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("Obama Can": Cartoon by Troy Johnson)
Here we are again. The unveiling of a new slogan. "We Can't Wait". Before that, "Hope and Change", "Yes We Can", "Change We Can Believe In", among others. The often touted master campaigner, the campaign chameleon, President Obama has launched into a new phase. It seems to be a unilateral mission to change what he can- on his own now. Without the shackles of Congress to constrain him, now against him rather than for him in his first two years, the President appears to be on a mission to save America here and now. Or later. Whenever.
Anything that helps in the re-election effort actually. Can't pay for the mortgage? Nor the student loan? He's the deliverer. If you don't mind big government stepping in and transferring American tax payer dollars at large to benefit a segment of the population that finds itself struggling to meet their own private obligations. If you don't mind Big Brother teaching Americans there's always a way, if it's Obama's way.
But people really need the help! (And Obama really needs the votes). Some will say he's stymied by the conservative right who can't seem to afford him the resources to move forward with more government intervention on behalf of needy Americans. If Obama can't solve the problem, maybe money will. Yet again.
And so the political divide widens. America, built on individualism and capitalism, matched against the murmuring masses of Occupy Everywhere. Can Obama really do it or is "Yes We Can" merely a slogan of the past.? A promise that is past? Time will tell, but for now, let's get the Pumpkin cans out and deal with something real world.
Troy Johnson
Cartoonist/Writer
Conservatoonism.blogspot.com
