Barack & Michelle make the cover of The New Yorker Magazine (and it's not pretty

[Wretched Excess]

the story that the cover pertains to is pretty interesting . . . .

[Lord Undies]

I have not read one mention anywhere thst Hussein Obama's baby mama has her legs crossed in the drawing.  I have no idea what it means, but it must symbolize something.

[DixieBelle]

The article WE linked to is a must read. Check out these snippets and read between the lines.

“I think he was very strategic in his choice of friends and mentors,” 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.”

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.”

(Obama says) “When I started organizing, I understood the idea of social change in a very abstract way,” Obama told me last year. “It was to some extent informed by my years in Indonesia, seeing extreme poverty and disparities of wealth and understanding sort of in a dim way that life wasn’t fair and government had something to do with it. I understood the role that issues like race played and took inspiration from the civil-rights movement and what the student sit-ins had accomplished and the freedom rides.

“But I didn’t come out of a political family, didn’t have a history of activism in my family. So I understood these things in the abstract. When I went to Chicago, it was the first time that I had the opportunity to test out my ideas. And for the most part I would say I wasn’t wildly successful. The victories that we achieved were extraordinarily modest: you know, getting a job-training site set up or getting an after-school program for young people put in place.”

In this early foray into politics, Obama revealed the toughness and brashness that this year’s long primary season brought into view. As Burns, who has a mischievous sense of humor and a gift for mimicry, recalled, “Black activists, community folks, felt that he didn’t respect their role”—Burns imitated a self-righteous activist—“in the struggle and the movement. He didn’t engage in obeisance to them. He wanted to get the job done. And Barack’s cheap, too. If you can’t do it and do it in a cost-effective manner, you’re not going to work with him.” Ivory Mitchell, the ward chairman in Obama’s neighborhood, says of Obama that “he was typical of what most aspiring politicians are: self-centered—that ‘I can do anything and I’m willing to do it overnight.’ ”

[Wretched Excess]

The article WE linked to is a must read. Check out these snippets and read between the lines.

“I think he was very strategic in his choice of friends and mentors,” 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.”

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.”

(Obama says) “When I started organizing, I understood the idea of social change in a very abstract way,” Obama told me last year. “It was to some extent informed by my years in Indonesia, seeing extreme poverty and disparities of wealth and understanding sort of in a dim way that life wasn’t fair and government had something to do with it. I understood the role that issues like race played and took inspiration from the civil-rights movement and what the student sit-ins had accomplished and the freedom rides.

“But I didn’t come out of a political family, didn’t have a history of activism in my family. So I understood these things in the abstract. When I went to Chicago, it was the first time that I had the opportunity to test out my ideas. And for the most part I would say I wasn’t wildly successful. The victories that we achieved were extraordinarily modest: you know, getting a job-training site set up or getting an after-school program for young people put in place.”

In this early foray into politics, Obama revealed the toughness and brashness that this year’s long primary season brought into view. As Burns, who has a mischievous sense of humor and a gift for mimicry, recalled, “Black activists, community folks, felt that he didn’t respect their role”—Burns imitated a self-righteous activist—“in the struggle and the movement. He didn’t engage in obeisance to them. He wanted to get the job done. And Barack’s cheap, too. If you can’t do it and do it in a cost-effective manner, you’re not going to work with him.” Ivory Mitchell, the ward chairman in Obama’s neighborhood, says of Obama that “he was typical of what most aspiring politicians are: self-centered—that ‘I can do anything and I’m willing to do it overnight.’ ”

I was going to post it in the elections forum . . . but it's been a busy day, and I haven't finished it yet.

[DixieBelle]

I think you should. I skimmed it and lots of things jumped out at me.

[Wretched Excess]

I think you should. I skimmed it and lots of things jumped out at me.

I will, but the only people that will read it will be you and lauri.

[Bondai]

Oh no! I'd offended....   Oh God no, I'm offended... It's so offensive, make it stop... Oh please God no, make it go away..... I have never been more offended, oh no....

[DixieBelle]

I think you should. I skimmed it and lots of things jumped out at me.

I will, but the only people that will read it will be you and lauri.

"Lemme esplain. Ah no, there's too much lemme sum up...." 

[Wretched Excess]

I think the point of the cover is that this is supposedly how the Right is portraying hussein and wife.
 

I guess it's supposed to be a criticism of the caricature that the right has created of The BarackStar!

only problem is that is hasn't happened.  aside from some fringe loonies, I have heard very little along these
lines at all.  in fact, it is probably frustration that it hasn't happened on any scale at all that caused them to roll
this thing out prematurely.

if this was supposed to be a blast at the right, they missed.

[ReardenSteel]

You know, sometimes when making fun of how we see people's belief's we end up telling more about ourselves than we do about the people we are making fun of.  In attempting to make fun of us "reich wingers" the New Yorker has written a novel-length commentary on who they really are.

I don't really find it as offensive as telling.  And I encourage the New Yorker to tell us more.

H5 to the big 5-0. (don't get cocky kid) 

Very well said.

[ReardenSteel]

To further Nukum's point from above, Michelle Malkin has a few choice reminders of who the liberals really are and what really think...

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/14/grow-a-pair-obama/

[Rebel Yell]

OK who loaned out the keys to the VRWC mind reading device?  That is exactly how I see both of them in my mind.  Especially, Angela Davis Obama.

[BlueStateSaint]

I think you should. I skimmed it and lots of things jumped out at me.

I will, but the only people that will read it will be you and lauri.

I got about 40% or so through it, then I decided, "I'll print it off and read it tomorrow at work."  It's 18 pages.  What stood out right off the top was this:

I asked her if what she considered slights or betrayals were simply the necessary accommodations and maneuvering of a politician making a lightning transition from Hyde Park legislator to Presidential nominee.  "Can you get where he is and maintain your personal integrity?" she said.  "Is that the question?"  She stared at me and grimaced.  "I'm going to pass on that."

Lurkers, he's a typical politician.  There's no "change" in what he's talking about--unless you think that he's referring to all you will have in your pockets after all of his social programs are implemented.  His programs will add $1.3 trillion to the Federal budget.  If you think that you're not going to pay more in taxes to cover that, my advice is this:  Put the bong down and back away slowly.

[Chris_]

To further Nukum's point from above, Michelle Malkin has a few choice reminders of who the liberals really are and what really think...

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/14/grow-a-pair-obama/

This is a MUST READ!!!  Of the  cartoons she pointed out, this one from the Rolling Stone is truly offensive and made me physically ill.  I can see no irony or satire in it at all:

[BlueStateSaint]

I'm in total agreement, freedumb . . .

I wonder how ol' Barack would hold up under the type of treatment that John McCain faced in Vietnam.  He'd be crying for his mommy in 4.3 seconds.

John McCain held up for 5 1/2 years, lurking DUmb****s.

[DixieBelle]

I think the point of the cover is that this is supposedly how the Right is portraying hussein and wife.
 

I guess it's supposed to be a criticism of the caricature that the right has created of The BarackStar!

only problem is that is hasn't happened.  aside from some fringe loonies, I have heard very little along these
lines at all.  in fact, it is probably frustration that it hasn't happened on any scale at all that caused them to roll
this thing out prematurely.

if this was supposed to be a blast at the right, they missed.

This is what happens when you let DUmmies who are to the left of Stalin make your magazine covers. I can't help but notice the striking parallels to the many "nasty freeperpukes are hitler lovers!" posts so common on Skin's asylum.

Duke's assessment above is dead on 100%.

[Duke Nukum]

The article WE linked to is a must read. Check out these snippets and read between the lines.

“I think he was very strategic in his choice of friends and mentors,” 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.”

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.”

(Obama says) “When I started organizing, I understood the idea of social change in a very abstract way,” Obama told me last year. “It was to some extent informed by my years in Indonesia, seeing extreme poverty and disparities of wealth and understanding sort of in a dim way that life wasn’t fair and government had something to do with it. I understood the role that issues like race played and took inspiration from the civil-rights movement and what the student sit-ins had accomplished and the freedom rides.

“But I didn’t come out of a political family, didn’t have a history of activism in my family. So I understood these things in the abstract. When I went to Chicago, it was the first time that I had the opportunity to test out my ideas. And for the most part I would say I wasn’t wildly successful. The victories that we achieved were extraordinarily modest: you know, getting a job-training site set up or getting an after-school program for young people put in place.”

In this early foray into politics, Obama revealed the toughness and brashness that this year’s long primary season brought into view. As Burns, who has a mischievous sense of humor and a gift for mimicry, recalled, “Black activists, community folks, felt that he didn’t respect their role”—Burns imitated a self-righteous activist—“in the struggle and the movement. He didn’t engage in obeisance to them. He wanted to get the job done. And Barack’s cheap, too. If you can’t do it and do it in a cost-effective manner, you’re not going to work with him.” Ivory Mitchell, the ward chairman in Obama’s neighborhood, says of Obama that “he was typical of what most aspiring politicians are: self-centered—that ‘I can do anything and I’m willing to do it overnight.’ ”

Thanks for posting this excerpt, I tried to read the link posted above but fell asleep, anyway, I don't get what he is trying to say.  In my experience, life only seems unfair when we don't know how to demand what we want from it, but he seems to be saying that life isn't fair and government helps in making it unfair?  So then he got into politics to make government make life more fair and didn't really have much in the way of success in making government make life more fair?

Or am I totally misreading it and he is saying life is unfair and it is the role of government to make it fair?  But that he didn't have much success in making it more fair when he was in local government?

And if the first one is true and he is saying government is part of the problem, he should have looked into conservatism.  From his record and rhetoric he seems very much to believe in government though.

[DixieBelle]

Number two??

I think he was trying to say that socialism is the answer. Because everyone knows when you're in a boat that's sinking, you poke holes in the bottom! *eyeroll*

[MrsSmith]

Do you remember this New Yorker cover from 2007? I still have it!

cat_girl25  (1000+ posts)       Mon Jul-14-08 09:55 PM
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2. They should have posters made out of that! LOL!


hedgehog  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jul-14-08 09:56 PM
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3. I posted a number of covers criticizing the Bush administration last night. 
 I have to admit, the difference is that the covers lampooning Bush were lampooning actual flaws in character or policy. The Obama cover is lampooning false perceptions of Obama. There should be an interesting cover in response to all this in a few weeks.


lastliberalintexas  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jul-14-08 10:08 PM
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14. Yep, that's how it comes across to the average American
 If people in our country were intelligent and sophisticated enough to understand this cover, we would have enjoyed the prosperity of the President Stevenson years.


Canuckistanian  (1000+ posts)       Mon Jul-14-08 10:09 PM
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15. That's a brilliant satire of Cheney
 Or is it a brilliant satire of our irrational hatred of Cheney?

I'm so confused.
 

Good thing DUmpMonkies are never hypocritical...   

[DixieBelle]

excellent find Mrssmith!!!

[TheSarge]

I love how the DUmmies and other Libs have their knickers in a twist over that New Yorker cover...but think stuff like this:





Is just effen hliarious!
 

[BlueStateSaint]

I love how the DUmmies and other Libs have their knickers in a twist over that New Yorker cover...but think stuff like this:





Is just effen hliarious!
 

Selective bigotry, Sarge . . . she's "off the plantation." 

[TheSarge]

Selective bigotry, Sarge . . . she's "off the plantation." 

It's so damn selective Blue...that the Libtards have selectively "forgotten" that The New Yorker is a left wing rag and are blaming stuff like this on Republicans and of course their favorite Demon...President Bush.
 

[MrsSmith]

Selective bigotry, Sarge . . . she's "off the plantation." 

It's so damn selective Blue...that the Libtards have selectively "forgotten" that The New Yorker is a left wing rag and are blaming stuff like this on Republicans and of course their favorite Demon...President Bush.
 

They have their excuses lined up...

hedgehog  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jul-14-08 09:56 PM
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3. I posted a number of covers criticizing the Bush administration last night. 
 I have to admit, the difference is that the covers lampooning Bush were lampooning actual flaws in character or policy. The Obama cover is lampooning false perceptions of Obama. There should be an interesting cover in response to all this in a few weeks.

See?  If they really believe it's true, then it's OK, no matter how nasty, bigoted or racist it gets.   

[DixieBelle]

^nice backpedal there DUmmie. *eyeroll*

How about trying that line for the Bush, Condi, McCain, etc...photos?? Yeah, didn't think so.

Asshat DUmmies.