Obama has everything "under" control

• These words are being used to describe the cartoon because the three places that are in the cartoon are Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. All these places are going through problems that affect the United States and Obama has to step in, in some way.
• Obama is represented in this cartoon and the countries that are wearing him down are represented also. The artist means that Obama is carrying these countries and their problems on his back and its wearing him down.
• The action taking place in the cartoon is Obama walking and mosquitoes are used as the countries sucking the blood out of his back.
• The message of the cartoon is that all of these countries are involved with the United States some how and their problems affect us. The ideological perspective represented by the cartoonist is liberal conservative.
• This cartoon relates to a current political event because recently in Afghanistan and Iraq we have American troops that are dying there, in Libya the governement is out of control and they have no stability. It relates to our class discussion because they all interrupt our political system when our president has to come to their rescue.
• Satire and irony affect the topic covered in the cartoon because the problems in these places doesn't necessarily mean Obama is being worn down and he can't control the situations at hand and that is what portrayed in the cartoon.