Barack’s Africa Problem
By Larry Johnson on July 14, 2008 at 1:25 PM in Current Affairs
What the hell were the New Yorker editors thinking? Put me down as someone who thinks the New Yorker Cover is way out of line, but not for the reasons you might suspect. I do not understand why Michele Obama is featured as an updated Angela Davis afro-wearing radical toting an AK-47? Humor and satire, to be effective, must have a basis in truth. Is she a tough, dominating lady who has her husband whipped? That appears to be true. But she has not been buddies with the communist, non-repentant terrorist Bill Ayers or an employee of Bill Ayers. That is her husband. As Steve Diamond pointed out in an earlier post, Barack still has not answered that question.
Also, what is with the Osama Bin Laden photo? The only terrorist Barack has hung out with is Bill Ayers. He has never said boo about being an Osama supporter.
But Barack in muslim/African tribal garb? That is true. That’s not an artistic fabulation. It is a fact.
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The challenge for Barack in the upcoming election, if he is nominated, is to explain his screwed up parents. His first ad emphasized his whiteness–I have a white mama, I have white grandparents, and, did I mention, they are from Kansas? Barack faces a steep climb to persuade voters that he is a male version of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. You ain’t in Kansas any more BoBo. Oh! Barack also neglected to mention his half-sister, who was born in Indonesia, and his half-brothers and sisters in Kenya. As we have previously noted Barack Sr. was a bit of a rounder. A Kenyan version of Johnny Apple-seed who had multiple girlfriends, wives, and children. Those are not family values that most Americans understand or embrace.
Democrats may have been shy about talking about these facts but Republicans are not. And cries of unfair and racism from the distraught left will be meaningless come September. How do you think the American people will react when a video pops up of Barack Obama praying at a mosque? Do you think most Americans will shrug it off as nothing?






















