The winner:
"I want . . . darn! The teleprompter broke again!"
-- Mike Tuggle of Charlotte
The runners-up:
"I want YOU to raise the debt ceiling."
-- Scott Humphrey, Charlotte
"I want YOU to stop watching Fox News!"
-- Charleen Bolt, Charlotte
"I want YOU to think I have a clue about what I'm doing!"
-- Steve Meckler, Charlotte
"I want YOU to remember the Navy Seals and ignore everything else!"
-- Brent Sheppard, Morganton
"I want YOU to want me."
-- John Bradey, Matthews
Thank you for all your entries. Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received:
"It's stars and gripes forever."
"I want your corporate jet."
"I want your money."
"I want your taxes."
"I want you to start spending!
"I want YOU to tell me what you want to hear."
"It's all about independents!"
"I'll haunt you!"
“Only You Can Prevent My Second Term.”
"I want YOU to ignore the facts."
"I want YOU to get me out of this mess!"
"I must be at the wrong tea party."
"I blame YOU!"
"I want YOU -- but not until 2012."
As usual, feel free to discuss any of this in our "Comments" section. Just click the blue link below this post and add your observations or additional captions!
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He is the President of the USA in a time of crisis and this is the "week of the Fourth" yet 95% of the "best" selections are negatives! Questions: Who's doing the "selecting"? Why so few positives?
Posted by: Charles Randall | July 08, 2011 at 10:08 AM
The selectors are the same grizzled bunch who also provoke howls of outrage when the "best" selections reflect negatively on the Republicans.
Posted by: Kevin Siers | July 08, 2011 at 01:44 PM
Good one, Mike! Wish I'd thought of it.
Posted by: Bill McGloughlin | July 08, 2011 at 02:53 PM
Kevin, your contests are my favorite pastime! I have missed entering very few since the very first one.
What concerned me was the cartoon, while thought provoking, was rather neutral and as capable of positive response as negative response yet those selected as "best" ones were overwhelmingly negative!Just asking and waiting for the Monday morning cartoon!! It makes my oatmeal seem like a real breakfast!
Posted by: Charles Randall | July 08, 2011 at 03:20 PM
Charlie Rangel, Mr Siers is doing an excellent job with his cartoons. He's doing it the best way possible, mixing both sides of the political line. Any president in office will have negative and positive humor poked at them. That is why this is America, it is the freedom for all to express themselves in either way, even on the 4th. Don't worry, you'll have your Obama loving cartoon soon I'm sure.
Posted by: Joe Johnson | July 09, 2011 at 04:31 PM
I think it's the nature of editorial cartoons in general: humor is most always at someone's expense. When we feature Democrats in the captionless cartoons, they get mostly brickbats thrown at them. The "negative" captions far outnumber the "positive" ones, and are often more lively. It's the exact same situation when we feature a Republican. So when Obama is the 'star' of the cartoon, you're more likely to see negative captions about Obama, and when it's Palin, for instance, you're going to see mostly negative comments about her. And I don't think it's purely ideological, because I see the names of almost all the folks sending caption entries, and negative Democrat ones and the negative Republican ones are often by the same folks.
Posted by: Kevin Siers | July 09, 2011 at 08:43 PM
These captions had me rolling on the floor! You are great at what you do Kevin Siers. Keep up the great work!
Posted by: Alex | August 05, 2011 at 07:33 PM