http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/snl-situation-room-obama-stand-up_n_862372.html

This video is showing that Obama used the news of killing Osama Bin Laden as his new catch phrase and escape to avoid addressing the issues at hand currently in the United States. The idea that killing Bin Laden will lead him to his next term as president rather than his accomplishments while in office. While many people can look at his term and evaluate what his pros and cons truly are, other will look at this one event and it will lead them into making a decision based off of an irrelevant induced patriotic stimulus. The news of Bin Laden’s death was alive in the media but this clip generalizes the idea that Obama lived on the news and spoke of nothing more than this one event. This could become a factor in the 2012 presidential election and may drive some undecided voters in favor of Obama.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-12-2012/indecision-2012---black-to-the-future

This video focuses on the idea of Newt Gingrich running a campaign and the idea that polls do not reflect proportionately and accurately the outcome of the election itself. In the beginning of the clip the idea that Newt was ahead in the poll and yet he came in fourth both times. This demonstrates the differences in winning a poll and in fact winning the election. Polls can be misleading and this is just a satirical example of the misleading information they can yield. The video then goes into Newt’s comment against African Americans and portrays it as a racist comment from a republican. Newt defends his comment but the generalization is clear that Newt believes that they are the majority receiving food stamps instead of getting pay checks.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/99945/saturday-night-live-obama-address

In this video the idea that Obama has not done anything with our economy since taking office is the main theme. The video focuses on his promises before taking office and the check chart shows how much of it he has actually accomplished. The video poses that Obama has not done anything at all to stimulate or boost our economy. Making jokes that he could not even get the Olympics in Chicago but he can stimulate Japans economy by cash for clunkers. This is the main theme of the GOP race right now, finding someone that will replace Obama because he does not get anything done and he’s more involved with social media and attention rather than the economy and fulfilling the promises he made before he was seeking a second term.

This cartoon shows the satire behind republicans and Obama. When Obama puts forth a stimulus plan and it is not approved, mainly due to the high majority of republicans that vote against passing the bill simply because Obama is a democrat, the republicans celebrate as if they scored a touchdown.  The idea that republicans are acting as if the economy is just a football game and scoring is just beating Obama. This will be important in the upcoming election in determining the right path to reform our economy. If republicans do not want to work with a democrat nothing may change in terms of reform and if a republican takes office there could be drastic changes in our economy.

In this cartoon the idea of hypocrisy within the republican party with moral standards is represented by vault jumping. The idea of the setting the bar as literally setting a bar of moral standards at different height and living up to the parties expectations. The democrats, constantly being criticized for setting low moral standards yet the republicans set the bar high and fail to meet them. The idea expressed that democrats are constantly criticized for moral values by republicans is apparent. This is an issue with the republican GOP race, finding a candidate willing and able to contend with Obama and some of the issues that will become of high importance for both parties is the issues of moral values.

The image here is showing the Supreme Court engraving standards of American justice and law into stone, such as sending someone to war or killing them yet Obama is asking to pass the healthcare reform and the court is saying that is too much to ask. The satire behind this cartoon is the fact that as Americans we accept certain norms into our society such as the draft, eminent domain, and exaction but when it comes to buying healthcare we are opposed because we feel as though it infringes upon our rights. The idea that going too far is making people buy healthcare but yet we don’t think being able to send someone to death is a violation of human rights. This is important to me personally because growing up in a bad economy I will be presented with difficult decisions and expenses. Healthcare will be an important step in my life and having to pay for it will be a major expense. So weather its free or mandated to have I will eventually be presented with the issue of healthcare.

This image displays the Supreme Court with two sayings outside engraved on the statues. Money is speech and corporations are people. The supreme court ruled that money is your speech and basically cooperation’s can give and endorse their candidate of choice by providing them with as much money as they want because it’s their right under the 1^st amendment, freedom of speech and that money is their speech in this situation. The idea may seem ludicrous to people that do not have money or large amounts of money to give to their candidate because who is to say someone with more money has a greater level of speech. If everyone is equal than why is it okay for someone to say more or have more of a say based on the amount of money they have. The idea that corporations are people may seem odd as well because corporations will never be representative of an individual, rather they will represent the best interest of their profits and what will be best or who will be best for their company to succeed.