Ramirez: Weekend at Recovery Bernie’s!

Michael Ramirez has already given one good riff on the White House’s Recovery Summer campaign, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t ripe for further skewering.  This time, IBD’s Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist aims his pen at the campaign’s chief salesmen, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  If something smells, well …

Weekend at Bernies is a hilarious comedy from the 1980s about a couple of bumbling fools who try using charm to ingratiate themselves into power and get in way over their heads.  Instead of dealing with the crisis rationally, the two try fooling everyone around them into thinking that the corpse is having the time of its life, and fooling themselves that their plans are working.  The only difference between the movie and real life is that no one in the film ever noticed the stench.  Unfortunately for Biden and Obama, the stench has become too obvious.

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 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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