Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
I see this more along the lines of, "If you put a monkey in a room with a typewriter, given enough time he'll write Hamlet," or a stimulus package. I don't see anything there referencing Obama or anyone else, except maybe those who actually did write the thing.

Don't believe for a minute that Obama actually wrote that package. It's doubtful he even read it. That stuff is done by staffers, who present (at best) briefs to their bosses laying out what they want them to believe is in there. So I don't see any criticism of Obama personally, only politically.

The cartoon strikes me as perhaps more revealing about the viewer than the cartoonist. Those who are always looking for the tiniest slight, always trying to put words into other people's mouths, or those who themselves view blacks as being at a lower level of evolution and are ashamed of their views will, I believe, tend to see this as more demeaning than it was meant to be.

People just need to stop taking themselves so seriously!
Obama did NOT write the stimulus package, Congress did, and he HAS read it, I am sure. But that is not the point. Obama has note complained about the cartoon, the public has.

And as denu pointed out this is not a case of "the tiniest slight." It is a common depiction used in rascist circles. And even if you take away the rascist element. It is inciting a violent act, a killing, to get a point across.

I am appalled by the sore losers out there that are inciting all sorts of acts because they disagree with the President and his administration.

Jim Adkiison shot up a Knoxville, Tenn. Unitarian church because he wanted to "kill liberals" a few weeks back.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...42570771_x.htm

And Alan Keyes just this weekend said that Obama was not President (using bogus claims to justify his wild accusations) and basically said that Obama needs to be done away with.

Tiny slights, I don't think so. I believe the cartoon IS rascist and there seems to be many that think that way. But even if the Post can support the claim that it is NOT rascist, it is still proposing killing to support one's viewpoint. Which is disgusting.