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“Irony-challenged literalists” … such as the Obama campaign?
the obama campaign is worried about sending more images out there that reinforce the idiotic stereotypes. seeing the damage that Rev. Wright did on his media blitz, i can understand why.
but, perhaps, maybe they shouldn’t worry so much this time out…
Exactly. How many people would never have heard about this magazine cover if the Obama team had not drawn their attention to it?
Obama isn’t a Muslim, doesn’t hate America, is not married to a terrorist, and doesn’t approve of bin Laden.
McCain, however, IS old, has cozied up to Cheney, has not stood up for the Constitution on FISA, habeas, torture or the other failings of the administration, is married to a younger, attractive woman who, though it doesn’t mean she’s a bad person, has struggled with drugs, and he has also repeatedly joked about killing Iranian civilians.
This cartoon, I think, demonstrates a simple truth: there are loonies on both sides, but those on the right are far more dishonest.
Um, people were talking about it before the Obama team noticed it.
Perhaps, but the gap between them and him was so narrow that I basically heard them all react at once.
And who, exactly, are the “loonies” supposed to be? Obama and McCain? The Democrats who cling to Obama even though he’s been flip-flopping on virtually everything he campaigned on during the primaries? The Republicans who have never warmed to McCain in the first place because he’s too bipartisan, too much of a maverick, etc.?
Where, really, does the “dishonesty” lie here?
In any case, it’s amusing to see people like Maureen Dowd talk about the “irony deficiency” in the Obama campaign these days. It kind of makes Obama just that little bit less hip, less cool, than he was supposed to be.