My Favorite Memory :)

My favorite holiday memory is of my sophomore year winter break where my extended family went down to Florida for my aunts wedding. She was really happy, and it was nice to be with the family for longer than just the regular few hours we usually spend together Christmas Eve. It was the warmest/most exciting winter break of my life and I can't wait to go back to Florida again. :D

This cartoon was drawn by Steve Breen. It shows Newt Gingrich dressed up as Santa carrying his bag full of baggage rather than toys. Through satire, Breen is implying to his audience that with Newt comes a load of baggage. Here, he is alluding to the many personal discrepancies that Gingrich seems to have such as the fact that he is on his third marriage. Clearly, Breen doesn't have a very good view of Gingrich and he wants to convey to his audience that, despite his sudden spike in popularity, it is important to remember that Gingrich has a lot of baggage coming with him. It seems that Breen thinks that if Gingrich can't keep his personal life together, he wouldn't be able to keep the country together either.

This cartoon is drawn by John Branch. In this cartoon, Branch is using ridicule to make fun of Rick Perry and his new "Strong" commercial. With this picture of Perry and the word bubbles coming from him and God, Branch criticizes Perry for the ridiculous commercial that came out in which he said things such as, "There's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." Clearly, Branch, along with many other Americans, disagrees with Perry's decision to run this ad and is against Perry and his campaign. Like many others who have been writing about Perry and his ad, Branch is using hummer and drawings to push across his view that Perry is a bigot who might have just put the last nail into the hypothetical coffin of his campaign.

Question of the Week- The Obama Update o.o

After visiting www.gallup.com, I've decided to stick with my belief that Obama is going to win reelection. Though his job approval is more negative than positive (50% to 43%) it is still very close and, according to this website, he is still ahead of Romney and Perry in the polls. That being said, there's a while until the actual election and, since Obama seems like he's going to be unopposed for the Democratic nomination, I think Obama is going to continue raising support throughout the primaries and will come out on top in the 2012 election.

Oh man...

Mitt Romney?

Personally, even though Newt Gingrich is coming up steadily behind him, I believe that Romney is going to win the Republican Nomination. As we've watched others like Perry and Cain fall in the polls, Romney has been a clear front runner throughout the race and I think he will continue to lead all the way through the nomination.
As we learned in class, all presidents so far have been Protestant or Catholic. For this reason, I'm going to say that Romney's being a Mormon  is going to work against him in his race for the nomination. He also was born wealthy and, as can be seen by the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been going on, the public is starting to rebel against the overly and might very well turn against him or see him as a person who couldn't represent the masses because he is part of the 1%.
That being said, Romney's campain has been free from scandals or bigot outbursts which can't be said for some of his competitors and he has a strong support base from many of the richer Republicans.

    This cartoon was drawn by Cameron Cardow. In the cartoon Cardow is ridiculing Herman Cain through his drawing of a news caster saying that he found a woman who had worked for Cain and not had an affair with him which implies that Cain had an affair with every woman he worked with. Clearly, this cartoon is centered around the various different affair and sexual assault scandals that followed Cain through his campaign and, as can be inferred from the negative light the cartoon sheds on Cain and the emphasis it places on his affairs, I don't believe that  the author is a fan of Cain.