1. This cartoon was drawn by Taylor Jones.
2. The key objects in this cartoon are obviously President Obama, the presidential podium, meant to represent his authority and the fact that he's giving a speech, the mission exhausted banner hanging in the background which symbolizes the grueling effort of the war in Iraq, and the speech bubble, which represents that the exhaustive mission is not yet over.
3. The main techniques this cartoonist uses are caricature and ridicule. He makes Obama look a bit ridiculous by drawing his ears and head huge and the rest of his body relatively small. The speech bubble emphasizes how much more ridiculous he is by making it seem as though he doesn't even know the condition of the economy and the unemployment rates of the country. The huge banner really emphasizes the fact that the struggle for these soldiers is not yet over.
4. The cartoon deals with the recent end of the war in Iraq, therefore the soldiers coming home, and also it deals with how poorly Obama is handling the unemployment and economic statuses of the country.
5. The cartoon is basically saying that all these soldiers are going to be coming home from the war in Iraq, which in itself was a very grueling and tiring mission, and expecting relief and relaxation and some benefits of some kind. This won't be the case however. Their mission is going to continue to be grueling and tiresome because when they get home they'll have to find jobs when there basically are none to be had in the U.S. right now. The cartoon infers that they're also returning to a president who hasn't taken much initiative in locating solutions to the jobs problem and just doesn't really care.
6. I think the cartoonist is trying to get across that Obama isn't really making much of an effort to create more jobs and better the economy, especially in this time now when our soldiers who should be recieving benefits are returning home. He basically thinks the government, especially Obama, is really messing up right now.
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