This political cartoon was written by Mike Keefe for the Denver Post on 11/17/11. This cartoon is showing a happy father and son walking through a field with the family’s dog. It appears that the father is simply telling his son that he can do anything he wants when he grows up, for example he can become president because ANYBODY can become president. Next to the word “anybody” however, there is an asterisk symbol. At the bottom of the cartoon, the word “anybody” is defined as being a person “who is aligned with a Superpac, owned by corporate America and blessed with a personal fortune”.
This is a cartoon that uses satire to make a mockery of the American belief that “anyone can become president if they work hard in life”. This cartoon comes at a time when Republican candidates are fighting to win the Republican nomination to run in this fall’s election. However, as people enter the race the question arises as to how they were able to enter into this position, what types of backgrounds they have and what kinds of connections they have/ are utilizing. The author is basically saying that not everyone can become president, basically only a person who already has political ties with Superpacs or corporations or a person who has a lot of personal funding to start off with. This is a rather negative, sarcastic cartoon mocking the American ideals that anyone can aspire to anything they want, when in reality, people must have connections.
This picture came from the Denver Post: 
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