero who doesn't Save the Day but partly alleviates it. Obamaman is applying his medical skills to an accident victim when he gets a call about an urgent crisis. (Woman: A band-aid? This man has been decapitated!) (Obamaman: Holy economic, meltdown! I'm on my way!) Eventually (Obamaman: Sorry it took so long to get here. I took mass transit.) (Man: Help! There's a $3 trillion "output gap" in the U.S. economy. We could lose 20 million jobs! This "plan" will only fix 1/5 of the problem.) (Obamaman: No need to thank me. Gotta go! A meteor headed toward earth needs to be slightly slowed down!)
whitenoise about 15 years ago
Come on, Ted, since when was the Executive supposed to solve all our problems?
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 15 years ago
Oh, well. At least he is trying, unlike the past administration.
Unwashed_one about 15 years ago
Who are you calling unwashed?
Lavocat about 15 years ago
When cleaning up after an bleeep, it’s easy to look half-assed.
Reminds me of that great Kinks song, “Superman”.
HUMPHRIES about 15 years ago
old71, what kind of masses believed W … twice?
wmclay about 15 years ago
Ted still doesn’t get it. There is no fix for the economic crisis Bush has left us in. All Obama can do for this runaway train is minimize the casualties when it finally crashes. His stimulus plans won’t stop the Second Great Depression, but they will help Americans live through it.
Kylop about 15 years ago
Hmmm….I think with a couple of changes Rall could have made this comic work with McCain. He wouldn’t have had him use a blackberry or take mass transit. But the guy on the ground would still be decapitated with a band-aid solution. The economic plan would still not solve everything. We’ll probably see a bunch of ‘toons Rall (and others) had ready that could be converted to whomever won.
DALLASDAN about 15 years ago
RAdicaLL is more hateful to Obama than Republimirez.
rjvjelly about 15 years ago
billclay, your ava scares the bejesus outta me!
dhleaky about 15 years ago
billclay, your ava scares the bejesus outta me! , Me too !
jerswing about 15 years ago
Still trying to figure out what those 575 blokes at other end of Penn Ave are supposed to do.
Wish they’d signed on to 1st tenet of Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm”
aeogia about 15 years ago
Ted, the Hello Kitty logo is too perfect!
As they say in AA, “Half measures availed us not.” For starters how about taxing the living bejeebus out of everyone making over $250,000 dollars a year (the ones who’ve made out like bandits these last eight years)? Are we in a financial meltdown or not? Then nationalize the banks. As I said, just for openers…
pugnax about 15 years ago
You’re right, of course. But any part of a loaf, even a crumb, is better than absolutely nothing.
Jeffritoman about 15 years ago
Obama does need some cojones regarding the economy, and it’s up to us to fire up Congress to make sure he does the right thing.
Incidentally, this is Rall’s first Obama cartoon that makes any sense.