Thanks for giving this idiotic cartoonist the air time he definitely does not deserve. Obama was born in Hawaii, but I'm glad to see you're perpetuating the right-wing Internet whisper campaign that he's not really an American. It's disgusting, dishonest, and not even remotely satiric.
I agree. There is no satire here. This is disgusting. Obama is not a Kenyan; he's an American. Your idiotic cartoons have now gone from incomprehensible to stupid to racist. Good job!
Actually, Obama is of Kenyan descent as his father was Kenyan and it's part of his heritage that he has discussed proudly. The cartoon is using that fact as well as playing off of yesterday's marathon.
You are having a New Yorker moment people will be hyper sensitive to a cartoon that actually supports Obama. Yes he is of Kenyan descent. But unless it is over the top support of Obama that people dont have to think to understand the cult of Obama will attack.
His father was also a muslim but no one is allowed to mention that Marcus.
Why would anyone mention it? So what? Unless you're a bigot who thinks there's something inherently dark and evil about Islam, as oppossed to another silly religion..
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This is getting fucking ridiculous, Chicagoist.
Thanks for giving this idiotic cartoonist the air time he definitely does not deserve. Obama was born in Hawaii, but I'm glad to see you're perpetuating the right-wing Internet whisper campaign that he's not really an American. It's disgusting, dishonest, and not even remotely satiric.
I agree. There is no satire here. This is disgusting. Obama is not a Kenyan; he's an American. Your idiotic cartoons have now gone from incomprehensible to stupid to racist. Good job!
Actually, Obama is of Kenyan descent as his father was Kenyan and it's part of his heritage that he has discussed proudly. The cartoon is using that fact as well as playing off of yesterday's marathon.
His father was also a muslim but no one is allowed to mention that Marcus.
You are having a New Yorker moment people will be hyper sensitive to a cartoon that actually supports Obama. Yes he is of Kenyan descent. But unless it is over the top support of Obama that people dont have to think to understand the cult of Obama will attack.
Calling a man born in Kansas "The Kenyan" isn't racist, so much as it is inaccurate and objectifying.
Is John McCain "the scotch-irishman"?
These cartoons just aren't up to snuff. There are plenty of more on-point cartoonists out there y'know.
I don't think the intent is malicious so much as it is not very thoughtful. I agree, a lot like the New Yorker.
The shame of that New Yorker kerfuffle, was it obscured an excellent article by Ryan Lizza about Obama's start in Chicago politics.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza
The noise sadly obscures the music.
albany - totally agree.
His father was also a muslim but no one is allowed to mention that Marcus.
Why would anyone mention it? So what? Unless you're a bigot who thinks there's something inherently dark and evil about Islam, as oppossed to another silly religion..
@Navin:
I love hearing people talk in hushed tones about Obama as a "Mooslum" and then rail about Reverand Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.
Because a secret muslim would spend 20 years a church with a social gospel preacher while hatching marxist plans with the Weather Underground.
My biggest worry for an Obama administration is we'll be all out of tin-foil as these people fashion their protective helmets.
So the pig says to the complaint department, "I wish I was taller."