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Ben Archer, I share with you the feeling that there's something not right with the cartoon.

BA, you are way off the topic now, but that quote from AS is beautiful. We should not let the ugly and pitiful mar our conception of man and of human potential. That tone is flawless. Concerning the comic in the OP, I think that one should not read more into it than is there. It takes the zeit geist of "knockout" and associates that with Obamacare. Obamacare has surprized gullible Americans, hitting them upside the head unexpectedly. Of course, the analogy is not perfect. Obama let congress write the law. He probably didn't know what was in it until after it was passed. (Imagine Obama b-slapping himself.) Knowing that this is to be his legacy, he has to make the best of it. Unfortunately, like most mystics, he does not know what to do. He left the details to Sebelius and others. (Imagine Obama passing the Tarot deck to her.) A mystic like Sebelius didn't know what to do but to sign no-bid contracts to administration cronies. (Imagine Uncle Sam taking kick backs and ruling over a banana republic.) Now, all the mystical promises Obama made are turning out false. He probably meant every word, but he is a mystic. Things are supposed to happen by whim. When they don't, even he is surprised. He just can't admit that he was wrong since he views himself as morally superior. (Imagine Obama as Jim Jones passing the KoolAid and surprizing even himself when he turns the gun on himself in the end.) Mystics like Obama are the Jim Jones' of the world. It is right to condemn him and his ilk. Identification, evaluation, response-this is the human mode of cognition. I identify Obama as a narcissistic mystic, a very dangerous combination. What should be our response? To play nice?

I think that it is a matter of degree. Mass murder is pure, stark evil that is on another level than Obamacare or even an evil game that can result in the death of innocent people. You could say the same about Obamacare and knockout, but I think they are comparable for the purposes of comparing the two motives. Someone who thinks Obama isn't evil, but that he's simply a misguided do-gooder could fairly disagree. Keep in mind that the cartoon shows Obama punching Uncle Sam. It would be different if it showed him having beaten a random person to death.