And purely from a professional standpoint, to bring out the old piñata imagery (like they did with Alberto Gonzales during his hearings) is the most hackneyed metaphor a cartoonist –who is supposed to have a refined sense of humor–could invoke. But I think it’s Obama in the sombrero that really puts it over the edge for me. Being that she’s Puerto Rican. I’m not buying that he is showing us the Republicans’ ignorance. That’s not conveyed in the image at all. If he wanted to do that, he could have put sombreros on the elephants and made them smile. No, I think this is his way of trying to telegraph how a Latino is being badgered by the senate and the best he could come up with was the same tired cliché. Which makes him look like an ingoramus. That’s why I hold to my original statement that the only ones who look bad in this cartoon are the people who edit The Oklahoman.

Yeah, he mixes up his stereotypes, but as a Puerto Rican, I don’t find this racist, I just find it to be political.

Yes those days have passed. Thats why we have blogs now-a-days.

A political cartoon is to a newspaper, what TMZ is to actual news. Entertaining… but hardly worth looking looking at more than once.

Personally, I think it’s trying to cast the GOP as walking into Obama’s trap. I think it was a bit clumsy though, what with the noose around her neck and all. But I don’t think anyone should be against criticizing something just because of the medium it’s expressed in.

Funny.