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He's in over his head! That's for sure.
He needs to quit campaigning and start figuring out what's really going on. Is everyday of his presidency going to be some campaign speech?
Posted by Cowboy | January 17, 2009 7:24 PM
Posted on January 17, 2009 19:24
Wyeth we not surprised?
Posted by ferry360 | January 17, 2009 7:33 PM
Posted on January 17, 2009 19:33
Yep, ready to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory any moment now.
Posted by GarandFan | January 17, 2009 7:42 PM
Posted on January 17, 2009 19:42
I know there's a symbolic reference to a painting in this, but I can't remember what. Hint, please?
Posted by Terwiliger | January 18, 2009 11:03 AM
Posted on January 18, 2009 11:03
HEY T
This is a spoof of Wyeth's "Christina's World".
Posted by john Cox | January 18, 2009 3:45 PM
Posted on January 18, 2009 15:45
HEY T
This is a spoof of Wyeth's "Christina's World".
Posted by john Cox | January 18, 2009 3:45 PM
Posted on January 18, 2009 15:45
John,
I will use your cartoon for my open thread post on Obama on January 20.
Posted by Martin Lindeskog | January 18, 2009 6:26 PM
Posted on January 18, 2009 18:26
Ah, yes - the spoof of Wyeth's painting, "Christina's World", the subject of which was a young woman afflicted with paralysis of her lower limbs. Could it be a forecast of the paralysis of President Obama's decision-making when faced with that first "big test" that Joe Biden warned us about last year?
Posted by Bill Erdmann | January 19, 2009 9:00 AM
Posted on January 19, 2009 09:00
JOHN
Thanks.
For some reason, I was thinking this was a hybrid of two paintings, one of which was one of those impressionist "park" pictures [you had "excerpted" a figure from] to convey PEBO's myopic "It's a wonderful world"/"I'm OK, you're OK"/"I'll wait for the thaw & take credit for Spring" outlook.
Even more excellent than I had at first thought.
Posted by Terwiliger | January 19, 2009 9:46 AM
Posted on January 19, 2009 09:46
Christina was reaching for home. Apparently whatever "O" is reaching for has already gone up in flames. That opens a whole new venue for speculation.
Either it is his dream and vision for what he believes should happen in America, or it could be "literal home" as in Chicago and Mrs. O'Leary's cow has mysteriously come back a second time??? Anyway it is a great sketch with huge possibilities.
Posted by TexGal | January 19, 2009 12:21 PM
Posted on January 19, 2009 12:21
I know I have a sick mind, but it kind of reminded me of Scarlet Ohara looking at Atlanta or Tara (both going up in flames). I'm not sure how B. O. could replace Scarlet, but anything's possible in fiction.
Posted by Tom Wms. | January 19, 2009 5:52 PM
Posted on January 19, 2009 17:52
Well whatever it is, it begins today.
Posted by TexGal | January 20, 2009 7:25 AM
Posted on January 20, 2009 07:25