Barack Obama Bin Laden

So apparently, as if Barack Obama didn't have enough trouble with his ethnicity and the sound of his name, someone decided to draw a cartoon of Barack Obama as a terrorist! Yes you read it right! He has on a turban and is bumping fist with his wife who has an AK strapped to her back. They are standing in the Oval Office with an American flag burning in the fireplace... and a pic of Osama Bin Laden in the background...That's deep. That is disrespectful on so many levels it is ridiculous!

The New Yorker Magazine said the cover "combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are." So in essence they think that they helped Obama... Well let me drop this on your brain- If people were falsely accusing you of being promiscuous and they weren't lying and they really thought you were a (excuse me) whore, would I be helping if i sketched a picture of you naked taking money on a street corner? That's not helping!! I'm sorry but that cartoon is a disgrace to tasteful political cartoons. There are idiotic people that really do think that Obama is a Muslim! There are people who think that he is a terrorist! So drawing a cartoon, putting it on the cover of a major magazine, and not providing any descriptive words under the picture doesn't help! It equates to putting water on an electric fire!

Now I want to try and sympathize with the other side of the argument...it's art. So that means that the artist has the right draw whatever he or she pleases. But I honestly think that this cartoon is equivalent to slander and defamation of character. Anyway the artist would have caused less of a controversy if he'd drawn Barack and McCain standing together in a mirror. The satire would have been that there reflections would have been distorted. Barack would have been a Muslim terrorist and McCain an old skeleton with a locket around his neck adorning Bush's picture! That would have not only been fair but it would have vividly illustrated the misconceptions associated with both candidates! by showing both they would have made people say "Hey, that's my candidate! That opinion about McCain (or Obama) is not right! Oh so what i thought about the other candidate isn't right either!" That would open up the minds of voters and allow for more informed (as opposed to deformed) decisions in November 2008.

I hate to do this, but I must say that this cartoon is at the tip of being racist. not only to blacks but to Arabs as well! It's just offensive. Political cartoons are always going to be satirical in nature but artist need to consider the effects that their art may have on readers who may not take the time to dissect a picture for it's true meaning. I guarantee some people have seen that and made up their minds that this means Barack Obama is a Muslim and maybe even a terrorist. Those idiots are the country's worst enemy and it's our job to educate them not to misguide them!