Obama Still Thinks We’re a Bunch of Bitters
Apparently, there exists a magazine devoted entirely to upper crust New York City elitists. It is called, appropriately enough, The New Yorker. Until this week, it distinguished itself primarilly by publishing unfunny one-panel cartoons and by using words like “cinéastes” to refer to people who like to watch movies. (By the way, if you want to use “cineastes” in a sentence, it is pronounced: “I AM A SELF-IMPORTANT PSUEDO-INTELLECTUAL NIMROD”).
So this month, The New Yorker has a cover illustration that depicts Obama as a Muslim and his wife as a gun-toting terrorist. Predictably, the two are fist-bumping. And of course, they are burning an American flag. Oh, and they have hung a picture of Osama bin Laden in the White House.
Apparently, the cineastes who publish the New Yorker thought this was a daring commentary on how “the bitters” view Obama. (As you recall, Obama famously observed that people who don’t live in New York City, LA or San Fransisco have a tendency to cling to religion and guns because they are bitter about their lot in life. Personally, I cling to religion and guns because I am bitter about the Buffalo Sabres. I wish I coined the term “bitters,” but I have to give credit to Wonkette, an incredibly funny D.C. based political blog.).
My first reaction is that this is terribly elitist in its attempt at humor. Clearly, the implication is that there are a significant number of bitters out there who think that Obama plans to turn this country into a Muslim caliphate.
I think Mark Hemingway of the National Review gets it right when he calls the cover a ”tasteless and offensive attack — on conservatives.” He goes on to state
The problem is not that the typically literate New Yorker reader won’t understand that the magazine isn’t earnestly portraying Obama as a member of al-Qaeda. The problem is that liberal media types think this caricature of Obama actually exists in the heads of “right-wing critics.” Engage most real-life “right wing critics” for a few minutes and you’ll realize the contention is laughable….
But leaving the cover aside, Obama’s reaction to the entire mess provides us some insight into how he thinks. His campaign denounced the satirical cover as tasteless and offensive, and then went and started a fire at the U.S. embassy. Kidding. Kidding. Obama’s reaction to this mess was to state: “I know it was The New Yorker’s attempt at satire. I don’t think they were entirely successful with it.”
Really? Does he somehow think that the cover will be taken seriously? By whom? I can see it now: Cletus the bitter puts down his gun and stops praying to Jesus long enough to trek out to the mailbox. After walking past the the pregnant hound dogs and rusted cars on blocks, Cletus arrives at the mailbox to find the latest issue of the New Yorker. He gazes upon the cover and thinks to himself “I knew it! Obama is a Muslim.”
It makes me wonder what Obama thinks about the average American voter. Wait, that’s right, he already told us what he thinks of us.
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I’ll admit that I did view the cartoon in question as an attack on conservatives’ point of view regarding Obama, but unlike you, I felt that it was justified. Listen to Rush for three hours and it is likely you’ll have at least one caller who uses Obama’s middle name (Hussein) as to somehow make a point or to subliminally link him to a Muslim terrorist. I know that this isn’t true for all conservatives, but there are a lot of naive, uneducated conservatives (and liberals for that matter) in our country that won’t be able to pull the lever for Obama in November simply because of the fear that comes with seeing his name and race. The fact is, many people in this country just can’t and won’t look past his name and race and even bother to learn his political positions and true values. I think the cartoon’s intent was to try and break down these stereo types and open up dialogue. However, in being so over the top, the message seems to have been lost on many people. On a side note, I think liberals need to learn more about John McCain and his positions and values. All we seem to hear about McCain from the MSM is that he is very old, possibly senile, reckless and mad, and that he will serve George Bush’s third term. That’s it. If I were a Republican, and I’m not, I’d be working harder to get out McCain’s message or he’ll go down as another Bob Dole type candidate. If I were John, I’d try to lighten up. Hope this all made sense.
Problem is we don’t what Obama’s political positions and true values. During the primaries we thought he was a proud liberal. Nothing wrong with that, if you believe. He supported partial birth abortion, opposed the second amendment, Opposed FISA rules to grant immunity to tel-coms and promised a filibuster.
Then when he wins the nomination he is ok with the second amendment supreme court decision, says he wants to limit partial birth abortion, voted for FISA and is refining his Iraq position.
So it appears that he is a standard politician just like every other one who will do and say what it takes to get elected.
Honestly I have no problem with that. Like the reverend Jeremiah Wright says “He is just doing what a politician does”. Looks like Wright is the hones one here and had the guts to stick with what he believes.
The only change we are seeing from Obama is the ability to change his position to get elected.