I am the most powerful man in the world
Of the American cartoonists who excoriate President George Bush, it would be hard to find one who exceeds Ted Rall in venom. Among left-wing cartoonists contempt for Bush is common, but what grips Rall is more akin to hatred. Using a crude drawing style, he makes no effort to achieve a convincing likeness of the president, instead portraying him as a goggle-eyed ogre with a mouthful of fangs, a drooling oaf or a half-crazed fanatic -- sometimes all three in the same cartoon!
Rall's cartoons normally tell a story in several frames, complete with title, here "The Day He Became Generalissimo No Mojo". In English "generalissimo" is a comically exaggerated rank, the sort of thing only an insecure third-world military dictator of fascist proclivities would hanker after. And the nonsense name "No Mojo" does indeed suggest some barbaric potentate, though it is actually just a respelling of "No more, Joe!" (meaning something like "You've reached your limit, man!") as a black hiphop singer might pronounce it.
President George W. Bush (notice the W above the bed -- "W" is a disparaging nickname for the president among his critics) awakens to enjoy another day of "absolute power". His "yee-ha!" is something an excited Texas cowboy might shout. Oddly, lying next to Bush is not his wife Laura but a leaking bottle of vodka; Rall depicts Bush, a reformed alcoholic, as a booze-soaked degenerate.
Alas, the prez①is in for②disappointment. Each of his knavish ambitions for the day is thwarted by one or the other of his assistants. Start another war -- in Iran, say? "Rummy", i.e. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, nixes that idea. Another round of tax cuts for rich friends? The treasury is empty and budget deficits tower. Name more "psychos" like John Bolton to prestigious positions? No more slots to fill. Get rid of America's social security system? Bush is sinking in the opinion polls already.
By the end of the day the president is weeping tears of frustration. "But I'm the most powerful man in the world!!!" he cries, unable to believe he can have been reduced to such impotence. "Of course you are," another advisor reassures him, and then orders him to bed like an impatient parent. From Rall's left-wing perspective, Bush is no leader: instead he is a puppet controlled by the corporate interests that Rall believes got Bush elected in 2000 and 2004. 老外直言：谁是美国最有权的人(图)
漫画图解：
1 他当上总司令NoMojo的日子
2 又是一个我拥有绝对权力的一天！耶哈！
3 拉米，咱们发动另一场战争吧！
4 不行，兵力不足了。
5 我们将把更多的税款送给我们富有的朋友！
6 不行，我们没钱啦！
7 提名让精神变态者当大官吧！
8 你没有空缺恩赐别人了。
9 我们要砍掉社会保障！
10 没人支持了。
11 但我是这世上最强有力的人啊！
12 你当然是喽，睡觉去！
作者：美国社会热点/名家漫画赏析 WDWhite(美)
在批评布什总统的美国漫画家当中，很难找到比泰德·拉尔更咬牙切齿的了。在左翼漫画家中，对布什不敬是很普遍的，但比敌意更甚的意识强烈影响着拉尔。拉尔运用了粗犷的绘画风格，并非着力于将这位总统画得令人信服地像其本人，而是把他画成一个满口尖牙瞪着双眼的怪物，一个流着口水的呆子，或是几近疯癫的狂热分子——有时候这三种形象会同时出现在一幅漫画中。
拉尔的漫画通常是用几格加上标题来讲述一个故事。这幅漫画的标题是“他成为总司令NoMojo的日子”。在英语中，Generalissimo，总司令，大元帅，统帅，是对官阶的一种具有诙谐语气的夸张说法，只是第三世界中那些感觉前途未卜的军事独裁者才渴望的头衔，他们都有法西斯倾向。而无任何意义的名字NoMojo暗示布什是野蛮的当权者，虽说实际上该词是“Nomore,Joe”(意思是“你已经走到头了，伙计”)的又一种拼写，黑人嘻哈音乐歌手会把“Nomore,Joe”唱成“NoMojo”。
乔治·W·布什总统(请注意床上方的字母W，W是批评布什总统的人对他的轻蔑绰号)一觉醒来开始享受又一个拥有“绝对权力”的一天。他说的“yee-ha”，是兴奋的得州牛仔常喊出的话。但奇怪的是，躺在布什旁边的不是妻子劳拉，而是一瓶正往外漏的伏特加酒。拉尔把布什——一个曾经酗酒但已经改过自新的人，描绘成了沉溺于酒中的堕落者。
唉，这位总统要经历失望了。一天中他的每一个不正当“雄心”都被这个或那个助手所阻拦。比如说，在伊朗再发动一次战争？拉米，也就是国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德，他不同意这个想法。想为富人朋友再来一轮减税？国库已经空了，预算赤字已经高如楼塔。再把更多的像伯尔顿那样的精神变态者任命到显赫职位上吗？没有待补的空缺啦。除掉美国社会保险体系吗？在民意调查中布什已经在走下坡路了。
在这一天的最后，这位总统落下伤心之泪，“可我是世界上最有权力的人啊！”他哭道，不能相信自己已经变得如此虚弱。“你当然是最有权力的人。”另一位幕僚为他鼓劲，然后命令他去睡觉，语气就像一位不耐烦的家长。从拉尔的左翼观点看来，布什根本不是一位领导者，而是受财团利益控制的一个木偶，拉尔相信，大财团利益使布什赢得了2000年和2004年的大选。 | 
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