Perhaps it’s because their party has the former Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan serving his ninth term in the U.S. Senate.

Not exactly going to find ANY Republicans who were members of the KKK serving in the Senate now are we?

One way Democrat fingerpointing over race is just a convenient way for them to avoid ANY accounatability for their own actions on this issue.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91V8FT81&show_article=1

He’s all yours Arthur, enjoy.

Leave it to a liberal to fan the flames of racism.

Not quite Mike.

Middle class whites such as you merely deciding ‘color no longer should matter’, doesn’t make it so. I wish that were true but it isn’t.

As for your hero Ronald Reagan he pitched his 1980 campaign from the very beginning to the racist vote by kicking it off at the Neshoba County Fair (this after having received an endorsement from the KKK). Likewise his opposition to civil rights legislation and open housing laws while governor of California is nothing to be proud of.

Even David Brooks can’t help but admit “it’s obviously true that race played a role in the GOP ascent” .

And so it goes.

Well, I guess we already know there is nothing they won’t do to acquire political power.

‘Frankly, racism is not even a significant issue in this election’.

Racism is fundamental to every discussion about American politics from 1776 up until and including 2008.

And to deny that fact is to fly in the face of reality.

Back to the camellias Mike.

It will shame the works of Michelangelo and DaVinci. Best artistry in the 21st Century. I will go down the history as the best political art of all time.

More caricature pls, NYers. Your journalism for the first time has passed the mark, even just for the caricature.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza?printable=true

Hmmm. Isn’t Ryan Lizza a progressive, liberal or left leaning? Much like the New Yorker? Just curious.

Mind you, it’s not what makes me oppose BHO either, just like MataHarley. There are a lot more reasons as to why I don’t like BHO, and none of it has to do with color or any other petty factor of the like. Sorry to say, I’m not the wingnut you’re looking for, but you’re welcome to keep on looking. It’s just a bit of humor, and that’s what I made my comment on – the humor behind the satire.

Finally! Heres the link to HuffPo story inre the Bush New Yawker cover.

So it’s back to the ol’ “citizens are too dumb to make wise decisions for their own lives” fundamentals of liberalism.

Personally, I thought the ‘toon was hilarious in the caricatures. None of what they portrayed is my reasons for despising BHO as a choice for POTUS, mind you. But it captured many of the bizarre arguments that have been raised.

Of course, as one pundit pointed out, their flaw was they combined the absurd with an element of truth… the absurd being the “Obama is a Muslim”, “Michelle is a radical”, “Obama is unpatriotic”, “Obama would talk to Osama”. The truth in the middle of it all? The “fist bump”. That pundit wasn’t much better when talking down to the masses… saying that bit of “truth” made the rest “confusing”.

sigh… everyone’s sense of humor has just flown out the door. Doesn’t anyone remember the New Yorker cover of the year with Bush & staff in the oval office after Katrina? Was there as much “a dooo” about that as this?

Everyone expected the JSM camp to protest this BHO/MO cover as they are trying to distance themselves from this crapola. However this was done by a liberal organization. And liberals themselves are whining…. including the Obama’s. Unbelievable… If he can’t take satire… even stuff produced on his behalf… he hasn’t got the spine to live thru what the media will do to him as POTUS.

Some how, I’m sure this will be “all Bush’s fault”….

[Specifically those who assert, against all evidence, that Obama is a Muslim.] It’s the statement “against all evidence” that I have problems with. He learned the Koran when in school in Indonesia and reflects favorably on those times. Both his father and step-father were Muslim. He has pretty close associations with Louis Farrakhan. What seems to me the most important thing here is that he LIES about not having any association with Muslims or the Muslim faith.

You’re insistence that only conservatives could be racist is so absurd that it merely highlights your total failure to grasp reality.

The arrogance, matched only by the ignorance of your comment simply underscores how totally out of touch you are with the American people.

Frankly, racism is not even a significant issue in this election.

Though it seems to be more of an issue with liberals than with conservatives.

Have you taken up your viewpoint with Ted Ralls?

Artie: You are an embarrasment to liberalsim!

I think “Arthur” willfully neglects the fact that a large segment of DEMOCRATS, liberals even, hold racist views of Obama.

I intentionally wrote ‘conservatives’ Mike. Such a label cuts across party lines including reactionaries from both parties who find common ground in extreme racial politics.

Too subtle for you? I know it’s difficult to remember a world with ‘liberal’ Republicans but such used to be case. Particularly here in Washington State. Been reading Pearlstein’s ‘Nixonland’ this past week and he makes the point over and again that ‘conservatives’ exist in both major parties and that US politics these past 40-odd years has been a head-long race to get the rightest the fastest.

I tend to agree.