Cartooning in Real Time

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Joel Pett Lexington Herald-LeaderMay 10, 2012 EditorialCartoonists.com

President Obama's interview for today's Good Morning America in which he came out in favor of marriage equality for both same-sex and dual-sex couples caught more than one editorial cartoonist off guard. Here's how the Lexington Herald Leader's Joel Pett handled it:

Here's how it played out in a conversation I was having on Facebook yesterday afternoon (names have been smudged to protect the friendship):

The 2009 cartoon I had linked to, incidentally, was this one drawn when the Obama administration had filed a brief defending the "Defense of Marriage" Act in the courts.

And some people still don't believe in evolution!