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Who Doesn’t Get Satire NOW?

By Kirk Tofte on July 14, 2008 at 11:30 AM in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Daily Kos, Michelle Obama, New Yorker

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The absolutely brilliant cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine has progressive Internet sites up in arms. (Check out Memeorandum.com‘s tracking of the flood of blog posts.) For example, at dailykos.com over 1,400 comments have been made in less than two hours about the topic, “OMG and WTF, have you seen this?”

The cartoon shows Barack Obama giving a fist bump to Michelle Obama. He is dressed in Arab garb and she looks like Angela Davis with her ‘fro and an AK-47 strapped over her shoulder. Looking over the couple is a smiling portrait of Osama bin Laden. In the fireplace, an American flag is burning.

Shocking? Not really. In this cartoon the Obamas are standing in the oval office. This week’s issue of the New Yorker has a long, long article about Obama’s days in Chicago. The cartoon is an obvious caricature of the way Obama is seen by the ten percent of Americans who still think he is a Muslim.

But who are the low information voters now? Last night, at dailykos.com, it’s like the last day at Jonestown. The kool-aid has really gotten to these people.

But let’s destroy the New Yorker! You know, the people that employ Seymour Hersh and so forth.

  • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard nedich

    yeah just read the
    BBC article about it being satire and Baracktrack not understanding it…

    hilarious…

    especially after the recent humor the Baracktrack campaign has been endorsing and proliferating…

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

    • nancysabet

      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

      • Zee

        Here’s my letter (I didn’t copy on the article because I’m still waiting for my issue to arrive!):

        Dear Editors:

        I wanted to write to support your magazine cover of July 21, a satirical portrait of the Obamas as closet terrorists gaining the White House.

        I am a subscriber and I love your covers most of all. I have framed quite a few. I’m sure you will be inundated with barely coherent from rage Obama supporters who are unclear on the concept of satire when it comes to having a sense of humor about the candidate they worship all out of proportion. That’s why I wanted to make sure you knew there are readers out here who are in support of your cover commentary.

        In fact, this is long overdue, but I also want to thank you for the covers you commissioned during the dark times immediately following 9/11. They were both thought-provoking and oddly comforting.

        Please continue your tradition of provoking thought, whether or not it’s comforting to all!

        • Zee

          I meant I didn’t *comment* on the article!

        • standard

          I’m a subscriber too.
          The people ranting don’t even read The New Yorker.
          You have to have a sense of humor and a little sophistication. Two things lacking in the Obot brain.

          • standard

            This reminds me of the Death Threats Muslims were making to political cartoonists.

            • http://deleted AnninCa

              Amen!

          • normita

            Uh, they don’t read period because if they did, this clown would not be the presumptive nominee at this point.

          • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4qGB-NpiNo Bella

            I actually canceled my subscription 4 months ago because I couldn’t take the blatant anti-Hillary crap they would publish every week. There is one writer there that has a serioius hard-on for Hill, I can’t recall the name, but it was too much and I called and wrote to tell them goodbye!

            Have they gotten better after Hillary suspended?

          • Sprout

            I agree. Those who are up in arms are not people who would normally read a single article from the magazine because they wouldn’t understand it. They don’t see it as sattire and very fitting, they see it as an attack on their “God” just like the muslims did when the cartoon circulated of Muhammed.
            The low level mindset gets infuriated instead of stimulated by opposing ideas, that’s why it’s impossible to speak intelligently with an obamabot, they have no intelligence to use in the conversation.

          • MaryPat

            The New Yorker has a long and proud history of publishing cartoons and satire.

            My favorite blog comment of “outrage” came from a guy who said this cover shows why he will NEVER visit New York. WTF?

            Obama has some seriously weird supporters.

            • derridog

              Well, I’m sure New York will be chagrined.

            • MEchelle Hates America!

              Maybe it’s New York’s new security plan – to keep terrorists/Oblowme supporters out.

        • noproblama

          That’s interesting that you mentioned 9/11 in your letter. I referenced it too but for a different reason.

          I was drawing the similarity between the Bush administration using the aftermath to stop any perceived criticism and the Obama campaign using the historic nature of this election to do much the same thing.

        • S&T

          Hey Zee, It’s S&T. I’m with ya girl

        • S&T

          Hey Zee, It’s S&T. I’m with ya girl

      • TeakWoodKite

        I tried to send one.They must be getting jammed. Service temporarily unavailable

      • Zee

        OMG! HAHAHA….the editor is sending an automatic message patiently EXPLAINING SATIRE because s/he’s getting so much mail on this!!!

        ======

        About this week’s issue: Our cover, “The Politics of Fear,” combines a
        number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious
        distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic
        outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall— all of them echo one
        attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring
        things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and
        the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover. In this same issue you will
        also see that there are two very serious articles on Barack Obama
        inside….

        • Peggy Sue

          Good letter, Zee!

          I had a feeling this was going to backfire. The real irony is that the Obamatrons, the very group this cover would presumably amuse [because they're so smart and sophisticated], are going berserk.

          Satire, a lost art. Obamatrons, brains lost in space.

          Can it get anymore bizarre? But then, I guess that’s a risky question ;0).

          PUMApac.org

        • NoBigotry

          About this week’s issue: Our cover, “The Politics of Fear,” combines a
          number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious
          distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic
          outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall— all of them echo one
          attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring
          things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and
          the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover. In this same issue you will
          also see that there are two very serious articles on Barack Obama
          inside….

          In other words a dig at all of the bigoted attitudes shown here but you are too dumb to realize.

          • WildChild

            LMAO It’s a great cover

      • http://youtube.com/user/NLee777 N. Lee

        I may just start up a subscription to the New Yorker. What a SWEET cover!

        • HD-Rider

          I’ll put my money where my mouth is…I just subscribed to “The New Yorker.” My laudatory comments will follow as soon as their website can once again accept a letter to the editor…Kudos, New Yorker, for a GREAT cover!!

      • grtphoto

        I wrote a letter of support, thanks for the link!

      • http://www.TheOtherDemocrats.com FloridaDem

        I wrote them this:

        Thank you for your cover today! I find it amusing that the Obama-bots can’t seem to get ‘satire’ – and neither can the candidate.

        This lack of sophistication by the candidate and his followers is disturbing. I hope you will NOT apologize for one thing. The entire cover is brilliant and the in depth coverage of his campaign is much needed.

        He’s not the maverick he pretends to be. He’s just another boring, ho-hum politician but in this case, he’s a politician with no experience and no work history – a virtual empty suit.

      • Fredster

        Kos and Huffpoop weren’t too upset about this were they:

        http://blogs.chron.com/beltwayconfidential/tnr.jpg

        I thought the New Yorker cover was hysterical; laughed my ass off!

      • Lou

        This is an excellent piece of artwork. Really. It has such harmony. But the satire is really what we can all imagine with these two bumfoocks in office. LOL. I can’t stand the bamboozler. I hope he explodes from all his lies and pain he has caused people in this election process.

      • derridog

        Hey, the New Yorker is going to make out like a bandit on this. I’m glad I take it, cause I bet you’ll have a hard time finding it on the newstands.

        BTW, Obama’s thin skin (and that of his followers’) is going to get really old for everyone by November. He should be glad they didn’t make a nutcracker out of him. But maybe they can make one out of Jesse Jackson.

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard nedich

      here is the BBC article:

      news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7505953.stm

    • Dave_Not_For_Obama

      The absolutely brilliant cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine has progressive Internet sites up in arms.

      It’s hilarious that CNN has picked it up also (others too I’m sure)and they will have the pundits on to discuss it, brilliant!!!, more air play, more people read Obambi’s past including his criminal friends. :)

      • Dave_Not_For_Obama

        BTW, I want a t-shirt with that New Yorker cover, lol. Do they license their art?, anybody know? It would be a classic.

        Any suggestions for a caption?

        • roseeriter

          Caption: Will the real Obama and Michelle please stand up. or

          Truth or consequences?

          • Dawnelle

            I’ve got one

            LOYALTY TO WHO(M)?
            OR
            UNITY OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE

            • Dawnelle

              LOL OR 2

              DOH

        • Lou

          caption is “I was just messing with you”~quote~Barack Obama

        • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

          How about, “…don’t worry, we’re just messin’ with ya!”

        • Sprout

          I’d rather have the picture right off this site on a shirt. Larry has taken the satire to an even higher level, making it much more accurate and much more hard hitting than the original, which was quite a feat!
          Great job Larry, truely a work of art!

          • derridog

            Me Too! Larry, come on and make a fortune. We’ll all buy one!

      • Gary McGowan

        Obama was used to (try to) push Hillary out. Period. Unelectable throw-away. Hillary only candidate who will potentially employ FDR-like policies to handle currently accelerating monetary-financial collapse and attendant imposition of fascism. Soros (as typical representative of mega-financiers and WTO, etc.) and his groups strongly financially supported Obama from state leglis days.

        We must defend Hillary from mega-financier free-trade scum who intend to impose an as yet unidentified “compromise/unity” candidate during the late August convention. THAT candidate will lead the USA and the world to hell.

        • destardi

          Gary, your post is absolutely, 100% correct!

          • Gary McGowan

            Thank you. I didn’t figure it out on my own.

            Search “…while a nation goes speculation crazy the people neglect to think of fundamental principles.” (FDR said that.) and stream or download the video. Use the Political Action Committee (pac) site source. It’s worth downloading the mp4 hi-res, even if it takes an hour with a low speed connection.

        • NoBigotry

          We must defend Hillary from mega-financier free-trade scum who intend to impose an as yet unidentified “compromise/unity” candidate during the late August convention. THAT candidate will lead the USA and the world to hell.

          She lost her run so she does not need to divorce Bill if she does not want to.

    • tish

      Now will the dems stop blocking us from using our resources? or will they continue there communist ways, so that their friends, Putin and China take our oil?offshore drilling
      By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago
      WASHINGTON – In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well.
      ADVERTISEMENT

      The president plans to officially lift the ban and then explain his actions in a Rose Garden statement, White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
      There are two prohibitions on offshore drilling, one imposed by Congress and another by executive order signed by former President Bush in 1990. The current president, trying to ease market tensions and boost supply, called last month for Congress to lift its prohibition before he did so himself.
      But Perino said Bush no longer wants to wait. She pinned blame on the leaders of the Democratic Congress, noting that no action has been taken on this issue.
      “They haven’t even held a single hearing,” Perino said. “So we are going to move forward, and hopefully that will spur action by the Congress.”
      Asked if Bush’s action alone will lead to more oil drilling, Perino said, “In terms of allowing more exploration to go forward? No, it does not.”
      The president, in his final months of office, has responded to record gas-prices with a series of proposals, including more oil exploration. None would have immediate impact on prices at the pump, according to White House officials, who say there is no quick fix. But starting action now would help, they say.
      Bush’s proposal echoes a call by Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, to open the Continental Shelf for exploration. Democrat Barack Obama has opposed the idea and instead argued for helping consumers with a second economic stimulus package including energy rebates, as well as stepped up efforts to develop alternative fuels and more fuel-efficient automobiles.
      “If offshore drilling would provide short-term relief at the pump or a long-term strategy for energy independence, it would be worthy of our consideration, regardless of the risks,” spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. “But most experts, even within the Bush administration, concede it would do neither. It would merely prolong the failed energy policies we have seen from Washington for thirty years.”
      Congressional Democrats have rejected the push to lift the drilling moratorium, accusing the president of hoping the U.S. can drill its way out a problem.
      Bush says offshore drilling could yield up to 18 billion barrels of oil over time, although it would take years for production to start. Bush also says offshore drilling would take pressure off prices over time. In addition, the president has proposed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, lifting restrictions on oil shale leasing in the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and easing the regulatory process to expand oil refining capacity.
      Congressional Democrats, joined by some GOP lawmakers from coastal states, have opposed lifting the prohibition that has barred energy companies from waters along both the East and West coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A succession of presidents, from Bush’s father — George H.W. Bush — to Bill Clinton, have sided against drilling in these waters, as has Congress each year for 27 years. Their goal has to been to protect beaches and coastal states’ tourism economies.

      • Elspeth

        And the oil drilling equipment is WHERE on the cover?

        ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • mahaska

        and this relates to the New Yorker cover How??

        • mahaska

          Oh wait, I get it. You cut and pasted the wrong item. duh

    • Santiago

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tSVAj8Vt0

      More Flip Flopping, under the bus stuff!

    • mahaska

      bo is pissin’ and moanin’ that the cover is tasteless. Oh, like call women “hoes”?

    • NoBigotry

      I agree it is satire – it was a direct attack on the bigotry and stupid accusations seen here each day. The questions asked to the New Yorker related to whether the bigots would be too stupid to see it. Looking at what you have done to the cover and your comments the answer is yes.

  • http://paganpower.wordpress.com/ PaganPower

    Awesome addition of Bernie mac. GREAT statement!

  • missE

    Thanks Kirk,

    When I was scrolling down and saw Bernie Mac I was in the middle of swallowing my drink and now some of it is on my shirt.

    • HARP

      I do believe that is arugula on the mantel.

      • Isolde

        Is that the possum seal on the rug? It is not the Presidential seal.

      • http://deleted AnninCa

        I hadn’t noticed the arugula until you pointed it out last night.

        Funny.

        I don’t sign all petitions or follow the directions to jam sites.

        I think that’s stupid, frankly.

        Ditto for the Obamabots on the cover.

        It’s printed. It’s distributed. It’s over.

        Deal.

  • catherine

    Frredom of speech- Obama people- let it alone or your free speech will be next.

  • mimi65

    absolutely brilliant !!

    • Dawnelle

      Hahahahha! That’s GREAT Kirk!

      and an fyi to PUMAS I just got this…

      Will Bower sent a message to the members of PUMA / Just Say NO DEAL.

      ——————–
      Subject: PUMA/Just Say NO DEAL to be on “Political Pistachio Radio” — Tonight

      PUMA/Just Say NO DEAL to be on “Political Pistachio Radio (with Douglas V. Gibbs)”, Tonight at 10pm EST !!

      Good morning, PUMAs!

      PUMA/Just Say NO DEAL will be the guest on “Political Pistachio Radio (with Douglas V. Gibbs)”, tonight (Monday), July 14th at 10pm EST.

      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/politicalpistachio/2008/07/15/Political-Pistachio

      We’ll be discussing Andrea Shea King’s (very well-written) article about PUMA/Just Say No Deal at WorldNetDaily:

      http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69294

      So please tune in!

      Thank you,

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      • Lou

        In Obama World, Pumas don’t matter, they are irrelevant, and will never be part of the “New Democratic Party”. The only people that Dean and Obama consider to be real Democrats are those who unequivocally agree with whatever policies the party’s candidate adopts. There is no room for dissent, no room for individual thinking and no room for steadfast values. In Obama world, there are no steadfast values, only positions and power; positions that will shift based upon which crowd you are pandering too, and positions that will shift in order to gain political power. In Obama world, campaign supporters are to accept whatever lies and broken promises occur, so long as ultimate power is obtained. But then again, Dean & Obama have yet to figure out that we live in the real world.
        http://www.politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/07/dean-compares-clinton-supporters-to-his.html

  • vonay

    Hah……..This picture tells a thousand truths regardless of the “satire” claim.

    Just whose fault is it that millions of Americans are
    against Obama being president?

    It’s Obama’s fault.

    He should have thrown his anti american friends, his terrorist friends, and his racist friends under the bus years ago.

    …And they tell us Obama is intelligent?? He must have been “bamboozled”!!!

    • http://deleted AnninCa

      Wow……then you’re like the Republicans about Hillary, in my opinion.

      I hate this kind of divisiveness.

      I liked the article. It was realistic.

      I don’t like the fear-mongering left.

      I don’t like the fear-mongering Obama-haters.

      Moderate here! Don’t egg us!

      We’re not into either side.

  • roseeriter

    Well, I think its a good thing that the MSM/New Yorker etc., gets a taste of the Obama thugs, live and personal. Then maybe the MSM will finally start seeing and hearing what most of us anti-Obama already know and REPORT the TRUTH about the sham Obama man.

    • DeaninMI

      I’ll give a fist bump to that reseeriter!

      • roseeriter

        bump back at ya! ><
        :-)

        • http://deleted imustprotest

          Oh yeah! That’s probably why there’s a scarcity of bots here lately…they’re all whining to the New Yorker…”you’re racist” “you’re really repugs”!! Wahwahwha…

    • http://youtube.com/user/NLee777 N. Lee

      Yea I know about the thug mentality. Yesterday a bambi supporter called me a most horrible name. I can’t recall ever being talked to that way, EVER.

      They are disgusting people with no morals or honor. To put it bluntly, they have mouth of poop.
      Where’s the soap!?

    • mahaska

      Hmm didn;t think of that. It might be a good thing. Let them see what stupid bullies they are.

  • Anian

    Wow great cartoon!!!!! For all those bitchboys and complaint_ugly_fat_ass_obamabots hey guys don’t be psychos that this is humor and for example I don’t feel offended for this kind of jokes. Humor sense up guys!

    • nancysabet

      Great carton, I love it. 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

      • Lou

        I want a print and a t-shirt of this artwork..
        Let’s raise some PUMA money with this.

    • mahaska

      Yeah, get over it.

  • Havoc

    This is a great way to address the absurd perceptions that many people have of the Obama’s. As offensive as it may be to the truth it does shed light on the biases of the voting public.

    • roseeriter

      With satire comes a double-edge sword.. Think about it. There’s a lot of truth in that cartoon, good and bad. ;-)

      NOBAMA!

      • mahaska

        and satire doesn’t work without truth.

    • no waffles aka drkate

      the article is most damaging to him, tho. trouble is, even Obama didn’t get it that it was satire. so of course he’s going to focus on the cover and not what the article says.

      good bye, Obambi.

      He will be done and exposed within a couple of weeks. He will drop like a stone in the polls…trailing McCain by the August convention.

      • blech

        I’m not sure how you know what’s going to happen. Me, I thought that Clinton was a lock for the nomination and would sweep Super Tuesday. But she won fewer delegates from Super Tuesday than Obama and then went on a big losing streak which put her irremediably in the hole in pledged delegates.

        • Zee

          Shouldn’t you be over at millionaire Markos blog, urging him to cough up his $2000 now that Obama’s campaign manager is whining that they’re hurtin’ for funds?

          Yep, it’s hard to keep the money and votes coming in now that the rethuglicans have accomplished their goal of keeping Hillary from winning the nominatinon.

          But then again, if you weren’t SCARED SHITLESS she may still be the nominee you and your soiled DEPENDS wouldn’t be here stinkin’ this place up, now would you?

          • Dave_Not_For_Obama

            If Obambi is down 10 to 20 points by the time of the convention, things could get interesting,very interesting indeed.

            All I can say is, DON’T GIVE ONE CENT TO OBAMBI, SQUEEZE HIM DRY!!!

        • mahaska

          There are two things I can’t figure out. How people can quit paying rent and still stay in the house with the landlord pounding on the door.
          The other is how a guy who has more than half the country laughing at him and making fun of him can think he will be the president.

    • Obama is a bum

      It is a great way to manifest Obama’s true character.

  • MrMike

    So the Kossacks are spewing fountains of Cheetos crumbs at their monitors in outrage? Works for me.

    • Dawnelle

      HUGE GIGGLE! ME 2!

      friggen hypocrites need to eat chit

  • In Vino Veritas

    At least the reaction of the loony Kos Kids isn’t as extreme as the Muslims that gathered in protests in European cities in reaction to the cartoons published by the Jyllands-Posten. I haven’t seen any signs yet that say behead those who mock the prophet, but the whining has been just as shrill.

  • bmc

    Obama asked for it. His ghetto humor is coming back to haunt him. He’s invoking JayZ’s brush-off in speeches; playing rap music at rallies (99 problems but a bitch ain’t one) and inviting Bernie Mac to add a little ghetto spice to his fundraisers.

    ferchrisesakes. Just think of it. This is not what America needs–a man so puffed up with his own KOOL that he thinks what this nation needs is jokes about HOs, Rap Music on his iPod, and Bernie Mac hosting White House functions.

    How utterly humiliating for the Democratic Party. Our “presumptive” nominee refuses to attend a town-hall event to speak to military members, but wants to hold a mass rally at the Brandenburg gate. He’s not only a liar, he’s a coward; but he’s an arrogant coward.

    He is so eaten up with his own arrogance, he cannot even see how ridiculous he looks–indeed, how alarming he looks–to the average american. No one over the age of 30 could possibly view this nominee as SERIOUS.

    http://www.contrariancommentary.com/community/Home/tabid/36/mid/363/newsid363/241/Default.aspx

    • Zee

      Amen!

      • mahaska

        Can’t you just see the inuaguration ball? men with their pants falling down, black Escalades parked everywhere.

    • American Woman

      Your ghetto comment was right on…flipping a former first lady the finger doesn’t exactly transcend respect to our young people either. Obama is not Presidential material…maybe he could go back to the Senate and rehabilitate himself and really do something to make a positive impact on his district..he could start with some speaches at his church…

      I used to throw those rap dics out the window when I would find them in my car…I hated that my son would listen to that trash..but at 23 even my son no longer listens to it …I don’t want a President who does..

      • Dave_Not_For_Obama

        Comment by American Woman | 2008-07-14 12:14:04

        Your ghetto comment was right on…flipping a former first lady the finger doesn’t exactly transcend respect to our young people either.

        Exactly! If the Obambi prick had done that to my wife I would have broke all the fingers on that hand of his. Obambi has no class or a proper sense of decorum , yet he acts like a king besmirched when he does not get his way, classic narcissism at play with him. He deserves the New Yorker article, he owns it, lol.

        Fist bumping, tell me what rational world leader does that, it diminishes the office of President, it’s a childish embarrassment.

        Flag burning, should be nothing new to Obambi, his long time friend Ayers was great for burning flags and Obambi has yet to admonish Ayers.

        Michelle with an AK-47, reminds me off, for the first time in my life, lol. She said it, she wears it!!

        Obambi with headdress, so what’s the big deal, Obambi in fact was photographed in much the same outfit while visiting his Muslim bro’s, lol. If the headdress fits then so be it, lol.

        • Dawnelle

          THAT FIST bump thing reminds me of

          a HAND SHAKE (in blood) among gentlemen!

          it’s freakin scary dude

        • Sprout

          in response to “What rational world leader does that [fist bump]”
          isn’t there a pic of bush doing the fist bump with a kid floating around the internet somewhere? LMAO!!

  • anonymous

    So the Obamabots said nothing about all the satire about Hillary and now they whine about the satire about Obama?

    • blech

      And the Clinton campaign didn’t exactly speak up on behalf of Obama when the smears started circulating.

      • HARP

        Iron my shirts

        Nutcracker

        Any of this ring a bell,ding dong.

        • squeazy

          Don’t be worry, She’s going to iron yours nuts, little bitchboy! :D

          • http://deleted imustprotest

            hmm…I’m still trying to think of any “smears” that have been out there about the selected one.

      • Zee

        You are REALLY earning your pay, today, huh troll? Nose to our buttcracks at every turn.

        • Dawnelle

          lol Zee

          I wish I had an ignore button here like at the talk radio link! That’s a gREAT feature!

      • Obama is a bum

        I did not hear Obama apologizing to the Clintons on the disgraceful rubbish spewing out of Wright and Phleger.

        • mahaska

          You know, before Bill Clinton ran for president, I had never heard of him. While he ran I found he was the man for the job. And he was. they were the best years of my life. Had a great job and if it wasn’t great I could have gone out and got a different job the next day. Lo and behold, I come to find out that Bill and Hillary are totally responsible for everything that has happened in the world since the days of the dinosaurs. Whoda thunk it.

      • TeakWoodKite

        blech,
        that is a lame lame lame Worm. So it’s Clinton’s fault? So if BO’s starts the racist crap rolling and BO gets called on it. Clinton is gonna roll over and say thank you to the attacker?

        Please keep going. BO is an immoral fool. Apparently he unable to defend himself and needs Clinton “protect” him…that’s funny as hell.

      • Karma

        Yeah…but the difference is Obama is still upset that Hillary didn’t carry his water for him on HIS issues.

        Why should she when he lied about her about her husband being racists?

        The guy is a walking talking spineless contradiction. He expects people to fight with their hands tied hand behind their backs while he is delivering body blows and head shots. He is such a coward he had the clear the rolls in Illinois just to run.

        Ugh! How anyone could respect the guy who must subvert democracy in order to win, is beyond me.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        why should they? obama trashed hrc for telling the truth about him. now he wants her help?

        too bad, so sad. Obambi is going to have to do something else but whine and play victim. He brought this entirely upon himself, and doesn’t have the intelligence or gumption to roll with the punches, treat it as satire and move on.

        he is not ready for primetime. If he can’t handle this, how is he going to handle the republican attack? He won;t. He can’t play victim for everything!

        poetic justice for this poor excuse for a candidate.

        • mahaska

          Truth is anathema to barack.

      • http://ObamaZEROballs jjran

        Hillary cancelled a debate to be hosted by FOX News because Fox News made a tasteless jok about Obama being Osama… She was defending Obama from attacks. What did Obama do when MSNBC & NBC started throwing all those insults remarks at Hillary..? Obama said nothing. Infact he encourged it…..Obama appeared at Chris Mathews’ show and laughed it up….. What a fraud.

        Hillary stay away from Obama as far as possible. Let him sink like a stone into his own shit…. NOBAMA…

        • Dawnelle

          good point

          now I’m going to start getting really upset if I see her or Bill get on their rally wagon

          I may HURL

          bbl

      • mahaska

        And they would do that why? because she was treated so sweetly and gently by that bunch? What goes around,comes around. Time for bo to quit.

  • Lee12

    Ditto it is brilliant!

    Oh what is the matter with the Obots? they should be laughing…it is satire. Can’t they take a joke?

    Karma…

    Hillary Clinton for President 2008!

  • http://www.despair.com/changewinds.html Smilin’ Jim

    “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

    Did Oscar Wilde somehow know of the “whitey” tape Johnson reported?

    It will be an interesting October.

  • Annie Oakley

    If these low-information voters could muster themselves past the attention-getting cover, they’d find the piece actually handles The One with kid gloves.

    • Andy

      Agreed.

  • blech

    Who cares? It’s completely meaningless in the vast scheme of things.

    Obama will probably win because the Republican brand is mud and McCain hasn’t done a good job organizing in the states, while Obama has the best ground game ever. If not, it won’t be due to the NYer cover.

    • Dawnelle

      No! No! No! Not GOD BLESS AMERICAN

      GOD D*&^ AMERICA!! THE US of KKKA!!

      it won’t be the New Yorker

      No, No, NO! ;-)

      • Dawnelle

        A M E R I C A! :-)

      • blech

        Maybe that will be it – But it sure as heck won’t be the NYer.

        This is a waste of bandwidth to talk about.

        • Dawnelle

          r u the “waste” management police?

          go have a beer or something
          wait, r u old enough?

        • Steven Mather

          Perhaps you should inform the participants of the Kos and the Huffpo because we are almost speechless compared to their commentary. Then again, you are doing a Winston-like job for Big Brother, so you are probably not allowed to leave.

          Obama’s FISA support must make you giddy, due to the future job prospects it would provide under his presidency.

      • mahaska

        My sadness about the kids of bo is that their attending the church of god damn america insures that they are raising the next generation of racists. Another generation of hate whitey. It’s never going to stop.

    • no waffles aka drkate

      blech. wishful hopeydopey changey thinking.

      obama is toast. he will be burnt toast come august.

      and the democratic party…what a laughing stock for putting all their eggs on this one baracktracking idiot.

      • blech

        A year ago I thought Clinton would sweep the early primaries and I was wrong. What did you think? Do you have a great history of making political predictions?

        • TeakWoodKite

          blech “I was wrong”. Keep saying it.

          • Dawnelle

            LOL Teak (ribrib) good one!

        • Lou

          Never predicted Obama would steal the caucus election no..it never crossed our minds that a Dem would steal votes like he did. Of course he isn’t a Dem or a Repub. He doesn’t like labels as he says. He stands for nothing American.
          OKEY DOKEY

    • Susan

      I think the democrat brand is mud here. No scruples. They are losers and always have been except for a Clinton.

      Dems=losers, losers, losers.

      What other brand do they portray???

      • Dawnelle

        wait there are more

        STrickland
        Sheila Jackson Lee
        um um who all else?

        I know there are more!

      • Sally

        Put Clinton on the ticket if you really want to see a BIG lose!!

        • Hope Floats

          I agree. She should run on her own in 2012. No one would support the more qualified candidate who won the popular vote propping up the candidate who was unable to secure the required pledged delegates. I think Hillary should go back to the Senate and keep doing what she does best. Let Obama implode.

        • Sprout

          Put Clinton on the top of the ticket and Rendell under her with Obama out of the picture and she’ll win in a LANDSLIDE

    • Obama is a bum

      The Obama brand is crap — this guy is a disaster.

      • barack who?

        When the Barackadential Seal was unveiled, my first thought was: Good Lord, what next? Well in the three or so weeks since that fiasco, we have been treated to one faux pas after another. First the General Wesley Clark on Face the Nation mistake…Then the “You vill speak Spanish, and you vill like it!” speech, closely followed by Jesse Jackson’s “Nuts” comment – now this illustration supposed to be satire but interpreted as One Day in the Life of the Wannabe Prez.

        Agree. This guy is a disaster. Slo-mo train wreck.

        • mahaska

          wish the train wreck would speed up.

    • TeakWoodKite

      vast scheme? Ruh Roh!

    • beebop

      I guess that explains why he is -$70K for June and down in the Newsweek poll to even after being up double digits? hahahahahaha …

    • Lou

      Here’s for Obama’s ground game-a comment from one of his supporters..

      I’ll still vote for you, but the excitement I had for you has dissipated. It’s a tough economy and I have more worthwhile things to spend my money on than just another slippery politician’s campaign.

      • TeakWoodKite

        I’ll still vote for you, but the excitement I had for you has dissipated

        BB King; The Thrill is Gone;

        The thrill is gone
        It’s gone away for good
        Oh, the thrill is gone baby
        Baby its gone away for good
        Someday I know I’ll be over it all baby
        Just like I know a man should

        You know I’m free, free now baby
        I’m free from your spell
        I’m free, free now
        I’m free from your spell
        And now that it’s over
        All I can do is wish you well

        .

  • anonymous

    I recall reading here that Michelle said Obama’s mother was a single mother. Now I saw this:

    Barack Obama panics: Andy Martin’s book forces Obama to admit he is illegitimate

    MARTIN CALLS OBAMA A “GIRLY MAN” FOR USING HIS WIFE TO ADMIT HE’S ILLEGITIMATE; OBAMA’S NO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ANDY SAYS

    (NEW YORK)(July 14, 2008) Legendary Chicago Internet columnist and Obama author Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Monday, July 14th to drop the first of several bombs on the Obama campaign: Obama is illegitimate and his parents were never married.

    • blech

      And tell me why anyone would care.

      • Dawnelle

        because it totally feeds into why he’s so DAMN insecure and such a HORRID flip flop, etc, etc, etc, etc!

        puhlease! It’s makes everything more crystal

        • blech

          More crystal?

          And he’s certainly no more a flip-flopper than John McCain has been on oil drilling, immigration, the Bush tax cuts, anti-torture legislation, etc.

          • Dawnelle

            oh hail yes

            Obiwan has flipped more in the last year than John has in 20!

            you expect change just not that quick

            • Sprout

              he even got his slogan backwards!
              It’s not “Change we can believe in”, it’s “We can believe he’s gonna change…every 5 minutes”

          • Obama is a bum

            Everybody should have the sense to flip on drilling when gas goes from $2 to $4 in a year with no relief in site. When will Obama advocate drilling, when gas is so high that most of us have to ride bicyles like the Chinese did 20 years ago? Obama is a fish out of water.

            • JozefAL

              I doubt Obama will ever want more drilling. He’ll probably propose that we build more nuclear plants so that all the oil and gas that power companies use to produce electricity can be freed up for us to put in our cars.
              Then, to completely reduce all our oil and gas use, he’ll suggest that the auto makers develop cars that can run on a nuclear fuel cell (using the nuclear plants’ “spent uranium” as the source) so all our American-produced crude can be sold to Japan and China to bring down the national debt.

              • Obama is a bum

                Obama will propose we act like the Flintstones and pedal our cars.

          • http://deleted imustprotest

            and he’s certainly no more a flip flopper??? What about change??? What about hope??? What about fresh??? What about “fresh”??? Words, just words….belch you make me want to barf.

            • Dawnelle

              lmao I kept thinking DRYER SHEETS

              while you were saying

              What about FRESH???

              lmao

            • mahaska

              that reminds me I need to CHANGE the litter box.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        if obambi had told the truth months ago, he might get a sympathy factor. but he lied, wrote a book and lied, and sent his wife out to tell the truth.

        that is the problem–if he is lying about his own background, what kind of confidence can we have in him.

        mark my words: the next bombshell is that obama was born outside the united states. his fake hawaiian birth certificate is one more reason to know this man is a liar.

        the kos reaction? they are mad because they know the “satire” is the truth, and that they can’t explain obama’s terrorist connections.

        ha ha ha ha ha ha

        • Dawnelle

          ya know that cover could have been misconstrued had Bambi not appeared in that whole white GARB in a picture (turban and all)

          I loved the guerrilla warfare look they gave Michelle. TOTALLY HER!

          • rwc

            I can see Michelle blowing up gov’t buildings like McVeigh given her hatred of this country and white Americans.

            The onion hat/Muslim look really fits Obama. After all he was a Muslim up till his twenties.

            • mahaska

              I hope he doesn’t take ayers with him to Hawaii. Blow up the records?

      • roseeriter

        Larry Sinclair thinks Obama’s a girly man too..in a different way.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        because he lied about it and made shit up. It throws all of his “story” into question. He is lying about his own history…even a bigger liar that GW.

        we don’t need any more liars in the white house, particularly liars who only care about themselves.

        preen on, obambi. the shine is wearing off.

        • barack who?

          From the link:
          This is also why he keeps his white grandmother a virtual prisoner; she knows too, and she won’t lie.

          Typical white lady prisoner.

      • Hope Floats

        His parents weren’t in love. His mom was a crazy, underage hippie chick from a well-to-do family. She was conducting an anthropology experiment when she got knocked up by the married Muslim man from Kenya. He was never even there. There was no ditching when Obama was two. And he worships this guy. Didn’t go see his dying mother; he still blames her for making daddy go away. She “punished him with a baby.” Now Obama is a ticking time bomb, a basket case riddled by insecurities. Just like GWB, he has daddy issues.

      • Deelee

        Hey Blech, So your boy is illegitimate? This sure has a nice ring to it. Say it out loud, it’ll make you feel real good.

        “BARRY THE (LYING) BASTARD”

        • A. Nony Mouse

          I’m beginning to understand where the Obama hatred is really coming from. You sound exactly like the conservative bigots of my childhood. All the negativity about Obama fits that pattern to the letter. Disparaging comments about Obama’s race, unfounded allegations about his religion, sordid speculations about his sexual preference, self-righteous judgements about his mother’s unacceptable sexual behavior, devaluing him as a person because of legitimacy… Somebody even managed to get in a crack about hippies.

          I remember you guys.

          Of course I could be wrong. Maybe everything you say is satire.

          • kevin

            Most of us talk about things like:
            Qualifications – or the lack thereof
            Experience – very little
            Judgement – as in poor
            Character – as in questionable
            Associations – as in his almost everyone around him
            Changing Postitions – FISA, Gun control…

            nice try troll

    • suthrn

      WOW!!! thanks for the link… maybe this is why his birth certificate is all messed up…

    • Lou

      I’ve been saying this all along. Stanley never married and Obama is a bastard child of an Arab Muslim from Kenya. He is bamboozling the AA’s.
      I mean he even looks muslim with his features and all.

  • Perry Logan

    What did you expect? These are the dweebs who think “South Park” is brilliant.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Ro3TATqG8

  • Andy

    Excellent edition of the cartoon with Bernie Mac.
    It is BRILLIANT, I LOVE IT!!

    Thanks Kirk.

    • Obama gave me Tourettes

      Yes! MORE PLEASE!

      • Dawnelle

        ROFLMWBO!!

        OHMY GAWD

        I love that nickname!!!

        obamagavemetourettes

        ROFLMAO!! holy moly momma I’m ON the floor with that one!!

        it’s friggen true boi gdmofo i never cussed so much

  • katmandu

    A question from Politico today, as raised by the McCain campaign:

    “In today’s New York Times, Barack Obama outlined his Iraq plan. Isn’t this the op-ed he should have written after going to Iraq? If he already has a plan, why is he going to Iraq? These are questions Barack Obama will need to answer. Oh and one other thing, despite his re-write today, when Barack Obama said he opposed the Surge, he said it was because it wouldn’t work and would actually increase violence.”

    • blech

      What a lame press release. McCain’s basically saying that a) Obama should go to Iraq, b) Obama should change his mind c) Obama shouldn’t go to Iraq, d) Obama shouldn’t change his mind.

      All at the same time!

      • roseeriter

        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.

        quote from the New Yorker article..something Obama understands.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        blech. no, McCain is right here. OBambi has done nothing. he is on the wrong side here, as one unreported, re-recorded anti war speech does not a president make.

        he’s going to iraq precisely so he can change his mind and tell us he was right all along and we weren’t listening.

        he should have had a least one hearing while he was chairman of the committee.

        too lazy to do anything but preen.

      • ohio

        Having a son serving right now, and served for the surge, Obama does not know what he is talking about. But I’m sure you already know that. Now admitting that is the first step to recovery.

        • Elspeth

          Thank you and your son for his service.

        • Dawnelle

          ^5 to your Son and thank him for his service from this Vet please! :-)

        • Sprout

          not a fan of the ‘war’, but I am a fan of the brave men and women fighting it.
          I always support the military, it’s their “commander in chief that I despise”
          Thank you to your son for his bravery and patriotism even when our leaders aren’t looking out for us, our men and women in uniform are.

      • Obama is a bum

        Belch, McCain gave Obama a gift when he told him he should go to Iraq since he has not been there for two years. If McCain wanted to really damage Obama he would have waited and dumped this on Obama during a debate and embarrased him with millions of people watching Obama stumble around trying to explain his ineptitude.

    • Hope Floats

      Basically, McCain is calling Obama out on his BS. We have heard so many Iraq plans. The 16 month timetable. Then that would be irresponsible. He would meet with JCS and see about getting us out. He would talk with generals on the ground and assess the situation. Then he might have another idea when he returns from Iraq. That made his polls plummet. Headlines for a week said he flip flopped on Iraq. He held two press conferences in a day saying that no one understands him, because they just don’t listen. Then he said that his plan was unchanged, and he’d been saying the same thing all along.

  • ritamary

    I just tried to send a message to the New Yorker but the server is down. Here is what I wanted to tell them:

    The New Yorker and your cover artist have much courage! More power to you!

    The Obama cult has been telling Hillary supporters to lighten up for some time now. They say we are just so uneducated we are unable to recognize satire when we see it. We are humorless, bitter, old, typical white people, headed toward the ash heap of history.

    Now the shoe is on the other foot, so Obamabots need to take a chill pill and relax. Don’t the Obama folks recognize a little harmless satire when they see it?
    PUMA ’08!

    • Zee

      I’m so glad mine went through!

      They are sending back an automated message EXPLAINING to all the Obamadweebs that it is SATIRE.

    • Typical white nurse

      I just sent one a few minutes ago through the second posted link–hope they are getting alot of positive feedback for that cartoon, it was freaking fantastic.

  • fred

    MEDIA ALERT: Heidi Li Feldman, co-founder of The Denver Group, will be on Your World with Neil Cavuto today. The show starts at 4:00 EST on FOX.

    • TeaMug

      Do you know if Hillary has cleared the debt yet?

      • Dave_Not_For_Obama

        Last I heard it was close to being cleared this weekend, still also waiting for official confirmation.

  • TeaMug

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,565708,00.html

    The above link is an update:

    “Conflict over Berlin Visit Becomes US Campaign Issue”

    Newspaper: Spiegal online international

  • Hank Collins

    Muwahahahaha …. this just in from puffpost …

    Obama’s Fundraising “woes”:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/obama-campaign-manager-ai_n_112558.html

    • Lou

      If bidness keep goin´ the way it has been, we all be in the poor house soon…obama=free gov´t cheese

      • mahaska

        They don’t even give cheese anymore. canned green beans and rice.

  • roseeriter

    Ooh, another Baractrack:

    http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_I_used_poor_phrasing_on_0713.html
    Obama: I used ‘poor phrasing’ on Jerusalem

  • Zee

    Has anyone sent JOHN a link to this?

    Here’s to him and to all the squealing Obamabratz:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=_hnylJ2scVU

  • Sassy

    Great cartoon…very realistic! I think maybe “O” is a coward…that is one really big gun that his “oh” brought to the fight! HA!HA!HA!

  • Obama is a bum

    Get over it Obama!

    The McCain campaign is probably dumb enough to fight Obama’s fight for him. McCain will probably get on TV and say “I respect Senator Obama blah blah blah. McCain seems to be handing Obama this election.

    • ssmith

      well,

      mccain will not pile on… why do that???.. the fraud is imploding on his own… they are really not fighting the fraud’s fight for him, they are just not going along with it, in the public eye

      the fraud looks like some petulant child, whiny, weak… mccain comes off looking strong, a grownup and presidential..

      keep complaining fraud!!! that’s what you are good at!

      • Obama is a bum

        McCain should just keep his mouth shut.

        • Dawnelle

          seriously because BOTH GUYS SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

          RISE HILLARY RISE!!!

          THESE DOOFUS LOSERS WILL WRECK US

        • mahaska

          I went to McCain’s site and told them
          Stay moderate
          Don’t say anything stupid
          Wait for the landslide.

  • Betty

    Good description:
    The cartoon shows Barack Obama giving a fist bump to Michelle Obama. He is dressed in Arab garb and she looks like Angela Davis with her ‘fro and an AK-47 strapped over her shoulder. Looking over the couple is a smiling portrait of Osama bin Laden. In the fireplace, an American flag is burning.

    Just add: with his big ear turned to catch the roal of the crowd, and a sly eye watching for approval of his blackness.

    • blech

      What does “approval of his blackness” mean, by the way?

      • Zee

        It means they LAUGHED HIS ASS out of the “community” when he first came to Chicago and tried to “organize” them. They then told him he might try BEING a part of the community first and that’s why he “found Jesus” — if you can call joining Wright’s political microphone-humping organization “Christian.”

        Obama has always been tortured by his identity. As he wrote in his book…although his friends confirmed it was largely fabrication and they didn’t discuss their racial identity.

        • http://deleted imustprotest

          Oh belch, it’s so cute how you try to tease out racism in every comment…your mommy must be so proud of you. Do they give stickers at camp obamaland?

  • blech

    Monday, July 14, 2008

    Barack Obama has more than doubled his lead over John McCain to eight percentage points in the economic battleground state of Michigan, with much of his new support coming from voters who have moved away from the Republican hopeful.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/michigan/election_2008_michigan_presidential_election

    • no waffles aka drkate

      blech. good name. sorry this is just a pissant, temporary bump in the polls of one state. the rest of the news ain’t so rosy for baracktrack.

      obambi is going down, finally.

      • blech

        In what state is he doing worse than you expected?

        He’s leading in poll averages in MI, OH, PA, CO, NM, IO, and NH — all swing states, more than half of which Bush won in 2004. And McCain isn’t leading in ANY state that Kerry won.

    • Zee

      The TOPIC is you bots have no sense of humor and as evidenced by your presence are throwing a fit over a bit of satire that was meant to parody others!

      • blech

        I’m not throwing a fit at all. I think the cover is absolutely meaningless in the course of the election.

        • http://deleted imustprotest

          Well, if YOU say so belch, it must be true.

          • Dawnelle

            iT WILL BE important in the “scheme of things” if (and when) he loses the election

            THEN the cover will live in infamy and every history book will have it in their fold!

            forever a – men

        • mahaska

          then why are you here flapping your trap?

    • obamaphobe

      That Michigan Poll was taken last Thursday….much has happened since then Blech. Stay tuned, the truth is out there somewhere.

  • Lucinda

    Have you seen the polls today? I’m not a great believer in polls, but I know that some of you are, so I’ll post this.
    Newsweek has McCain leading for the first time all summer. (That’s a drop from the 15pt. lead Obama had a few weeks ago in that poll). Here’s a link to the story: http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obamas-lead-has-faded-poll-says/20080714092009990001?icid=100214839x1205582309x1200278639
    Rasmussen (sp?) has Obama up to just 2 points. Gallup has him up by just 3 points.

    • blech

      Newsweek doesn’t show McCain leading. It shows Obama with a three point lead.

      • Lucinda

        Well, whoop-de-doo! A 3-point lead. That’s something to write home about.
        The story’s point is that Obama dropped from a 15-point lead to a 3-point lead and with the margin of error, McCain could actually be in the lead.

        • kellie

          I like how when he was up by 15 you didn’t believe this poll was real, but now that he’s only up by three you do.

          Explain please.

          • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

            I believe they got caught over sampling democrats in June…

            • kellie

              Still didn’t answer my question though…..

              • Hope Floats

                That sounded like an answer.

        • blech

          You don’t really know what margin of error means, do you?

          • no waffles aka drkate

            of course, do you?

            all of the state leads you site are all within the margin of error for the sample.

            • blech

              No they aren’t. Eight point leads are not in the margin of error.

              BTW, I used to work for a polling firm where I worked on sampling and analyzing data.

              • no waffles aka drkate

                yeah, right. And I believe you as much as I do obambi.

                and what, were you fired because you tried to make something statistically significant when it is not?

                obama is blowing his “lead” all by himself, moron. The more people get to know him, the LESS they like him.

                and he can’t find anyone to be his VP! Except some foolish republican like hagel.

                Just say “no deal”.

                I love the smell of obot fear in the morning.

              • Sprout

                if the margin of error is +/- 4 they would be.

              • mahaska

                Suuuure you did.

              • mahaska

                belch, you’re so funny

      • kellie

        Don’t bother. These people can barely read or count.

        • Lucinda

          Have you seen the polls today? I’m not a great believer in polls, but I know that some of you are, so I’ll post this.

          And evidently, you can’t read. The above is what I wrote in the first post. (Emphasis added. Maybe the bold type will help you read better.)

          • blech

            Yes, but then you mischaracterized the results of the polls, claiming that it showed McCain when it didn’t.

            • Lucinda

              I didn’t mischaracterize anything. AOL did that. Click the link. Read the story. Make up your own mind about how you want to interpret it.

              • blech

                AOL doesn’t say that McCain is leading. You did.

                You know, I’ve found in my life that people gain respect for me if, when I make a mistake (and everyone makes mistakes sometimes), I just go ahead and admit it.

                • no waffles aka drkate

                  why don’t you tell that to your guy Obambi? Because he’s made plenty of mistakes and never owned up to them. He runs from his own supporters.

                  obama is going down like the titanic. hit one iceberg, and we find the ship is not built to specs and doesn’t have the strength to withstand any dings to his image.

                  buyers remorse is slowly sinking in. hell, he isn’t even the nominee yet.

                  Cant’ wait till Denver where he loses the nomination battle. and then we’ll see him and all of you in a tantrum–your normal state.

                  Hillary or McCain 08. NO bamboozeling, lying, backtracking, dishonest obambi!

                • Lucinda

                  You know, I’ve found in my life that people gain respect for me if, when I make a mistake (and everyone makes mistakes sometimes), I just go ahead and admit it.

                  I seriously doubt that you’d ever admit you made a mistake. You still vehemently defend Obama in spite of his flip flops.
                  And really, why would you or I even care about whether or not we respect each other? I don’t know who you are, and you don’t know who I am.

                • mahaska

                  AOL is for people that don’t know any better. They charge a ridiculous amount for their cartoonish service.

              • kellie

                The nationwide polls mean nothing to me…it’s the state polls that are important.

                As of today he is ahead in Michigan by 8 points.

                If the election were held today, according to state polls he would win in a landslide.

                • http://deleted AnninCa

                  The state polls are always a bit behind the national polls.

                  NJ…?

                  Man, McCain is moving up.

                  It’s telling.

                  There are still huge numbers in the undecideds.

                  That reflects my own feelings, for sure.

                  I haven’t even begun to solidify how I will vote. It’s too far out. I have until November.

                  I am sure it won’t be Obama. That’s ALL I’m sure about.

                  I like Cythia McKinney’s platform. I don’t like her.

                  I like Nader, but he’s so passe’.

                  I like writing in Hillary, but I haven’t even researched if we can do that in CA.

                  I like leaving it blank and voting down-ticket.

                  I haven’t come to any decision. I’m more and more impressed with McCain. He’s not fancy, for sure. But I think the guy is growing on me.

                  So I don’t know, really.

                  I just am letting it unfold.

                  • kellie

                    HAHAHAHAHA!

                    Yes, please continue to live in your little fantasy world where McCain wins New Jersey!

        • no waffles aka drkate

          you are describing yourself, sweetie.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        statistical tie, within the margin of error.

        Ha Ha Ha–baracktrack has dropped 15 points in the polls when he should be ahead by that much.

        let’s just see how he continues to tank.

        meglomaniac, egomaniac, preening, arrogant coward.

        • blech

          Math is hard!

          Past poll +15 Obama
          Current poll +3 Obama

          The difference between 15 and 3 is 12, not 15.

          • http://deleted imustprotest

            What about trends? Seem that the trend is down. Not the direction the messiah would want I would imagine.

  • Tumby J

    I’m disappointed – I dropped by expecting to see at least three New Yorker covers on the front page, but I only see two. What gives?

    • blech

      Look at the other diary. There are people there saying that the cover is a plot between Obama and the NYer to get folks on the news saying that these are false smears or to buy the article which they see as insufficiently critical toward Obama.

      So I think they’re not sure if they like the cover or not.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        blech. belch. could be a plot, obambi is known for his manipulation. but it won’t get much sympathy, however.

        the article is not flattering for obambi. Both the cover and the article will backfire on him. and if it is a plot, that will backfire too, because it will be exposed.

        bambi can’t win with this.

      • Lucinda

        So I think they’re not sure if they like the cover or not.

        I think it’s freaking hilarious just like you.

        • http://deleted imustprotest

          I like the cover, I just don’t like the subject of the cover, the lying, cheating, flip flopping scumbag Oblahma.

  • kellie

    Ok, here’s the thing morons:

    Obama gets it, that’s not the problem!

    The problem is Neanderthals like you won’t even get past the cover.

    The will look at it and say: “See even the New Yorker knows he’s a radial flag burning terrorist!!”

    • ohio

      Oh here’s what we get, he’s planned this so he can “play” the victim again. Oh my, look what the New Yorker did to me, remember, I’m the funny looking one, with the funny name, and oh yea, I’m black. Wah Wah Wah. Poor victim!!!The New Yorker did this just to sell more magazines. A true match made in heaven with Obama and the New Yorker.

      • blech

        That’s some great imagination you have there.

        • ohio

          Not anymore of an imagination that you have that Obama will win in November. Now that takes some imagination.

      • mahaska

        What song was that with the refrain Poor, poor, pitiful me?

    • Karma

      Instead insulting people who disaree with you about Obama why don’t you post why he should be President?

      Everything that I have read and dislike about Obama, I read in the NYT, Wash Post, Chicago area newspapers. These represented Obama’s actions and associations, and were in the mainstream media not a political cartoon.

      So, while you insult people’s intelligence repeatedly. The fact you don’t know most of the negative information is sourced by the mainstream media. Only reveals it is really YOU who is the moron in the thread…lol.

      Now go read up on Obama so you can try and convince us why he is the best choice. Instead of insulting yourself more for knowing so little about him.

      Psst…just to let you know.

      That political cartoon is poking fun at you too…a supporter who would get so upset over a cartoon and it’s implications. Without realizing the few people who do believe it, would never vote for Obama anyway.

      You are upsetting yourself needlessly. It would seem the joke is on you.

      • Dave_Not_For_Obama

        Now go read up on Obama so you can try and convince us why he is the best choice. Instead of insulting yourself more for knowing so little about him

        Are you kidding, an ObambiBot actually reading FACTS about Obambi and his corrupt criminal friends(past and present).

        If an ObambiBot actually took the time to read Obambi’s past (and present), they would be floored and perhaps throw up at the same time in disgust, if they really had an open mind.

      • mahaska

        OMG, the voice of reason.

    • Steven Mather

      kellie,

      Please keep a copy of your post. In the future you will be able to examine your unjustified, inflated sense of self and how it factored into both your willingness to disparage fellow citizens and your inability to properly assess your candidate’s character.

      Steven

    • Obama is a bum

      What is a “radial flag burning terrorist?” You must have done time under Obama’s bus as well.

    • mahaska

      where on god’s green earth did see anyone post that?
      you’re full of merde.

  • http://itflows-jxc.blogspot.com Jesus X. Crutch

    Blech- Obama has the best ground game ever.

    I’d say his campaign gamed the system better than it’s ever been done, but then that system sucks. There won’t be any caucuses in the general.

    • blech

      This is the kind of thing I’m talking about — and you can read similar stories in lots and lots of states.

      Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is off to a more aggressive campaign in Iowa than John McCain, despite the Republican having clinched the nomination three months earlier than his rival.

      Obama has 15 campaign offices open and staffed in Iowa, while McCain is still plotting where to locate about half as many.

      Obama’s organizational advantage and the Democrats’ favorable voter registration trend has some national observers taking Iowa off the list of toss-up states.

      In the past two presidential elections, few states were determined by narrower margins than Iowa. A difference of 4,000 votes put the state in Democrat Al Gore’s column in 2000 and roughly 10,000 put it in the Republican George Bush’s four years later.

      http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080714/NEWS09/807140319

      McCain’s putting his money in ads, having run three times as many as Obama in the last month. Obama is putting his into field work, which has lots of volunteers as a force multiplier.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        lots of help those screaming obots are going to provide. you can’t win this by intimidation. This may have worked in the caucuses, but it won’t work for the general.

        watch how many turn obambi supporters away from the door.

        watch how PUMA destroys obambi. watch how obambi destroys himself.

        • blech

          Have you ever done canvassing or phone banking?

          Sure doesn’t sound like it.

          • Steven Mather

            Yes, but I’ve never been a Winston-like operative for Big Brother, like you. I imagine that you are happy about your internet job prospects in an Obama administration because of the possibilities that will open up due to his yes vote on FISA.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    In Obama’s Circle, Chicago Remains The Tie That Binds
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301904.html

  • http://cognitivecontinuity.blogspot.com coggie

    Larry, I know you can’t help being mean, but what’s up with the rest of the people here?

    • no waffles aka drkate

      who are you, donna brazile? what is about the truth that you think is hate?

      you’ve been drinking too much koolaid. might want to wake up and smell the coffee–Obama is a poor candidate and not qualified, the news is out, he is a liar, has poor judgment (to end up on the cover of this magazine, even in satire, just shows his poor judgement).

      • blech

        How is his judgment implicated in the decision of the NYer to run this cover?

        • mahaska

          If he had good judgement, there would have been no need for the cover.

      • NoBigotry

        Comment by no waffles aka drkate | 2008-07-14 12:29:21

        who are you, donna brazile? what is about the truth that you think is hate?

        you’ve been drinking too much koolaid. might want to wake up and smell the coffee–Obama is a poor candidate and not qualified, the news is out, he is a liar, has poor judgment (to end up on the cover of this magazine, even in satire, just shows his poor judgement).

        Are you that stupid not see that this cover is laughing at the likes of you?

        • WildChild

          I love that cover. BOBO and MOMO portrayed as couple of fringe-oids…. priceless

  • hootnannie

    One of the big reasons for whoever is running Obama to do so was to filch the black vote from Hillary, and a bonus was the theory that white people would be loathe to criticize or satirize a black man. Well, think again. And, bleeding-hearts, whine all you want. This fool is not going to give Hillary the actual finger and give it figuratively to all white folk without at least a little sardonic bump back at you.

  • Lin

    The Obama supporters need to lighten up.

    I can guarantee you that if Senator Clinton were the current nominee, that the New Yorker would have satirically depicted her as a witch flying around the Oval Office on her broomstick; small children being sacrificed in the blazing fire; the painting above the mantle: Bill in the midst of an orgy-frenzy…dozens of limbs, lips, and butts flailing in all their glory.

    Lighten up, Obamabots. The article was more favorable than it should have been and the cover is SATIRE.

    Grow the hell up or get out of the game.

    • Fenelon spoke

      Good point, Lin. A Hillary cover would have been much as you say. The Obambots need to lighten up.

    • blech

      I’m not complaining about it. I think it’s absolutely meaningless to the outcome of the election.

      It
      makes
      no
      difference.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        then why are you here? A little nervous perhaps?

        There is much more damaging information on Obama than a satirical magazine cover. WE don’t need the New Yorker to know that Obama is a liar and a panderer.

        This is only July, when the republican attacks haven’t even started. Obama will lose in a landslide by the time the republicans are done with him. Everyone else is going to be too embarassed to vote for someone who lied his way to the nomination.

  • http://youtube.com/user/NLee777 N. Lee

    This has to be the “sweetest” day in Obama land. That cover is priceless. Way to go New Yorker. Absolutely love it. I am speechless at the beauty.

  • CarolynKB

    Contrary to what some of the hopium smokers are saying Barack’s campaign is whining about this magazine cover, apparently they didn’t appreciate the satire. A little cheese with your whine?

    • blech

      Who said the Obama campaign didn’t issue that statement? I didn’t see anyone make that claim.

    • Zee

      Thanks for bringing it back on topic, Carolyn!

      The place is CRAWLING with trolls trying to derail the LAUGHTER!!

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Frankly, I see this cover on par with the pantsuit jokes, which Hillary took in stride. (excuse the pun)

    I personally see Obama’s response as stupid politics.

    He should follow Hillary’s footsteps on satire.

    We LOVE her pantsuits now. Why?

    Because she took the guff and kept marching on. I laugh when I see posts about how the blue was great or she’s shining in yellow.

    Hillary took a lemon and made lemonade.

    Obama should be so wise, too.

  • Zee

    See what I mean?

    Here’s Depends-wearing POOPYPANTS bringing a response down here out of line BECAUSE Carolyn tried to bring us BACK TO TOPIC, which is LAUGHING our bitter asses off at these humorless THUGS who don’t like their prophet mocked.

    • blech

      I don’t care at all, frankly. Who’s complaining on this thread?

      BTW, what is it with NQ and references to diapers?

      • Obama is a bum

        Obama is tantamount to a baby, he needs his diapers changed, needs his bottle, and needs to be burped.

    • Zee

      Not you, Ann…your post wasn’t there when I wrote this!

    • Stephanie

      It would be interesting to see how his camp would react if the satire had been poking fun at the views of his supporters, portraying him as their prophet, complete with clarion playing angels.

  • HARP

    After extensive research we have managed to video some Trolls showing up for work. Most are quite harmless but a few can be quite annoying. Caution should be exercised when approaching either one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1tikkotVU&feature=related

  • Dave_Not_For_Obama

    Bernard Parks Sr. calls for a New Yorker boycott, lol. F_ck him, I’m going to subscribe to The New Yorker, they are brilliant and they speak to what many of us have been saying in the hallways of life. :)

    • mahaska

      Who’s bernard parks when he’s at home?

  • k in the northwest

    Here is a copy of the email I received in response to my email. I thought some of you might enjoy.

    Thank you for writing. We appreciate your comments and, if you have a question, we’ll do our best to respond. However, owing to the volume of correspondence, we cannot reply to every e-mail.
    About this week’s issue: Our cover, “The Politics of Fear,” combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic
    outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall— all of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring
    things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover. In this same issue you
    will also see that there are two very serious articles on Barack Obama inside—Hendrik Hertzberg’s Comment, (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/07/21/080721taco_talk_hertzberg)
    and Ryan Lizza’s 15,000-word reporting piece on the candidate’s political education and rise in Chicago
    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza).

  • Buzz Latte

    It takes an IQ well over 100 to understand satire fully – and the New Yorker magazine in any given issue.

    I love how the Obots are complaining about the low information voters when they are the ones truly displaying low information responses to the cover!

    The Huffy Puffys and the Daily Kozers are absolutely displaying their own IQ challenged paranoia in full force.

    Thank you New Yorker for the great “satire”!!!

    This is truly a great day in America. The media has finally given it back to Obama and his shrew wife!!!

    • blech

      I’m an Obama supporter and I’m not complaining at all. I think it’s completely a non-issue.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        that is laughable, too. if you thought it was a non-issue you wouldn’t be here. busted, blech!

      • Obama is a bum

        If you are an Obama supporter you should be complaining — you have been duped by a fraud.

  • MilitantPacifist

    I love it. The entire left blogosphere reacts with a collective yawn, with most pointing out that the cover is an accurate take on the batshit insane right wing perspective, while the right devotes several million column inches talking to themselves about the uproar. Bwaaaaahaahahahaaa.

    Meanwhile, McCain’s campain explodes once again when he throws his top economic advisor under the bus for calling Americans a bunch of whiners. Then his most visible surrogate, Ms. Carly Fiorina, goes on national television and tells the world that they should not be listening to campaign surrogates.

    Yeah, that’s a well oiled machine Mr. McGoo has put together there. But I think he should start wearing his glasses because it looks like he oiled his machine with Crazy Glue.

    • Obama is a bum

      Calling you a whiner is accurate, I love it also.

    • Dawnelle

      whoa what fantasy world do you hail from?

      deedeedee times 10

  • Lee

    suddenly the FISA deal and free speech are linked in the deluded minds of Obots. Can you say: crack down?

    if this reaction does not wake up MSM — NOTHING will.

    i just hope the same Obots who whined becuz he DID support FISA, and not the same ones whining NOW!!

    ha, ha

    • Dawnelle

      is that what it is? Crack?

      Hopey Crack er Pie?

  • Elspeth

    Forget the cover: READ THE ARTICLE.

    I read the whole, long article and was blown away by the thoroughness of the coverage. The upshot is:

    *Obama is an old style politician. (He is NOT a new type of politician).

    *Obama is an opportunist who uses people to get to a certain point and then drops them, even if these people are friends or the public that elected him.

    *Obama adopts principles to win elections: then he drops them.

    There is so much in the article: research, evidence, interviews. Well done, well documented, and far more interesting than the rather shallow and obvious cover art.

    • blech

      The article shows that Obama is an experienced legislator who knows how to get things done, certainly not the naif NQ portrays him to be.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        you haven’t read the article, idiot. It is not flattering for obama, and betrays him as the same old political hack that he always was.

        • blech

          Unlike Clinton or McCain? Of course not.

          I’m pleased that the nominee is not portrayed as anything else than a politician. That’s what he is and that’s what he needs to be in order to effectively govern. And, you know what, none of this is a surprise to the American people. They expect politicians to act like politicians.

          And don’t come back with the “you thought he was a messiah” line. I didn’t and neither did anyone else. That’s just spin from folks who don’t like Obama.

          • Karma

            Fine…

            Then explain why you support Obama for Pres and think he is the best choice?

            • AX10

              The only reason the left wingers supported Obama is because they have some strange blind hatred of the Clintons.

          • LB

            Has anyone ever told you how much you sound like Bag Of Smears over at DK? Uncanny wordsemblence.

          • JozefAL

            But, the unpleasant fact remains that OBAMA was the one who PROMOTED that HE wass the candidate of “hope and change”. Otherwise, WHAT THE HELL ELSE differentiated him from ANY OTHER CANDIDATE?
            Blech, take your Obama-worshipping butt BACK to Obamatron HQ and report that you’re completely failing at your mission (especially as Mr Change is making your job harder with his constant position changes).

        • http://deleted imustprotest

          Obama is a hack and he throws people under the bus when he’s done using them. Even his own poor grandma.

        • mahaska

          he is going to drop these beanbrains the second he doesn’t need them anymore. They mostly sound like they’ve been dropped on their heads before, so maybe it won’t hurt as much this time.

      • Obama is a bum

        The only thing Obama is experienced at is running a con game. If people in this country collectively got things done like Obama we would be a third world country.

        • mahaska

          Maybe his next gig can be three card monte at the subway station.

      • mahaska

        Oh believe me, we don’t not think he’s naive. We think is a sneaky Chicago pol who will do anything to win.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Yes it is very well written and researched.

  • k in the northwest

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the lead that Obama was getting has now been going steadly down hill. Looks like Obama is losing his lead in the polls.

  • rwc

    Its satire all right, but with a large heaping dose of truth.

    Obama comes real close to being some of 3rd world miscreant with a unlimited appetite for power. Much like Mugabe.

    Michelle would be right at home with the Black Panthers or any other black supremacist group that likes to whack white people. Or copying Winnie Mandela’s tire burning parties.

    Neither cares for the country or its people. In fact Obama can’t even say once decent thing about the country without pimp slapping it in the next sentence.

  • Joe Smith

    I would not associate with unrepentant terrorists who walk on the American flag nor preachers who “God damn America” – Obama most surely has done so.

    Sure the cartoon is satire – but it’s the element of truth that stings.

    I’m just messing with you, man!

  • Dave_Not_For_Obama

    OFF TOPIC
    How can there be 1 million people on the watch list?

    Thanks to Obambi voting YES on FISA perhaps there will be 3 million on the watch list soon.

    • mahaska

      that homeland security crap is a joke. There on 2 year babies on their watch list.

  • John Cole at Balloon Juice

    I demand to be invited on NoQuarter Radio to denounce and repudiate this satire.

    That is like asking “How much is infinity?” So while an exact measurement of the idiocy on the Obama blogosphere is, shall we say, difficult to attain, I can report that they are stupid enough that they took this cartoon at New Yorker seriously

    I swear Barack Obama, Donna Brazile and Nancy Pelosi did not make me say this.

    • JudyA

      Did they make you swear to say that they didn’t make you say that? :)

  • http://dontcallmesweetie.blogspot.com/ Blu

    We’re so in love with that New Yorker cover art that we are going to drive into town tomorrow to buy the magazine! This is a big deal since it’s right under 100 miles round trip to the nearest town that would likely carry the mag and with gas over 4 bucks a gallon …! I just love that cover!

    Us bitter small town bible thumping gun clingin’ hicks just love to see obama slapped up side the head, even if it is called “satire” it’s still has that distinctive “smack” sound!

    Hillary ’08 – GO PUMA!

  • Patti

    Finally! This is great!! I wonder if I can get a lawn sign. Just kidding – too young to die.

    You guys are so funny!

    Thanks!

  • Roadburdened

    Awesome. Too bad it wasn’t Hillary. It would have been an illustration of her whipping her testicles out and a bubble that says, “I’m all woman, Clyde.”

    • http://deleted imustprotest

      Geeez, Hillary, Hillary why are you obamabots so pre-occupied with Hillary, get over it already.

    • Sprout

      They tend to not use pornography or potty humor at the New Yorker, they choose more intellectual forms of satire.

  • JudyA

    I was laughing when I saw on the news that people were upset, and that the artist stands by his work as satire. All I could think of was the bots eating crow.

    They made fun of us because we took Bernie’s comments seriously (in the sense that it shouldn’t have been said at a Presidential fundraiser and that Obama did nothing – yet wanted Imus fired).

    Oh, it’s ok to degrade the entire women race and laugh and say “just messin with you”; but it’s treasonous to speak out against Holy Obama.

  • SEC

    I’m an Obama supporter, and, for the record, I didn’t have a problem with the cover. In fact, I think this is one of those things that can actually help Obama. It is clear that every element in the cover is satire – even the fist bump as some sort of “terrorist greeting” as some people were prone to say.

    I do not believe that the Obamas are being satirized; instead, it is the perception of many, many people (including some who spend time here) who truly believe that Senator or Mrs. Obama are either anti-American or an Arab/terrorist sympathizer in an American’s clothing. Those are the people that this magazine cover is poking fun at, and revealing to be completely illogical.

    • ebonyscrews

      Ask Barky and Michelle if this cover helps their cause out at all. You’d receive a resounding “NO” on that one. I believe the cartoon is intentionally provocative and to such a dramatic extreme simply for sensationalism and to sell magazines. I hope the o-bots blow a major gasket over this one so everyone could see more of how completely unhinged they are.

  • scott

    I love it….Barak is a phony, who wont release his birth certificate, who lied and said he never attended a mosque or was muslim, who gets and takes money from muslims over seas…he and his wife hate america, he doesnt care about the real black people in need of help, he is a LIAR…Support hillary, but she needs to break from bark

    • blech

      Your post is the prime example of what the cover was satirizing.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        Brilliant cover and story. Obama made this bed, he can now lie in it, literally!

  • ebonyscrews

    Brilliant cover on The New Yorker! Satire at its finest.

    • JudyA

      yeah, we all know it’s not true. if it were true, Obama’s head would be cricked up and tilted (someone please get him a chiropractor) and that would be obama’s seal they are standing on…(that bernie is covering)

  • GOPmurderedconscience

    Beating up on some cartoonist or some writer is something we’ve seen before:

    Danish cartoon
    and
    Salma Rushdie

    Are we getting a taste of the totalitarian Left?

    • anonymous

      Sure seems so!

      • ebonyscrews

        Exactly! No one’s been more lampooned and satirized than the Clintons. Let the Obamas and o-Bots get over themselves and come back to the land of reality.

    • blech

      Funny!

      Some folks using their first amendment rights to complain = calling for killing writers/cartoonists.

      NOT.

  • http://www.DeathoftheDemocraticParty.com xax

    I’m confused. They say that they did it out of satire, about how the right is portraying him, but the problem is that no one on the right is doing that. Sure you have a few out there (you said 10%) that will not like him based on his race and perceived religion, but that hardly constitutes the entire population that are Republican or conservative.
    The larger issue here is that the reason a lot of people have taken offense to what was suppose to be a stab at racial/religious discrimination by the New Yorker, is because MANY Americans simply DO NOT have such a huge problem with race or Muslims as the media wants people to think.
    Chances are if they don’t like Obama, maybe, just maybe, they don’t like him. See the race baiting is starting to backfire on these so called “progressives”.

  • http://cognitivecontinuity.blogspot.com coggie

    “They made fun of us because we took Bernie’s comments seriously (in the sense that it shouldn’t have been said ”
    No, they made fun of you because you believed the rickroll at Firedoglake. Now that was funny.

  • kevin

    Ah…
    Humor. It is a difficult concept.

  • scott

    Barak is a LIAR, a friend of terrorists like BILL AYERS…He attended a church that spews hatred of white folks, hates america, and he says he never HEARD any of this for 20 years…..LIE….If you can accept Barak at his word for attending Trinity for 20 years, then you all owe David Duke an apology…..

    • blech

      And here’s who McCain has as one of his major advisers.

      Scheunemann was a core participant in the lobbying, plotting and organized campaigns of deception that led America to war in Iraq. He was a close collaborator with Ahmad Chalabi through the 1990s. He helped draft the Iraq Liberation Act, which created the new funding stream for Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. At the start of the Bush administration he signed on as Don Rumsfeld’s ‘consultant’ on Iraq at the Pentagon. And then when the administration started cranking up the machinery for the propaganda campaign in favor of war he went back on the outside to form and lead the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, to lead the press and lobbying campaign to make sure the war got started on schedule.

      Remember, US intelligence later found evidence that Chalabi, in addition to foisting a bunch of bogus intelligence and lying informers on the US and pocketing a lot of US taxpayer dollars, had provided highly classified US intelligence to Iran. Scheunemann worked closely with Chalabi for years in his efforts to get the US into war with Iraq. He was also a go-between between Chalabi and McCain. Now that he’s taking such a high-profile role on the Iraq issue in the 2008, Scheunemann’s history with Chalabi and the use of bogus intelligence to get the nation into war is unquestionably highly newsworthy.

      http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/203960.php

    • mahaska

      back when this all started about the gd america church, a member of the congregation said bo was laughing and clapping same as everyone else. He hasn’t been heard from since. guess they got their message across to him.

  • blech

    From Washington Monthly

    Q: Which county gave George Bush his biggest absolute plurality over John Kerry in 2004? A: Orange County, California, my hometown. There are smaller counties that gave Bush a bigger percentage of the vote, but in total numbers The OC is the most Republican place in the country.

    Q2: Which candidate has raised the most money in Orange County this year, Barack Obama or John McCain? A2: Barack Obama:

    • no waffles aka drkate

      oh bot named blech: you said you were not concerned about this. now you’re pulling out your troll talking points, changing the subject.

      lighten up, Mack. and get on topic or get out of here.

  • cspolj

    it would have been better if they added jesse jackson in that cover as well….trying to cut obama’s balls off…but is unable to find them.

  • Urban Hillbilly

    The chickens…are coming home…to roost.

  • Seattle Moss

    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.

    • blech

      It sounds like you like the war. Well, then, McCain’s your man!

      Personally, I, like the majority of the American people, think it was a huge tragedy and strategic error.

      I wonder when Chuck Hagel will endorse Obama.

      • no waffles aka drkate

        hagel will be Oblahblah’s VP. He can’t find anyone else.

      • Seattle Moss

        bletch.
        Looks like your an Anti-American who follows the polls and not what’s best for the United States.
        If we had listened to Obama last year America today would be a defeated beaten Country humiliated in the eyes of the world.
        If we had listened to Obama the Iraqi’s would be committing genocide against each other and the US would have lost our strategic position in the middle east and the world.
        If we had listened to Obama Iran would be gaining influence and hegemony over the region while we were busy cutting and running.
        McCain through his steadfastness has prevented America from being defeated for all time and have allowed the Iraqi’s a chance to have democracy in their country.
        The western worlds vital interests are protected by having Israel and Iraq uniquely allied with the United States
        McCain is a hero!!!
        Obama is a fool and opportunist who would jeopardize our troops so that he could get elected.

        Again I ask YOU the questions.

        Why did obama wish for defeat in Iraq?
        Why did obama not stand and cheer the success of our troops and the surge at the SOU address?
        Why doesn’t Obama care enough about victory for America in Iraq to not even visit the war zone for the past 900 days?

    • HARP

      They are too busy playing with their navels to actually do any research.

  • scott

    Hillary should BE the nominee, not this LIAR and friend of terrorists…Barak went to Bill Ayers house….What if McCain visited with David Duke? You wouldnt give him a pass, nor would the LIB media…They want BARAK and will cover for him, because they have white guilt…

    • blech

      McCain stood up with John Hagee, who thinks Catholics are the devil’s spawn and that Hitler did a good thing by killing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.

      • mahaska

        And bo stood with odingo the murderer of hundreds.

  • txchelle

    Michelle Malkin: “Grow a pair, Obama”
    http://michellemalkin.com/

    Rick Moran: “Isn’t it time for Obama to man up!”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/the_incredibly_thin_skin_of_ba.html

    • blech

      Ah, a bunch of right wingers are criticizing Obama.

      Tell me why any Democrat should care.

      Then again there aren’t many real Democrats on this site.

      • Seattle Moss

        Question bletch.

        Why did Hillary stand and clap our troops and the success of the surge at the state of the union address?
        maybe, because she is an American first and doesn’t wish defeat like Obama does.

        Obama can’t touch this statement..
        Country before party/Country before self
        McCain owns that statement.

        McCain won the Iraq war!!

        Obama and his Anti-American cowards wished and hoped and prayed for defeat for the United States.
        Shame on you traitors to America!!!

      • Sprout

        I’m a democrat, my entire life, and I will be celebrating when Hillary Clinton is sworn in as POTUS in Jan 2009!

      • Obama is a bum

        Real Democrats left Obama, you have been relegated to a cultist party similar to Jim Jones and his brain dead zombies.

        • mahaska

          I hear the property in Guyana is for rent again.

  • scott

    Barak has flipped on so many issues….at least Hillary stays the course, I VOTED for Hillary, why she stands by this bum, I dont understand….

    • blech

      Hillary? She flipped on licenses for illegal aliens, the gas tax holiday, Don’t ask/Don’t Tell, and NAFTA.

  • http://www.sugarnspice.typepad.com Sugar

    “Last night, at dailykos.com, it’s like the last day at Jonestown.”

    Hilarious! Someone further up-thread mentioned that most of the people ranting and raving don’t even read the New Yorker and that is soooooo true. Absolute idiots most of them are because they haven’t scratched beneath the surface to find out why they used that cover. Just rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble rabble, rabble. They (Obamatrons) are the “low-information” voters.

    • mahaska

      The bots have not the intelligence to understand the New Yorker. People mag is more their type.

  • Buzz Latte

    Don’t deny it Blech, the left is screaming in pain at being satirized. The problem with satire is that it is based in truths.

    Truths the Obots don’t want brought to light. Why is Obama and Michelle satirized in such a manner? They brought it on themselves by the decisions and associates they choose to string along with them. The point being, no matter what the editorial comment by the New Yorker, is do they represent America?

    FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BABY!

    And your left wing guru just voted to spy on you some more? Now, who is really for freedom of speech?

    • blech

      Some are screaming, some aren’t.

      Personally I think it’s completely inconsequential.

      • Gary McGowan

        …as are you. Go do something useful, like reading the Constitution.

      • mahaska

        You keep saying that. Maybe you can talk yourself into it. buzz off

  • http://dontcallmesweetie.blogspot.com/ Blu

    This cover may be a way to open up the discussion about Obama’s ties to radicals and extremists, a subject that the main stream media has steered clear of.

    Political Satire is an effective way to speak the unspeakable and if anyone complains all you have to say is “just messin’ with ya, man!”.

  • yttik

    This cover is sacrilege, sacrilege I tell ya, against The Chosen One. Those people must be sent to re-education camp immediately, LOL.

    You know, Hillary is an expert at dealing with “satire” and smears. She would take a cover like this and use it to her advantage. Remember how she quipped about being late for the show because she was busy dodging sniper fire?

    Unfortunately Obama is an arrogant, self absorbed tool with no sense of humor about himself. By the time he’s finished, he will have legitamized this satire and given it real power, just like he did with those photos of humself in native garb.

    This is politics. It might be ugly, but people much greater then Obama had to wade thru it. I’ll never forget Max Cleland, Tammy Duckworth, even McCain, all of whom served their country and still had to deal with attacks about their patriotism. Heck, Hillary has made a career out of dealing with it.

    • blech

      Hillary didn’t make that quip about sniper fire until weeks went by when she kept reiterating her false story, then grudgingly admitted it and then tried not to talk about it. Hardly as smooth as you portray it.

      But then again, we know that NQ is known for making things up.

      • destardi

        Wow. People like yourself are just plain non-thinkers.

        1)Hillary was in a reinforced COMBAT HELICOPTER, wearing a FLAK JACKET, while the copter was flying a ZIGZAG patter (evasive maneuver), with the roar of the blades in her ears, and the closer they got to the tarmac, the soldiers ushered her closer into the reinforced cockpit

        Did Hillary have combat training? How would a civilian normally respond to this? With adrenaline? With excitement, and not necessarily the good kind?

        It was one memory from how many years ago?

        2)Obama attended church for 20 years…is he stupid enough to not know what his “close spiritual advisor and friend who married him and michelle, and whom baptized his kids” was all about?

        Let’s see…one 12 year old memory, or 20 years of weekly visits..as recent as one month before he through his jerk of a pastor under the bus.

        YOU ARE STUPID OBAMA SUPPORTERS!

        OBAMABUSHBOTS for the black GEORGE W. BUSH!!

        • Sprout

          Bush regime II, now in TECHNICOLOR!!

      • mahaska

        They told her there might be sniper fire. There was a military salute. ya know, gunfire. It must be wonderful to be you, never misspoke, always got 100s on test, never misplaced your keys. I swear, just fucking perfect you.

  • scott

    Barak’s preacher said God DAMN America…I want a battle inside the DNC…Who will lead America? Far Leftists? or a lady who has the gumtion and fortitude to at least LOVE her country?

    • blech

      As the New Yorker article points out, Obama didn’t go to church very much.

      • scott

        Yeah probably spent to much time in PRIVATE consultation with ‘his mentor’ to get the real gospel preached to him….

        • mahaska

          or something

        • NoBigotry

          Comment by scott | 2008-07-14 13:23:45

          Yeah probably spent to much time in PRIVATE consultation with ‘his mentor’ to get the real gospel preached to him…

          Not that it matters – but the ones who had private consultation with Rev. Wright were the Clintons during their Monica difficulties.

      • http://dontcallmesweetie.blogspot.com/ Blu

        According to the New Yorker article, Toni Preckwinkle …

        “suggested that Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for political reasons. “It’s a church that would provide you with lots of social connections and prominent parishioners,” she said. “It’s a good place for a politician to be a member.”…”

        Obama seems to have been meticulous about constructing a political identity for himself. He visited churches on the South Side, considered the politics and reputations of each one, and received advice from older pastors. Before deciding on Trinity United Church of Christ, he asked the Reverend Wright about critics who complained that the church was too “upwardly mobile,” a place for buppies.

        I don’t see any mention in the article about how often he attended the church.
        He is not a Christian, he just used the church to construct his political identity.

      • Obama is a bum

        That is because Trinity is not a real church.

      • mahaska

        He said himself “I go every Sunday”

    • Tricia

      I wonder if the Obama camp will the the New Yorker not to print?

    • tiberius

      Have you ever heard that phrase in the context of Rev. Wright’s entire sermon? My guess is that you haven’t, and that you probably wouldn’t want to–because it would change your understanding of what Wright was saying. Wright wasn’t cursing America. He was warning his congregation about the view the biblical God might take of some of the evil things done by evil men in the name of America.

      I don’t support Wright, or his fire-and-brimstone interpretation of scripture. The forcefulness of his message is not for the timid, and his black orientation is not for me. But the out-of-context media bytes displayed to America do not tell us who Wright actually is. The way they were edited and presented is actually a lie, that was concocted and used as a political weapon of attack.
      It’s a lie that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don’t love their country. One of many lies. You’re entitled to believe whatever you wish, of course, and you’re entitled to try to convince as many people as you can of whatever you choose to believe. I certainly won’t disrespect you for that. I tend to reserve my disrespect for those who lie knowingly. There are plenty of people out there who do exactly that.

      • mahaska

        swell now ab apologist for the so called minister fright night wright.

        • tiberius

          My opinion is based on having listened to more than the endless repetition of a couple of 30-second sound bytes. What’s yours based on?

  • Donna Brazile

    You people are a SHAME to the NEW DEMOCRATIC party. This is an era of inclusiveness and unity. HOW DARE YOU MOCK MICHELLE, BARACK AND BERNIE. I urge you to shut down this site and focus on the issues. What matter to America are the ISSUES, STUPID! You’re wasting our nation’s historic opportunity to hope and make changes. It’s not about FISA, IRAQ, NAFTA, public financing or none of that nonsense. SO WHAT IF BARACK FLIP-FLOPPED? THAT’S NOT THE ISSUE! IT’S ABOUT WHY THE NEW YORKER PUT OSAMA BIN LADEN ON THE CARTOON, BUT NOT ME! I DESERVE TO BE ON THERE WITH MICHELLE AND BARACK. DOWN WITH THE NEW YORKER. YOU ALL ARE RACISTS.

    AND DON’T TELL ME TO JUST GET OVER IT.
    I’LL USE FISA TO HUNT YOU ALL DOWN WHEN BARACK BECOMES POTUS

    hey, how do I make bigger fonts?

    • blech

      Another NQ poster who has not a clue what was in the FISA bill. Not a fricking clue.

      • Denise

        that poster was trying to make a funny. read it again.

      • one eyed jack

        HELL YEAH! It’s high time someone or something threw that radical black Muslim under the AMTRAC train–screw the bus Obama deserves a train.

      • Bernie Mac

        Yo, Donna. You’re my hero. OBAMA OR DIE!

        Hey, I don’t mean to get fresh with you here, but would $500 do it for you?

        Ha ha, just messing with you, girl!

    • yttik

      ROFL!

      Sacrilege against The Chosen One, how dare you!

  • scott

    Admit it you Obama supporters, IT IS WHITE GUILT you are feeling….And for you Black Americans who support him, SHAME…Barak cares only for himself, and will use you all to get what he wants…If you like living in the projects now, guess what, you’ll be there 10yrs from now, want to bet? The LIB democrats have decimated you for their own political purposes…Now you have been REPLACED by the Latino vote….When are you all going to get it, they DONT care about you…You need to support candidates who have your welfare in mind, not the ones who will hand it to you….

  • Denise

    So it’s ok for Obama to make sexists jokes but he doesn’t want to turn the other check!

    To bad they couldn’t add the essence of the Obama one flipping someone off with his other hand.

  • Donna Brazile

    Thank God for you Blech. I love you. Please gather the Barack troops here. We need to attack them racists, NOW!

  • txchelle

    “Woe unto the people who choose a child for a King…” Talmud

    What people are stupid enough to CHOOSE a child for a king?

    So the Talmud defines a “child” as “someone who changes his mind often, whimsically or willfully.”

    Woe unto America if the “child” is chosen in November!

    ~ Taken from a comment by “elixelx” at another site.

    • blech

      That isn’t from the Talmud, as anyone who has studied Talmud would know.

      • txchelle

        I don’t know what the actual source of the “quote” is. Perhaps it’s a summary by the author of the comment. I believe his/her point was that Obama is a child who changes his mind often. Either way, thank you for the clarification, I wouldn’t intentionally misquote the Talmud.

      • txchelle

        How about this one?

        “Woe unto him who with smug self-complacency thinks he can rest on his laurels, on what he has already achieved, and who does not meet the task of every fresh day with full devotion as if it were the first day of his life’s work!”

      • mahaska

        Oh god, now you’re going to tell us you’re a talmudic scholar. Was that in between cold calling and running poll statistics?

  • one eyed jack

    HIP HIP HOORAY!! Count me in that 10% that thinks Obama is a Muslim, a Radical Muslim. If Obama is not a radical Muslim, then the only other conclusion I can come to is that he is a Radical Racist. His wife is deinately a HATER, and yes, a MILITANT HATER. Lewis Farrakhan said “Obama is the hope of the world”. Now anyone in their right mind knows damned well that a radical Islamic like Farrakhan would never in his life say that a christian–ANY CHRISTIAN– “IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD”!!! Obama is of the same stock Farrakhan is, a radical MUSLIM who uses Marxist communist tactics to achieve his political goals. It’s about time the world begins to recognize what Obama is all about and Howard Dean is his associate.

  • Gary McGowan

    Our world is going to look shockingly different to us in the upcoming few coming months. At the Denver convention a puffed-up, pasty faced, slick “unity/compromise candidate” is sitting in the wings.

    THE WAY TO STOP THIS is for the lower 80% of income earners, especially, to stop hoping and wishing that “something” will halt the ongoing destruction of our nation–the destruction you can see all around you if you just look and admit it… Look at the cities of Cleveland, Detroit, Western PA, and many, many others, compare to what they were only 20-30 years ago. Basic utilities, medical care, education… fuel and food prices… Look at the millions of mortgage foreclosures, bank bankruptcies, and bailouts of the speculators with taxpayer money.

    Now we are facing a systemic financial collapse worldwide. We are IN hyperinflation. Leaders of many nations other than the USA are well aware of this, and ready to undertake the reorganization of the literally bankrupt system and create new co-operative commitments to cure the problem. The United States must find and support responsible, sane leaders (like Hillary Clinton) who will take on leadership in this task.

    If the “common people,” “the forgotten man and woman” stand up and DEMAND change based on basic Constitutional principles AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, we can succeed in turning this horror around and be proud we were part of having done so when we look our children and our grandchildren in the eyes.

    The urgent need now is to broaden our strategic perspective (e.g. reduce energy and time spent gloating over Obama’s being thrown under the bus by our real enemies) and recruit more people into doing so, and becoming politically ACTIVE.

    • Dawnelle

      pasty faced? was that Cheney? or are we fast forward to Howie?

      If he tries to pull that chit he’s more insane than Bambi

      wait… (nevermind it was nothing) lol

  • http://Reddragon62.blogspot.com/ RedDragon62

    Gulp Gulp Gulp…..Down goes the Kool-Aid!

    I find these “progressive” blogs a JOKE! They never once complained when those satirist where blasting Hillary! I saw a cartoon in “The Nation” magazine that was pretty damn offensive and I have yet to hear ANYONE of these damn ObamaBots scream and cry about those NASTY pictures of Hillary!

    NOOOOO….You can not say anything about The Mahatma! Bullshit! The man puts his pants on one leg at a time..He is NOT DEVINE! Enough of these silly, asshole. They remind me of those school yard bullies that pick on the little ones until they get their shit stomped! Then once they get their ass whooping, they run to the Principle and whine about the butt kicking they got but never once owning up to what lead to said ass whooping!

    They all need to SHUT THE F***UP!

    • blech

      Strange. You would think that you don’t believe that people have the right to criticize things in magazines.

      • destardi

        WE don’t believe in hypocritical, faux outrage.

        See: Hillary Clinton “satire”, and crickets chirping from “progressive blogosphere.

        Aside from that, the article that accompanies it is fair to barackula, vs. the articles accompanying the “satire” pics of Hillary being ridiculously hard on Hillary.

        Man you’re stupid.

    • mahaska

      Today is Bastille Day. To the Barricades!

  • CarolynKB

    Here’s the Deal folks, politics in the GE is tough, if BHO and his hopium smokers can’t deal with this they’re going into total heart failure when the 527′s trot out the last 20 years of BHO’s life and times. Before it’s over even Barack’s typical white grandmother may believe Barack is NOT A NICE PERSON. It ain’t gonna be pretty, in fact it will get so ugly they’ll be yearning for the Cover of the New Yorker.

    What goes around, comes around!!

    PUMA/JUST SAY NO DEAL

    • mahaska

      Gramma already knows he’s a sack of crap. His treatment of her proved it.

  • Linda

    But obviously they don’t do Satire. They’re the same ones who took the satire on SNL as gospel on Hillary.

  • Bell’Artista

    Curious thing…….
    I wrote an email sending the artist, Barry Blitt , some love last night and just now wrote a kudos! letter to the New Yorker, on their site…but it appears the comment posting capability is shut down….
    I wonder if they have been deluged by Obots,
    change you can believe in?

    Obama’s toast

  • Buzz Latte

    Enlighten us on FISA oh mighty Blech. Make sure you have footnotes and references that are legitimate, so that we may all be made aware. Oblowhard propaganda is not acceptable and no, we won’t go to his website to be indoctrinated.

    Better yet, go try to round up some money for Oblowhard’s campaign. Seems people aren’t buying his crap so much anymore.

    Is that Obama in the discount bin? Yesterday’s fad item on half price?

    • mahaska

      And see if you can name the telecom taht refused to spy, while you’re at it.

  • scott

    I NEVER voted or liked Bill Clinton, but I did vote for Hillary, because Bill is NADA, Hillary will do what she wants to….I perceive in her as one who does love this country, and even if I vote for McCain, I could handle Hillary getting the job, BARAK sucks, and so does his internal concepts, which are PHONY…He is a MADE candidate, who will LOSE, and he is going to BREAK the Dem party in half, THANK GOD, if that happens…

  • therio

    Your right, the guy’s a complete fraud. Obviously, he’s followers don’t even read the article they just are angry it was a flattering picture. Wow, an unflattering picture, what a fright? He should grow a pair like everyone else in the mainstream media. Not everyone has drank the kool-aid, his marketing people just wants us to think that.

  • scott

    Ok you Barak lovers, David Duke said he was THRU with the Klan when he ran for Senator of Louisiana…And you Barak lovers feel that Barak isnt tied to Bill Ayers, his preacher, Louis Farrakhan, etc…So why were you so against Duke when he ran, he turned the other cheek…Is it because Barak is BLACK? and David Duke had no cred? You Barak lovers are so hypocritical…Go Hillary….

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    Axelrod announcement this afternoon:

    Obama is going to sue the New Yorker for taking a private commissioned portrait done in the bedroom at the Tony Rezko funded Chicago residence of the Obama’s and publishing it!

    Axelrod’s statement concluded with this final note: “To expose the real private lives and enjoyments of the Obama’s while in the confines of their own bedroom, is breaking from the message of the Obama campaign of Hope and Change and the Obama’s home pleasures should not be characterized in such a way as to place reality over the message of Hope and Change Obama wants the American people to grasp hold of and believe in, in any way!”

  • kiki

    Love this cover!!

  • Dave_Not_For_Obama

    I just read some of the KOSsack comments, too funny, some even say The New Yorker should be sued for LIBEL, ROFLMAO.

    Meanwhile :
    Barack Obama, you did smoke crack cocaine in a limo and my hotel room in Gurnee, IL on 11-6 & 7-99, Barack Obama, you did engage in sexual activity with me in a limo and hotel room in Gurnee, IL on 11-6 & 7-99. Barack Obama, you did have Donald Young call me and fish for information as to whom I had told of these matters. Barack Obama, you were intimately and sexually involved with Donald Young for years before Mr. Young was MURDERED in December 2007.

    Nothing that the Obama for America campaign or the Obama supporters/surrogates do or say will change the fact that the above statements are true and factual. Nothing that is thrown at me will change the fact that the above statements are true and factual.

    Barack Obama will be held accountable for every act that has been taken against a US Citizen who is telling the truth.
    REF: http://larrysinclair0926.com/

    Now speaking of LIBEL, why is Obambi so afraid to touch the claims made above, yet they go out of their way to speak to The New Yorker article, strange indeed.

    • http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKKa Wright

      Because the New yorker Cover is exactly the type of distraction that plays into their hands, allows them to avoid talking about things that matter and instead whine and cry and say “see see american is full of racists who are afraid of a black man.”

      The Larry sinclair issue just opens up a can of worms that they don’t want to touch. They gain nothing and can potentially lose everything by touching it.

      • Dave_Not_For_Obama

        The Larry sinclair issue just opens up a can of worms that they don’t want to touch. They gain nothing and can potentially lose everything by touching it.

        To my way of thinking there are only so many scenarios to the claims.

        1)The claims are 100% accurate
        2)The claims are 100% inaccurate
        3)The claims are partially accurate
        4)Defending the claims opens up an area related to something Obambi is hiding.

        I obviously was not there, so I can’t lay claim to the facts, but something is really odd in the way the Obambi camp is not responding, much in the same way they won’t produce an ACTUAL paper birth certificate. Doing so in either case (Sinclair claims/birth cert)leaves the impression that something is not on the up and up.

        I have to wonder if and or when we ever learn the truth.

    • A. Nony Mouse

      I’m afraid Mr. Sinclair’s 8 minutes have run out. Unless he can find a cartoonist to do a satire for an adult magazine cover on the theme of his Big Limo Adventure.

      This one is right up there with a signed affadavit about a UFO abduction from a witness who states he was smoking crack just before they probed him.

    • Sprout

      He knows the Sinclair claims are true, so he can’t sue for libel LMAO!!!!

      He’s ignoring them, hoping they go away, but they’re just getting louder and more believable!

  • Michelle.C

    I dont really post here but honestly… obama has to lose in a landslide in november to teach people a lesson. People need to realize that an election for the POTUS should not be a theatrical act. the press needs to learn how to get back to being journalists again, and the american people need to stop being so gullable and not believe everything they hear or see on TV. We all know that if the media wasn’t so biased since day 1, obama would have been laughed off the stage ages ago. He’s a media creation, and they have to held accountable for this shit.

    If he doesn’t lose in a landslide, this shit will just happen again in 4 years.

    • http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKKa Wright

      obama supporters will just blame racism and hillary and now the New yorker cover if he loses. they wont accept the fact or draw the connection that the majority of americans do not want an inexperienced idiot in the white house again.

      • Dawnelle

        exactly

      • Michelle.C

        Well of course they’ll do that, but it would send a message. The media is so in the tank for them, that people still dont know much about mccain. the majority of people dont even have a clue that his son is serving in IRaq. they just see him as the old guy who wants a “100 year war”.

        they keep defending this guy. just check out the cnn ticker today doing some emotional pandering for this guy.

        they dont get it. he’s a FRAUD. He’s not kennedy, MLK, hes not not lincoln or roosevelt, reagan or truman or anyone else he mentions in his speech. hes not even bill clinton. He needs to lose in a landslide.

        • mahaska

          I hate when people call him the old guy. He isn’t that old. He looks older than he is because of the thing’s he has gone through.
          We had a 76 year old woman in my riding class.
          Also a 68 yr old and a 70 yr old. Age is just a number.

      • mahaska

        as long as he loses I don’t care what they blame.

  • Denise

    Obama makes being Muslim sound really DIRTY.

    Shame on Obama.

    • http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKKa Wright

      Well, what do you expect?

      You cant mention his middle name, and you cant wear a head scarf in his photo-presence.

  • scott

    When Harvey Gantt ran against the late Jesse Helms for Senator, and SOUNDLY defeated, the News and Observer’s headline the next morning was’ “60% of whites vote for Helms”, implying he only was elected by a bunch of RACISTS…But in the bottom of the story it said that gantt got 93% of the black vote…Well which group was voting by RACE, thank God Jess got 7% of the black vote…

    Here we are 20 years later and the Black vote for OBAMA is over 90% again…Who is voting BY race…?

    VOTING should be about who will lead the country in the right direction…Hillary lost HORRIBLY among blacks who voted…That is a fact…

    Yes I vote CONSERVATIVE, but NEVER by RACE…When will you Black people wake up, and see that the LIBS are only using you, they don’t care if you stay in the PROJECTS…To them, at least, you are NOT in their neighborhoods….And guess what, if you vote for LIBS, guess where you will be 10 years from now?….Still in the projects, on govment assistance, CONTROLLED and kept DOWN, still on the plantation… where the LIBS know where you will be…

    Vote for those who care about you and your families, not for those who EXPECT your vote…Would a vote for Hillary hurt you? Just because Barak is black DOESN’T mean you will escape the projects….

    • Dave_Not_For_Obama

      Vote for those who care about you and your families, not for those who EXPECT your vote…Would a vote for Hillary hurt you? Just because Barak is black DOESN’T mean you will escape the projects….

      No doubt about it, Obambi has used anybody so he could to move forward, to the detriment of the AA community also. It’s a hard pill for the AA community to swallow, just as I’m sure it’s demoralizing for them when Obambi gave them a false hope.

    • mahaska

      Yes please wake up, they don’t live in your neighborhoods, they don’t have to decide which bill to pay, they don’t have to hide from gangs. They are sitting pretty in their gated white neighborhoods laughing their asses off.

  • Alice Paul

    I have realized that the DNC are either the stupidest bunch of so and so’s or the smartest.

    I keep having this great dream that this is all just a bait and switch. All of a sudden Obama is disqualified before the convention and Hillary has to step in. Republicans have little time to regroup and attack her.

    But unfortunately I have a feeling they fall into the stupidest category!

    Unless Hillary does become the nominee we have lost this election. I’m not going to argue with trolls so don’t start. I don’t care what the MSM is telling you about polls and I don’t care how tired Americans are with Republican running the White House they are not voting this man in.

    It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with his character. If and when America is ready for a minority candidate it will not be someone who has so many skeletons in their closet.

    So you Obama supporters are wasting your time here. One, none of us are changing our mind and two, believe me when I say he has lost already.

    • http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKKa Wright

      He Lost it the day he started fabricating his Fauxtobiography “Unverifiable Dreams of My Makebelieve Father”

  • http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKKa Wright

    Has there ever been a Candidate so Fawned on by the Main Stream Media yet barely hanging on to his statistical dead heat in the polls?

    My Gawd, obama couldn’t win city dogcatcher if there wasnt a massive effort to prop his inadequate ass up.

  • A. Nony Mouse

    I’m afraid Mr. Sinclair’s 8 minutes have run out. Unless he can find a cartoonist to do a satire for an adult magazine cover on the theme of his Big Limo Adventure.

    This one is right up there with a signed affadavit about a UFO abduction from a witness who states he was smoking crack just before they probed him.

  • Sprout

    I wrote to the editor:
    I would like to thank you for having the courage and intelligence to publish the sattiracal cartoon on your cover. I understand you may get flack over it, but, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
    The Obama campaign should see this as a plus since they can use it as a way to say “see, this is the image that so many people are afraid of and it’s just not true” It could be a great tool for him to dispell those images in people’s minds that are a result of fear mongering.
    As a non-supporter, I enjoyed it as well. We are intelligent enough to realize that it was sattire and none of those things are true and we oppose him for very different, very real reasons.
    Most of all, it is a wakeup call that jokes aren’t always funny. It can serve as a reminder that “I’m just messin with you man” as a response to some very sexist and inappropriate jokes isn’t so cute and funny when the shoe is on the other foot.
    Hopefully, it will serve as a reminder on the campaign trail that what one person may see as funny, another may see as infuriating and give both sides a lesson in how to be more considerate of the intelligence and passion of the opposing side.
    Thank you again for having the courage and wisdom to run the cartoon as a statement of the level to which our political rhetoric has fallen in it’s fear mongering and opening up a dialogue where these issues can be discussed and myths can be dispelled, leaving room for discussion of real issues instead of imaginary ones that do nothing but hinder the political process.

  • Another Vote Lost

    My first thought on the lampooning of Michelle was her thesis and alleged Black Panther/Black Liberation Theology sympathies — I say, “alleged” in that I only know sound bytes.

    Otherwise, I think this most talented artwork is Justice served cold with a side of arugula. The smartass intellectuals look pathetically un-smart in their responses.

    A sense of humor requires intelligence and the funny thing about satire is the inconspicuous truths or truths people do not wish to face.

    The rebellion would be at the article but the Obamazombies HATE moderate language and facts that threaten their lovefest. Given they can’t argue the truth, they take their anger out on anything that will support their belief that this election is about race and racism–and not about competence, honor, patriotism, leadership and character. And, the fact many of us are very FEARFUL about our country, its direction and our future–politics aside and politics be damned.

    Hillary 08
    Don’t make me vote McCain, but I will.
    PUMA

  • CATTRACKS

    I AM STILL WAITING FOR THE MEDIA OR ESPECIALLY ANY TROLL TO EXPLAIN THIS QUOTE IN OBAMAS BOOK…” I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION”…….WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. BLETCH, BELIEVE, ANY TROLL ? IF THE TURBAN FITS !

    • tiberius

      You might recall a wave of ugly, generalized anti-Muslim sentiment that swept across the nation during the couple of years immediately following 9/11. Some very outspoken people were proclaiming all members of the Islamic faith as our enemies–not just terrorists and fundamentalist extremists. There were isolated incidents across America that could only be classified as hate crimes. Some people were ranting about Muslims the same way nazis rant about Jews.

      That sort of thing is what Obama was talking about. What else do you suppose he might have meant?

      • WildChild

        Armed white guys were standing a post in front of mosques in anticipation of violence. Not much materialized. We’re a bigger people then that.

    • mahaska

      I read a post earlier today claiming he never worte it and it was a misquote. These people need an intervention.

  • scott

    When will you DUPES wake up? this election is over your heart and soul for this country and freedom…

    Are you TIRED of living in the projects? Tired of $5.00 a gallon gas? Tired of broken families? ETC…?

    Then vote for candidants who can CHANGE your VALUE…

    YOU hold the key to which way we will go…

    Vote for LIBS, guess what, you great grand children will occupy your apt in the projects…Vote for LIBS, and your children will NEVER know freedom…For freedom is NOT a govment check each month, but freedom is the sbility to be where you WANT to be….

    Oppression is based on holding you DOWN, not UP…OPPRESSION will always succeed over reverance…

    Obama will and cannot do anything for you…He is a court jester who will adjust his routine to get a vote….

    I will ONLY vote for those who desire my uplifting bASED on real freedom, and NOT stories or ‘feel good’ theories…

    If you like LIBS, then continue to be a tool, and stay in your tenement in the projects…AT least the LIBS know where you will be living, and NOT intruding on there space in Hamptons…

    • Michelle.C

      too bad the media doesn’t get it. they’re already seeting it up for obama to win. their doing all these documentaries on being black in america, their ticker is always emotionally pandering for this guy, and no one knows much about mccain.

      He’s bought the election. he needs to loose in a landslide so people learn this election shouldn’t be covered like a reality show. its shameful. if he wins, i bet if oprah ran in 4 years she would win.

      its become about marketing, money and image.

      • In Vino Veritas

        its become about marketing, money and image.

        How utterly and obnoxiously European.

    • Lou

      The company you keep (Rezko, Rev. Wright, Farakhan, the terrorist from Chicago) and the spouse you choose (I’ve never been proud of America) is a real reflection of one’s character.

      Sorry Obama, we don’t need the likes of you telling us how to live our lives and run our country. please take your “Obama Presidential shield” and go back to Chicago.

  • Another Vote Lost

    I forgot to include “judgement” as well.

  • Another Vote Lost

    ack- I mean judgment. Sorry my PC is whacking out and typing is SO slow. Reboot.

  • http://cognitivecontinuity.blogspot.com coggie

    Poll,
    Which blog is a parody of intelligence?

    Larry, Uppity, or Sugar?

  • Lou

    Check out Obamas tax plan. OBAMA TO RAISE TAXES.

    why-to-not-vote-for-obama

    http://www.antiobama.net/why-to-not-vote-for-obama.html

    nObama

  • Lou

    Barfy wants to raise your taxes.
    Bsrfy thinks higher gas prices are good for the environment. ( he does not understand the price of everything else will go up and raising the price will not make any difference.)
    Barfy comes down on the wrong side on many issues.
    God save us.

  • Sprout

    If you want to live like a republican, you’d better vote for a democrat

    unless that democrat is BHO

  • Jackson Pearson

    I really can’t understand some web sites up in arms over the New Yorker cover. Barack Obama has wimped, lied, cried, posted a forged BC, and yes, has even accepted stolen votes won by Hillary to get this far. TS!

  • Lou

    Who just relinquished control of Fannie after a $21mm last year’s salary? Jim Johnson who formerly ran Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign, and was until last month was head of Obama’s search for a VP. Prior to that Jaime Gorelick was part of Fannie’s top management (she helped make 9/11 WTC happen, with her famous wall of separation during the Clinton years).
    These progressive Democrats have been attacking Angelo Mozillo relentlessly for months, and are the same ones that got Conrad Cris Dodd, Donna Shalala and other Democrats their discounted (bribery) mortgages.
    Angelo being the most knowledgeable mortgage guy anywhere, may have uncovered some dirt at Fannie on how it’s been a crooked piggybank for Democrats (and he’s needs them off his back badly).

    All of these are Obama’s ‘other’ mortgage buddies.
    This Yellow Dog Dem says….
    nObama

  • Lou

    Fannie & Freddie on the verge of collapse.
    Do you think nObama knows how to bail us out of this one?

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard nedich

      i’m sure he will just copy Hillary’s solutions…

      or better yet, he’ll ask the joint chiefs of staff…

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

    • tiberius

      While I don’t know if Obama knows how to get us out of the financial crisis, I do know it was largely republican deregulation policies that got us into it in the first place.

      John McCain’s closest economic advisor Phil Gramm certainly had more than a little to do with it. He was instrumental in clearing a regulatory pathway for the irresponsible lending practices that have led to the subprime meltdown and brought us to the brink of financial disaster. You can blame him directly for slipping the 268-page Commodity Futures Modernization Act into a critical Year 2000 appropriations bill. Deregulation provisions in Gramm’s bill had the effect of allowing risky loans to be hidden within bundled loan packages, which could then be swapped and traded away to unsuspecting investors and financial institutions. Another set of deregulation provisions lead to the creation of what’s come to be known as the “Enron loophole”. That’s what allowed Enron to sell energy futures on an unregulated basis.

      So, the guy most responsible for the mess is McCain’s economic advisor. Trying to use the economic melt down to discredit Barack Obama requires plenty of imagination, and total disregard for the legislative events leading up to it.

      The tumbling dollar is a direct result of Bush’s disasterous deficits. He’s run up higher deficits than all previous presidential administrations combined and doubled the national debt in a mere 7 1/2 years, remember?

      Any adult with a modicum of common sense knows that you can’t spend more than you take in, make up the difference through heavy borrowing, and expect that to continue forever without dire financial consequences. Eventually your irresponsibility catches up with you.

      That’s what’s happening now. Republican fiscal irresponsibility is catching up with us.

      So, McCain will continue the tax cuts, and continue the war spending, and still somehow balance the budget?

      If he wants my vote he’d better show me the arithmetic. Otherwise I’ll figure we’re still going to be playing the same old republican shell-game, where the disappearing peas keep turning up in the pockets of the rich. Except pretty soon there won’t be a pea. Just economic disaster, and an enormous pile of debt the government’s taken on in my name.

  • i lurnd ta spehl n u didunt

    “For example, at dailykos.com over 1,400 comments have been made in less than two hours”

    yeah, it must be really upsetting to realize that you couldn’t get 1,400 comments in less than two hours if your life counted on it.

  • Kenyan Camelot

    Remember what happened to the Danish editors that published the Prophet Mohamed cartoons? and what they did to Theo Van Gogh for daring to do a documentary on what happens to women in African Muslim countries? They beheaded the poor guy!

    Now, let’s hope Barack doesn’t send his AlQuaeda buddies to that talented fellow who did the Front Page satirical cartoon of Prophet Barack and Rebel Michele.

    I think if Obama sent a copy to each of his half-bros and half-hos in Kenya they’d love it! And he should autograph it for Bernie Mac and Jesse Jackson who’d go NUTS if he saw it!

    **Now, isn’t this bringing fond memories of the JFK CAMELOT days….except without Pablo Cassels…BHO will have Bernie in the drawing Room.

    **That is truly Change we can believe in, bros and hos! And love them new Family Values! Polygamy and Sharia Law – it’s about Time, America!

    Obama Pres
    Osama V-P
    Bernie Mac – Faith-Based Initiatives Chair

    • Prem

      Any truth to the rumor that the Nation of Islam has issued a fatwa (death warrant) for the artist of the cover of the New Yorker? Sorry I did not post the link where I read it. I’ll try to find it—I’ve been all over the web today. Hope this is just a false rumor, but it’s creepy.

  • jane ho

    Well, it may be intended to be a satire on the many, many Americans who dont trust BO because of his really odd links to radicals, but the Obamatronics will love to interpret it as rascist slander.
    So maybe it backfired a little for the New Yorker. I imagine they just wanted to boost their ratings.

  • Anon 1

    Obama race card is not working on John McCain campaign. I think the New Yorker cover was design to stoke the fires and blame it on the Republicans because clearly, John McCain is staying on course and not falling for Obama race tactics. WHat we have here are desparate leftist who wants to continue the debate on Obama rumors. However, It is backfiring on them. There are major differences between Obama and Mccain without the NEw Yorker needing to resort to this poor attempt at satire. If Rush Limbaugh had created this cover, they would be asking for him to be taken off thr air. As far as Obama not using his middle name is a clear indication of a person with an inferiority complex. He is ashamed to use his middle name? He lied about his parents been married. This guy is a major pretender and an embellisher and wil stop at nothing to create an image of innocence and victimhood. When is it offensive to be seen in Tibal clothes. Obama is too thin skinned when it comes to all this muslim thing. Muslims should be offended at his remarks.

    I expect the radical left to continue to use race in their satire so that Obama can get the sympathy votes. Obviously, McCain is not getting trap into all that. We all know how they blame racism on the Clinotns when it was the Obama campaign and friends who started it all.

    • Just a Thought

      What sympathy votes? Are there additional ones still to be had?

      I thought he had already gotten all of the sympathy votes, and white guilt votes, in the primaries. Still leaving 18 million voters supporting HRC.

      I certainly have no sympathy for him, nor do I manifest any “so-called white guilt”. I owe him nothing.

      Nor do I believe any other Clinton supporters owe him or the DNC anything. The way I see it, regarding the racism canard, is that the Obama apologists are preaching to themselves.

      Actually that last aspect is good, they need the “preaching”. They are and have been the true racists all along. Trying to project their psychoactive hang-ups onto others throughout the campaign.

  • Masha9

    I hope the obamabots don’t call a fatwa against The New Yorker. If they do, the NYorker could always ask Salman Rushdie for a few pointers. He knows how to deal with irrational fundamentalists. Can you imagine if President Bush got upset whenever there’s a cartoon that made fun of him? Then he’d really have no time to get the job done…

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard nedich

      another reason why Baracktrack is more dangerous than Bush…

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

  • http://360.yahoo.com/ommotherlifeforce fred heidrick

    this page is acting funny keep geting no authrized access,

    this is the nature of cartooning to say the truth in a saterical way.there has been thousands of cartoons about the clintons and others.so fair is fair.i think it was posibly mat lower the other day did the slip …..OSAMA…obama oops. so you know the media still relates to obama as a undesirable president.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke64670GkZ8 Woman Voter
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke64670GkZ8 Woman Voter

    TO OBAMA CAMP…learn from someone who has been through the ringer, you are almost fifty…not to far from your AARP card yourself.
    http://bp3.blogger.com/_t-EfdceTs60/SHzgLHzBpbI/AAAAAAAAD_E/repp47u004M/s1600-h/ObamaNewYorkerDrama.gif

  • WildChild

    BOBO’s thin skin is rubbing off on you.