HELPING HAND

The title of this political cartoon is "Helping Hand". This title happens to be very ironic because in this picture the elephant who represents republicans is helping president Obama into a trap which represents Libya. In this cartoon Iraq and afghanistan are described as two traps that has already gotten both of Obama's feet and the third trap is Libya. This person is liberal because this message is to attack the republicans decisions with foreign affairs. This cartoon relates to the current political event because right now there is a big controversy happening in Libya.

NO-FLY ZONE

 

The title of this political cartoon "No-fly Zone" is a double play on words. In the picture there are flies but it also mean that there are no flying allowed thus, president Obama is riding on a whale. There are many small symbols that makes up this cartoon, one of the biggest being the whale. Which represents Middle East policy. The whale is dying, because it is on very dry and hot land, therefore it means that Middle East Policies is endanger of failing. The action that are taking place in the cartoon is that Obama is riding a whale out in the desert swatting down flies whom is harassing the whale a.k.a Middle East Policy. This cartoon is based on the perspective of a liberal, this message says that his middle policy right now is not as strong as it could be, also that it not very effective since there are no support(water) for the whale to swim in, instead it is getting harassed by the flies(critcsized). It is ironic that Obama is trying  to create a "No-fly Zone" when his vehicle is not doing so well.