Obama Opponents Seize New Yorker Cover

well you can thank fox news for this right along with rush limbaugh and karl rove i wish they would cancel fox news they dont report facts they report lies and base their newscast on smearing people well i can tell you no fox news on in my household!!!!!!!!!!

This is Republican railroading at it’s worst. We can’t fault him legitimately, so let’s do this.
If this were 20 yrs ago, he’d be wearing a Russian Uniform.
Let’s scare people so our idiot can win.

Wow those are some real prominent websites there.
You have got to be kidding.
The New Yorker did this to help Obama.
They said they wanted to get all this out there to help him and give him sympathty.
This was a non issue until the New Yorker said lets help Obama win.
The New Yorker endorsed Kerry in 04.
The New Yorker will endorse Obama.
They were accusing the right of being racists.
This wasn’t an attack on Obama.
They titled it the politics of Fear.
The New Yorker and Obama campaign said the right were racists.
I can’t believe people can’t see throught this.
The New Yorker is partisan democrats.
They did this to give Obama sympathy. The writer on Morning Joe admitted they wanted to get this out there to help Obama.

For the neo-cons that say this is just satire and not an attack, How would you like to see a McCain cartoon with him enfeebled in a rocking chair, wrapped in a US flag, a pile of Exxon stock on his lap, empty Budwieser bottles littering the floor, a pistol in his hand aimed at the head of a middle eastern child. Thought so.

obama is back to his Whining as usual.. does he have any idea that adults should not whine?

kurt wrote:
he is weak and dangerous. that is the real issue!!
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Please explain how exactly Obama is “dangerous”, use facts please, not emotion.

Pictures don’t lie and in this case, this cartoon SCREAMS THE TRUTH!

Kurt…if Obama looses we all loose…that means McCain wins..STUPID.
I cannot believe how arrogant and totally out of touch the Hillary supporters are. If roles were reversed the Obama suporters would be unting to get a Dem in the White House. It is sad that intelligant adults act like babies who have been denied their ice cream!

Obama just yesterday said ICE immigration agents were terrorizing illegal immigrants.
People keep saying they want CHANGE.
That CHANGE is marxism.

When has Obama ever whinned…One example please!

they root for a whacked cartoon that is making fun of THEM…
that means to me…Obama is easily going to be President.

PLEASE REPLACE HIM WITH HILLARY, THE MOST VETTED ONE. IT’S NOW YET TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR MINDS….
Posted by: neil1785 | Jul 14, 2008 3:18:31 PM
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The only way I repeat the ONLY way Hillary could be Nominated is if she divorced Bill today.
Bill would have to be vetted as well, and that, my dear, would be the deal breaker of all time.

If anything the people that should be offended are the people that aren’t voting for Obama.
The New Yorker is basically saying the only reason why people aren’t voting for Obama is race.
The race issue is so overrated.
Obama will get more votes from his race than lose votes from his race.
The people that won’t vote for Obama because of his race wouldn’t vote for him anyway and 99 percent of them are in states that aren’t swing states.
Menendez won the NJ senate election.
I remember everyone saying how his race would hurt him. His race actually helped him. He got huge hispanic turnout.

I voted for Hillary but i will vote
republican in november.

OBAMA’S A LYING STUPID IDIOT. HE HAS A LOT MORE ISSUES AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE THAN ANYONE ELSE. ASIDE FROM BEING A LOT YOUNGER THAN OBAMA WHEN BILL CLINTON WON THE PRESIDENCY, HE WAS A LOT MORE INTELLIGENT, DIRECT-TO-THE-POINT, NEVER FLIP-FLOPPED ON CRITICAL ISSUES AND US WAS #1 WORLD-CLASS IN ALL ASPECTS DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION. WITH OBAMA, US WILL BECOME A LOW-CLASS THIRD WORLD.

Robert….Good, do you think anyone really cares who you vote for?

Gallup Tracking 07/11 – 07/13 46 43 Obama +3.0
Rasmussen Tracking 07/11 – 07/13 47 46 Obama +1.0
After 8 years of an unpopular Republican administration, where 78% of Americans now think the country is on the wrong track, Obama’s numbers are anemic. This visual by the New Yorker does not help his case.

Robert….Good, do you think anyone really cares who you vote for?
Posted by: Jen | Jul 14, 2008 3:31:30 PM
There is no need to be rude about it.

I’m sorry to offend religious believes of the Obama worshipers. A couple of days ago Obama compared John McCain to Dr. Phil. Obama knows how to make fun of people. Guess what, somebody made fun of him. Clamp your religious vigor worshipers, this is just a joke.

NEIL
hillary has too much baggage

Our elections are now covered like celebrity gossip.
For the love of god Obama accept McCain’s town hall formats so the elections can be about the real issues and about the candidates.
There have been more distractions in this election than the last five elections combined.
It is either some obscure surrogate, some magazine, taking out of context on and on.
Enough already accept the town hall format and discuss the issues.

Angie,
obama has mountainous of baggage. a lot bigger than those of the clintons’.

Among other interesting things, Michael said:
“I care that Obama has never visited europe as president.
I care that Obama has no experience.
Lets get back to the issues instead of this non sense.”
Michael, Obama has never visited Chicago as President.
I think you are mistaking him for George Bush. He never discoverd oil BEFORE he became President. But he called himself an oil man. Now he is Mr. Rancher to you, Mike.

Robert,
Why did you vote for Hillary then? You like her platform? and now that is not a platform you cant support? McCains platform is much better than Hillarys?
Posted by: Jane Hussein | Jul 14, 2008 3:33:36 PM
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Hillary got very,very bad treatment from
DNC and party leaders during the
primaries……..
Her supporters are very mad for that
reason……..
To get even is to vote against the
democratic party……and that’s
exactly what i going to do in november.

Mental midgets are thinking a magazine cover will stop OBAMA from being POTUS?
Is that the best you have, AGAIN???
Poor pitiful cynics. An endangered species due for extinction come November.
This time next year, McCain’t will be shooing kids off of his wife’s lawn, Cynics will be b**** slapped with a historical landslide victory and OBAMA will be POTUS.
Any questions?
THAT IS ALL.
OBAMA 08

NEIL1785
get over it hillary is not gonna be president i know its hard but the reality is its over good thing look at the debt she got herself in just imangine what she would of done with our money and economy dont get me wrong i like hillary but not as potus

Major qualifications for President:
Lots of experience in office.
Well grounded in non controverisal religious mainstream.
Not from that political cess pool, Illinois.
No illusions about the possibility of reuniting our hopelessly divided country.
Sorry Abe, don’t apply.

I suspect that the 15% of American voters who believe Senator Obama is a Muslim are part of the 21% of the United States population who are functionally illiterate. So mostly they just look at the pictures in magazines. They will not be reading the article. Never the less, the kind of exaggerated misinformation depicted on the cover of the New Yorker probably just reinforces the ignorant fear of people who would not allow facts to get in the way of their beliefs anyway.

It all comes down to whether or not you think we should continue the bush policies. If you think the war should continue indefinitely, while we spend $10,000,000,000 a month, and you think that bush has done well with the economy then mc-more-war is your man. If you think that it’s time we start to get out of iraq and do some positive things for the average American instead of just the top 1% then vote for Obama.

Bill Clinton as a frontrunner back on his first candidacy where he’s also a few years younger than Obama.
Posted by: neil1785 | Jul 14, 2008 3:51:48 PM
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Good Lord, neil get your facts stright for once.
Bill Clinton was 47 when he was elected, Obama is 47.

Jane Hussein, wrote,
“Good Lord, neil get your facts stright for once.
Bill Clinton was 47 when he was elected, Obama is 47.”
BILL CLINTON WAS 45 IN 1992. HE WAS BORN IN 1946. DO THE MATH.

Jane Hussein,
yes, I’m very much convinced that obama will not last long. he’s ineffective and inefficient. clintons are the best. they have plan a, plan b, plan c, etc. that are ready to go because they are more off the charts smarter than this idiot

Here is is again. Most of the people positng as former Hillary supporters are nothing of the kind. When you argue with them you make the real former Hillary supporter mad.
Don’t say: Hillary has baggage. Say, Hillary and Obama both had baggage. But now we have to fight together to keep airlines from having to charge all of us $50 for each piece of our own baggage because of this imaginary recession we are in.

IN THIS ELECTION EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT EXPERIENCE. I DON’T THINK MCCLAIN NOR HILLARY HAS EVERY BEEN PRESIDENT. SO WHERE IS THE SO CALLED EXPERIENCE? AND BEING MARRIED TO ONE DOES NOT COUNT AS EXPERIENCE.

ricky,
point well taken. Thank you for the gentle reminder. As I have said before, I have nothing against Hillary. But the Repubs do and they would be on fire to beat her.
That being said, I would love to see Hillary as Secretary of State. She would be our generations new Madeline Albright!

This is what happens when the media once again did not do it’s job; let alone the DNC. No vetting, this guy Obama is a fraud, not because of the New Yorker cover; but because of his character and judgement, which he has neither.
What a huge mistake the media and the DNC made putting up this guy.
I am a democrat who will either sit home or vote McCain. That’s it. Once again, the American people lose.

IN THIS ELECTION EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT EXPERIENCE. I DON’T THINK MCCLAIN NOR HILLARY HAS EVERY BEEN PRESIDENT. SO WHERE IS THE SO CALLED EXPERIENCE? AND BEING MARRIED TO ONE DOES NOT COUNT AS EXPERIENCE.
Posted by: Paula |
If you are going to put a candidate down, at least get their name right. It’s McCain. Secondly, what experience does Obama have. A community organizer, state senator and 143 days in the US Senate before he announced his candidacy.

AJ
so you want to give the nomination to someone who didnt win
and thats fair
you want to take hillarys 18 million votes and say they are more important then barracks 18 million votes
sorry but hillary doesnt deserve the nomination, had she ran a good campaign instead of just thinking she had it all wrapped up way back in december
and yes she did say she would have it all wrapped up by february fifth
too bad i guess
if you want to see someone complete unelectable, tehn nominate hillary at the convention, and watch mccain lead by 30 points as way more obama supporters would refuse to vote for hillary if she somehow stole the election…
i know its your little fantasy but it wont ever happen hillary will never be president…
EVER

J
Im glad you want to bring up this supposed lack of experience by obama…
he seems in comparison to some of our most succesful presidents to have enough experience
and exactly like someone else said, if this is qualification enough for you, why did you vote for bush TWICE, and how does MCCAIN have the experience to be president
just because you are the oldest person alive doesnt mean you know how to be a leader
Ronald Reagan, who served as the President of the United States from 1981-1989, had only eight years of government experience – three fewer than Obama – on his “resume.”
Similarly, 20th century Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson won the presidency despite having thinner resumes than Obama (Wilson, for example, served a single two-year term as the Governor of New Jersey prior to becoming President).
This is a common myth perpetuated by the right and reinforced by Senator Clinton who had less elected and legislative experience than Obama. Additionally, both Bush and Bill Clinton had less foreign policy experience than Senator Obama.
And of course, as well as Senator Obama’s 8 years in the State Senate of Illinois and 3 years in Congress, a total of 11 years in elected office, he has something that is probably more important and more relevant to becoming President than any one of the candidates who vied for the Presidency this year, and that is his years spent teaching constitutional law.
Since George Bush has repeatedly wiped his boots on the constitution, I can’t think of a better qualification than Senator Obama’s experience as a constitutional Law Professor for the University of Chicago and his his civil rights experience as a lawyer.
Our constitution is in dire need of someone as President who respects it, and understands it from a legal standpoint.

To the New Yorker: Your cover is offensive, degrading and in poor taste but, it shows the intellectual capacity of your editors and McCain suppoters. Intelligent thinking people should call for a boycott of your magazine.

No, pt, it all comes down to whether or not Obama is qualified and ready to be POTUS. Too many of us don’t believe he is.
There are things I like about Obama and things I don’t like. I can say the same for McCain. But after 25 years in the Senate, I feel I know McCain and am quite comfortable handing over the keys to the White House to him. Obama shouldn’t have been in such a hurry. But then, that’s his bio for those who have bothered to research it.

The bloggers, who are out-raged over the cover on NY magazine, need to look up the meaning of satire. Also, there were thousands of outlandish blogs, cartoons and distortions of Clinton and McCain that you people believed were ok to print. Maybe you should not expect to have your cake and eat it too. Or what is good for the goose is good for the gander. The Obama camp was very, very good at smear tactics. This illustration was not published by the Republican Party but by a liberal magazine.

Great cover! I hope next cartoon will include Obama with his friends from Chicago: William Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, Chicago’s own resident international fugitive, billioner Aiham Alsammarae, the convicted former Iraqi minister of electricity who is wanted by both Interpol and the Iraqi government for the theft of $650 million of Iraqi reconstruction funds, who gave to Obama’s presidential campaign six times in January, February and March. And much, much more…

J
was she thinking on her feet when she voted for the war,
was she thinking on her feet when she went negative during the campaign
was she thinking on her feet when she said those things about kennedies assassination?
i mean what exactly are you trying to say… she cant think on her feet any better then obama can and does

But what about the fact that some folks see the images not as a satirical caricature but as an accurate portrait?-
What of it?? Sort of the same question that was asked with the Danish Mohamed drawings.
Remember that great statement by an early American: I might disagree with what you say, but I will die fighting for your right to say it (paraphrasing).

There is no political will or money for national health care. The best we can hope to achieve are minor reforms. Hillary is the only candidate who can accomplish any reforms in health care. The Dems can still nominate Hillary and should. Otherwise, it’s Pres. McCain.

I wish Obama would stop whining. He’s such a flip-flopping wimp.

This whole thing is so classic! Harold Ross’s metropolitan magazine cover goes viral in Dubuque. On the Internet, no one knows you’re a satirist.
The whole kerfluffle shows no one in the Obama or McCain camps with the wit to do something cool with such an opportunity.
Let’s draft Hillary August 25. Get some intelligence back in the White House. Please?
Maybe it takes a Rhodes Scholar?

The fist bump in the cartoon is something they actually do, not a smear. The artist basically took every mean thing said about the Obamas and put it into this image. The problem is that there’s a lot of people out there who actually believe this stuff so the cartoon is not helpful in the least bit.

Every time Americans gas up, they are reminded that the Democrats’ refusal to allow oil drilling virtually anyplace has caused the long-term escalation in oil prices in the United States. Democrats don’t say they oppose all drilling, but they do. You can drill, but not in Alaska, not off shore, not in the shale, etc.. McCain is benefiting and Obama suffering because of the drilling issue. It is most likely this issue which is driving the closing of the race. Rasmussen has the race tied for two days in a row in his tracking and Newsweek has the Obama lead collapsing from fifteen points to three. And it may be oil that is driving the difference.

The cartoon would have been funny had they had Karl Rove drawing it.

kurt: You need to get a copy of his Bio from the NYT. When Obama was young in Kenya he was training to be a Muslim and went to the school there. His father is a Muslim and he wanted Obama to be one. Obama and Michele did not like America that’s why they attended a racial church with a racist pastor. Read more of him. He is not fit to be our president.

I am a republican who is excited to vote for Obama. And had Hilary won the nomination, I would have voted for McCain. However, since my candidate of choice, a candidate who I believe can excite and motivate the American people to embark on real, necessary change, will be the democratic nominee, I can rest easier. McCain, though a strong candidate is too old to be president. He is unwilling to make the hard environmental changes we need to combat global warming and he has no time table to bring our troups home from Iraq. In fact, I’m not sure McCain would stay out of other foreign wars, etc. It is time for a change, it is time for a new beginning, it is time for a president that stands for something and inspires his people.

The New Yorker has recycled
old garbage and is passing
it off as satire for the
sophisticates.

The cover is both offensive and enlightening, it’s perception IMO.
As for the race, i’m REALLY hoping an independent jumps into the fray soon.