Passing the Torch Cartoon

This political cartoon describes what is happening to our legislative branch now.  More specifically, our president.  The two men in this image represent our former President George W. Bush and our current President Barrack Obama.  President George W. Bush is our former president and is passing the torch, that is in the form the burning earth.  The burning earth is a representation of how bad our economy was when President George W. Bush was in office.  He is thus passing all of those problems that he himself creating towards our country to our new president.  This causes problems for our curent president because he will be trying to correct the old presidents problems instead of trying to create change like he set out to complete.  I believe that the U.S is in the form of the earth because not only does he have problems to correct in his own country, but he also has national problems to deal with.  Such as, the war in Iraq and the issues with illegal immigrants.