Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

This is one in a long series of posts which tend to crop up at times during which political people are engaged in building their public profiles. I imagine the New Yorker will be just delighted with the semi-hysterical response their mgazine cover which features both Othe Obama's in mildly satirical poses, has got.

The would-be president, who likes to be compared to JFK - John Kennedy - won't be too unhappy either. Why? Because it allows him to define what he clearly isn't. And he is doing this early, well ahead of the John MCCain's Republican attack dogs of the fall.

Clip from Channel 4 News

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Hack Cartoons sketchbook caricature of the Senator from Illinois and candidate for the Democratic party nomination as President of the USA, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
UPDATE: He's also finding it is hard work being a front runner in any contest.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The dead heat between Clinton and Obama is becominga real problem for the Democratic party in its efforts to win the presidency. Click the picture or see it published here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Well, Hillary Clinton appears to have off staved the doomsayers* for another day - and now it's Barak Obama's turn to be unhappy. I can't help feeling the real problem the Democratic party has is that it does not know who is most likely to beat John McCain in the autumn. Anyone got a clue about that?
*including me

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

It's beginning to look like the end of the Clinton affairs isn't it? I thought Hillary would get the Democratic nomination and perhaps she still might, but it does seem to be a perhaps now. Obama has a clear momentum and if she can't win large numbers of delegates in Texas and Ohio on March 4th - and win well, I'd say we are looking at a Obama-McCain race in the autumn. I fear, if that happens the head-to-head will end up being a referendum on race and age, but it will make a change from gender issues. I wonder sometimes whether all female political candidates in America would fare better if they all automatically looked and behaved like the Neo-Con eccentric Ann Coulter - blonde, leggy and without an obviously coherent thought or opinion in their heads.

Published by Channel 4 News.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Well after all that, nothing is decided at all. It looks to have been a costly night for the Billaries for despite confident and widely publicised expectations, they have not knocked Obama out of the race for the Democratic nomination. They can't be happy about that, and if the stories about the amount of telephone polling Hillary's campaign used in the last few days are true, she must have used a lot of money to try and fight the momentum Obama had clearly developed. For Obama's part, he must be disappointed he didn't do better yet. The Republican race looks clearer and has clarified the split in their ranks, Mike Huckabee, the former preacher did well in the south, where I used to live, and this seems to have hurt the wealthy Mitt Romney's chances. So, John McCain it looks to be. (I wonder how Ming Campbell feels about the apparent attitudes to John McCain's age?) There is an updated Channel 4 News animation here.
UPDATED:
Wonkette has a great description of the night as a pretty much a grim $100-million stalemate.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Published on America's Super Tuesday. Or, click the picture.
UPDATED: All about Hillary and all about Barack.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Who’d really want to be idolised? Published here and here.
9th January 2008

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Well, the pollsters and the pundits got it all wrong, she won, if rather more closely than she would have imagined a fortnight ago. And that makes the race for the Democratic nomination very interesting and harder to call. McCain won for the Republican ticket. I think there's going to be a game of chicken for each party about guessing who their candidate is going to be fighting against for the actual presidential contest. Artwork coming soon...
9th January 2008

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

I lived in a America for a while when I was younger and I have had a serious interest in how the place is run ever since. My time there coincided with Bill Clinton's attempts to become President of the United States.

It was an real education for me in how elections and the selling of any candidate are undertaken. The positioning of Clinton's campaign about George Bush senior, the incumbent president of the time, was wonderfully accurate, and of course, highly successful. The Clinton campaign successfully negated Bush's trump card of 'experience' and incumbency by pointing up his 'cold' personality and inability to appear to listen to people convincingly. As this famous clip shows, Bush was certainly not naturally chatty or charming in his dealings in the media or people. This clip really highlighted it, as he completely failed to hear or connect with the question the lady asked. Stick with the film and then watch how Clinton deals with it. Particularly watch the body language he deploys as he talks and listens. I imagine Barack Obama's team have been watching a lot of these old clips too because they appear to be pulling off a similar trick in projecting the youthful and people-oriented Obama against against the clever but stumbling and cold Hillary Clinton now.

The great cartoonist Steve Brodner has an interesting interpretation of what is happening to Hillary right now, right here too - all courtesy of The New Yorker.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

It was indeed a bad day for Hillary Clinton. Published above and here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

A sketchbook pencil and wash cartoon caricature of Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton. I wonder whether it will end up being a happy new year for the first woman of the clan?

Matt Buck’s animated drawings