Ramirez: What wall would Obama choose?

posted at 11:36 am on November 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Barack Obama skipped the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the climax of the Cold War and the victory of liberty over statism and totalitarianism.  Michael Ramirez of Investors Business Daily wonders what kind of a wall would have to fall in order to gain Obama’s enthusiastic attention.  Given where Ramirez works, and the kind of policies that Obama has pursued, this seems like a natural answer:

Perhaps at that celebration, Obama could regale us with tales of Foot Rustlers and Tonsil Vultures, while Nancy Pelosi explained the villainy of an industry that had the temerity to get a 3% return on its investment.

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 Investors.com site, which has now incorporated all of the former IBD Editorials, while individual investors still exist.

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as usual, good cartoon from Ramirez, the best man in political cartoons

Doctor Zhivago on November 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM

Once again, Ramirez hits the nail on the head!

4shoes on November 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM

One minor critique of the artwork.

Obama never looks directy forward when giving a speech.

fogw on November 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM

Off Topic

Beck got another one….Mao cheerleader, lizard tongue steps down end of November.

nondhimmie on November 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM

For the blinded-by-the-One peeps a question:

If ending Capitalism and/or American hegemony was Obama’s goal, what would he be doing differently than all of his actions to date?

Neo on November 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM

At one time, the concept of the cartoon would have been outlandish. Not now.

On the plus side, it would be an opportunity for Barry to talk about himself a little….

Star20 on November 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Not only is Ramirez a great cartoonist, he did a wonderful job training the Highlander.

furytrader on November 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM

it would be an opportunity for Barry to talk about himself a little….

For Barry, every public event or interview is an opportunity to talk about Barry. He is just so impressed with himself he can hardly contain himself.

JoeinTX on November 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM

Obama never looks directy forward when giving a speech.

fogw on November 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM

He’s just lying being inclusive, that’s all.

smellthecoffee on November 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM

Michael- you forgot the telepromters!

rjoco1 on November 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM

Obama’s doctrine:

We are communist women and men, underground in the United States.

Our intention is to disrupt the empire … to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, … to attack from the inside.

Our intention is to forge an underground … a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack.

faraway on November 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM

Ramirez was drawing for The Boston Globe when I started reading the op-ed pages. His cartoons were the one thing I always looked forward to in that stodgy paper. I feel as if I grew up with him.

rrpjr on November 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM

Tragically, an all too true depiction.

Ramirez used to make me bust my gut with his witty toons, now I am just saddened by the accuracy of his illustrations.

Archimedes on November 10, 2009 at 12:07 PM

RMR on November 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM

Caption:

Allah posts another atheism thread.

lorien1973 on November 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM

Not only is Ramirez a great cartoonist, he did a wonderful job training the Highlander.

furytrader on November 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM

And getting the Dodgers into the playoffs…..

1921 C DRUM on November 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM

furytrader on November 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM

ah ha ha ha. +1

walnut on November 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM

Obviously Ramirez was not on the NEA conference call…. and did not get the memo.

PatriotRider on November 10, 2009 at 12:14 PM

Part of me wants to believe that Obama is just getting bad advice. What American president wouldn’t want to be at this event? It’s kind of a big deal. Obama and I aren’t that far apart in age, yet it’s like we grew up in two different worlds (or continents, even). I am most inclined to think that this admin is so partisan that they prefer to ignore any success achieved by the other party, no matter how major. Surely, SURELY, it’s not because Obama and his cronies are so deeply socialist that they consider this to be a day of mourning, right? Because that would just be too scary. No matter what, it’s embarrassing for the United States. And, in the absence of any substantive words from the White House, what ARE we supposed to think? Perhaps we’ll just have to chalk it up to yet another EPIC FAIL by a gaggle of bumbling amateurs.

cynccook on November 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM

cynccook, Obama is the crowning achievement of the Weather Underground. see my 11:57

faraway on November 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Sad but true.

I’m sure our border wall is another… let those in who he hopes will be dependant and fill the ACORN coffers…

petunia on November 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Ramirez should have changed the wording to:

“Mr. President, tear down this wall.”

Having to explain your own joke by saying Wall Street and putting “Street” in red is too much.

Also, it’s closer to Reagan’s actual quote with the added bonus of Obama addressing himself.

Good effort, though.

Christien on November 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM

faraway on November 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Yeah, maybe, but didn’t ya think they’d play it more subtle than this? I mean, come on, my 10 year old’s better at swiping cookies from his little sister than this clown cabal.

cynccook on November 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM

Part of me wants to believe that Obama is just getting bad advice. What American president wouldn’t want to be at this event? It’s kind of a big deal. Obama and I aren’t that far apart in age, yet it’s like we grew up in two different worlds (or continents, even).
cynccook on November 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM

I am exactly the same age as Obama. And I was thinking about that yesterday. How amazing it was to watch this happen and the countries open up and communism finally be discredited… It was goose bumpy inspiring!

But, I wonder, because so many of those Obama associated with during this time… if it was as exciting for them.

The man his white grandparents chose as his black mentor growing up was a marxist. He had a far different view of good and bad, right and wrong, when it came to communism.

I wonder if he was excited at the time. Or was he appalled that they couldn’t get that perfectly equal system right over there.

It might have been a day of mourning for him.

His view might be closer to Gorbachev’s view than mine. Mixed feelings.

petunia on November 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM

The “progressives” see anti-communism and the war on terror as preoccupations of the right-wing and they want us to downplay them, if not forget them entirely, so that we can all move into the awesomesauce progressive Great Society they have planned for us where the lion lies down with the lamb and stuff.

No guts. No integrity. Empty blather.

evergreen on November 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM

Just got home from Berlin,good street party and the one wasn’t missed.People that have lived under under an oppresive gov. thumb will fight to the death not to repeat that experience,I talk to them every day.Yet here we go like sheep,not all but enough that I bailed out.

budaside on November 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM

Allah posts another atheism thread.

lorien1973 on November 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM

heh, +1

DrRansom on November 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM

petunia on November 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Yeah, well, let’s see, in 1989, Obama was in his 2nd year at Harvard Law School….

cynccook on November 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM

As we approach Veteran’s Day, I wonder what Presidents Truman, Kennedy and Johnson would say about our sudden shift towards Marxism/Socialism/Communism, in light of nearly 100,000 Americans dying while fighting communism in the Korean and Vietnam wars?

Either defeating the evil of communism was worth the sacrifice, or those icons of the Democratic Party threw those lives away, only to have their party embrace the ideology they fought against.

Star20 on November 10, 2009 at 1:08 PM

..anyone have the new IBD link to Mike’s cartoons? I can’t seem to dig up his past efforts.

VoyskaPVO on November 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM

So, how busy was POTUS on Monday? Let’s see.

nor on November 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM

Where’s TOTUS!? Did somebody steal TOTUS?!

Khun Joe on November 10, 2009 at 3:46 PM

I just saw a pic of HRC in front of the Brandenburg Gate and it came to me why Teh One didnt go!
remember during the campaign when Merkel didnt let him do his big speech there? he had to use the victory column instead

OMG he is THAT petty

ginaswo on November 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM