The “Making” of a Politician
By LisaB on July 13, 2008 at 9:00 PM in Alice Palmer, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, David Axelrod, Democratic Party
Got your attention? While the cover of this issue of the New Yorker will likely be the topic of countless blogs and tv spots tomorrow, don’t miss the article.
It is a fascinating piece on Obama’s early years in Illinois politics. Seems like some of his early supporters have buyer’s remorse. Many people have questioned how Obama could rise so quickly in Chicago politics. This article attempts to trace his rise and finds some interesting parallels to this year’s presidential race.
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In a particularly interesting bit, the article tells how Obama looked to redraw the district he represented in Illinois after losing the congressional race to Bobby Rush.
. . . Obama began working on his “ideal map.” Corrigan remembers two things about the district that he and Obama drew. First, it retained Obama’s Hyde Park base—he had managed to beat Rush in Hyde Park—then swooped upward along the lakefront and toward downtown. By the end of the final redistricting process, his new district bore little resemblance to his old one. Rather than jutting far to the west, like a long thin dagger, into a swath of poor black neighborhoods of bungalow homes, Obama’s map now shot north, encompassing about half of the Loop, whose southern portion was beginning to be transformed by developers like Tony Rezko, and stretched far up Michigan Avenue and into the Gold Coast, covering much of the city’s economic heart, its main retail thoroughfares, and its finest museums, parks, skyscrapers, and lakefront apartment buildings. African-Americans still were a majority, and the map contained some of the poorest sections of Chicago, but Obama’s new district was wealthier, whiter, more Jewish, less blue-collar, and better educated. It also included one of the highest concentrations of Republicans in Chicago.
“It was a radical change,” Corrigan said. The new district was a natural fit for the candidate that Obama was in the process of becoming. “He saw that when we were doing fund-raisers in the Rush campaign his appeal to, quite frankly, young white professionals was dramatic.”
While Obama’s current race for president portrays him as a black man running against white privilege and against long odds, Obama’s base has always been mainly upper-class whites. And he has always known this.
Also interesting is Obama’s current use of surrogates and un-official campaign advisors. As some of these people are now under the bus, the story has always been that they spoke out of turn or didn’t represent Obama’s real position or that Obama no longer “knew” these people. In that sense, Obama is seen as removed from some of the lower aspects of politicking. But in this article, the author asserts:
Obama also became more of a strategist, someone increasingly comfortable discussing the finer points of polls, message, and fund-raising. According to his friends, Obama does not delegate campaign planning.
I find this curious as well, because one of the hallmarks of the Obama campaign to date is its incoherence. Obama says one thing and his handlers say “what he meant was. . . ” Everyone contradicts everyone else, with the end point being no one knows where Obama really stands on much of anything. Given all of Obama’s “present” votes and non-appearance at votes, it feels as if the “fog of information” is really a campaign tactic. If you can’t be pinned down, you can’t be held accountable and you get to claim outcomes after the fact. If you don’t actually vote on something, you can easily claim to have been for or against it all along, with no penalty for the slight of hand.
Another interesting point not covered in the MSM is Obama’s history with the troubled administration of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. Although Tony Rezko links the two men, Obama has kept his distance. Recently though, Rahm Emanuel noted that Obama and he worked for Blagojevich’s campaign.
That year, he gained his first high-level experience in a statewide campaign when he advised the victorious gubernatorial candidate Rod Blagojevich, another politician with a funny name and a message of reform. Rahm Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago and a friend of Obama’s, told me that he, Obama, David Wilhelm, who was Blagojevich’s campaign co-chair, and another Blagojevich aide were the top strategists of Blagojevich’s victory. He and Obama “participated in a small group that met weekly when Rod was running for governor,” Emanuel said. “We basically laid out the general election, Barack and I and these two.” A spokesman for Blagojevich confirmed Emanuel’s account, although David Wilhelm, who now works for Obama, said that Emanuel had overstated Obama’s role. “There was an advisory council that was inclusive of Rahm and Barack but not limited to them,” Wilhelm said, and he disputed the notion that Obama was “an architect or one of the principal strategists.”
It’s important to note that the Obama campaign has since claimed Emanual’s memory on this issue is faulty. Must be a problem there.
As the presidential race continues, the Obama campaign continues to tout his achievements in the state senate as examples of his ability to govern and help his constituents. As many people know by now, this record is spotty. The New Yorker’s take on this period is clear.
In the State Senate, Jones [an important politician in Illinois] did something even more important for Obama. He pushed him forward as the key sponsor of some of the Party’s most important legislation, even though the move did not sit well with some colleagues who had plugged away in the minority on bills that Obama now championed as part of the majority. “Because he had been in the minority, Barack didn’t have a legislative record to run on, and there was a buildup of all these great ideas that the Republicans kept in the rules committee when they were in the majority,” Burns said. “Jones basically gave Obama the space to do what Obama wanted to do. Emil made it clear to people that it would be good for them.” Burns, who at that point was working for Jones, was assigned to keep an eye on Obama’s floor votes, which, because he was a Senate candidate, would be under closer scrutiny. The Obama-Jones alliance worked. In one year, 2003, Obama passed much of the legislation, including bills on racial profiling, death-penalty reform, and expanded health insurance for children, that he highlighted in his Senate campaign.
Interesting stuff indeed. Still, the core of Obama as a politician is muddy on the national scene. His supporters claim he is a person not “of the system” who practices “transformational politics.” Here at NoQuarter, we’ve been saying this is not the case. The New Yorker says the same thing.
Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them. When he was a community organizer, he channelled his work through Chicago’s churches, because they were the main bases of power on the South Side. He was an agnostic when he started, and the work led him to become a practicing Christian. At Harvard, he won the presidency of the Law Review by appealing to the conservatives on the selection panel. In Springfield, rather than challenge the Old Guard Democratic leaders, Obama built a mutually beneficial relationship with them. “You have the power to make a United States senator,” he told Emil Jones in 2003. In his downtime, he played poker with lobbyists and Republican lawmakers. In Washington, he has been a cautious senator and, when he arrived, made a point of not defining himself as an opponent of the Iraq war.
In addition to this, the New Yorker notes that Obama has alienated past supporters by his tendency to switch positions. Sound familiar?
Obama’s establishment inclinations have alienated some old friends. During the 2004 Senate primary, Obama sometimes reminded voters of his anti-machine credentials, but at the same time he shrewdly wrote to Mayor Daley’s brother, William, who had backed one of Obama’s primary opponents, asking for his support if he won the primary. As he outgrew the provincial politics of Hyde Park, he became closer to the Mayor, and this accommodation, as well as his unwillingness to condemn the corruption scandals ensnaring Daley and Blagojevich, both of whom he supported for reëlection, have some of his original supporters feeling alienated and angry.
Deja vu, much?
The title of this article is “Making It.” OK. But I think this story is more like the MTV show “Made” where young people are given a couple of weeks to learn something hard to do in order to “become” something they dream of, like the video gamer who was “made” into a martial artist. While you can’t help admire the pluck and effort of these young people, you still know that a video gamer doesn’t become Jackie Chan in a few weeks of hard work. It’s artificial. Whatever skills the gamer gets won’t be backed up by years of practice or depth of knowledge.
And while Barack Obama has, arguably, put in a few years of work in politics, his rise and experience suggest to me someone who has been “made.” There’s just no “there” there.
This article is definitely worth the read. In addition to the few bits I’ve highlighted are insights about Obama’s choice of church and Michelle Obama’s political connections.
UPDATE FROM LARRY JOHNSON: We need to stop with calling Michele Obama “Ho”bama. Not acceptable. I don’t want any woman being called a demeaning name, even the ones we aren’t too fond of.
It’s amazing how much more information is being discovered about Obama. I can see why some democrats are having “buyers remorse”. Obama is a house of cards. He’s dangerous and not fit to lead this great nation.
God Bless America…….because Obama’s mentor damns it.
Send Jesse a knife.
http://lezident.com
yeah, lezident.
just sent jesse a dull knife.
Why you talking to yourself?
Please send a message to the NYer to support the artist of the cover page. Many blogers are attaching the artist and the NYer for publishing it.
http://www.newyorker.com/contact/letterToEditor
Will do…and I will be saving this cover when mine arrives!
Thank you so much for your suggestion that we show support for the cartoonist; and for providing the link. I anticipate an onslaught from racist vigilantes. Couldn’t read the cartoonist’s name; hope she or he is black. Color has always pulled my feet out of the fire in similar situations. (Wouldn’t it be a riot if Aaron McGruder had something to do with this?)
So I went to Huff&Puff…big mistake. The comments were so hilarious I responded about a half dozen times.
Of course all my remarks were censored. Tell me again Susan and Larry why we don’t return the favor and delete the Bots from our site?
They’re a waste of energy.
I love this cover. The look on Barack’s face is priceless.
The freedom of speech is a core component of the Liberal Agenda
Satire only works when its believable — and this is TOTALLY BELIEVABLE. Thank you New Yorker for a job well done.
Thanks, WRY…I have been banned from HUFF&Puff, too, for beeing too….pro-Democratic, that is too ‘pro-Hillary’! Their amazing stupidity is only surpassed by their phenomenal dictatorial bias! Shame on these Politburo comissars! I fully agree that Larry Johnson should clean up the site from Obamabots. But, periodically, when they get feeling low, and start launching their attacks and their claws come out….well….we can always ask Rev. Jesse to file them! Surely, sweetie won’t mind!
They actually made him look more handsome than he is. The only thing they got right were those ears. The jaw was accentuated to look squarer, Clinton’s jaw, actually. Obama’s nose is perfectly straight. No bump there. The lips are not so full. There are certain physical characteristics that Presidents have in common. It’s like the Golden Mean. This is meant to make people feel ashamed of themselves for ever thinking he was a leftist and a radical. Maybe I’m reading too much into this.
Thank you, Nancy.
I sent an e-mail to the addy. I hope everyone will. We need to encourage any magazine or reporter or cartoonist who has the courage to treat all candidates fairly. So far, I’ve seen most MSM reporters scared to death to treat Obama the same as they even treat the President of the U.S. — that is shameful, imo.
I think you’re missing the point of my New Yorker cover, which is meant as satire of the fear mongering being used by sites like No Quarter. But by all means go ahead and donate money!
Oh Barry sweetie, we didn’t miss the point did we hon? And we’d love for your to donate from your blogger’s 7.00/hr to help The Cause. Maybe you could send a few bucks to Trinity. They need them for their CD archives…new series on How Obama lost his Groove and Found it in the New Yorker.
And just get over it, sweetie. No big deal.
love,
Puma NoBama
c/o Odinga’s Sharia law Library
Nairobi
No wonder the image of Americans worldwide is one of gut-instinct violence, not humane reasoning.
Whoa that really is the cover?????
It’s a momento from “spring break”.
Holy Cr*p!! If that is the truly the cover team Obama is gonna have coniption fits BIGTIME!
Is that the MSM worm begining to turn? I know the old adage that they like to build ‘em just to tear “em down, but that is amazing!
Think about What Michelle is gonna do.
How the f*ck could they all have missed it?
You have 3 groups in the obama mix:
1)The established pols who already KNOW all about barackula, but don’t care…they smell money
2)The young stupid ones who are “just now becoming interested in politics”
3)Casual democrats
CLINTONITES CAN ONLY SAY “TOLD YOU SO”
And then there are the Republicans who are laughing their butts off trying to figure how they got so lucky in a year the Democratic candidate should be at least 20% ahead in the polls of the Republican candidate at this point.
Um, this info has been available.
For instance, this bit was written up in a Texas newspaper before the primary there, by a Chicago reporter who had long covered Obama…and whom Obama called up and SCREAMED at for writing this up:
The New Yorker’s take on this period is clear.
In the State Senate, Jones [an important politician in Illinois] did something even more important for Obama. He pushed him forward as the key sponsor of some of the Party’s most important legislation, even though the move did not sit well with some colleagues who had plugged away in the minority on bills that Obama now championed as part of the majority.
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Obama’s a fraud and he’s absolutely cool with whatever it takes to gain power….which is why his camp accused Hillary of that.
Emil Jones even had others write the legislation for Obama to put his name on.
I can’t help but think this orchestration’s intent is to get rid of Peter Fitzgerald who is chasing the Rezko trail to Blago with the eventual target being the Daley machine. Don’t for a moment think that Daley is just a Mayor. The machine has been manipulating national politics fo a long, long time. Can anyone say Nixon vs Kennedy?
Here’s the Houston Press Story:
Barack Obama and Me, by Todd Spivak
http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/
It’s been out since February 28. Nobody was listening.
I was listening and paying attention!
http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/2008/07/was-geraldine-ferraro-right-march-12-08.html
http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/2008/07/politics-of-old-march-1-08.html
It is quite typical for the focus by the media to be on the cover of the New Yorker, and not the content. The cover is obviously satire, but the content is obviously not flattering.
When will the media discuss the content?
hmmm…I gonna go out on a limb here and guess….never! I read that same story too. In fact, I think the writer himself may have posted an exerpt right here on NQ in a comment section. That story neeeds to be front page (sans cartoon) on the NYT, LA Times and every major newspaper. (I’ve given up on CNN, MSNBC, etc)
Another way to show support is to buy the magazine! Money talks!
If they see the sales of this magazine soar, the MSM will jump on the wagon and start to cover the same type of stories - they want their cut to!
You folks weren’t listening at all to Obama were you? His pitch was always that he could get folks together, which means you have to compromise. If you thought he was never going to compromise, then you weren’t paying attention.
But he’s a new kind of politician. NOT!
LOL, that’s priceless, suddenly it’s OUR fault that he’s a flip-flopping, backstabbing, arrogant, elitist Chicago thug politician…we just weren’t paying attention?? That’s a great WORM, now his followers are interpreting the Great One’s words for us…LMAO!!
I was paying attention.. BOBO said he opposed Telecom immunity. Yup, no doubt about it. BOBO said he opposed Telecom immunity.
Yep. He’s done a great job of unifying PUMA Dems.
It isn’t that we aren’t listening–we are. We just aren’t buying the crock of manure he’s peddling. No matter how thin you slice it, bovine excrement is still bullsh*t.
blech — Obama couldn’t bring two walls together. Obama is the most divisive politician in my lifetime.
the compromise is up front, straddling the opposition and manipulating with a cynical read of the needs the voting object…on the make, callously indifferent of the damage being done. Your spin enables continuation of the don juan of politics. Face it: yer jazzed that yer turn is coming and a shower and binge will get you over the let down in the morning.
What do you mean “get people together,” and “compromise?”
I lived and worked in Chicago for 30 years. I’ve seen the damages of Obama and Rezko and their comrads.
I’ve heard more and more Obama supporters so enthralled by his “words.” But none have seen his actions. I listened to Obama and I’ve seen his results. He has a way of making you feel that his ideas are what you’ve always thought. And, he knows he can secure your trust because “you need to hear and believe in something greater.”
If you do anything in your whole summer, vet Obama yourself. Media has painted him as a saint. I know he is nothing of the sort. Once you’ve educated yourself on him, come back to this site and tell Kbentleyis what you’ve learned.
It’s okay to have a dream and believe in that dream. But, sometimes it doesn’t do well to do nothing but dream.
Good luck.
Yeah, those who know Obama locally know better, the way the MSM paints him is the true caricture.
It’s like a plague of locusts is descending onto the Capitol, if Obama gets into office. There will be nothing left of this country.
troll tactic # 247: it’s your fault–you weren’t listening to the ONE. Act surprised, deny he ever said anything different, blame you for not listening.
pshaw. yawn, troll.
there goes that word folks again. I grew up across the lake from Chicago, we always said “you guys”. I have never used the word folks, it’s as bad as saying “you people” to me. I’ve heard the word folks more this year than I have in my whole life.
I hate “people” “you people” “distraction” “metric” “mathematically impossible” “lol” “bwahahaha” “get over it” “bush/clinton”
The above represents about 6 months of correspondence from my 26 year old Bot nephew.
Don’t give up, wry. My son has pronounced Obama “terrible” and won’t be voting for him.
I want to throw up when I hear “folks” now. Nothing worse than cutesy politicians. It’s like on gchat when those evil little faces rotate around like the fucking exorcist.
The first chapter of author Susan Jacoby’s book, the “Age of American Unreason,” focuses on the unfortunate and now pervasive use of the word “folks.” She says that you cannot find any important presidential speech prior to 1980 that includes a patronizing appeal to folks. “Imagine: We here highly resolve that these folks shall not have died in vain…and that government of the folks, by the folks, for the folks shall not perish from the earth.”
Check out her book, HF. You’ll be gratified to find such a kindred folk, er, spirit.
I cannot stand to be called “folks”. I have some folks, but they are my blood relatives.
compromise–no; flip flopper–yes!
Nobama!
he’s compromised the Democrats so much, they neither will have their strong coalition of support since FDR to the platform of democracy and count every vote, to strong support of the right to privacy to their anti-war credentials to their unwavering support of a woman’s right to choose.
Obama has compromised us into a corner. By the end of an Obama regime, there will be no difference between Democrats and Republicans - only because one selfish man was so interested in assimilating that he sold out our values.
blech - just what was the compromise on FISA, what did we get out of the compromise? We all know what Bush and the telecoms got, what did Barack win for us in his compromise? Please tell me.
A new pair of $600 earrings for MEchelle, the woman who admitted she hates America when campaigning in Wisconsin.
“UPDATE FROM LARRY JOHNSON: We need to stop with calling Michele Obama “Ho”bama. Not acceptable. I don’t want any woman being called a demeaning name, even the ones we aren’t too fond of.”
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FYI: READ THE ABOVE!
Gimme sum pie.
How about Michelle O’Angry?
Will that fly?
I’m sorry, I didn’t get the memo. I thought Barry gave the aokay at the fundraiser as long as we say, “just messing with you.” Hey if it’s good enough for the presumptuous selectee…..
Don’t forget he rewrote a nuclear safey bill to please Republicans and Exelon, one of his largest contributors….
William Ayers father was the CEO of Commenwealth Edison, now Exelon. William Ayers had quite a bit of political power through his father, who Chaired a Civic Group in Chicago and was a political power broker. Obama sucked up to Bill Ayers and launched his first run for State Senate in Ayers’ living room. One of the biggest things Obama had ever done in his life was working with Bill Ayers on the ANNENBERG CHALLANGE GRANT. Why doesn’t the MSM cover that story? Ayers wrote the application for the Grant and they received over $100 million, Obama was Chairman of the group as well. Obama should be showing folks how well that money was spent, how they improved education in the Chicago area. Can’t do that though, nothing improved.
Compromise with gangsters? Obama is up to his neck in the vile corruption of Chicago politics.
If the New Yorker is taking the lead, the MSM is going to have to start REPORTING! It is always about the bottom line and sensationalism sells. When the depth of Obama & co.’s complicity comes out, it’ll read better than the most fantasic fiction you’ll ever read.
Really you just can’t make up the shit that goes on here. It’s the “Chicago Way”.
Ooooo! Goody goody, time to start making the popcorn folks, this is going to be quite a show!
Blech - where’s his history of getting people “to work together?” He’s been mostly divisive.
And as for his “base” it’s similar to George Bush’s. Wealthy white people. Ecept for AA’s who he seems to have locked up, even though he’s done nothing or very little for them.
blech — Obama is the one running for office and he should do the pandering. What do you mean we have to compromise?
We have been listening to Obama and listening to him lie, throw people under the bus, and trip all over himself but never apologize for his fiascos as if he is above reproach. Obama has never demonstrated the ability to bring people together and neither has Wright, Ayers, and the rest of his filthy group.
Compromise is the definition of politics. The new form of politics is to collaborate and arrive at win-win solutions. Obama is an old style politician. There’s nothing new about him.
Who pays attention to a con except the one(s) being conned? LOL! You are some kind of dumbass.
You folks weren’t listening at all to Obama were you? His pitch was always that he could get folks together, which means you have to compromise. If you thought he was never going to compromise, then you weren’t paying attention..
Time for General Hospital kids; Will Dr Crap Cannon please report to proctology STAT!
1) You folks weren’t listening at all. Nurse, scalpel please…
Patient;”Doc?”
2) His pitch…which one? The castrato voice version or the “I am God” on a PA system?
3) If you thought… mmmm a common misunderstanding of BO supporters is that emotionalism is the answer to all their hopes.
4) then you weren’t paying attention. Oops! Nurse? What was that I just sowed up?
Nurse; Ahhh ummm ahhh …The notion that I would tell you that I handed you a cold speculum, when you asked for the forceps and some sutures, is because you weren’t paying attention..
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As far as compromising goes, who with and on what? The Constitution? FISA? The lives of Americans and others in Iraq and Afghanistan? The well being and health-care of our citizens? (God Bless Dr. Carol) The right to Habeas Corpus? Having the Justice department DO THE JOB? Having corporate contractors and Merc’s replace government responsibilities? Having Congress and the Executive Branch uphold the Constitution of the United States instead of the the immutable laws of pork pipe politics? Be lied to?
Compromise? Sorry. Not in the mood to.
What you are saying is BO will compromise our national security.
Larry, is that the real cover?
It’s the real one, it’s on the New Yorker website
do you have a link? I cannot seem to find it.
Where??????? please provide a link. Can’t find it.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2008/07/21/toc_20080714
Yes it is, but it’s supposed to be a caricature of how Obama’s opponents see Him. I saw it on CNN today (Reliable Sources - Howard Kurtz). Kurtz claimed the picture is just a “teaser” and the actual article is actually supportive of Obama. I didn’t read it so I don’t know, but if what’s quoted above considered supportive, I guess Obama really is in trouble…
That seems to be in line with his supporters/bots talking points of late. That he’s just a politician, they all do it. See, he’s not this marxist scary guy he’s just a typical politician…but….he’s way better than that scary guy McCain who’s gonna take away your right to choose..blahblah..100 years war….did you hear what he called his wife by the way……
But I thought it wasn’t supposed to be just a politician. He was going to be the agent of change who was going to shake up politics as usual. Yeah, right. That and $.99 will buy you a cup of cheap coffee.
Exactly, Lucinda, but that is the tact many diehard bots are taking.
$3.99 in Chicago.
Scratch a lie, find a thief. The only thing you can count on from Obama is he’ll make a speech that goes, “I’m not a crook.”
Hey, did you hear what Jesse Jackson, Jr. said about Hillary and Obama never denounced the statement? Junior is Obama’s National Campaign Co-Chair. Anyway, he made the following statement to the Washington Post about Hillary after Iowa:
“The natural reminder here is O.J. [Simpson] — how does an African American candidate attack a white woman?”
Caricature’s have a habit of becoming the real deal in a country so obsessed with visuals.
We all have been talking at length about everything in that picture.
Now the picture can speak a thousand words for us.
That picture says it all. LOL and there’s no pulling it back now.
Yes, including Ayers’ burning flag in the fireplace.
I can’t get how anyone could think that’s funny. Has the country changed so much that a mental image of Obama burning the flag would persuade people to vote for him?
Seattle — the story itself becomes irrelevent because the visual is so powerful. It really works however, because so many of us believe or can imagine this to be real Obama.
Visuals do pack more of a whallop than words. Nation-wide, most people won’t read the piece, but everyone will see the cover. The New Yorker just gave the “on-the-fencers” the push they needed to McCain’s side. The cover will burn in their brains till the GE.
Thank you New Yorker!
Hillary or McCain ‘08!!!
Dinocrat that’s a hoot. How many more people will just see the cover than read the article. Confusing, isn’t it? Really, really confusing.
For what it’s worth, this cover isn’t even close to my read on Barky. No doubt the 527s will have a heyday with the themes presented here, but I detest Barky for entirely different reasons.
ann on — can’t we all detest Barky for a variety of reasons — this comes close for me.
I find this curious as well, because one of the hallmarks of the Obama campaign to date is its incoherence. Obama says one thing and his handlers say “what he meant was. . . ” Everyone contradicts everyone else, with the end point being no one knows where Obama really stands on much of anything.
I think this is part of Obama’s plan all along. This way he can get the message he wants out to some, and appease the others with the W.O.R.M. It’s similar of the tactic some lawyers use in court. They say something that should not be heard by the jurors, it’s stricken from the record, but you can never strike it from their minds. It’s nothing but dirty political tricks, making everyone think that he is on their side of an issue, when in fact, he is bamboozling the voters. He did this while campaigning as Senator of Illinois…the exact same tactic.
The republicans can’t attack him if they don’t know what he stands for…very slick…
30year dem the Republicans can attack Obama because he stands for nothing. He has no principles.
Yeah, tonight on Hannity’s America, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich were laughing and thoroughly enjoying Obama’s slip in the polls.
30yrdem, I saw some man on FOX say, Obama is writing their attack ads for them.
I read a comment on RCP today. They said the GOP is holding to the old adage “you don’t throw water on a drowning man.” Then someone said, “you know that’s waterboarding.”
Kinda like: Don’t think about monkeys! And what was the first picture that came in your mind? He’s doing it on purpose, I’m afraid. I just hope it proves to be an unsuccessful tactic due to the large numbers of us who have been “inoculated” against his crap. Love the picture, though. Maybe the artist was doing something kinda like the “Hound” thing, which only makes people think about PUMA.
Slippery, slithery. Shyster. Another fine example.
PUMA
I was paying attention.. BOBO said he opposed Telecom immunity. Yup, no doubt about it. BOBO said he opposed Telecom immunity.
Uh oh. The messiah isn’t going to like that cover
LOL, glad to see a publication that still has baxxs
the piece is fabulous
thank you for the post!!!!!
Yeah, think I’m gonna subscribe. The only rag with the cojones out there it seems.
Obama’s early supporters who now are turning against him are doing the work we could only dream.
Obama’s supporters are left wing thugs and Anti-Americans. they have no clue as to why the rest of us have were turned off all these months so they are attacking him in ways that they have only recently become aware of.
Nobody that was against Obama when Hillary was running could ever put together a magazine cover like this one without being blasted as a racist.
Welcome aboard exObamabuts!!
I hope you don’t mind that I’m still pissed at your stupidity for allowing the Democrat party to loose this year
Yeah, thanks for being slow dumbasses!
Man I hate Obama and his stupid bots!
He’s a hologram.
No, he’s a clone.
Remember Michael Keaton in “Multiplicity”?
Each of his clones took on a different aspect
of his personality, but they all tried
to please and protect the original.
That’s why the flip-flops.
#2 makes a statement.
#4 makes an opposing statement.
Then the original has to explain himself.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Sorry, clones have substance.
That cover is hilarious. I hope Firedoglake and Ballon Juice, those experts on satire, are appreciating it for the art form it is, LOL.
Wasnt that karmic boomerang quick?! LOL
lolol — yeah, show ‘em how satire is done.
Tooo good!
Wow! Great article and commentary Lisa.
It is a grave responsibility for people who love this country to stop this most undemocratic, and very typical Chicago politician from hijacking the process.
PUMA members are as Paul Revere, riding to announce yet another foreign invasion (Soros, Auchi,Rezko), trying to up end our democratic traditions and institutions.
I hope the PUMA’s can help “keep it”!
RETIRE THE DEBT, FREE HILLARY, DEMOCRACY NOW!!
BOOYAH HILLRAISERS!!!!
Ben nailed it, as always.
We have to protect this country! Clearly, our stupid leaders don’t!
that is why they gave us the second amendment
McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!!
That’s my dream ticket!
Are you listening John?
Even if McCain offered, I don’t think there’s any chance Hillary would accept.
Nor should she.
Why not ? They seem to be good together and this country needs to come together like this….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLo-kSct6zE
Again, why the hell not?
That would sure slap those stupid dems in the face and I would love it. Definitely a dream ticket.
Although, I must say, better yet Clinton/McCain ‘08
Precisely my friend. It’s what I’ve been saying over the last 2 weeks.
McCain/Clinton’08!!!
I just feel that this may be a ploy on the part of the NYer to air this now so as to take the wind out of the neocons sails to use it later. That cover just seems inconsistent. The article I can understand but the cover had to be approved by the higher-ups.
Yeah, I don’t see what the cartoon on the front has to do with the article (notice the flag burning in the fireplace). This cover represents how the Obamian frames criticism…as whacko rants. Maybe this “inside joke” appeals to the elite or says that article is no better than a(nother) frivolous attack.
It really doesn’t matter how they intended it.
It’s a cover picture, and how many are going to actually read the article?
There are a few ways to interpret the juxtapositioning of the cover and the article. My interpretation is that they use the cover to laugh off the material that is getting in the way of meaningful critique. In other words, the cover takes out the trash, which provides the New Yorker with an uncluttered ground upon which to set their meaningful critique.
I expect the Obamabots will attempt to pillory the New Yorker. At the Huffpo, there were numerous posts that said it was wrong to do the satirical cover because too many citizens are not intelligent enough to understand it is satire. I hope they make posts like this to the New Yorker because the arrogance it displays speaks volumes about his campaign and that set of his supporters.
Thank you to the New Yorker.
I like your “take out the trash” reading. Astute.
“…because too many citizens are not intelligent enough to understand it is satire”
Or maybe too many citizens are intelligent enough to understand that it is NOT satire…maybe that’s what they really fear!
That’s a good take.
I hope the article does catch a lot of people up on things the rest of us have been following. I don’t even have a point of entry to talk to any of my creative class friends.
too many citizens are not intelligent enough to understand it is satire.
If you look at each item in the picture there are elements of truth.
I showed the cover to a few folks in the house of Teak and they commented on the flag in the fireplace. My response was to show them Bill Ayers standing on the flag.
My sane half looked at MO and notice the hair style she was wearing and the ammo belt and guns.
I showed her the BLT Nation of Islam connection. And her senior thesis…say no more.
I realize Obama wearing a certian dress plays on the muslim meme but why is OBL on the wall. That is FUBAR.
While it maybe satire it IS affective as a BOtoid.
I would really like to know what Pat’s critque of the cover would be as an Artist.
Pat?
It reminds me of the scene in Shaw Shank Redemtion were the Warden finds out that Andy checked out;
Warden:
.
HaHa, LOL!
I often want to publish verbatim the remarks of Obama droids on the web. They either ooze with condescension or crackle with crazy cult like energy.
Americans would be disgusted if they knew what Barky’s followers really think of them.
Oh man they will be wailing like banshees when they get a load of that cover.
This article states Obama’s appeal is to upper class whites, the educated and monied class who like to call themselves liberals. Education and wealth alone do not make for an educated or more informed voter.
A recent survey in Palo Alto, CA, which is an extremely affluent community of well educated residents, home of Stanford University and the financial epicenter of SIlicon Valley, demonstrated that as voters they identify themselves only as liberal out of a herd mentality that they are told they should be liberal.
To them, being liberal means attaching a Keep Tahoe Blue bumper sticker on the back of their over priced, oversized luxury SUV. LIberalism is worn as a fashion statement. Everything this class engages in is a fashion statement, down to which of the various ones of private schools they will send their own children to while lamenting the poor conditions of public education in the neighboring less well off communities.
Choose the wrong fashion, and one quickly becomes the social outcast. It is the perception that one brand is somehow always better than another brand, although each brand may be identical on their merits and the shunned brand even better.
In this sense, Obama has become today’s fashion to them, the Obama bumper sticker is worn as a fashion statement. He absolves them of their own guilt of being white and affluent while not really paying attention to his policies or the policies of any other candidate because they are just too damn busy with their own lives.
It is a fashion statement they too can relate to the economically deprived blacks and Hispanics living next door to them in crime ridden East Palo Alto without doing nothing more than placing a bumper sticker on their car. For them, Hillary is a nonissue. In this society, woman have made it, they too are in the high powered money class as lawyers, investment bankers and even corporate CEO’s. Clinton, and for the same reason McCain, can’t be a fashion statement because Clinton and McCain travel in the same social circles as they do.
Thus, only Obama can meet their sense of fashion. It has nothing to with politics. I’ve seen it firsthand, I live there.
Most of the BOBOweenie’s I run across in Seattle self identify as progressive, which is perfectly fine by me. All it shows me that they bought into the conservative slime job against liberals and liberalism and they are distancing themselves. The only problem with that is this is a liberal democracy. What else would any American be besides liberal? It’s time to turn the tables on the progressive and conservative fringes. With the judgment they’ve shown they don’t get to slap liberals around any more.
That is such a good point, Wildchild. Those labels work to the benefit of both parties. If you put voters in a box, they just believe they is no room for compromise. Then they set up the issues (wedge issues)and those voters will go out and vote the Party and demonize everyone who disagrees. Then something as important as civil liberties becomes an issue and if those who have accepted the label of Liberal can be so easily persuaded by one candidate it is negotiable and that candidate is the one who has been identified as Liberal by the press and opposing Party, then it isn’t that difficult to imagine changing their position. In fact, they have to really if they are bumper sticker identities. What other explaination is there for this inexplicable turn around for Obama supporters on FISA? And, I’ve been wondering how Kennedy, Leahy, Kerry, Feingold, Dodd and others with the same lable who have gone on record with blistering condemnation of Bush’s subversion of FISA and his faith based initiatives are able to rationalize Obama’s vote and his plan to continue to blur the church/state seperation? I haven’t heard much from them about those two subjects and most of the Obama supporters seem to have been given a talking point about attacking Hillary for her “nay”. We are living “Alice in Wonderland”.
Irony is: bHO grew up in Hawaii, not the south side of Chicago. Attended those same elite schools and lived among the Hierophants of the inside information, subtle exchanges of signals and channels. The 99 problems that the hard-working don’t ever gonna know they gots.
>>> Hierophants of the inside information
GREAT noun! I used it in a memo at a college where I was emploted 20 years ago and only two readers understood the term.
Gee, sounds like my neighborhood!
This describes very well some of the people I see around my neighborhood and restaurants in Bethesda, MD.
No doubt. You mean it’s a fashion statement like all the celebs adopting little African babies?
That is probably what it is like, it is to prove that they are not elitists but that is exactly what it proves. I remember back around 30-35 years ago it was fashionable among the upper middle class white suburbanites that fled the cities to prove that they were not part of the white flight but were really hard core all inclusive inner city urbanites. They would invite a token black or a token gay whom they knew from their downtown office to their Saturday night cocktail party to show off to their neighbors. That was the fashion statement back then, Obama is their fashion statement now and it is much easier since you don’t have to invite one of those “others” into your home.
There was an interview with Mariah Carey the other day on the yahoo home page, She was asked why she supports Obama. Her answer was that he is relevant to her life’s experiences. Whatever that means just shows that this identification with Obama has nothing to do with his qualifications for the office or what he will do when he gets there. It sickens to think how many people that follow the lives and loves of celebrities actually believe these celebrities are smarter and better informed than they are and will follow their lead.
Do you have a link to the survey?
Refreshing, honest, beautiful. Love it!
And I know you’re reading this, “believe” … I’ll buy an extra copy just for you.
Believe…
Jump in and tell us about the latest polls….
Believe?
Believe?
Believe has been awol. Maybe his/her mom forgot to get believe out of bed today.
Believe it or not I kinda miss believe.
Yeah where are Beleive and Tea bag? Yoo-Hoo.. Oh boyz, wontcha come out and play?
It’s about time the new yorker ran something critical of obama. I canceled my subscription a couple of weeks ago b/c they had their collective head so far up his ass.
Print media is passe, and struggling to pay the bills. Maybe they want to tap into the PUMA’s to boost readership. Will Bowers with Just say No Deal, claims we are 2.5 million strong!
Agree completely. I’ve loved the New yorker until the past few issues where they’v kissed his ass in a very nauseating way. There’s just something about the upper income elite liberal stratosphere that makes them look down on Hillary and breath in the Obambi crap (also The Daily Show has the same symptom). I’m hoping they’re all starting to come around to the Big Mistake that is Obambi.
So lets all subscribe now. Send a msg. to the MSM, it’s ALWAYS about the BOTTOM LINE.
I can’t wait to read the whole article–will do so.
The cover of the New Yorker is very…powerful.
hmmm
Interesting.
I think it’s undeservedly flattering to Michelle. She’d look much more attractive with an Angela Davis ‘fro than with her conked Jackie O flip.
Foxy Cleopatra
It’s not that hard hitting, but is’s a start.
[...] Barack Obama’s rise in Chicago politics. Above all, Barack Obama is a Chicago politician. So…that means: It is a fascinating piece on Obama’s early years in Illinois politics. Seems like some of his [...]
Man where are the Obama trolls to stop the hate?
It’s going to take some time for them to scrap up the gray matter and skull fragments off the walls. Once they get all the pieces super glued back onto their noggins they’ll be back.
keep the love flowin’
This may be their night off. They worked overtime yesterday.
ye can smell a troll ‘fore you’s ever go’n see im. we musta be downwind.
Donna GO WATCH CNN…
By not being here the trolls are stopping the hate. Or at least they are spreading it someplace else.
Speaking of hate, Donna. I notice Barky stopped dying his hair so he can pull off that Colin Powell gravitas.
To me he just comes off as a better looking, more feminine Donna Brazille.
The trolls only come out when they can hide behind the latest Obama skewed polls.
This week we’ve all had tremendous success at beating back their pathetic talking points.
As the narrative changes for Obama I find it much easier to blow them out of the water.
It’s my understanding that this cover is meant to be deliberately provocative, so ridiculous and over-the-top that “those in the know” will understand that it’s meant to poke fun at the fear-mongering, unlike the dimwitted folks, the “clingy” types, who are oh so suspicious of Obama and Michelle.
Want to bet this is going to backfire?
But you know what else? I bet it’ll sell a whole lot of magazines. Buzz is everything.
PUMApac.org
It’s been stirring up the net for the last three hours.
If they wanted to be over the top they would have shown a bus with all the people under it through one of the windows in the Oval Office and a Xerox machine cranking out birth certificates, with a bong and a crack pipe next to the ashtray next to the crustless arugla and waffle sanwiches while HRC tried to sqeeze through the door and WJC mooned him behind her while Donna Brazile played chess with Karl Rove.
In other words, they didn’t go quite far enough for satire.
lmao josgirl, that was funny
OMG…LMAO!!!!!!
Excellent, but you forgot the Reverend Jesse with a pair of hedge clippers.
He’s under the bus, scaring the crap out of Granny.
Josgirl ur da best..ROFLMAO!
josgirl - too funny! Hope somebody takes your images and creates that cartoon. Thanks for the giggle!
Oh, you’d better believe that selling more magazines is their main intention. I’ll be curious, though, to see if Obama’s campaign takes it as a joke or blows a gasket.
I agree. I think the cover is intended to be over the top to get people to say, “Obama is getting so much flack from those nasty anti-Obama folks.” Some liberals will just never get the idea that Obama is a crook, a panderer and a liar. Want to bet there will be some fake outrage from Camp Obama?
Yep…..I feel a speech coming on…..
I think Obama planned this so that he could give a speech and make everyone forget about the FISA vote and the Iraq flip flop. If McCain takes the high road and condemns it than he looks good also. A Rolling Stones article had something just as outrageous in it with McCain in a cage being poked by Hillary and Obama who were donning Vietnamese clothing and hats. No one said anything. J.J. and Al are going to try to crush the New Yorker, everyone is going to get distracted and Obama looks like a victim of racism.
Poor BOBO, the victim’s victim. His attempt to make his campaign about the issue of his skin color and use that as a cudgel is starting to backfire. It’s becoming an issue of his skin thinness. It’s getting thinner and thinner as the days move forward.
It’s possible…I always thought those “Obama is a Muslim” rumors were put out by Axelimprod to distract from the fact Obama DID go to Kenya and support his Muslim “cousin” Odinga’s attempt to install Islamic rule on that country and the subsequent blood bath that followed.
Too True!
That exlanation by Drudge never made any sense to me.
LOL
Obama should hire a Presidential Speechalist.”
Even Arianna agrees!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km26gMI847Y
Whereas the one they did of Hillary was just insulting.
We are buying one just for the collector value. gonna wrap it in plastic and keep right next to the baseball cards.
http://vodpod.com/watch/857180-why-chicagoans-are-against-obama
Gotta post this video here again. It suits the Blog.lol
LOL..
My guess, the fraud will whine and whine about the new yorker.. and I DON’T GIVE A CR*P..
SUCK IT UP! Hillary went thru far worse..
if you need to be babysat thru every freaking critism, get off the stage, and let a professional, Hillary, take over!!!
Re-active not pro-active…doesn’t have enough of a plan to eclipse the need to address every perceived slight…nothing in the work zone to take his mind off himself.
The New Yorker cover is fine… Hedrick Hertzberg (sp?) has been beating up Hillary all year, so this probably is in response to the flack they’ve gotten from their readers over that.
Regarding the article: If you have done your homework and read about “The Chosen One” you already know everything covered in the 15 online pages. Barry is an opportunistic, race-baiting, Chiocago-style (read “barely Legal”) politician who thinks his charisma and lying will get him anywhere. And frankly, so far it has!!!
He is an equal opportunity back stabber. Just the thing you want to run the United States.
The Obamabutts are already going crazy over this cover, they are hitting the blogs seems they don’t like what the New Yorker did lol
I’m just so glad that freedom of speech is back in Vogue! I was getting really tired of the “MSM/Communist Party” line.
Exactly!
go New Yorker magazine!! I know it’s meant to be satirical - but it’s also is a slice of the truth given Obama and Michelle’s radical backgrounds and poor choice of “friends”.
Two meanings rolled into one picture. Absolutely fabulous!
You may be disappointed when you read the truth, then. Obama chose the church for the contacts, just as I thought. He glad-handed at Trinity. Ayers was just another liberal contact. Rezko was just a money bags guy.
Really, the article dispells a lot of the exaggerated claims.
It also shows him as much more politically expedient than he would like. Hardly the change politician.
That’s the most damaging thing in the article. LOL* Not only does he not rock the boat, he is opposite.
So much for how Hillary will ruin his great Change image, huh?
So what you’re saying AnninCa is that The New Yorker is still in the tank for Obama and the ridiculous cover is just for laughs? Or are you saying, they have answered all the questions about Rezko and Ayers so we can just put our minds at rest?
The best satire is rooted in the truth.
Larry is on the am radio link.
From The New Yorker:
“There was also a more general belief that, after Obama won the 2004 United States Senate primary, he ignored his South Side base. Preckwinkle said, “My view is you have to bring your constituency along with you. Granted, you have to make some tough decisions. Granted, sometimes you have to make decisions that people won’t understand or like. But it’s your obligation to explain yourself and try to do your supporters the courtesy of treating them with respect.” Ivory Mitchell, who for twenty years has been the chairman of the local ward organization in Obama’s neighborhood—considered the most important Democratic organization on the South Side—was one of Obama’s earliest backers. Today, he says, “All the work we did to help him get where he finally ended up, he didn’t seem too appreciative.”
Are those $600 stimulis check earrings that I see on Michelle?
That’s a good one.
They’re whining over at HuffyPoh regarding the cover! Ridiculous babies! I love this cover as it says it all. The artist is quite prescient. BRAVO!
Gee, guess they don’t think it’s so funny when the satire is on the other foot. Mixed metaphore there.
Are you kidding?
Is that image really the cover?
For Real?
Can we get a confirmation?
It’s on the New Yorker’s website.
where…I looked and didn’t find it…not saying it isn’t just want to see it…I know it is because they have already made a statement about it..
I can’t find a link to the cover in the on line version of the New Yorker but Obama’s campaign is whining
Obama aide condemns New Yorker cover
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080713/pl_politico/11718_1
Huffpo has also interviewed the artist, lots of squawking over there.
Obama Camp Hammers New ‘Ironic’ New Yorker Cover Depicting Conspiracists’ Nightmare of Real Obamas
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-ironic-new.html
The artist responds:
“…ah, I was just messing with ya”
bwwaahahahahah!!! ROFLMAO!!!!
LOL!! Love it!
Priceless!
heeeeee
Well this is funny. So much for the defending satire on FireDogLake, Bernie Mac and all. What goes around comes around.
They just talked about this cover on the radio…BO team has already made a statement
Do tell, what did BHO’s camp have to say?
a statement of how hurt they are by the outrage?
Have they blamed the cover on Clinton (or McCain) yet?
Editor and Publisher reports that it is a real cover and that it is drawing MUCHO criticism.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003827066
thank you!
Thanks for the link!
Murphy’s Law eh? Thanks for the link!
This was the part I really liked:
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds commented to Politico.com: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”
Did Bounds say this after they used up an entire box of tissues wiping their eyes?
Corrupt and deficient.
I’m shocked. I stopped reading when Hendrick Hertzberg went over to the dark side. maybe it’s safe to go back?
Funny toon.
Obama Camp: “Tasteless And Offensive”
President Clinton warns we are more divided.
So much for unity.
Yeah,m “tasteless and offensive” like Bernie Mac…
Ok so its confirmed to be the real cover….ahahahah.
OMG watch them brand The New yorker as a bunch of ignorant white trach racists now.
LOOOOL.
OMG too damn funny.
Poor barry no matter how hard he runs he just can’t get enough distance between himself and the so called lies about who he really is.
lulz.
Lies are like Marley’s chains.
ahhhh love that
They should have moved the drawing over just enough to show Larry Sinclair peeking through a door just slightly ajar. That would have been a nice effect.
satirical is how this cover is described…
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”
…only the bitter, clinging readers like me will find it damn hilarious….
Even as we speal, I’m having decals made of it for my Bible and Ammo Boxes…
I for one am so VERY glad that the Obama campaign have FINALLY identified something that is offensive and tasteless to them.
To find something offensive and tasteless all Obama has to do is look in a mirror. Or at MEEEEchelle.
Wait, I’m confused here, Bernie Mac satire is OK, Clinton satire OK but this is satire about ‘rightwing’ smears and it’s not OK? These guys have no idea what the hell is going on do they? By denouncing this they just gave credence to every argument on that cover. What morons.
… uh, mr burton, that cover isn’t half as offensive as Obama’s FISA capitulation.
It would be nice if Bill Burton was only delusionarily arrogant in claiming to know that “most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.” How does he know how most people will se the cover?
Unfortunately, Bill Burton is a propagandist who is trying to tell people how the cover should be seen. He is lower than someone who is delusionarily arrogant because he is actively trying to distort peoples’ perceptions of the world.
I think this a ploy by Obama. Now he has something to attack and distract from his crazy non-message. He will give another speech on race and weakened liberal base that everything is alright. They will say: “Obama, how could I have doubted you?” I think the cover might be true but that is beside the point. It is so flagrant it will illicit a week of outrage that will cloud over the story inside the magazine. Obama is slick…and disgusting. He can use this magazine on his trip to Germany to rail against stereotypes: It is not what makes us different but what makes us the same blah blah blah. I wouldn’t be looking at this cover with too much delight.
Also agree; this cartoon gives the Obama campaign a handle on discrediting or obscuring the real issues brought up in the article.
This guy is no “tinfoil” dictator.
I just posted pretty much the same thing. I don’t like being so cynical, but I doubt anything the media puts out about Obama.
I agree. Most people will be too busy looking at the picture to actually read the article.
That’s a shame because they may actually learn something about Obama’s political history.
Who the hell cares, Andrew? There is always noise about something coming from that campaign. But, everything is chipping away at his support. My personal feeling about FISA; he made a deal with the devil. He accepted contributions from AT&T and Verizon and he would sell his soul if he had one left. The real problem is in the GE, FISA won’t be an issue because McCain voted for it too. It is NOW we have to expose his betrayel. Thank God for the Denver Group. PUMA won’t be going away anytime soon and if he gets the nomination, they will continue their campaign against the DNC. I’m sure they will do their best to inform. moveon started with just two different blogs merging and PUMA has over 250. The could become an important voice of reason in this country.
OMG - WOW!
That’s all I can say that picture.
I’m having a horrible day, actually a horrible week and a dozen things going on at once making me crazy, but have to find the time to read the article.
The picture is freaking amazing. love it.
The funny wud have been funnier if the two were a succubus and an incubus.
In his downtime, he played poker with lobbyists and Republican lawmakers. In Washington, he has been a cautious senator and, when he arrived, made a point of not defining himself as an opponent of the Iraq war.
Hangin’ with the lobbyists and the Republicans eh Mr. New Politics? And I guess he wasn’t shoving his “anti-war” persona down everyone’s throats when it wasn’t CONVENIENT.
Why weren’t journalists doing their damn jobs 5+ months ago? It’s a little late now New Yorker, after you’ve been fawning over him through the primary season.
Better late than not at all though.
yeah the cover really should have pictured him at a poker table with lobbyists and repugs and piles of money. I’m imagining the dogs playing poker paintings on velvet canvas here.
With Backtrack doubling down.
Wow, who ever drew that picture sure has a grasp of the charactor of those two people.
Yeah…satire, that’s what it is ROFLMAO!!!!!
Is the New Yorker’s Muslim Obama cover incendiary or satire?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-muslim.html
New Yorker Cover Shows “Muslim” Barack With Gun-Slinging Michelle Obama
((((WARNING))) H.Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/13/new-yorker-cover-shows-mu_n_112428.html
The cartoonist’s defense:
I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous. It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Obama_camp_criticizes_New_Yorker_cover.html
The problem with that logic is that the artist underestimated how many average, run-of-the-mill Americans (the Independents and moderate Republicans that Obama has started courting lately) won’t see it as satire. They’ll look at that picture and say, “I knew it all the time.” My evangelical Christian friend will probably email me a copy of it tomorrow.
Oh I agree..If you look at the cover and don’t buy the magazine… I think it is very fitting but it is making fun at people who don’t trust BO $ HO…will it shut them up? NO!
Yes, but I think personally it was time to take the risk. Gads, someone has to start having some fun with this. The people who actually believe that way are in the minority, and there’s always a group who is wacko about public figures.
Look at the stuff some of those wackos believed about Hillary.
The artist will learn that brownshirts have no sense of humor.
Then he may suddenly get the clue that his subconscious mind is miles ahead of him, as is so often the case in creating art.
I am waiting for the Muslims in Pakistan to start rioting over yet another cartoon of their prophet.
I wonder..
LMAO!
Like the Jylands-Posten cartoons.
Yikes.
On second thought, it ISN’T that funny! There were a lot of death threats bandied about.
THIS FREAKING COVER IS BRILLIANT!
SATIRE ALWAYS HAVE THRUTH TO THEM!!
THIS HAS MADE MY NIGHT!
BERNIE MAC MAKING NASTY SEXIST JOKES. OK!
NEW YORKER SATIRE, OF COURSE NOT OK!
ha ha
Good point. Obama’s policy is that he and his campaign are off-limits.
If the Obots make a big deal out of this cartoon, the New Yorker can just replace with a drawing of Michelle being propositioned by her neighbor for $50,000. Just like Bernie said. That must be OK then, no?
Michelle held out for more…she didn’t spread until Saddam’s bag man came up with the financing for that lot adjacent to that mansion she lusted for.
Good point. Obama’s policy is that he and his campaign are off-limits.
and Michelle
Which concept?
That
WinnieMandela Michelle is notably unattractive and shrill?That her sense of Entitlement makes her unpalatable to many as a potential First Lady?
That she keeps bad company?
That she’s a QUOTA admission/graduate of an Ivy League school?
That they, “pimped out,” their children for political exposure?
Make sure to e-mail the New Yorker. Better yet, buy this issue.
To some degree I can understand where people would find this cover offensive. Two wrongs do not make a right. It is just too bad no one on Obama’s campaign came to Hillary’s defense when similiar type of messages about her were being promoted. The Obama team is getting a dose of its own promoted and/or supported medicine.
yeah, remember when some BOBOweenie took the news footage of Hillary’s Bosnia trip and added explosions throughout the whole thing? The BOBOweenies tried to explain that as satire too. LOL satire can be a killer.
Anyone remember the effectiveness of Thomas Nast in the Tammany Hall days? Cartoons are sometimes THE most effective. The Danish ones certainly seemed to have struck a cord. Hopefully the Obots will over react and show what a mob BOBO has been enabling.
When I saw the cover during a tease for my local news a few minutes ago I thought, “Damn. I don’t like him, but this is too much!” But, as any Hillary supporter would do, I did some research and now I’m just fine with it. Fuck BHO and fuck Michelle “From Hell”. It’s satire, so they need to not get their panties all in a twist.
No wonder he is leaving the Country.
good one Hank
I think this picture is a way to generate some sympathy from disillusioned liberals who found themselves under the bus post-FISA. Now they’ll be running back to Obama because they feel sorry for him…
I’m glad the story about what really happened in the State Senate is gaining traction though. That’s something I read months ago from a TX newspaper. Good to see it talked in a major magazine.
Hmmm…the redistricting strategy from Backtrack’s Chicago politics sounds vaguely familiar. Could it really be that Dean, Brazile, and Obama set up the primary map and delegate allocations to benefit the Chosen One?????
TO THE OBAMA CAMP AND THE DNC…STOP INSULTING OUR INTELLIGENCE. WE’RE ON TO YOU AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO SIT BY AND LET YOU SHOVE THIS LOSER DOWN OUR THROATS!
NO DEAL…PUMAs RULE!
They all do this. Redistricting is a key political tool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo
Is this for real?
just went to Google- Gaddafi photos and see it you think that is Gaddafi.
http://tinyurl.com/6k7×6b
Most definately Ghaddafy. Seen it before, it’s rael.
wonder why the sudden change of heart? this obama stuff isn’t new to the New Yorker. why are they ponying up now? it feels a little suspect….
this whole election cycle has made me a little cautious….a bit tin hatty as well.
I think it’s just a nicely written piece that puts it into perspective, including Rezko. One thing I don’t like about Sweet’s pieces is that I can’t follow them for all the details and names, etc. She needs to edit.
Yeah I understand, but remeber these are PROFFESSIONAL crooks and make effort to cover their schemes.
Wow! This post reminds me of one of those scenarios where a bunch of women geographically scattered find out they’re ALL married to the same man and nobody’s divorced…yet.
Oh too bad…the Obama weenies are bitterly clinging to their indignation.
Isn’t it amazing how fast the Obama camp turns into whiners and finger pointers when the subtle truth is exposed - even through satire?
This reminds me of a comment a professor made when I was in college.
“Why do you think we have stereotypes? What are the causal factors to create a stereotype?”
It’s what Obama and his hate-filled wife have brought to the table as far as black theology, radical friendships, and the ever famous quote from Obama himself about siding with the muslims if there was trouble.
All the picture on the cover does is put all of Obama’s finer points in pictoral form.
Well done, New Yorker, well done!!!
The New Yorker’s press release stated:
You lose 10 points, because you don’t get that it’s satire, pointed directly at you.
The publishers of The New Yorker lose 50 points, because they’re so abysmally stupid they don’t realize the people they’re satirizing won’t understand that they’re being satirized.
Hey, Believe. I thought you’d gone away, but you just came back with a different name.
Obots have to have regular programming updates to keep up with BOBO’s ever changing stories.
Believe has lost faith and is now “innocently” here just having a look. Maybe she’s coming to her senses.
And you lose 500 points for being so rude and condescending that YOU do not realize that we do get it jerk. Go back to your ipod now.
hey innocent, that’s called the Archie Bunker argument. Our generation invented it jerk.
And thanks to Obama’s reliance on the media to exacerbate the level of low information voters this election cycle, the number of people who will believe the attributes in the cartoon increases. Hmmm, when the candidate and the media conspire to hide the truth all lies get a fair shot, huh?
Besides, what part is the satire? Obama’s never been Muslim? Michelle is not overly aggressive? Obama has respect for the flag?
Yep i have to agree. If this is satire, its sublime.
I think this cover art has more truth about obama than his Owebsite.
Then you guys are too caught up in thinking the worst.
I have no sympathy for BOBO. He let his campaign take the low road while he faked the high road. Karma brought it back around.
Neither do I, but I don’t think he’s a sinister Arab or that Michelle is out to bomb the whities, either.
That stuff is just too right-wing for me, anyway.
I can fully believe he’s a politician with more ambition than focus on people.
He lacks experience to govern, and even his financial manager pointed that out.
I don’t know what BOBO is. I do know he catered to the fringe left to win a primary and called it a new kind of politics. Then I watched him shift and cater to the fringe right to win the general and he called it a move to the center. The only problem with either of these two statements from the BOBOcampaign is that catering to the fringe isn’t a new kind of politics and the fringes aren’t the center. So when I see a picture Of BOBO and MOMO dressed up like a couple of Fringe-oids on a cover of a magazine the satire is lost on me. If anything, the picture is just a representation BOBO as a radical that wouldn’t appeal to the center. BOBO’s politics of the fringe supports that view point.
BOBO can counter this cover by putting a picture on is fight the smears web site of him and MOMO wrapped in flag’s and lying on a pile of guns and bibles. They’re going to have to keep the Arugula though, to add just the right touch of bitter.
IB,
I think that the vast majority of people who are being targeted by the cover will understand both how they are being targeted and why they are being targeted, given reasonable variations in interpretation. Usually, people are pretty good at discerning how they are perceived by hostile others.
Further, each of the “myths” that the satire portrays have at least a whiff of the truth about them: if they did not, they would have no purchase and would have long since been dismissed. Given Senator Obama’s scant record, his claims about his unique abilities and character, and his campaign’s exhortations about rarefied judgment, all we have to determine the veracity of these claims is those things that indicate the aforementioned qualities.
The New Yorker does a service by providing an epidermal foray into Obama’s character by examining his record and his actions. To do this in a liberal publication, perhaps it was necessary to dismiss other, potentially less fruitful avenues for discerning character. This said, “The first law of intelligent tinkering is to keep all of the parts.”, according to Wendell Berry. it is intellectually negligent to dismiss the “mythic” concerns out of hand, to the extent that they point to a lifetime of choices that provide a window into the soul of the candidate. The trick is to delicately separate out the meaningless noise from the proper chord that knots the cacophony that surrounds the myth.
Steven
They are wild at Huff & Puff. Ayers will love it,American flag in the fire and is that arugula on the mantel
Arugala on the mantel??
LMAO!
I sent a note to the New Yorker, telling them I loved this cover. I said I couldn’t wait to buy the hard copy to continue the ‘where’s waldo’ game. Then, I read your note about arugala. I checked out the on-line photo and laughed out loud.
Interesting article….and well balanced. It’s not a hit piece at all. Nor is it fawning.
Very informative….thanks!
All I can say is WOW, it is about time!!!
That picture will live in infamy.
TeHe!
Looks to me like the Obama-Rezko mansion just got hit by Jewish Lightning. And very professionally done.
I think we have End Game, here.
Maybe Obama can get Dukasis to drive the tank, with the Preciousness as gunner, replete with army surplus tanker helmets. I doubt it.
Wish we had Don Meredith here to sing “The Party’s Over’.
This is a lot nicer to Obama than the witch picture of Hillary on Newsweek.
This article is actually complimentary in certain aspects, painting him as having a purpose, anyway, which I doubted.
Not sure he still has that purpose.
He has one purpose- to feed his own ego
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132008/news/nationalnews/ego_bama__swallow_some_of_that_pride_119709.htm?page=0
He has the same purpose as Steve Martin did in “The Jerk”.
obama is a scumbag. A slick empty suit know nothing say and do anything to get elected lying cheating narcissistic sexist bum.
oh, and he’s a flip flopper and I’m not messing with you.
Love the flip flops he is wearing. Very fitting.
Yes, good one!
You’re probably going to have a difficult adjustment period when you begin hearing him referred to daily as President Obama. You might want to get a jump on things and find a therapy group before the elections.
Nah, after George Bush we’ll get used to hearing President Obama in only a matter of minutes. LOL but from the way those polls are moving were going to have to build an ark to save us from all the tears shed when you BOBOweenies first hear President McCain.
I call your jibe with a snappy retort, and raise you one personal insult. (Sorry I can’t be more specific, but I’m kinda tired at the moment…)
what jibe? after George Bush it’ll take me just a few moments to get used to hearing President Obama. LOL but that’s not why I enrolled in the boat building program… if you now what I mean.
This person identified as “JJ” is an imposter. Don’t link me to anything said be this person.
I do agree with one thing he (She) said. If Obama wins I will have to go to therapy.
But instead of clinging to my guns, I’ll be clinging to my favorite issue of the New Yorker Magazine when I have my first session.
I intend to carry mine with me on the cattle car to the
InternmentConcentrationRe-Education Camp.BTW, where are The Trolls?
Do I have to call MYSELF a Racist F**K tonight?
Either they’re slipping, “Sixteen Candles,” and, “The Breakfast Club,” are on Cable, or Taco Bell coughed up an across-the-board raise and they’re all sucking up Overtime.
An African-American woman who is a radical aligned with a Muslim: this seems accurate. This also explains the palpable rage of Michelle Obama and the violence of the cult that follows her and her husband.
Ridiculous….you’re just trolling here.
Everything I’ve been thinking and wondering summarized nicely in one little satirical picture.
BHO, LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
They forgot the God Damn America church in inner city Chicago.
Well we all know BO & HO went to a racist church for 20 years…that is a fact…it sure would not have looked like satire if they had included that…lol…
McCain ‘08
later all….
So, put succinctly, Obama was a cheater. Obama is still a cheater. He’ll continue to cheat. But we should give him the keys to Our White House anyhow.
They also omitted Malia and Sahsa, the two young girls whose minds are warped as a result of their derelict mother’s decision to force them to attend a God Damn America church wherein the pastor humps the altar while issuing death threats to men whose wives he stole.
You may be a troll, but I agree…parents who take their kids to church where the “pastor” HUMPS the mic need social services to step in.
Every article written on Obama that has finally made it into the MSM has not mentioned the years he served on the Annenburg Education Project in Chicago with William Ayers. It is as if this experience in his life never existed and he never has mentioned it in his resume. Most likely because it was a disaster, but more likely because Ayers picked him to lead the board. You know Ayers that guy he really never had a conversation with who just lived in the neighborhood.
It didn’t mention it by name, but there’s a reference. Apparently, they didn’t accomplish much.
Are you here to downplay shit, Ann? Who gives a fuck what they managed to accomplish. Is Obama the nominee not fucking BAD ENOUGH for you?
They also need to highlight the fact that Ayers gave Obama his START.
WHERE was the 24/7 total blanket coverage on Obama’s liles about his associations with Rezko, Auchi, Ayers, etc?
The cover is hilarious.
Interesting to know that Obama was in tight control of the campaign, and obviously knew that his evil forces were pumping hate rhetoric out on Clinton every day in the dem blogs.
This guy is Darth Vader.
I never doubted that one for a minute. I couldn’t believe it when he tried to get by with saying otherwise on the ABC debate.
Remember when George pulled his covers on that?
LOL*
That was a nice moment. Boy, he looked pissed.
” We need to stop with calling Michele Obama Hobama.”
Oh, all right. We were just messin’!
[...] if on cue, the faux-Democrats and racists at No Quarter are cheering the image. Commenter Seattle Moss says, “We all have been talking at length about everything in that [...]
Hey Seattle Moss looks like you hit the bit time!
…big time. oops
Seatle Moss…the one armed bandit is all cherries.
The cover is the story, only I don’t think for a NY second that the artist did not understand the reaction it would get. Any “shock” art has one thing in common. A grain of thruth and a very blunt way of stating it.
How many people read the New Yorker? A million? So how many millions more will look at the cover and just shake their head and not read the artcle? By the end of next week, there will be a sea change. So what if McCain and Obama condem the art? Cats out of the bag now and along with BO’s BC by way of Mccain’s trials and tribulations, this is “ON THE TABLE”. (Stick it to Nick Danger Nancy, I’ve heard it before).
A recent report indicates that there were 996,000 subscribers in 2004…(sorry for the web dust)
The average household income of a New Yorker subscriber was $80,957 in 2005, while the average income for a U.S. household with a subscription to a news magazine was $67,003, and the U.S. average household income was $51,466.
Here is the post from a scared out of his wits Obama supporter who is tying to rationalize the New Yorker cover as satire and blaming us here at NQ as being racist……
I think the New Yorker meant this to be funny, a satirical look at the way the right and/or Larry Johnson have painted the Obamas. But the fact is that this image, absent context, is abysmal. And while I think most New Yorker readers will get the joke, most people seeing the image will not.
That doesn’t mean, as Andrew Sullivan suggests, that I believe Americans are too dumb to figure out satire. They aren’t, save for the ratfuckers at No Quarter. (More on them in a minute.) But the image sits on the cover of the New Yorker with not a word for context, not a single symbol indicating that it is anything but in earnest. Only it’s over-the-top characterization and its reputation as a moderate-left magazine are there to tell us that it isn’t meant as serious commentary.
And of course, that’s the problem. Had this image appeared in The Onion, everyone would have got the joke immediately. Had it appeared as artwork for the story, it would be easy to see that it was meant to lampoon. Indeed, had it even borne a title, it might have been clearly identified as such.
But it did none of those, and instead, as Jake Tapper notes, “It’s a recruitment poster for the right-wing.”
As if on cue, the faux-Democrats and racists at No Quarter are cheering the image. Commenter Seattle Moss says, “We all have been talking at length about everything in that picture. Now the picture can speak a thousand words for us.” Commenter WildChild adds, “That picture says it all. LOL and there’s no pulling it back now.” And a commenter truly concerned about misogyny, Michelle “Ho” Obama, says, “An African-American woman who is a radical aligned with a Muslim: this seems accurate. This also explains the palpable rage of Michelle Obama and the violence of the cult that follows her and her husband.”
And that’s just No Quarter, home of the Clinton “Democrats.” I don’t have the will to see what Little Green Footballs or Free Republic is saying.
So yeah, I don’t think that the troglodytes are going to see this as satire. I think they’re going to see it as confirming what they’ve always known — that Barack Obama’s a secret Muslim, that Michelle Obama’s a secret Black Panther, that Osama bin Laden will be conducting state visits, all with the American flag burning in the fireplace. And worst of all, a scary black man is going to be in charge of us white folk. It’s going to be a long four months.
Here is my response to Jeff on his blog
Seattle Moss Says:
Jeff
You might want to publish my complete post!
‘Caricature’s have a habit of becoming the real deal in a country so obsessed with visuals.
We all have been talking at length about everything in that picture.
Now the picture can speak a thousand words for us.’
Why does Obama hate America?
Why didn’t Obama stand and cheer the surge and our troops success at the state of the union?
Why does Obama and his minions wish defeat and retreat from Iraq?
I have been a hard core democrat for 24 years but after the totalitarian socialist tactics done by the democrats this year in order to get the fixed selection I’m going elsewhere.
They wish we were ratfuckers. We are, instead, voters, and they’re going to find out very soon.
Seattle Moss; the person is blaming anyone else but themselves.
I am pissed that BO has used the AA community and I am so far past the “white guilt” bs.
Here is a person saying people will not read the artical. What is humorous is the fact that the “satire” that speaks volumes about how BO’s supporters are motivated.
OK now they are 777’s
you all might enjoy some of this..
Today’s Political Satire and Parodies
All the News That’s Fit to Fabricate
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bldailyfeed5.htm
I like this one..
“UNDER THIS PLAN EACH FAMILY THAT WAS ILLEGALLY SPIED UPON GETS A GRAND TOTAL OF 130 MINUTES TO FIND A LAWYER, DRAFT A COMPLAINT AND FILE A LAWSUIT.”
http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://satiricalpolitical.com/%3Fp=1970
The article starts out with two people involved in Obama’s early days and they seem disappointed in how he turned out.
Ivory Mitchell, who for twenty years has been the chairman of the local ward organization in Obama’s neighborhood—considered the most important Democratic organization on the South Side—was one of Obama’s earliest backers. Today, he says, “All the work we did to help him get where he finally ended up, he didn’t seem too appreciative.” A year ago, Mitchell became a delegate for Hillary Clinton.
The same month Mitchell endorsed Clinton, the Obama campaign reached out to Preckwinkle, and eventually she signed on as an Obama delegate. I asked her if what she considered slights or betrayals were simply the necessary accommodations and maneuvering of a politician making a lightning transition from Hyde Park legislator to Presidential nominee. “Can you get where he is and maintain your personal integrity?” she said. “Is that the question?” She stared at me and grimaced. “I’m going to pass on that.”
Those remarks were akin to some of his supporters after his recent flip flops.
There was also a tidbit about Obama going to Rezko’s vacation house in Lake Geneva,W…hmmmm
The cover will over shadow the information inside as the left ravages a left wing publication because they don’t get the satire and that will be a shame.
I think the cover is great because I’m sick of walking on eggshells about Obama. But obviously the guy isn’t truly any more evil than other ambitious politicians.
I still believe he’s unqualified to be president. He’s not the worker type we need.
Nonetheless, I don’t think anyone is going to take the cover to heart. The outcry is surprising to me, anyway. Why the fuss? 60 minutes did a piece on how people believe the worst about Obama because of his name, etc.
The article is too long, but it’s pretty good. Lines up with what I thought, particularly that his oratory skills weren’t really his strength. He talks academese a lot and had to work at loosening up.
I think Obama is nothing more than a suit. Now, if the cover had been along that line?
Then THAT would have been a mean hit illustration.
This is actually pretty nice to him, since he’s always complaining about how people think the worst of him.
You need to work on your logic a bit, Ann.
Not that much to worry about.
The New Yorker has been around a long time.
Anyone named Preckwinkle has enough to do to maintain their dignity daily.
That woman looks like Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate that punched a Capitol police officer.
What is your point?
The flood gates have been opened. Mark my words, you will start getting more dirt on Obama now. The goody two shoes has been sold to all that was buying. To keep viewers the MSM has to switch and get the dirt on him.
I am glad the New Yorker had the courage to tell the thruth!!!
Thank you, Larry.
Aw, nuts.
a) Hey, if it’s ok to lampoon Mohammed here in the west, then it had better be ok to lampoon the second coming of Jesus.
b) I agree with what “The Farm” said above about Palo Alto CA. I live here too and it’s the most a-political community I’ve ever seen. Hardly anyone here even talks about politics, much less with any passion.
c) Educated latte/birkenstock communities like this also tend to be racist. There are very few black people in Palo Alto, and that’s largely because people of color are subtlely discriminated against in housing, and when walking on the streets or driving in cars. It’s much worse here than the South, and I’ve lived in both places and seen how it works. Yet, this is the ’set’ Obama wants to appeal to, and does appeal to.
d) Jesse Jackson is right, and someone please give him a pair of shears.
SHears? WHat are you on Bacrack? He doesn’t have balls that big. All you need to give JJ is a nose hair trimmer and he will be done in no time.
Big Ouch.
Big Laugh!
Oh Thank God, now when they lose in November they will have something else to blame for it besides Hillary.
Ahahahaha. The more i look at that cover the more evident it becomes that its barely satire. Thats whats pissing off the Obama Camp. It brushes so close to the truth that they are afraid of being fully exposed.
November can’t come soon enough. Send Barry back to the Chi-town Political Gutter.
I am still scratching my head at how quickly they tossed JJ under the bus.
One of the most prominent and respected BLack politicians of our time and because he calls out obama, even his own family tosses him under the bus.
This is not the DNC i new.
Just disgusting how they will do anything, and run over anyone to get Oblowme in the Whitey House.
Really, people, how long can this farce go on?
At some point somebody is going to stand up and say…OMG the Emperor is Naked and then the whole world will start to laugh…assuming they don’t restrict our right to laugh next.
I am proud of my primary vote for Jesse, and he will always be the TRUE trailblazer for me.
The Update should include: “While it appears that Obama is ok with women (Michelle) being referred to as a ho, we here at No Quarter do not…etc
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BTW: I guess O-head’s followers are flipping out about the magazine cover. Do they think THEIR politician is the only one who has ever had a controversial satirical cartoon drawn about him?
I mean, GROW THE HELL UP!
This is America! Stop trying to shut down every single thing that does not show Obama with a halo around his head, FASCISTS.
My latest jab was:
Well, I suppose they could have done an Bro beats Ho illustration. That seemed perfectly acceptable to you guys.
Ironically, and sadly, it already was.
While ANDERSON COOPER completely lost his mind and flipped out like a damned lunatic over the Curious George Obama tee shirt, not one peep out of him over the Bros before Hoes tee shirt.
One thing is pretty funny about this is that the NY elitists have definitely pissed off the faux-elitists. *haha
The war of elitism!
Is that a fabergé egg on the mantel or a grenade?
Ladies, you are on fire tonight.
I nominate you both as NQ’s Elite War correspondents.
I honestly think this was all planned by the obama campaign…another distraction. They’re smearing themselves because contrary to what they expected the GOP aren’t. They figure lets just smear ourselves, creat another media frenzy so that when the GOP start doing it people will be immune to it.
All the while they get obama supporters upset so that they donate more money, and obama looks like the victim of smear. Its all staged.
I don’t think you’re wrong - the Obama folks have been working to “vaccinate” themselves from a “worse” poision (GOP attacks) than what they can sustain.
That said, there is a part of me that thinks the editors were upset over FISA and they simply wanted to show Obama what civil liberties are all about.
Whatever the intent - it will likely hit hard and do damage because while all of us on these blogs can’t believe there are people in America who haven’t heard these rumors, there are - and there are a LOT of them who still know nothing about Obama yet.
This cover will get airplay on the news shows and whole lot of people who had a “favorable” opinion of Obama (because they knew nothing about him) are going to be turned off - even if they’re told that it was “a satire” and “that it was meant to lampoon how ridiculous the rumors are.”
Many, many people are going to believe:
“Where there is smoke, there is fire” and this “Obama-guy” - Who is he really? What do we actually know?
In short, even if Obama and his liberal friends were trying to help Obama - I personally think this is going to be the beginning of the end of his campaign.
They have yet to weather Odinga when that hits mainstream.
I think you have a point. I thought sth. similar of the cover. Money and by making fun (satire) of people that think that way they premept any Reps. future suggestions on this. Getting money from outrage
ie. rallying his wavering bots back to the fold also seems plausible.
That’s a little far fetched. I realize the campaign to win the nomination was well organized, but things happen you can’t plan on. This may not hurt him, but IMO it helps McCain more. His campaign’s statement about the cartoon is the real satire. Why don’t they see the red flags. John McCain, THE HERO, is a gentleman who won’t stoop to gutter politics and even defends Obama. In Sept. when the Repug machine gets really geared up, McCain will continue to deplore the tactics with a well established reputation in his base as a man of honor. Why is everyone forgetting in just four years? THEY PLAY HARDBALL! Obama’s little Fight The Smears is a JOKE. Who goes there except his minions and how are they helping by coming to these pro Hillary blogs? His statement on NBC that his wife is out of bounds is ludicrous. There has been a reality gap for months about this campaign. They knew Hillary wouldn’t get down and dirty so they played their games with impunity. I finally joined PUMA and I took the pledge and I’ll vote McCain if I have to, but please everyone wake up. Whatever impression you have about a disinterest and apathy in their base, they aren’t afraid of being called racist. They will turn it right back on Obama when they expose the threats and intimidation in the primaries.
While the cover may deflect discussion of the article, it should further cement the resolve of PUMAs!!!!
HAHA! LMAO! I love the New Yorker, they wrote a great piece about Hillary a few weeks ago. It was all about how much Hillary gained by “losing” (although she did win the popular vote). It’s really worth a read. I think the author’s last name is Heileman or something like that.
Taj:
Wasn’t that one on the New York Times Magazine?? (not the New Yorker?) Do you have a link? Thanks.
here is the piece, is wonderful! and the cover was even better.
http://nymag.com/news/politics/47837/
This is a great article about Hillary. I love Ed Rendell’s comparison of Hillary to Hubert Humphrey - a happy warrior. And I love the quote from her at the end: “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” She is our happy warrior.
Can you picture Obama on the Supreme Court? No
Can you picture Obama Speaker of the House? No
Can you picture Obama Senate Majority Leader? No
Can you picture Obama Secretary of State?
Can you picture Obama President of the US? HELL NO!
Can you picture Obama junior Senator from Illinois? Rarely.
How on earth can this man with credentials unfit for any possible position of power and leadership be seriously considered for the highest office and one of the most powerful positions on the planet?
We thought the world had gone mad electing Geo W. Bush. Twice. But even he had tons more experience than Obama. The world is mad.
What do you mean by your screen name “Obama’s gums look sick?” - flossing? - smoking? - eating disorder? I’m curious.
I bet I know.
Have you not noticed the SICKLY color of Obama’s lips? (And apparently his gums, too?)
They are something like BLUE or PURPLE. They are totally SICK looking. Have you ever seen the like?
I don’t watch much tv, but when I did watch the debates I was always horrified by the inhuman color of Obama’s lips.
AA lips are brown and pink, not blue-purple.
I looked this up and it can signify health problems.
We need to demand Obama’s health records as well as his BC, his missing state senate records, etc etc.
You are right - they are a pretty scary color - but do you think that is camera lighting? I know that African-American skin because it has a blue undertone requires much more “red” lighting when they do fashion shoots than say a person who is Hispanic and has an olive skin tone. I’m white as a ghost and I know that in “icky” lights my legs can look very blue!
That said - you’re right - we should have full medical records - and a BIRTH CERTIFICATE (while we’re at it!!)
This is what I am MOST pissed off about with regard to the MSM - they have TOTALLY fallen down on their job as a “watchdog.” They have all become “pundits” and no one does “reporting” any longer. I mean - remember when they dug into Clinton’s draft dodging??
They dug into every single part of Bill Clinton’s life. To the tune of about $100mil if you add Ken Star’s investigation.
Obama is chewing Nicorette gum when he is not smoking cigarettes. This puts a huge dose of nicotine directly into the oral cavity, lips and tongue included. Nicotine is a powerful vasoconstrictor which could explain the loss of robust color in the lips. Loss of oxygen due to the vasoconstriction (tightening of the blood vessels from the nicotine)
BTW: As a secret smoker, Obama has no moral authority to fix our health care system. Obama has no moral authority to chastise obese children since nicotine is a drug appetite suppressant. This man has no end of material flaws.
My husband and I noticed Obama’s lips are bluish. He often wears lip gloss, but just for debates and events sometimes. I will also add that he looks a bit frail. His cheeks look sunken and his skin is ashy. Obama looks like a walking corpse to me.
Obama’s gums look glossy and puffy, which is often the reaction to smoking, which is a powerful chemical and heat irritant to gum tissues. Healthy gums are stippled, more orange peel textured regardless of racial make-up or skin color.
Obama’s gum look like they reflect light and that is not healthy. That means they bruise and bleed easily. Obama’s smoking habit and Nicorette use is a major health abuse.
And kiddies, marijuana is also a strong gum irritant too and stains the teeth greenish so don’t lie on health surveys saying you “don’t smoke”. Hot smoke and gasses from marijuana cigarettes damage the inside of your mouth just as badly as legal tobacco, Obama’s drug of choice. Or at least the one we still know about.
Could also be early emphysema with poor oxygenation. Poor oxygen in the blood means por oxygen to the brain too.
Ha, ha Ha!!!
Just spent five minutes reading Huffington Post responses.
The little HuffyPuffys are absolutely stripping their gears over this!
They can’t even hear their own double standard. If it were Hillary they would be applauding the cover, but since it’s Obama, it’s blasphemy of the highest degree.
They’re so worried the poor little non-elitists won’t understand the “satire”.
Why should they worry? THEY don’t even get the satire!
This starts yet another beautiful week of the Obama campaign swirling around and around in the big political toilet!!
Priceless!
OMG you are so right. They all have their panties in knots. I am laughing so hard right now. Go New Yorker!!!!
The little HuffyPuffys are absolutely stripping their gears over this!
Can’t find ‘em grind ‘em.
we should all go over there and register with names like billy-bob and sue-ellen and then post comments like:
“Oh My Gawd Lord have mercy, i just got my New Yorker and saw the cover. That’t it! I knew he was a flag burnin arugala eating married to a marxists domestic terrorist muslim and now i have proof. I am voting for McCain now. And that article was too long to read but i get the new yorker for the pretty covers.”
just to stir the pot.
The Obamington Post bots are worried the non-elitists won’t get the satire? But did they say they don’t need us and we should stay home on election day?
Thanks for this post. I am looking forward to reading the whole article; it seems though we have learned already much of it from previous posts here at NQ.
The cover is inciendary and I don’t have an opinion one way or the other except that
I think it will work to distract people of the real flip flop sand eep problems with Obaama. It is supposed to be a satire but it will
suck all the oxygen for the next 2 weeks out of many other problems with Obama. In short it will work to Obama’s advantage probably….
Doubt that seriously.
This cartoon was a killer.
Satire or not.
Hope you are right!!
Does anyone ever know what a New Yorker cartoon is about?
I don’t know. Is this being picked up by the MSM much? How many people see the New Yorker. I mean I know it is a famous well respected magazine and all, but isn’t it sold more on news stands vs say the magazine rack at the local A & P.?
Sad but true…but on a lighter note, standing in line at my local A&P, I saw a picture of Obama on some sort of Enquirer wanna be rag with some of those very same talking points on the cover and with the added bonus of drugs, and gay sex. So if and when some of these little tidbits come to light, they can be dissmissed as gossip mag crap.
ABC news reported on it.:-)
I’ve had to change my handle to “J. J.. (The P.U.M.A.)” because some cult member has taken the name “jj”.
If you see a blog that is in the least flattering toward Obama you know that I did not write it.
This sort of reminds me of the Willie Horton ad in 1988. My first thought was that the ad was racist, trying to scare us that the black man in prison would be at or door if we elected Dukakis. But after awhile, the idea sank through that Dukakis was such a naive guy that he didn’t understand why people would have a problem with furloughs for murderers. That was the last time I voted Republican for President. But, I’ll be doing it again this year.
The New Yorker article at first struck me as unfair, racist, and futher promoting the notion that Obama is a Muslim. But, like the Willie Horton ad, it struck a nurve.
Sorry. I hadn’t noticed I stepped on somebody else’s nickname. I won’t use jj again. Impersonating others isn’t acceptable behavior.
Great satire, with so many elements of truth. I saw Angela Davis and Louis Ferrakhan, harkening back to those good old days, recalling the lovely convention of ‘68, The Black Panthers will be marching yet again already at the Denver Convention. Deja vu all over again.
Yes it is Satire. But it is not satire about Obama’s opposition, it is about Obama.
Everything has the ring of truth about that man and his inner circle. From the fist bumps with his wife to the flag burning with William Ayers.
The irony of the cover art is that it is situated in the White House. No matter what that idiot and his cronies have done, people still want to vote him into the highest office in the Free World.
Great Blog Site Larry, Keep up the Good Work.
Hope The New Yorker, opens peoples eyes. People that always believed Obama was Muslim, will keep believing,and will not vote for him, even if it does looks like fear Mongering.
Great Picture, and sent the Editor a note,on the fine artistry.
Hope it works in Puma’s favour.
Clinton For President
More from The New Yorker:
“Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them. When he was a community organizer, he channelled his work through Chicago’s churches, because they were the main bases of power on the South Side. He was an agnostic when he started, and the work led him to become a practicing Christian. At Harvard, he won the presidency of the Law Review by appealing to the conservatives on the selection panel. In Springfield, rather than challenge the Old Guard Democratic leaders, Obama built a mutually beneficial relationship with them. “You have the power to make a United States senator,” he told Emil Jones in 2003. In his downtime, he played poker with lobbyists and Republican lawmakers. In Washington, he has been a cautious senator and, when he arrived, made a point of not defining himself as an opponent of the Iraq war.”
Will the Black Panthers be as large a group as the PUMAs?….Hmmm, a point to ponder, alright.
Here’s my thing:
By the end of EVERY presidential campaign, the loser is pretty much turned into an “Un-American who is Un-Fit for the presidency” -
Jefferson in 1800, turned Adams into a “Anglo-phile, monarchist”
Jackson in 1828 turned JQ Adams into a “corrupt, elitist”
McKinley in 1896 turned WJ Bryan into a “wacko - socialist”
and recently,
Bush in 2004 turned Kerry into a “French, flip-flopper”
Ok - all of these things may have been true (or not, depending on your ideologies), but the important thing is that NONE of these candidates STARTED their campaigns that way!!
Why I KNOW that Obama is going to lose horribly, unless the Democratic Party wakes up and nominates Hillary is that Obama is STARTING his campaign (heck, he’s not even the nominee yet!!) as a “foreign communist who was a Muslim and whose wife is a militant black nationalist.”
The fact that he has to start by explaining that he is a patriot - ok, we’re in trouble - you can’t START from that place - that SHOULD be a given.
Good point, except that the fix is in…I really think the DNC don’t honestly care that they’re going to lose…maybe they don’t want all three branches of the govt with no one else to blame and nowhere to go next time…
LOL - that would be like my party! Always trying to figure out the “defensive” position rather than taking a risk and going on “offense” once in a while. I mean - Pelosi and Reid are HUGE jokes - I can’t even believe I supported them in 2006! I am so mad at my party…
PUMA.
Well Said.
I’m trying to find some Monopoly money to send to Reid, Dean, Pelousi, and bambi. currently.
Got a lot of envelopes sitting here on my desk.
Should probably go the Abbie Hoffman 60’s route, and mail the traitors a fucking cinder block.
Oh yeah, I also doubt the New Yorker cover will work in Obama’s favor.
It’s just another brick in the wall…
Clinton 08
I just read the article.
It ain’t the inflammatory images on the cover.
It is a mostly a technical recount the Obama’s rise to power with some interviews mixed in. Parts of it are insightful, i.e. Obama’s campaign strategy is run by the one and only. Some parts are funny. His arrogance (or audacity) is a recurring theme. Very little on the connections with fund raisers; the main reason he is where he is today.
It did some perfunctory research:
But breaks little in new ground.
Zee - Just read your comment on Jesse Jackson - I absolutely agree with you - he is a trailblazer and while there are so many issues I disagree with him on - it doesn’t matter - I RESPECT him for all the work he has done for YEARS fighting for African-Americans and for policies that he believes will make America better. He is awesome.
And the Obama campaign sickens me because they have NO ability to recognize the “greatness” of anyone other than their stupid “leader” - it is really awful to see how narcissistic his whole world is.
This cover definitely is intended to make fun of certain objections to Barky.
So what’s with the parodies all of a sudden? Over the weekend we had the brouhaha over the post at Firedoglake, and now this. Have we entered a new phase of the marketing campaign, where really outlandish objections to Barky are ridiculed in order to condition the reflex that any future objections also are ridiculous? Reminds me of the way false charges of racism were used earlier in the campaign
Yes, I think someone posted this earlier that it is a strategy to disarm opposition to him. They will define the anti-obama crowd as just fringe crazies. The bots who troll have been doing this for a while now. So if you are part of the anti-obamas or pumas then you must be crazy and/or racist.
It’s the story link below the cover!
My take on the FireDogLake: “OBAMA ROCKED BY SCANDAL: Is Presidential Bid Over?” assault yesterday is that they put up the “satire” piece to hide the fact that the heart of the story was true, that Bernie Mac did get on stage and did tell those overtly sexist jokes, one after another. By doing a parody and slamming anyone who commented negatively they were able to convince people that either the Bernie Mac (and Obama’s “just messin’ with you”) incident never happened or that, even if you know the truth, you better keep your mouth shut or obama’s nanodrones will make you look like a fool. It seems the strategy was effective to a certain degree so we’ll probably see it used again.
Exactly right, Blu.
First of all, the “spoof”–as FDL’s diarist Thers called it, was not a “spoof” at all. The word would have more appropriately been a failed attempt at “satire,” meant to mock anyone who complained about HO jokes being made by Bernie Mac and Obama not responding more sternly to it.
That they never really got the point, was a bit stunning to me.
Theirs was a tactic designed to distract from the ugly reality of what happened–when even the people present were offended–as IF it was all about the “media coverage” of it by AP.
In reality, it was all about Obama’s character issues, and the takeaway from what happened is that Barack Obama is more gangsta than president.
I cannot believe that FDL doesn’t feel some shame today about mocking the offense taken by others. But, some Obama supporters just don’t get it:
The vast majority of voters in this country are beginning to see Obama for what he is: An immature adolescent impressed with his own celebrity–without the experience, wisdom or maturity to lead this nation during our current alarming fiscal and geo-political situation. He’s simply a fraud, and an immature one at that.
But, now, the shoe’s on the other foot. Will FDL now MOCK the offense taken by the Obama supporters on this “media coverage?”
Will FDL’s diarist, Thers, or John Cole at Balloon Juice MOCK Arianna Huffington for taking offense at the New Yorker Cover? Will they call Huffington Post “stupid?”
***crickets***
Suddenly, “spoof” attempts aren’t so funny, are they Thers?
Can’t wait to come here on November 5th where we can all collectively say
PRESIDENT OBAMA…
Natasia — On November 5th I will be glad to say Thank You God No President Obama.
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Natashia Honey, sweetie get over it. Your guy LOST! Its time for country Unity. And bitter angry racebaiting elitists are just going to have to deal with it and MOVE ON!
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Obama campaign slams magazine cover
oh god i love it sooooo much !
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Obama admits a mistake?? Again? Heh…