http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/pccartoons/archives/beeler.asp?Action=GetImage

This cartoon shows Obama and a person representing the recession each holding one leg of Uncle Sam (the American public), who is positioned to look like a wishbone. This means that in his attempts to lead the nation out of recession, the best Obama really has is hope, and in the cartoon, he doesn't look very confident. It also shows that however this ends up, in the short term, Americans are in for a very hard time. It could also mean that no matter what Obama does, he can only take a portion of Americans out of the recession, and hopefully it will be a majority.