Car Crash Meme Bubbles Back For a Moment

It's been a long time since a good car wreck metaphor in a cartoon. I wonder why. Of course I am not counting the Tiger Woods cartoons.

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The meme has morphed slightly. Now instead of the car wreck, it is the airliner/birds/ditching theme. The "America as car wreck" theme was occurring at the same time as the jet crashing into the Hudson cartoons but for the last couple of weeks it's been nothing but jets and the geese have become flying elephants:





I've also been seeing a lot of Titanic themed cartoons but they seem a bit strained to me. Too many people escaped the sinking of the Titanic to be similar to what's happening financially in this country.

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The Car Wreck Meme

Over the last few weeks, as I read more cartoons per day than is probably healthy, I have seen a single theme repeated more than any other I remember. It is really common for five to ten editorial cartoons or three or four daily strips to share a theme over a week or two but this is something else all together. If I were to add in all the "Bush hands disaster to Obama" themed cartoons the number would be hundreds. So here I present a small collection of Obama or the American people being given a car (or other vehicle) that is about to crash or has been wrecked. Perhaps a senseless waste of time or perhaps it says something deep about our collective soul. I'm going with the waste of time...

















These cartoons come from scanning my cartoon sources since 12-31-08. I'm sure I've missed some.

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