Ramirez: And the answer is …
posted at 10:55 am on June 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Oh, let’s not always see the same hands! Michael Ramirez of IBD Editorials notices a pattern in this administration. Whenever a question arises, what’s the best answer? Ramirez wonders today whether a young Barack Obama had trouble thinking of anything else other than his fallback position these days:
My favorite question is the one unanswered in the right corner, by the way. It warms the heart of every Obamateurphile.
A famous bit of wisdom says that when all you have is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. Thus far, every problem looks to Barack Obama as an opportunity for government intervention and nationalization. Which kind of tool does that make him?
Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives a fascinating look at political history. Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here. And don’t forget to check out the entire IBD site, while individual investors still exist.
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Ramirez is hitting on all cylinders lately.
Fletch54 on June 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Obama = assbackwards on every f’ing position.
daesleeper on June 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Ramirez reads my comments and makes cartoons out of them!
lorien1973 on June 25, 2009 at 11:00 AM
I love how the one question where the answer actually is “government”, he writes “social inequality”. Perfect.
jdpaz on June 25, 2009 at 11:01 AM
The cartoon reminds me: anything with
earswings that large usually requires a federal registration number on the tail.Yoop on June 25, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Helps to have a clown act in the White House.
But we’re told that there is nothing funny about this President.
NoDonkey on June 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM
I saw this last night and laughed so hard I scared my miao-ish companions.
ProfessorMiao on June 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Beautiful!
Green Muse on June 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM
That made me chuckle too…
Thunderstorm129 on June 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM
+1
LOL
cmsinaz on June 25, 2009 at 11:05 AM
The cartoon isn’t far from reality. Just look at all of the Marxist/Communist/Socialist mentors that indoctrinated Obama throughout his life.
Or are we not supposed to think about that?
Star20 on June 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Check out this onion video making fun of Obama.
Chiasmos on June 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Careful, you are inching towards becoming a Republican Strategists.
WashJeff on June 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Me three…
ladyingray on June 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM
How long before the DHS sends out a secret memo advising that cartoonists portraying Obama in a negative light are potential terrorists?
jukin on June 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Duh Won is like 100 octane fuel for Ramirez’ creative engine.
VelvetElvis on June 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM
you hate to let a crisis go to waste….
toenail on June 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
That is awesome, but eerily similar to 0bama actually wrting on a chalkboard as a ‘professor.’
Check out the “Power Analysis” Relationships ‘built on self interest’ which are now controlled or on their way to being controlled by him!
Corp, banks, utilities, ?
I wish I knew what he was saying as he wrote that.
Brat on June 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
A rectal probe.
Maquis on June 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Willie Whistle? OK, I think I’m going to retire “Giggles” and go with Willie Whistle.
crazy_legs on June 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM
That government crutch is gettin pretty old and delapidated.
Reminds me of Gumby’s pet dog who all he could say was:
“NO!” to every question.
Sapwolf on June 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM
OT: Democratic Dirty Tricks?
Why do Dems have access to the private emails of our top GOP governors?
They hacked into Sanford’s email and read them for months. Remember they also hacked into Palin’s private emails.
faraway on June 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM
The upper right is just as good as the lower right.
pt on June 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Dirty socialist.
TheUnrepentantGeek on June 25, 2009 at 11:17 AM
This guy gets it. With C&F retired as a team, this guy is filling in as my favorite cartoonist just fine.
Yakko77 on June 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM
The current system is not broken. We just have widely expanding health care options and they are expensive. When the perception that health care is a “right” as opposed to a commodity-service like any other, politicians fall over one another to give us those rights.
Our current system may be flawed, may not get as much care to everyone as we would like, but as Winston Churchill said: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms.” Well our health care system is the same.
One thing though, Churchill also said: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
I fear we will get the health care system we deserve.
Mr. Joe on June 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM
A+ for Rameriez, as stated above, he’s hitting on all cylinders lately.
Geministorm on June 25, 2009 at 11:22 AM
What has Obama EVER said? It’s the exact same thing as in the cartoon – just inserting a whole lot of completely random words in the middle.
logis on June 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Not every question has the same answer:
Where will you send your kids to school? _______
If your family gets sick, what will you rely on? _____
What will YOUR car run on? _____
shick on June 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Government for thee but not for me.
shick on June 25, 2009 at 11:28 AM
The media slobs just don’t seem to question any of this. Complicit hack traitors. I hope my observations are somewhat correct…. that more and more people are looking at this dope with a jaundiced eye and a hell of a lot of concern.
HomeoftheBrave on June 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM
These last two toons have been home runs. Great stuff.
On another note, similar vein, I took my boys to see the new Transformers flick. And who would have thunk it but they basically bash Obama and his reliance on diplomacy in the movie. By name.
SPOILER ALERT:
The troops in the movie even metaphorically threw President Obama out of an airplane. They threw Obama’s (again, by NAME not just a generic, unseen president) National Security Advisor out of a plane. For all intents and purposes Obama by proxy. Heh. Anybody else see it and get the same thing or am I stretching?
oddjob1138 on June 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM
All jokes aside it is difficult to imagine what this country will look like after four years given the last six months.
Once government programs are put in place there is no putting the genie back in the bottle, no matter what the evidence. Ethanol comes to mind.
patrick neid on June 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM
How about the question: Where were you born?
Mojave Mark on June 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Does my heart good to see that cartoon with a B-24 Liberator in the middle of it.
Jeff from WI on June 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Government is the hammer and citizens are nails. Congress has a toolbelt, but refuses to acknowledge the proper tool, let alone use it. They just keep handing Ogabe more hammers. Most Republicans appear to be like our own useless geriatric fool, Lugar.
Mourn the America that used to be.
SKYFOX on June 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Is it any wonder McCain called him “Senator Government”?
Snowed In on June 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM
George Will said his first job was canvassing for Barry Goldwater. It was back when American liberals got heavy into propaganda – what they used to call “Goldwaterization.”
George Will knocked on a crotchety old man’s door and asked him if he planned to vote Goldwater. The guy said, “Hell no. He’s gonna take my TV away!”
Will was stunned, but then realized: “No, no. Barry Goldwater wants to stop the TVA – the Tennessee Valley Authority project.”
The old man thought it over for a minute, and finally said: “I don’t care. I ain’t takin’ any chances.”
The purpose of Socialist propaganda is never to inform; the purpose is to WARP minds. And if it didn’t work, they wouldn’t spend billions of dollars a year on it.
…Well nowadays I guess that’s trillions of dollars, but it’s still the same general principle.
logis on June 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM
You must have meant that one for the Obamacare thread;)
Laura in Maryland on June 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I think Sanford publicly disclosed them himself. If he did, I am impressed with his complete disclosure and allowing all shame be laid on himself.
shick on June 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Nope! Ed cited the hammer and nail analogy and invited us to name the kind of tool Zero’s ceaseless government interventions made him, and I took him up on it. ;)
Maquis on June 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I’m getting to the point where I don’t find Hussein funny anymore. It’s like a joke about cancer.
Akzed on June 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Ogabe’s answer wouldn’t have been “government”, it would have been “me”. He believes the answer to everything is himself, because he knows more and is better equipped to make decisions on everyone else’s behalf than any other person in the world.
Bishop on June 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM
yeah, McCain also said Obama’s doing pretty well as President so pardon me if I don’t give a flying f**k what John McCain says about anything. The only two words I want to hear out of that backstabbing old f***er is ‘I’m retiring.’
austinnelly on June 25, 2009 at 11:43 AM
The only question on the chalk board that didn’t get answered “Government” was the only question that should have been answered “Government”.
I think Ramirez is subltly saying that in Obama’s mind democracy is not a legitimate form of government.
shick on June 25, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Ditto and he accepts all the power from his new thrown but none of the responsibility.
shick on June 25, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Thank you.
Akzed on June 25, 2009 at 11:48 AM
I share your colorful sentiment. McCain is now working with the White House on the next run at shamnesty. He’s taking a “background” role. I wonder why? LOL!
Fletch54 on June 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Our concepts of subtlety appear to differ.
Snowed In on June 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM
How really good is Ramirez at his craft? He was duly honored and given a huge award by his contemporaries recently at the National Cartoonists Association…which is saying a lot since most of those folks are as, if not more, liberal than Obama.
Ramirez is an undeniable genius and the country is better a place for his art. A truly good cartoon says way more than a thousand words!
marybel on June 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM
My high school religion students often answer an unrelated question with an overly excited “JESUS!” to which I loudly reply, “yes, Jesus is the answer, but not to this question!”
DrewbieDoo on June 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM
That’s not quite fair. Sometimes his answer is, “I’ve answered that question already,” even though he hasn’t.
Jim Treacher on June 25, 2009 at 12:00 PM
That should read “…capital of Hawaii?” Lil’Obama must be attending a public school and not a private one.
andycanuck on June 25, 2009 at 12:01 PM
You are right. I should have said indirectly.
shick on June 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Just a tool
Big John on June 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Wasn’t little Obama attending a madrassa at this stage?
Disturb the Universe on June 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Hey, yeah! He should be writing Umma over and over.
Maquis on June 25, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Brat,
He was teaching the Alinsky method. From Wikipedia: “Alinsky came up with the idea of power analysis, which looks at relationships built on self-interest between corporations, banks and utilities.” It’s definitely Alinsky.
shazbat on June 25, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Ramirez – a national treasure!
One of my two favorite cartoonists! (The other is Bill Watterson, who did Calvin and Hobbes.)
I noticed and loved the thing in the lower right-hand corner too.
Alana on June 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Obama never ‘gets’ the relationship, even though his late grandmother was a bank manager.
Sir Napsalot on June 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Thanks.
Brat on June 25, 2009 at 1:09 PM
There is only one tool in the socialist tool box. It’s a hammer. Therefore every problem is a nail.
GarandFan on June 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM
ED:
When are you blogers going to dig up the commercial from the Democrats showing Bush pushing a wheelchaied person down the stairs??????????????????????????????????????????
Rick007 on June 25, 2009 at 1:32 PM
This was when he talkes about privatising SSI,
Rick007 on June 25, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Don’t forget the sickle for dealing with the useful idiots after the revolution.
Kafir on June 25, 2009 at 1:46 PM
The aura is good too, doting grammie, lib to the max indoctrination and the hyper esteem generation.
Speakup on June 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Saying that he is a tool implies that he is useful.
c.u.shoeless on June 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Exactly right! He sees himself as Jesus, Frodo Baggins, and Mila Jovovich from The Fifth Element all rolled into one.
Wingo on June 26, 2009 at 2:38 AM
But the comedians and pundits have told us that there is nothing funny about this President. There is simply nothing about Obama that can be mocked or ridiculed — unlike his predecessor. I have been assured that is the case.
cruadin on June 26, 2009 at 6:29 AM
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