Posted on 07/13/2008 7:55:06 PM PDT by FocusNexus
The cover of this week's New Yorker magazine depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing wife Michelle in camo clothes with a rifle and ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a portrait of Osama bin-Laden while the American flag burns in the fireplace -- in the presidential Oval Office.
It's got everything incendiary except a vest bomb. Which is what should telegraph to most people that it's way over-the-top and, therefore, satire.
But politicians don't like satire because it's subject to differing interpretations.
Obama declined comment today, seeking not to elevate its importance. And his campaign issued a statement by Bill Burton which Mike Allen of Politico.com reported as, "The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
The good thing is that Gene wouldn’t be caught dead wearing any of that socialist garbage. Gene’s a cool dude, and does quite a bit for the military. Evidently Obama has issues with taking questions from them.
This will somehow become Rush’s fault...without fail.
I smell the invisible hand of Hillary in this cover.
OK....article in the issue with the cover:
The Political Scene
Making It
How Chicago shaped Obama.
by Ryan Lizza
*************************H/T to Flopping Aces**************************
Obama - Your Typical Politician,/b>
******************EXCERPT******************
Posted by: Curt @ 11:31 am in Barack Obama, Uncategorized
In the new issue of The New Yorker there is a long piece about what makes Obama tick. The author, Ryan Lizza, went looking to find out and found that the ticking is just Chicago politics as usual. No change, no new direction. Just plain ole’ politics. It’s a long piece so I’ve taken only bits and pieces of it that are relevant to understanding the messiah.
They start with someone who was beside him early on in his political career but became quite disillusioned by him:
Preckwinkle soon became an Obama loyalist, and she stuck with him in a State Senate campaign that strained or ruptured many friendships but was ultimately successful. Four years later, in 2000, she backed Obama in a doomed congressional campaign against a local icon, the former Black Panther Bobby Rush. And in 2004 Preckwinkle supported Obama during his improbable, successful run for the United States Senate. So it was startling to learn that Toni Preckwinkle had become disenchanted with Barack Obama.
Preckwinkle is a tall, commanding woman with a clipped gray Afro. She has represented her slice of the South Side for seventeen years and expresses no interest in higher office. On Chicago’s City Council, she is often a dissenter against the wishes of Mayor Richard M. Daley. For anyone trying to understand Obama’s breathtakingly rapid political ascent, Preckwinkle is an indispensable witness—a close observer, friend, and confidante during a period of Obama’s life to which he rarely calls attention.
Although many of Obama’s recent supporters have been surprised by signs of political opportunism, Preckwinkle wasn’t. “I think he was very strategic in his choice of friends and mentors,” she told me. “I spent ten years of my adult life working to be alderman. I finally got elected. This is a job I love. And I’m perfectly happy with it. I’m not sure that’s the way that he approached his public life—that he was going to try for a job and stay there for one period of time. In retrospect, I think he saw the positions he held as stepping stones to other things and therefore approached his public life differently than other people might have.”
On issue after issue, Preckwinkle presented Obama as someone who thrived in the world of Chicago politics. She 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.” Preckwinkle was unsparing on the subject of the Chicago real-estate developer Antoin (Tony) Rezko, a friend of Obama’s and one of his top fund-raisers, who was recently convicted of fraud, bribery, and money laundering: “Who you take money from is a reflection of your knowledge at the time and your principles.”
It's like being a MAVERICK! Cool.
I don’t get it? It’s supposed to be funny? I still don’t get it.
This may be the most popular edition of New Yorker in years!
We'll have to get a ruling from CAIR.
But I don't think they have much appreciation for satire.
I think you are giving the New Yorker too much credit. They thought they were making fun of the “wackos”, but succeeded wildly in creating an image that will go down in history as the nail in the Obama coffin.
They are going to wish they could take this one back. Never underestimate the stupidity of those on the left.
“Ms.Preckwinkle”
Whew! I would change my name so fast.
Your version is not an improvement. Once you monkey with the art by putting a hammer and sickle at the top it looks like just another right wing propaganda piece. In its original form, with the liberal seal of approval that is The New Yorker logo, this looks a cartoon that belongs in the mainstream of political push and shove.
It’s one thing to to skewer a candidate with such a biting cartoon. It’s quite a stroke of luck to have such a cartoon appear on the cover of The New Yorker where it can’t be attacked or suppressed as hate speech.
Run with the original!
Ah, but when the shoe is on the other foot.... LOL.
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