GOP sides with Taliban, Iran

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Sipping tea with the Taliban, yukking it up with other despots and terrorists from other countries, ignoring pro-Democracy protesters in Iran who are getting killed off by the Iranian govt certainly sounds like Obama sides with those people quite well.

Reminds me of this picture.

http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/0614521900.jpg

And that was back in 2008, too. Looks like that prediction is coming true.
 
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kokonut said:
Sipping tea with the Taliban, yukking it up with other despots and terrorists from other countries, ignoring pro-Democracy protesters in Iran who are getting killed off by the Iranian govt certainly sounds like Obama sides with those people quite well.

Reminds of this picture.

http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/0614521900.jpg

And that was back in 2008, too. Looks like that prediction is coming true.
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This picture is just propaganda, come on and stop act like fool.

Obama did tough on Iran, you missed something so ask Jiro.
 
Foxrac said:
This picture is just propaganda, come on and stop act like fool.

Obama did tough on Iran, you missed something so ask Jiro.
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Apparently it was intended to be a satirical lampoon of the caricature that the then Senator Obama's critics intended to create in the minds of Americans. The Obama campaign didn't think it funny or satirical. I have no idea what the contents were. I was a bit surprised that New Yorker would run such a cover so I wanted to know the context.

Source is CBS News.
An American flag burns in their fireplace.

The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.

The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”

The issue, which goes on sale Monday, includes a long piece by Ryan Lizza about Obama’s start in Chicago politics.

At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Obama was asked, according to a transcript by Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: “The upcoming issue of The New Yorker, the July 21 issue, has a picture of you, depicting you and your wife on the cover.

“Have you seen it? If not, I can show it to you on my computer. It shows your wife Michelle with an Afro and an AK-47 and the two of you doing the fist bump with you in a sort of turban-type thing on top. I wondered if you’ve seen it or if you want to see it or if you have a response to it?”

Obama, shrugging incredulously, replied: “I have no response to that.”

The magazine explains at the start of its news release previewing the issue: “On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of The New Yorker, in ‘The Politics of Fear,’ artist Barry Blitt satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.”

Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post said Sunday on his CNN media show “Reliable Sources” that the cover is arguably “incendiary.”

“I talked to the editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, who tells me this is a satire, that they are making fun of all the rumors,” Kurtz added.

Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune defended it as “quite within the normal realms of journalism,” adding that “it's just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there.”

The panelists agreed it would succeed in its goal of getting attention.
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deafskeptic said:
Apparently it was intended to be a satirical lampoon of the caricature that the then Senator Obama's critics intended to create in the minds of Americans. The Obama campaign didn't think it funny or satirical. I have no idea what the contents were. I was a bit surprised that New Yorker would run such a cover so I wanted to know the context.

Source is CBS News.
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I think Koko just completely missed the joke in his zeal to discredit Obama. Well he's certainly good at discrediting himself.
 
Iran, Taliban, and GOP have something in common - they don't want peace and they won't grow up.

Obama wants to bring peace and normalize relationships.
 
:wave: ya'all are doing just fine
 
Rush Limbaugh is a traitor.
 
kokonut said:
If they are dead set on making nuclear weapons then no amount of international pressure will work, including economic sanctions.
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That's your opinion and you have no credit.
 
Foxrac said:
That's your opinion and you have no credit.
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When was the last time sanctions and international pressure were used successfully against a country from building a nuclear weapon?
 
You mean like Sadam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction?
 
Sanctions didn't work on Iraq when Hussein was in power.
 
You missed the point. Sadam never had weapons of mass destruction. He was bluffing.
 
Oh please. Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq fields through slant drilling, using American equipment. No one listened to Saddam's complaints, so thus the first Iraq war.
 
If the International community is willing to use sanctions as a mean to hopefully change a rogue or despot leader's direction from building a nuclear weapon and such, then they should also be ready to take it to the next level with more seriousness and even with use of deadly force if necessary. There were 17 UN Resolutions over a 12 year period against Iraq while Hussein was in power. None of them worked. Hussein played a deadly game of cat and mouse, he lost. The thing is, UN was without any guts to move to the next level. Sanctions do not work.
 
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