Yeah, the New Yorker cover . . . sigh.
There was a lot of talk about it on a purportedly light-hearted blog that I read regularly. Not everybody there shares my personal view of things, least of all the blog owner, but I think the comments on this entry pretty much run the gamut in terms of the variety of beliefs/thoughts that people have on the issue . . .
Many people are saying that Obama should just shut up about it . . . it’s satire, blah blah blah . . . (and we Grand Rapids folks know all about satire gone wrong . . . )
But seriously. The New Yorker cover barely qualifies as satire, mainly because FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE believe the cover image to be a completely accurate representation of who Barack Obama is.
And psssssst . . . I hear he kills kittens, too . . .
I wanna love You better whatever it takes . . . 
Its the same old Obama race card being played…I can call you names but don’t you dare call me a niger!
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I have a policy of not silencing those who oppose me, although I shudder at the use of that word, spelled wrong or not.
What they “called him” was actually a US-hating, Osama Bin Laden-loving terrorist. I don’t recall Barack Obama calling ANYONE names, least of all something as hateful and ugly as that.