Ya can't make it up (New Yorker Obama Cover)

Just trying to build sympathy for the Obama’s.

Especially since he can’t seem to find a valid birth certificate.

At least Clinton had Carter’s pardon for his draft-dodging.

141 posted on 07/14/2008 11:36:27 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%

It isn’t exclusive in the same way as Departures magazine, but still very upscale.

142 posted on 07/14/2008 11:45:22 AM PDT by durasell (!)

This has been going on with Republicans being the target for as long as I can remember, this guy needs to get a skin.

It might also be a preemptive strike. They do something like this and it insulates Obama from further criticism when it matters..

143 posted on 07/14/2008 11:46:28 AM PDT by newnhdad

IMO it is a bad, very bad idea to re enforce a negative.

I agree ... mostly. Keep in mind, though, that there is much more going on behind the scenes than we know about. Republican and Democrat black ops people are constantly searching for -- and shopping -- stories. I don't believe the magazine cover of a well known pub, particularly one as Left as The New Yorker is chosen without very careful attention to what it does for circulation and for pushing the editorial agenda and image of the magazine.

It's quite possible they're trying to inoculate against new revelations, or it's possible that their internal polls are telling them the lingering doubts with some groups they think they can "turn" about Obama's associations haven't been laid to rest.

I've said I think this might backfire.

The idea that The New Yorker somehow "get's it," espoused by some people on this and other like minded threads is palpably laughable. Smug and secure in their little island (literally and figuratively) the editors and cartoonists of The New Yorker are too insular to ever "get it." They're as clueless about what's really happening in the world as children; They're so clueless they think we don't know when we're being laughed at. We do know. We're used to it. We just don't care. Nobody whose opinion matters to us works for The New Yorker.

144 posted on 07/14/2008 12:57:11 PM PDT by FredZarguna (This tag line dedicated "To the Socialists of all Parties." Even those posting on FR.)

left-wing intellectuals

Now there's aNaziMoron.

Please punctuate properly: left-wing "intellectuals".

145 posted on 07/14/2008 1:04:46 PM PDT by FredZarguna (This tag line dedicated "To the Socialists of all Parties." Even those posting on FR.)

I know a couple of them. Don’t want to mention names.

146 posted on 07/14/2008 4:41:47 PM PDT by firebrand

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