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In our country today we enjoy certain rights to get the word of the people out for all to hear by the use of information technology. This information technology is our internet and the venue that some people choose to express this out to freedom of speech is through the popular internet site of www.youtube.com. The political cartoon that I will be discussing is title “The Economy 2009: The Humor and President Obama.” The publishers of this cartoon have taken the light hearted route of a cartoon to turn it into something of just the opposite. They are taking a devastating turn of an events of our economy and made it to be somewhat as some would say humorous and light hearted by using cartoons and comic strips. Some of this major issues that have been brought up in this political cartoon is the stock market with its downfalls, the issue with the value of the dollar, the gas crisis with its rise and fall, the unemployment problems, and issues with banks with money and getting a loan. This cartoon brings up some of the major issues in the past year. It is does not fully explain, but touches on them to get people involved. Through technology and knowledge the publisher of this political cartoon has found a way to produce a quite clear way to inform the masses about what is going on in our world with a different spin. I think it is very intelligent because it informs, gets people thinking, it is not dry and it is interesting. This is a venue that get people interested and involved that is reaching out to a new demographic.