A change on Obama

Cartoonists stop pulling their punches on the would-be president.

June 29, 2008

A while back, I wrote that cartoonists were giving Barack Obama a pass while blistering Hillary Clinton. Well, we don't have her to kick around anymore, so enter the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, stage left-of-center. Nick Anderson headed where headwear took him. Chip Bok made Obama look like a fossil fool over taxes, and Mike Lester made the "change" candidate publicly pay for a change of heart. I like Lester's added visual taunt -- a cigarette, an addiction the senator is said to struggle with. Smokin'!

-- Joel Pett

Nick Anderson / Houston Chronicle

Chip Bok / Akron Beacon Journal

Mike Lester / Rome News-Tribune


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