Political Cartoon 2

•  The caption of this political cartoon is “Khadafi Shows His Strength Color.”  This phrase, along with the picture expresses that the color blood red is a common factor in Khadafi’s everyday life. 
•   Important things in this cartoon are Khadafi, the oil barrel barbell, the puddle of blood, and the military pins on Khadafi’s undershirt.  I think the artist is portraying Khadafi doing his daily workout, and the fact that he is standing in blood and is unaffected by it. 
• Khadafi is shown standing in blood lifting a barbell. The weights on the bar are barrels of oil.
• Khadafi and the Libya government are engaged in a civil war: citizens vs. the government.  This cartoon shows Khadafi working out, staying in shape for upcoming events.  He is okay with the bloodshed that is currently occurring on their soil.   There isn’t a certain ideology that is expressed in this cartoon, the U.S. as a whole doesn’t support Khadafi. 
• This cartoon represents a big controversy that is currently occurring in Libya.  We talk about Libya in class. 
•         I found this cartoon on http://cartoonblog.msnbc.msn.com/ and was published on March 3, 2011.