The Incredibly Thin Skin of Barack Obama (updated)

"Isn't it time for Obama to man up?"

The Obama camp has that scheduled right after his "manicure" and "arugula puree facial"...

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(the bitter truth in the New Yorker)

If that's an attempt to defend Comrade Obama from his critics, it may just backfire. The MSM has done it's best to shield it's audience from legitimate criticism of Obama. This will only draw attention to his critics.
Besides, the whole affair just makes him look like a cry baby.

Well, let me be the first to "man up" and say that I totally believe he is unpatriotic...by his own actions. They SCREAM at us louder than his empty words!

Fast Forward to 2010 - Obama has been elected POTUS. He has effectively silenced all voices that dare to question his integrity, patriotism, remarks about african-american culture... etc....etc... etc... Nancy Pelosi and her posse have effectively passed the Fair Standards Act, and conservative talk radio and blogs like AT are no more. How dare we poke fun at The Messiah????

Welcome to Stalinist USA.

Do not forget, SEN Obama's confrontation with Maureen Dowd about her mentioning his ears in a column. He went at her and complained,...good grief & he is supposed to sit across a table from someone like Putin and not blink?

Someone with a real sense of history would have noted the cartoons VS. President Lincoln.

Two points:
1. The picture over the mantle is of Osama bin Laden

2. I understand that moslems don't do too well with cartoons. Is this a litmus test?

I'm not saying Obama is a moslem...I'm just watching the action. For some reason I think that I am watching a slow motion train wreck. The only problem is that I'm not too sure which train is going off the rails - Obama - or the USA. Time will tell.

I printed it in a full-page and also a half-page size. I posted the half one in my office.

What a gift from the liberal media!!

IT IS PRICELESS and incredibly, it captures thw whole things about the Obamas. The New Yorker said better than any conservatives could ever described about the Obamas!

And amazingly, it is only in ONE PICTURE.

After this, somebody has to say it. Obama is a WUSS, and there's no room in the White House for a wuss..

Take Obama out and insert Kennedy, Durbin, Murtha , Kerry, Reid , Pelosi , Boxer etc. and it still makes sense!

It's telling that the Clinton people started the one about Michelle and the 'whitey' video.

Now the New Yorker does this.

It reminds me of (and I can't remember the exact case) leftist students putting false posters to discredit college Republicans before a speaker was to appear.

There was a leftist student that put up hanging nooses to demonstrate supposed racism on campus.

Or how about Newsweek and the false Koran story to discredit our military.

Intentionally or unintentionally, all slippery deceptive goofy stunts that backfired.

Hopefully, McCain will just stay in the game and prevail.

"Isn't it time for Obama to man up?"

He'd like to but Michelle won't let him.

Unfortunately for Nobama, he's been taking manning-up lessons from that super-virile nancy-boy John Edwards.

Didn't we learn from the Dutch newspapers that we're not allowed to have cartoons of or criticize the Messiah. What next, a bomb in his turbin?

What exactly do we expect from someone who was raised to be a "victim" as part of his life achievements.

Making fun of Barak Obama makes baby Jesus cry.

Seems his reaction is the reaction any good Muslim would have over a cartoon.

Forget the "Fairness Doctrine." Here comes the "Jail Those Who Insult Obama" Doctrine!

Remember the old saying..."if you're catching flak, you must be over the target."

Looks like The New Yorker got a little too close to the truth with their not so satirical drawing!

Lord Obama better get used to cartoons that are not ment to be flatering.True Americans won't put up with his Marxist change because that's not what freedom is about.

I've said it in dozens of places. If they get a supermajority in the Senate and Obama the FIRST THING they'll do is pack the SUPREME COURT. Raise the number to 21 judges, all thirty something and Marxist. Two additional Chief Justices.
Do the same at the Appellate level. All new Federal Attorneys. ALL of these people will be Marxist. Their duty will be to "reinterpret" the entire US Constitution. The 2010 election and all the following for the next forty to fifty years will mean nothing. They'd be fools not to get it done. It would give them control for generations and destroy the Constitution....all done legally. THAT IS THE REAL BALL GAME HERE FOLKS

Obama "man up"?!? ROFLMAO. You've got to be kidding me. By his own accord his most influential figures as a child were women. He's happiest in the company of strong women - Michelle, Oprah, even Hillary. Asking him to "man up" is like asking him to speak Russian - it's a language that he doesn't comprehend. Let's just say it ain't gonna happen in this lifetime.

The truth is self evident that the collective narcissistic disorder liberals suffer under, has castrated even the tiniest shred of a sense of humor in their precious 'Weenie the Poof' egos. They are convinced that their tasteless, smug, mean spirited, snarky cheap shots are the thinking person's satirical hilarity. It's why SNL is such a painfully dreadful dud (Save knucklehead Christopher Walken's hi-jinks) and on life support for what they once were 33 yrs. ago...truly cutting edge funny!
Any of the inferrences implied in this lame stupid cartoon are a reflection of the mud hurled at BHO by Hillary's minions! This is a classic Freudian projection!
Conservative criticism of BHO is dead on accurate. The guy's a mystery...what's he ashamed of? St.Barry of Obama cannot and will not answer a direct intelligent question...his MSM sycophants cover him with select dis-information and spin.
I have pathologically serious liberal acquaintances who are joyless humbugs. The prigs hurled me under the bio-fuel bus for wearing a Dale Jr. hat at a Willie Nelson concert! All matters must first be pre-digested through their Marxist Theory PC Class Struggle Victim filters before they gift their audience with incisive probing delicately shaded 'Koppelesque' commentary as to why white conservatives must be euthanized for the good of the collective. (One got the irony kicked out of him by Mayor Daley's Chicago cop's preserving disorder in '68.)
The level of 'talent' of the cartoonist indicates a heavily medicated mental patient in art therapy, which gives him genius status in the Manhattan art world. He got on the cover of the prestigious 'The New Yorker' didn't he?

"There's nothing funnier than a roomful of serious people." Will Rogers

Habu:

Well put!

Remember, Germany was a democracy at the beginning of 1933.

Even a blind elephant can find a peanut every now and then. The New Yorker cartoon is spot on, a predictor of what will happen if Obama is elected. The protests from the Obama camp only proves it hit a nerve.

Rolling Stone Magazine had an article criticizing McCain in which they had a cartoon of McCain in which they appeared to be making fun of his torture in a prison camp in Vietnam. The cartoon showed McCain in with a silly grin in a bamboo cage while his captors standing by with pointed sticks. I didn't hear any whining from the McCain camp or even any coverage by the news media.

When did Muammar Gadhaffi and Angela Davis get married? And now he's the other illegal alien running for POTUS?

Just more proof that Obama is not ready for primetime. He is lucky that Letterman,Leno,et al, haven't started on him ALREADY. One bright spot,however. Should Obama win the race, The Smirking Chimp can stay in business.

I recall reading in John Toland's book about Adolf Hitler, that Der Fuhrer once allowed a book of anti-Nazi cartoons be published in the 1930's. Even this humorless Nazi could laugh at himself once in a while. I remember seeing Thomas Nast's Boss Tweed cartoons, there wasn't any subtlty in them. Any politician worth his beliefs learned to take some heat from cartoonists. C'mon Barak, lighten up dude!

Webster's 1st definition of "satire"- 1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

The picture is an exact definition of the above. It's priceless humor! He definitely was able to show "human vices and follies" alright! Obama is a wussy with a "p". It's apparent Michelle wears the pants in the family, much like Hillary, and we do not need another repeat *ussy like Bill in office incapable of pulling the trigger on someone like Osama even if the collateral is a couple UAE Princes! 3,000 lives were lost on our OWN soil last time we had a no balls Prez. They bitch like weenies all the time about Bush being a "cowboy", well hell, I'd rather have a cowboy screaming into a megaphone "the people who knocked these buildings down will hear ALL of us soon" then the pansy "I'm going to sitdown and have a very, very, very serious conversation with the sorely misunderstood human beings who knocked these buildings down and hopefully we can all sing Kumbayah with them afterwards"!

I'll take a cowboy everyday of the week and twice on Sunday over this pansy ass, marxist, community whiner organizer, victim, racist, race baiter, freshman, antidemocratic turd.

I read the Ryan Lizza article this weekend and skipped over lots of it. Many of the items were already seen here over the past couple of weeks. What I think this cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker posits, and please note how that title is in black in sharp contrast to the tasteful pale shades (except that Michelle is not really THAT pale), is a shot across the bow by the Eastern liberal elite. I have made my opinion known on this site before that I think Chicago is a second-rate backwater intellectually, socially, artistically, athletically even, and the liberal elite (maybe with a little help from former Chicagoan HRC) are getting a little PO'd at the bumptious Midwesterners. Don't forget it was Harlem Cong. Charlie Rangel who was one of the first to encourage Hillary to run for Moynihan's seat. I am curious as to why Barack , a Columbia grad had to go padding off to Chicago to get basically a crappy job as "community organizer." Don't "jobs" like this exist in the Big Apple? Whatever, the story made my day!

IMPOSSIBLE:

Barack "Barry" Hussain bin O'BoyToy (nee: Obama) is Evita Peron in drag!

"Don't Cry For Me Obamanation"

Sorry you don't lioke my stuff - I thought the Evita Peron gag was pretty good seeing that there is truth there

There is a Russian proverb: "It is not a sin to laugh at what seems laughable". In Russian it sounds like a ditto but never mind. Obama's couple is just laughable and let us laugh at them loudly. If Russians dared to laugh at Lenin, Stalin and all others 'Leaders of progressive humanity" as they called themselves who are these two people? Semi-Gods or what? Let us tease them, make jokes about them, and enjoy their rage. Recall a shool court. Cheers!

Right on Buster. They don't want the Rev, Ayers, et al to be brought up.

The cover does that and they know it.

I liked Obama when he only whined about his big ears....

How coincidental is it that Carville is the only Dem defending The New Yorker?
I smell a Clinton hit job.

The reason Jesse can't cut 'em off is because Obama ain't got any.

Surely the best cartoon ever.

The cartoonist.caricaturist deserves the award.

I lover the artwork, this is finest art made in the 21st century.

It doesn't just mimick the realities, it even offers greater insights and relevance to the current political environment.

An exquisite job! Congratulations to NYer and its staff.

For the first time, you did something "par excellence".

Cheers!

I think he hates this country, it's culture, and most of it's people. To him most Americans are ignorant, selfish bigots, but it's OK because he's going to change that. I've never said he's unpatriotic and heavens no he's not a terrorist, even though many of his friends are, and the terrorists that don't know personally seem to like him. But he's not unpatriotic, and I've never said he was. At least I don't think I have.

I don't think this is a hit job by Republicans or the Clinton campaign. The New Yorker has repeatedly defended its cover as poking fun of Republicans perceptions of Obama. It is an odd way of executing this message, but they did it to support Obama.
It is of great importance that the public trust of Obama is so fragile that the imagery resonates with us so strongly; and second, the reaction and sensitivity of the Obama campaign is again indicative of his insecurity and thin skin.

In the interest of equality, I wonder what kind of cover TNY will now give to McCain? Can he opt out?

This was a great Promo for The New Yorker. I can only imagine the boost this issue will give their sales. It is a marketing gimmick...they knew the reaction they would receive and it has worked brilliantly. And all the pundits love this controversy. It is another example of the media complex creating controversial news stories so that they have something to "report" on. I call it "non-news". Look for this to further the degradation of the media into the freak-show spectacle it has become.

I don't hear John McCain whining about his charicatures as an old senile man, or a short fused rage head.

I think that's what separates the two candidtates. One can take the criticism and has been taking it for 30 years, and one is a newbie who's oh so easily offended.

Obviously this cartoon hit a nerve, and the only reason for Obama to be mad about it is if there was a spark of truth in it, and that is what he doesn't want the larger voting public to know.

Liberals don't believe in free speech, unless it's their speech, so caricatures of conservatives are perfectly alright.
When socialist BO is POTUS we'll have state run tv, radio and publications (including internet) to make sure theirs is the only voice heard.
I, too, have been thinking about Hitler. He must have been a very charismatic speaker to convince the educated people of a civilized nation they were a master race yet allow themselves to be taken over by his thugs and sick sadistic murderers. In this case, with BO, we will become so weak we'll be taken over by Muslim thugs and murderers. The result will be the same, though. That is, if the voters of this country don't wise up and actually listen to the content of BO's speeches instead of being dazzled by his rock star presence.

i think the obama camp orchestrated this with the magazine. it would be an easy way to manufacture another reason to point fingers at the 'rabid right' in righteous indignation. of course the magazine would defend it as satire.

all of the republicans would have to decry the cover - as they have done - and we get distracted talking about stupid magazine covers.

and of course it cements the obamanites determination to support him, no matter what they hear from his detractors.

i think this was a clever setup. or maybe i am just too cynical and credit them with too much intelligence.

remember that the obama campaign is all about presentation and emotional manipulation, no substance.

republicans / conservatives on the defensive again for something they had no hand in. smacks too much of liberal opportunism to me to be a genuine faux pax by the magazine.

Welcome to the big leagues, Barry! Can't stand the heat? Get outta the kitchen!

I am a solo practice pediatrician (28 years) and had the opportunity of seeing the one month old child of a former patient.During he exam I asked her if she was interested in the presidential campaign. She immediately said she was for Obama an yet when I asked her if she knew anything about him,she admitted that she did not. She was totally unaware of his liberal/socialist background and his inexperience. She is a single mother and we continued to talk about the future of her one month old baby boy. I asked her if she wanted the government to eventually be in control of much of our lives as Americans. She imphatically said "no". When I stated the probablility that government involvement would definitely increase undre BHO... she gave is some serious thought. When I asked her, who is a sophomore in college, why BHO can go on wothout his supporters knowing so little about him, she admitted that is was probably because the american public is so gullible...then another pause...and then she said "I guess that includes me"..I take the NY magazine and will discuss the article with her in one month, she said she would like that...I think that from this interchange it is obvious that educating the public will mostly be one on one discussions because the MSM will continue to feed only what they want to be digested.

I totally agree. All the media acts like they are afraid of him. He acts like a five year old if anyone dares to say anything bad about him..or even dare to question him. And I see that again he says that his wife is "off limits." As long as she is campaigning for him, she is NOT "off limits." I guess he has forgotten the nasty remarks he made about Bill Clinton..but of course I guess it's ok whatever Obama does. And has anyone noticed how he lets his henchmen make nasty comments so he can see the reaction before he comments? He acts like a child!

I read that the Obama campaign doesn't allow negative comments on his Youtube page, so I went looking for some. Couldn't find any, so I tested it.

It wasn't seriously negative. I just asked why they don't allow negative comments.

Sure enough, it never got posted.

I understand the 1st Amendment doesn't convey a "right" to have my comments posted on Youtube, or anywhere else, but I have to be concerned about an organization, and a candidate, that wants to stifle the opinions of others.

See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/user/barackobamadotcom?ob=4

It's un-American and indicative of his true philosophy.