For John, BLUF: Not every political cartoon, no matter how funny, is fact based. Nothing to see here; just move along.
I have just gotten around to looking at the "Focus Section" of Sunday's Lowell Sun. The cartoon, by Mr Lee Judge from the Kansas City Star was hilarious.
The people in the cartoon sort of remind me of when Herblock was drawing cartoons.♠ The cone heads.
The thing is, if Mr Judge meant this as serious political commentary he has misplaced his marbles. Dr Ben Carson has been a highly successful neurosurgeon, leading a team performing complicated and delicate procedures. He learned to integrate that team and to make timely decisions. I am sure some of his patients didn't make it, but I am betting Dr Carson extracted important lessons from those events, making him and his team even better. In contrast, President Obama was a Community Organizer in a city that just had its bonds downgraded by Moody's to Junk status, with a Negative outlook, per CNBC. And his effort to get the Olympics for Chicago didn't go so well.
But, back to the "Focus Section", I thought that Miss Michelle Malkin did a good job talking about Domestic Terrorist Joanne Chesimard, who is now residing in asylum in Cuba. Ms Chesimard was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. She escaped prison and fled to Cuba. The thing is, Ms Chesimard's specialty was police officers. Nasty business, that.
While I don't believe improving our relations with Cuba should be held hostage to Ms Chesimard, I do believe there should be no pardon and if she steps foot on US Shores she should be put back in the slammer, to finish her sentence.
Regards — Cliff
♠ Herbock won three Pulitzers over his career outright, and shared one with someone else. On the other hand, Mr Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer.
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Not sure that all the lessons learned by Dr Carson makes him qualified as a President, more than running HP qualifies you. Admittedly there is likely a lot of politics in both a hospital and HP, but I am willing to bet that the constituencies, equities and processes in the budgeting process are quite a bit different. I would argue that being a community organizer and a US Senator, as well as a background in constitutional law and just understanding the processes made President Obama much more qualified. To some degree it is like a really good systems engineer is much more qualified than an engineer.
From observation, I am not sure President Obama has, or at least demonstrates, an understanding of the US Constitution.
Regards — Cliff
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