North Korea tried to launch a missle to the west side of the world. However the launched failed and landed into the sea. This cartoon claims that the missle did nothing but destroy the food aid in Korea, I guess because of the money spent. If the missle was aimed for us, I'm glad it failed.

Apparently, according to this cartoon visual, Obama was or is a smoker and basically the other smokers of the country are still pushing for the legalization of marijuana. This is a guy, he looks kind of straggly, boring and maybe even smelly, but he has his joint and I'm sure is ready to vote for Obama for legalization of probably his favorite thing to do, smoke weed.

This cartoon of Mitt Romney standing next to the dead funding of planned parenthood's tombstone, is basically a visual of two of his top prioroties at the moment. #1: Attract female voters. #2: propose to get rid of planned parenthood. The creator of the cartoon is giving Mitt an answer to his question: "Why can't I attract Women voters?", the answer being because he is proposing to make changes that they don't want to see happen. Hopefully he learns what he should do. 

This political cartoon, is a humorous poke at the recent contraversy between republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. Hilary Rosen (democratic activist/the president's advisor) recently released some comments targeting Mitt Romney's wife Ann Romney.
On the April 11, 2012, during an appearance on CNN, Rosen commented on the difficulties faced by women in a slow economy, and the Romney campaign's claim that Barack Obama's presidency was bad for women, These were her comments:
"What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying, 'Well, you know my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues and when I listen to my wife that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and why do we worry about their future."
These comments did not sit well with the Obama camp or the Romney camp. However none the less, both the republican and democratic representatives have to try to get voters on their side early. This particular cartoon is focused on women voters. The statue of liberty is the "prom date of choice for both Barack and Mitt. I guess we'll see who gets to go with her in November.

This cartoon is displaying U.S. congressman Paul Ryan trying to convince republicans (elephants) that medicare is bad and it needs to be "killed". However the more the elephant (republican) tries to kill medicare, its just killing itself; due to Paul Ryan thinkinig he knows best.

In this cartoon, a controversial issue is poked fun at. The topic of racial profiling and discrimination. Ever since 9/11 almost anyone who was muslim, had an arab acsent, wore a garb, and had a suni was at one time considered to look like a terrorist. The humor here is that this man actually has a bomb strapped to him, but the woman is more concerned with his beard; with the caption reading : "That beard makes you look like a terrorist." Instead of the bomb around his waist being the thing that makes him look like a terrorist.

In this particular cartoon, little red riding hood and the bad wolf are portraying Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, two people who have been recently discussed more than anyone in the country this past month.  Trayvon Martin was a seventeen year old boy who was visiting his father in a neighborhood in Florida. Zimmerman was said to be the neighborhood watch-man. On his way back from the corner store, while on the phone with his girlfriend, Trayvon was murdered by Zimmerman for supposedly looking "suspicious" according to Zimmerman's standards...  A black kid with a hoodie on! Zimmerman was not charged of any crime due to Florida's self-defense law, he also claims that Trayvon's hoodie (that he was wearing when he was killed) gave him a feeling that Trayvon was a thug or up to no good, and this is the absolute controversy of this horrific tragedy. The cartoon shows the bad wolf has shot red riding hood to death, and the police officers at the crime scene look to be nonchalauntly pondering on whether or not to arrest him. The caption shows that the wolf is claiming self-defense, which may be his pass to escape prosecution; just like George Zimmerman was not charged for shooting Trayvon & taking an innocent person's life.
The author of this cartoon definitely seems to be on Trayvon's side of the controversial case, feeling that the police, and the shooter in this horrible situation just blatenly don't care about this wrong-doing.

The caption in this cartoon is, "ITS MY PARTY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO.", with 4 men with their names on their shirts. These men are "Mitt Romney,Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich" . The caption is coming from a large elephant representing the republican party to describe that all of the men shown in the cartoon are part of the party. The candidates are all fighting eachother representing the close presidential campaigns and the battle for the republican primary. Basically, nobody from the republican party can get along with one another and they are all trying to eliminate one another. The ideological perspective of the artist is unrepresented in the cartoon. Although he may be a liberal because you can say that he is trying to downtalk or critisize the republican party. This cartoon relates to the current republican primary race. We discussed every one of these men and their campaigns in class. The irony in the cartoon is that there is no real leader in the republican party. Nobody in their own party even gets along.

This cartoon illustrates 4 cars driving on a road and all exiting at different signs. The signs read, "left, right, far right, and out of sight right" . The car exiting at the "out of sight right" exit is a Rick Santorum supporting van. This is a play on Rick Santorum's excessive conservative ideology. Its ment to show that Rick Santorum is pretty much as conservative as it gets. I think the artist of theis cartoon is either a liberal or a conservative who is unhappy with Rick Santorum's methods. I beleive the artist may be a liberal because he's trying to show the complete ridiculousness of the conservative party's ideology and that people should'nt vote for people like Rick Santorum. This cartoon relates directley to the current Republican party primary race, as Rick Santorum is on of the candidates. This relates to our class discussion because we have studied the primary race closely and have looked at every candidate and their views. Satire is shown in this cartoon by representing the extreme views of Rick Santorum on the ideology spectrum. With this position Rick Santorum is likely to never become president because he is not balanced enough.

The caption in this cartoon is "A recent poll showed 30% of voters remain undecided, and 90% of voters remain unimpressed." The cartoon shows a news reporter talking about the republican primary race. The news reporter is stating that there is no strong leading republican in the race and that even republicans arent happy about the candidates. This cartoon relates to the current political republican race. There is no clear ideological perspective from the artist in this cartoon. The artist demonstrates an even playing ground. the satire and irony affect the message by stressing that there is no real strong republican candidate and that there is a problem with that. If even republicans don't follow the candidate than how are they ever expected ton win?

"My masterpiece was painted in the obama age, 2008-2012 AD."

There is an elephant artist who represents the republicans. in this cartoon the elephant artist, the republican party, is showing off his painting in an art exhibit which reads "NO" . The message of the cartoon is to show the disagreements between the republicans and Obama and everything he stands for. The ideological perspective of the cartoonist i believe is more to the conservative side. The artist feels as though anything that the democrat party does, the republicans will not approve of it. This cartoon relates to the current presidential race. Obama will again be running for president and republicans will again protest him. Satire is influenced in this cartoon by stating that all republicans disagree with Obama and are snobby.