Nick Anderson thinks Obama should be shown as the overpowering one. He (according to Anderson) has done a lot more for the economy than Trump did when he recently persuaded/bullied/bribed Carrier to keep some jobs in the U.S. But as yesterday’s post pointed out, Obama’s statistics are meaningless to people who weren’t helped by them.
David Parkins’ cartoon in The Economist is just the opposite of Nick Anderson’s. King Donald is all powerful. The Economist is worried that businesses will try to curry favor with the Trump administration and will try to do anything to avoid annoying him. In the long run that will hurt the economy and the workers he’s claiming to help.
As usual, we will just have to see.
December 9, 2016
Fun and games at your end as well as ours.
Historical changes.
Okay, that does it! I’m not reading the Economist again! What a nonsense perspective, David Parkins!
What a compliment to Parkins! It is a powerful cartoon, isn’t it? Did you read the article? What parts, besides the cartoon, did you object to?
We’ve been subscribing to The Economist for years. I don’t always agree with it, but it keeps me from becoming too provincial.
I LOVE your cartoon! and forgive me. but I feel a rant coming on! LOL!
does anyone else but me find it amazing that NO ONE ever mentions
the unbelievable MESS that president O’Bama INHERITED! ???
a horrendously LONG WAR. that Bush started by the way.
and yes. I know about the “supposed threat” that never was. but hawks were flying.
and we had a preening hawk as president. and it was a feeble excuse not even relevant to the attack we had suffered. and has proved as such. a cooler head might have prevailed. but cool heads were not there.
he had surrounded himself with people as frightening in their own way as trump is doing now.
and… lest anyone forget…
we had an economy ALREADY in the TOILET. billions upon billions being spent on said war. big bank failures due to their OWN lack of morality and business acumen. joblessness through the roof. the list goes ON and ON.
everybody today seems to have conveniently FORGOTTEN all of THAT.
O’Bama inherited ALL of that and was expected to create miracles.
the American people expected the new president to FIX all of that MESS overnight?
and so it began. the shut down of a president.
he was stymied at EVERY TURN in EVERY single thing he tried to do from the very beginning. and it remained so during both his terms.
how he accomplished anything is a miracle in itself. and even that which he did… they proceed to crucify him for it.
it is despicable how he has been treated by the American people and the free press… and especially those elected to CONGRESS. they have ALL raised ‘complaining’ to a whole new level. and it resulted in grid lock after grid lock.
and even now… he is seldom given credit in the mainstream media for ANYTHING he has accomplished.
yes. O’Bama Care DOES need tweaking for sure. but his basic premise was/is to protect and try to at least HELP the American people in the quagmire that is medical care in this country.
Big Pharma is the ENEMY. not the president. it was at least a start.
you work with what you can.
and he was/is fighting GREED.
so … your publishing that cartoon is appreciated by me!
and… it has nothing to do with the party. I tend to be drawn to the man not the party. which is naïve I do realize.
there are republican presidents I have voted for in the past.
simply because…
I admired and respected ‘him and what I thought he might accomplish.’
now I realize… one MAN can do nothing if his hands are tied by a polarized country and congress. and we are becoming more polarized every second.
the days of ‘working together’ for the good of ALL are sadly GONE.
if indeed there ever were days like that anyway. it at least seemed like there were.
Obama is Irish?
My feeling is the liberal press was on his side, and he still gets favorable ratings from the American people. He did have a Democratic Congress the first two years and might have handled things differently. Here’s a long 2010 article about that period and why the Democrats lost the midterm election. The author tries to see all sides.
One part of the article I liked was this one quoting Obama:
interesting concepts, I had a browse at The Economist article related to the 2nd cartoon…
my loosely (not well defined) thoughts, it’s time to be promoting inventions that are properly needing a lot of help – to get them to be the next big thing for America to be proud of – not worrying about things like cars and i-phones, that are already established. And if they are off-shore, work on making new industries within the county…
The Republicans argue that small businesses create a lot of jobs if they’re not bogged down in regulations. We’ll have to see.
re debby… LOLOL!!!!
I know! I’ve done that from the beginning. a bad habit that locked in I guess.
loved your comment. 😀
thanks for the article/link monk. going to read it now.
wow. an excellent article about Obama’s 🙂 presidency.
thanks again monk!
I was impressed by that article, too. The author was trying to understand, not sell his point of view.