Hillary Clinton Political Cartoons Analysis

Political cartoons, normally made to pick fun of or shine some light on various topics are used to explain different political ideas and standings. They in a way help us understand in a bias way the crazy world of politics that we live in today. Throughout this journal I will go about explaining many of these political cartoons. I saw this cartoon poking fun of Hillary Clinton to be quite comical. It depicts her being shredded by a paper shredder that she in turn is using to shred various documents and in this case her emails. The cartoonist represented Hillary with a large protruding nose that I believe symbolises her lying about not actually deleting those said documents. She is also depicted as sweating profusely with that of a nervous look

This particular cartoon interested me because I feel that it is all too true in this country today. The artist depicts a large obese U.S. citizen smoking, drinking, and eating exceedingly large amounts of unhealthy fast food. Upon participating in all of these actions that kill roughly 838,000 Americans every year combined he is more scared with an Ebola outbreak than with the effect of his current actions on his health. The use of the term Ebola is bolded showing its emphasis in the hearts of United States citizens even though that problem is easily contained unlike the rampant deaths caused by obesity, tobacco use and alcohol consumption. We had an Ebola outbreak that was contained in the southern states of the U.S. putting fear into many people 's hearts masking the real problems occurring in this country. I feel the artist did a wonderful job in depicting how many Americans felt during the time of the Ebola outbreak. Though recently problems such as obesity and tobacco use have been attempted to be destroyed, I believe that the United States is more fearful of the unknown in a sense or illnesses such as

This final cartoon fits in quite nicely with many of the topics we have discussed in class. The artist depicted an angry mob of U.S. citizens carrying wooden boards chasing American Indians out of their country. To me that was just ironic because the mob chasing the Indian are the actual immigrants within this country. Personally, I think the stigma behind immigration reforms involving American Indians is a joke because this is their country and we are the immigrants in most cases. The angry mob stated “Immigrants go back to where you came from” and the Indian man responded with “Took the words right out of my mouth.” The dialogue within this political cartoon was quite comical in a sense because Native Americans saw Anglos as the immigrants to their land. The basic knowledge of knowing that Native Americans are indigenous to the Americas and the struggle that they have endured from intruding Anglos is sufficient background information to analyze this cartoon. I believe that the artist 's intended message was to explain why we should not push immigration onto the American Indians when we are the culprits and Immigrants of this country who destroyed their cultural roots. Political cartoons can be beneficial tools in explaining and understanding political problems happening not only in the United States, but globally as