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What to do about a president he actually likes? Oliphant (in part through his famous little penguin in the corner) has watched, and lampooned, quite a few through the years: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and on through George W. Bush.
Liking this cast of characters is not a problem he's had much experience with. It's certainly not a problem the Australian native and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has dealt with in the past eight years in "my country of choice."
"I came here in 1964, in the midst of Johnson -- (Barry) Goldwater, the whole mess that was defining the world," he said, in a gentle Australian lilt that has faded over 44 years in the U.S. "I thought at the time I liked Johnson. It's not a problem I've had since. Until now."
While liking a new president might not seem to be a serious problem for most people, it is for a political cartoonist. The New York Times has called Oliphant "the most influential cartoonist working today."
Which, he knows, means he's now required to make fun of Obama, to poke at his weaknesses, to note his feet of clay and ...
"I'm now trying to deal with the dilemma of liking the new guy," Oliphant notes, over a glass of white wine, his laughter shaking a mane of gray hair. "Cartoonists need villains. The Bush years were better than the Nixon years, professionally."
He admits that while he likes Obama, the professional side of him was left mourning the John McCain loss: "I suffered a grievous injury, losing Sarah Palin so soon."
Oliphant, 74, continues to crank out cartoon commentary three times a week. He finds solace in knowing that his problems are shared by cartoonists and comedians across the country. And that this problem won't last long.
"Sadly, I've learned that all I have to do is wait and it will happen, automatically," he said. "With every politician, there's a honeymoon period. I just have to wait for that to end. It always ends."
Until then?
"Well, thank God for those big ears."
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