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What I’d like to know is what kind of a liberal nutmeat in New York thought it was a good idea to publish this:

The cover art, depicting Senator Obama in a turban, while wife Michelle, packing an assault rifle, shares a “fist bump” with him, is described by the New Yorker as artist’s Barry Blitt’s lampooning of “scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.”

“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” countered Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. “But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

“This is as offensive a caricature as any magazine could publish,” one high-profile Obama backer told ABC News, “and I suspect that other Obama supporters like me are also thinking about not subscribing to or buying a magazine that trafficks (sic) in such trash.”

“We completely agree with the Obama campaign,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds added. “It’s tasteless and offensive.”

– Raw Story

Are they so insulated in the towers in New York City that they don’t know that the rest of us out here in fly-over country are scared shitless that the knuckle-draggers are just going to see that as an affirmation of their (ignorant) opinions. Seriously WTF New Yorker.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable
Associated Press
Published: Tuesday July 8, 2008

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s national security adviser says his country will not accept any deal with the United States unless the agreement sets specific dates for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.

The comments by Mouwaffak al-Rubaie come a day after Iraq’s prime minister first said publicly that he expects the pending troop deal with the United States to have some type of timetable for withdrawal.

President Bush has said he opposes a timetable.

Al-Rubaie told reporters Tuesday the country “will not accept any memorandum of understanding that doesn’t have specific dates to withdraw foreign forces.”

Halle-fuckin-lujah!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

These words are just as relevant today as they were in 1776. Perhaps even more so.