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Five Cartoons About Obama’s Victory Lap

As we celebrate the one year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, critics of the President feel it’s inappropriate for him to take a victory lap. They’re especially miffed at Obama for suggesting that his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, wouldn’t have taken the same course of action.

[ View our complete collection of Osama bin Laden Anniversary cartoons ]

John McCain, recently said, “You Know the Thing About Heroes? They Don’t Brag.” Romney, when asked by a reporter if he would have made the call to launch the raid, said “of course” he would have. “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.”

Here are a handful of cartoons about Obama’s “bragging rights.”

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Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)
Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)
Osama Hajjaj / Jordan, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Osama)
Joep Bertrams / The Netherlands, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Bertrams)
Nate Beeler / Columbus Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Beeler)

 

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China Obama and Chen Guangchen

China Obama and Chen Guangchen © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Chen Guangchen,China,Human Rights,Barack Obama,US Embassy,State Department

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My Secret Service Cartoons

The Secret Service sex scandal continues to hold the interest of readers looking for salacious tales of government employees chartered to protect the president looking for a bit of fun on the side. As a cartoonist, that just means more opportunities to go back to the ink well and come up with more ideas. Here’s my latest, on the media’s obsession with this story…

As a note to any aspiring cartoonists out there, if there’s a sex scandal, and you have to draw someone with their pants down, always draw hearts on their boxers…

My final cartoon is a warning to all the guys out there watching news coverage of the scandal with your wife. Think before you speak…

Related: Five Great Secret Service Cartoons

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Fall of Saigon in Cartoons

On this day 37 years ago, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was captured by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. The event market the end of the Vietnam War and the start of formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state.

One of the most famous images of the 20th century is this photo by Dutch journalist Hubert van Es showing Americans trying desperately to secure a seat on one of the last helicopters evacuating people to U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Vietnam.

Cartoonists are visual creatures, so it makes sense that this iconic image of desperation has been used and twisted in a number of cartoons over the years. Here are some examples from our archives…

JD Crowe / Mobile Press-Register (click to view more cartoons by Crowe)
Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)
Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)
Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)
Rob Tornoe / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Tornoe)
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Obama Media and Secret Service

Obama Media and Secret Service © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Barack Obama,President,Secret Service,television,tv,sex,prostitutes,Colombia

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Best Cartoons of the Week

Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.

So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.

David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to launch slideshow)
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John Edwards Doggie Ridiculous

John Edwards Doggie Ridiculous © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,John Edwards,Rielle Hunter,dog,newspaper,urine,pee,jail,prison,court

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Five Funny Biden Gaffe Cartoons

Biden Alert! Speaking about the Obama administration’s foreign policy at New York University, Vice President delivered a snicker-worthy line when he said, “I promise you, the president has a big stick.”

The former Delaware senator is known for flubs of the tongue. He also got some laughs when he described Obama’s decisiveness, telling the audience, “This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod. For real. For real.”

Here are five funny cartoon from our archives about Biden’s tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.

David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more by Fitzsimmons)
John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Cole)
Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)
R.J. Matson / Roll Call (click to view more cartoons by Matson)
Taylor Jones / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Jones)
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Front-Page Cartoon Leads Bullying Editorial

On Sunday, the Sioux City Journal devoted its entire front page to an anti-bullying editorial following the suicide of a gay teenager earlier this month. In addition to calling on the community to help end this story of abuse, the front page featured a cartoon by Brian Duffy, the former staff cartoonist at the Des Moines Register who self-syndicates his cartoons throughout the state.

Editors take note – this powerful cover has gone viral on the web and even made the rounds on cable news. Maybe you should include more cartoons and illustrations on your front pages

Here’s the top half of the paper. For the full front page, click here.

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Gingrich Out

It’s official – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential campaign next Tuesday.

It’s about time. If it wasn’t desperate enough that Newt Gingrich made Delaware his Waterloo, Newt was completely routed last night by Mitt Romney in all five primaries.

Newt’s campaign has been running on the fumes of $2.50 a gallon gas for a while. Here’s a round-up of cartoons about desperate Newt…

Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)
R.J. Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Matson)
Rick McKee / Augusta Chronicle (click to view more cartoons by McKee)
Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)
Larry Wright / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Wright)