I think that the major point of contention here is the implicit communication that Obama be shot or "put down" for the stimulus bill. Not only is it disturbing for a major newspaper to indirectly advocate it by printing it but coupled with the latent racism that does exist make this a bit different then comparing Bush to a simian.

So many people are qui9ck to demonize Obama in his first few days and the inherent omission from all of his attackers is that his actions are necessarily mixed with the actions of not only Congressional counterparts, or his cabinet, but that of the American people.

One man does not a nation make or break and the BS spewed assuming that to be the case is an ignorant lashing out of frustrated people who don't live in their perfect world.

Partisanship at its' most effective and most deplorable state.

In my opinion.

I don't know if anyone paid attention a couple days ago but Reinhardt the market predictor dude said something on his site about 'when a chimp appears on state media, the market will not be doing good' (or something to that effect)

www.enterprisecorruption.com

Just noting the coincidence.

I did not vote for Obama, but even I think this cartoon goes a bit too far. The implication is clear.

While I agree that a barrel of monkeys could have probably done a better job at coming up with a stimulus plan than Congress and Obama did, most of us know that and we didn't need a tasteless cartoon to get the point across.

when I first saw this I started laughing!
I think they have a double meaning behind it but who cares, remember the guy that made the curious george shirts that said "Obama '09"

the four monkey hands sure would have came in handy yesterday though when obama had to use 10 different pens to sign the stimulus bill.

Mynaeris, if you wouldn't mind, please link to the other thread dealing with this because I tried searching using the cartoonists name, the word obama & cartoon, and various other search strings and found nothing.

Also, if you wouldn't mind, please look up the word offensive in whatever dictionary you prefer. Then look up the word racist in the same dictionary.

You'll note that the two have very different definitions.

I stated pretty clearly in my post that I (and apparently a few other people) find the cartoon very offensive.

To me, comparing the President of the United States (or any elected official) to a crazy chimp that needed to be put down is offensive no matter how you look at it.

Those were my words.

They called Bush a chimp, a monkey and an ape for eight years. There were plenty of cartoons depicting him as such, too.

Normally, I'd consider it to be offensive, but in this particular case, I'd say that turnabout is fair play. The other side started this. Don't whine and cry when it gets thrown back at you.

Not that I condone this cartoon or what it implies, but I've seen worse cartoons about Bush over the last 8 years.

It goes both ways, whether people like it or not.

Am I wrong that this is more open to interpretation? Obama didn't write the bill himself, right?

A good point Irish M1ck, a good point.

Although I think most people would assume that it is Obama.

Originally posted by vor78
Normally, I'd consider it to be offensive, but in this particular case, I'd say that turnabout is fair play. The other side started this. Don't whine and cry when it gets thrown back at you.

How is this turn about?

Because the Dems have majority now?

What a ridiculous thing to say and a very simplistic attitude. The situation is different, the issues are different, the people are different and depicting a metaphorical murder of a President who has been in office for about a month is as ignorant as it gets.

It highlights the fact that people are looking at party lines and not the details. Their is no actual analytical thought occurring in many situations...rather just reactive opinions based on irrationally associated experiences and perceptions.

There is no turn about here...

Edit for spelling.

[edit on 18-2-2009 by MemoryShock]

I guess I can see the racists side of this. I took it as more along the lines that we have a bunch of monkeys running the country at least that's how I feel most of the time anyways.

And comparing members of Congress to dead chimps that had to be killed is less offensive?

I don't know why people are coming up with answers that this is ok based on who it's about or based on what has transpired in the past.

The important point (at least in my mind) is that this is unbelievably offensive and represents a new low in political coverage and/or satire.