The Idea of Obama by Tom Tomorrow
by: Dave Belden on October 18th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Am too delighted with this cartoon and too short of time and energy to find out if I can post it here, so it may come down tomorrow. But then you can find it at http://www.credoaction.com/comics/. Tom Tomorrow’s blog is here.
Later: reading the New York Times op-ed page today I find this, by Bono, no less:
So here’s why I think the virtual Obama is the real Obama, and why I think the man might deserve the hype.
Read the rest. The parts about Obama saying he wants to end extreme poverty. Bono’s mention of the Marshall Plan. These guys been reading Tikkun again?
Yes, Tom Tomorrow’s cartoon catches the Obama Zeitgeist (actually Zeitgeiste, that’s plural) perfectly. Thanks for sharing it, Dave. My hope, which has everything to do with the idea of Obama, is that he will use the Nobel Prize to further a more progressive agenda. And if we push him, maybe he will.
The cartoon suggests that Obama is simply who is he is; neither progressive nor evil socialist Kenyan impostor. However, all of Obama’s campaign promises are on tape, and this was not mass delusion on the part of either the progressives who voted for stillborn “change” or the Right who feared those campaign pledges.
The “idea of Obama,” then, is not a projection but rather a message for which Obama himself is responsible.
What’s the cartoonist’s alternative? To regard all campaign promises as hollow lies and hold no politicians accountable? Weren’t we there already?
No, Dave: here’s the real reason why Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
Love it!