Toon: Obama vs. Romney

[n2doc]

[ProSense]

1. So now the meme is

there's no difference between Obama and Romney (Gore = Bush)?

Really? Send that to the RNC, they'll love it.

RomneyCare maybe an albatross around Romney's neck in trying to win the GOP primary, but there is no such thing. The Mass health care became law despite Romney's veto:

In fall 2005 the House and Senate each passed health care reform bills.

The legislature made a number of changes to Governor Romney's original proposal, including expanding MassHealth (Medicaid and SCHIP) coverage to low-income children and restoring funding for public health programs. The most controversial change was the addition of a provision which requires firms with 11 or more workers that do not provide "fair and reasonable" health coverage to their workers to pay an annual penalty. This contribution, initially $295 annually per worker, is intended to equalize the free care pool charges imposed on employers who do and do not cover their workers. The legislature also rejected Governor Romney's proposal to permit even higher-deductible, lower benefit health plans.

On April 12, 2006 Governor Mitt Romney signed the health legislation.<19> He vetoed 8 sections of the health care legislation, including the controversial employer assessment.<20> Romney also vetoed provisions providing dental benefits to poor residents on the Medicaid program, and providing health coverage to senior and disabled legal immigrants not eligible for federal Medicaid.<21><22> The legislature promptly overrode six of the eight gubernatorial section vetoes, on May 4, 2006, and by mid-June 2006 had overridden the remaining two.

And no, Romney http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=679703&mesg_id=679705">wouldn't have saved the auto industry.

[n2doc]

2. Oh come on

The meme is, Obama accomplished something we had all been waiting for (killing Osama), while Mittens has only some old Olympics story to boast about. In Whom would you place your confidence as commander in chief?

Don't go looking for negative messages where there they ain't.

[Matt_in_STL]

3. I didn't get that from the cartoon at all

What I got was that the bona fides of Romney would not match up to the terrorist hunting prowess of President Obama. President Obama can pull the "I got Osama" card while Romney only has a successful Olympics as his shining moment.

Aside from the cartoon, I do agree that there are several false equivalencies trying to be made, expecially when it comes to the current healthcare reform bill and Romneycare.

[Raster]

8. Step back from the cartoon, Pro.... put down the blue pen

Maybe, just maybe, you may be reading it all wrong.

[ProSense]

10. "put down the blue pen"

You type with a pen?

Still, you're right I'm reading too much into it, but I get where Rall is coming from.

[Enrique]

13. Obama is highlighting their similarities

Which is a smart move. It makes it very hard for Romney to beat him if people don't see a difference.

[ZombieHorde]

15. That wasn't my interpretation of the cartoon.

President Obama has accomplished something many Americans are excited about, Romney hasn't.

Of course art is always open to interpretation, and I am not saying yours is wrong, just different than mine.

[Zynx]

4. Wait a minute. Ted Rall made that?

I'm a little shocked.

[Bake]

5. Little (but good) detail: Look at the podium seals

One says "President of the United States"

The other? "Former Guv Massachusetts"

Great cartoon!!

Bake

[Diamonique]

6. I like the comparison of the accomoplishments, but... um...

why does Obama look simian?

[Blue-Jay]

7. Because Rall is a shitty artist.

[secondwind]

18. That was my first impression, and it still is.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Is that true?

Did mittens really "save" the Olympics? That whole scenario seems like Mormon hero making.

[Phx_Dem]

11. LOL. Good one.

[4lbs]

12. Romney's Olympics that he "saved" ended up being one of the most corrupt and graft-laden in history.

So, yeah, remind people of that, Mittens.

The Utah Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mormon land.

Hooray!

Where French and Russian figure skating judges conspired with each other to deny Canadians and Americans proper scores.

Where the Olympic selection committee was showered with MONEY and millions of dollars worth of gifts, to bribe, no, entice, no lure, no, um... "make offerings" to the Olympic "gods" to grant them the Olympics.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympic_bid_scandal

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/olym-j13.shtml

http://web.ksl.com/TV/olympics/sloc/

http://figureskating.about.com/od/historicalskatingevents/p/controvery2002.htm



Yes, Mitt Romney can point to that as a shining achievement!

[BernieSandersIsGod]

14. That's a horrible representation of Obama and kinda offensive. nt

[oberliner]

17. Typical from Ted Rall

See his other cartoons if you want to see more than kind of offensive representations of Obama.

[craigmatic]

16. Obama kind of looks like Gerald Ford in that picture.

Mittens is going to need more than the olympics to save him.