Even before the controversy post-New Yorker cover, which gave a whole new name to the phrase "cover story", commentators and comedians were wondering whether Obama's "blackness" will preclude jokes about him. And then came the New Yorker cover. Personally, I don''t care for the cartoon. It is not the kind of cartoons I have enjoyed in the magazine. Nor is it the kind of cartoons/videos I enjoy in The Onion.
Joel Stein in the LA Times has the best take on it, when he ends his column with:
"We are the people we've been waiting for"? Actually, I'm pretty sure we're the people who put all our money in Yahoo and then bought a house to flip and now are hocking everything we have. We're the people China has been waiting for.
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