political cartoon #5

         In this cartoon, George Bush is passing torches to Barack Obama.  George Bush says "the torch are passed!".  On the torches are words like "mideast, climate change", and "economy".  George Bush is wearing clothes that are tattered and worn out, while Obama is wear clothes that seem new and neat. 
        The torches are symbolic of problems that the President has to deal with, such as the middle east, climate change, and the economy.  The reason the problems are portrayed as torches is because it shows that the former president is "passing" the problems onto the new president, so to speak.  The clothes that both George Bush and Barack Obama are wearing are also symbolic.  George W. Bush's clothes are worn out because he has had to deal with these problems for a while now, while Barack Obama's clothes are all nice and neat because he hasn't had to deal with these problems for that long yet.
       The message that the artist is trying to get across in this cartoon is that George Bush, while President of the United States, has made alot of problems that Obama is having to deal with now.