Obama Foreign Policy Cartoon

This cartoon, created by Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle, keys in on the belief that President Obama has yet to fully address the issue of foreign policy. Directed at the American people aware of Obama's presidency and especially those voting this November, McKee attempts to satire not only the President's neglecting of the rest of the world, but also the fact that the American people are too distracted to notice. He accomplishes this by deleting every nation except the US from the globe. The Americans are too distracted by Obama's appearance on Letterman to even notice the difference in the planet. An awareness of the recent uprising in the Middle East adds to the purpose of this cartoon, as well as the conflicts facing Obama's campaign. Obviously, as with all political cartoons, satire is used to over-exaggerate a situation like Obama's inability to sufficiently address foreign policy and transform it into a comical scenario. I feel that Rick McKee has achieved his desired intention from the cartoon, as he is able to displays arguably Obama's worst enemy heading into election season and jokes about the circumstances facing the US internationally today. In this way, McKee puts his desired spin on Barack Obama's international policies, though this could be one of the most important and serious problems facing the world in the near future.