Please, keep talking about the New Yorker Obama cartoon - but on one condition.
Never forget to point out that the racist and xenophobic lies, insinuations and smears that the cartoon satirizes are real; they exist; and they have long been streaming out of the conservative, right-wing and McCain-friendly media.
From the teevee:
"If his middle name is Hussein, what is wrong with people that bring up his middle name?" Sean Hannity
"Because his father was Muslim and they've named him Barack Hussein Obama" Fox News
"There's kind of been a drip, drip, drip of stuff: his middle name: Hussein ... now the news that he was raised a Muslim" Steve Doocy
"Apparently when he was a young boy, he attended a Muslim school, a madrassa ... he went to this madrassa for four years" Fox News
From "Fox News Attacks Obama" YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/...
"He felt it OK to come out of the closet as the domestic insurgent he is." Mark Williams
[To Obama] "Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan?" MSNBC interview Feb 26, 2008
On flag pins: "What has Obama done to demonstrate [his] patriotism?" Fox News Oct 05 2007
On the national anthem: "First he kicked his American flag pin to the kerb. Now Obama has a new round of patriotism problems. Wait until you hear what the White House hopeful didn't do during the singing of the national anthem" Steve Doocy, Fox News Oct 23 2007
"Michelle Obama's finally proud of the US. Does that mean that president Barack will blame America first?" Fox News Feb 19 2008
"patriotism made him uncomfortable" Fox News Feb 19 2008
From "Fox News Attacks Obama 2" YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/...
From the press:
Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com, Dec 24, 2007:
Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father. At some point, he converted to Christianity.
http://www.danielpipes.org/...
Debbie Schlussel, Jan 30, 2008:
Barack Obama can denounce Louis Farrakhan ad infinitum. But with supporters like Ms. Saltzman, high-level staffers who are Nation of Islam members, and constantly morphing views on Israel merely for donor appeal, a Barack Obama White House bodes poorly both for Israel and--far more important--for America.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/...
Nedra Pickler, Associated Press, Feb 23, 2008:
No hand over his heart: Obama patriotism questioned. Barack Obama has tried to dispel rumours that he is not patriotic.
http://www.chron.com/...
The London Times Feb 29, 2008:
Barack Obama was confronted for the second time in 48 hours yesterday with efforts by conservative Republicans to convince voters that he is a Muslim and anti-Semite.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
Kathleen Parker, Mar 20, 2008:
Obama's speech Tuesday from Philadelphia -- the city of brotherly love -- was eloquent, inspiring and will be read in schools for generations. But between the lines of change and reconciliation were a discomfiting hint of buried fury, a sense of racial righteousness and a tacit approval attached to his expressed disapproval of Wright's now-famous raves that will leave many Americans wondering: Is he with us? Or is he against us?
http://www.unionleader.com/...
Reuven Koret, Mar 27, 2008:
Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim Wolf in Christian Wool?
http://web.israelinsider.com/...
Daniel Pipes, FrontPagemagazine.com, April 29, 2008:
Obama's having been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president.
http://www.danielpipes.org/...
Kathleen Parker, May 14, 2008:
"A full-blooded American."
That's how 24-year-old Josh Fry of West Virginia described his preference for John McCain over Barack Obama. His feelings aren't racist, he explained. He would just be more comfortable with "someone who is a full-blooded American as president."
Whether Fry was referring to McCain's military service or Obama's Kenyan father isn't clear, but he may have hit upon something essential in this presidential race.
Just as we once and still have a cultural divide in this country, we now have a patriot divide. Who "gets" America? And who doesn't? ... It's about blood equity, heritage and commitment to hard-won American values. And roots.
http://jewishworldreview.com/...
Jonah Goldberg, USA Today, Jul 01, 2008:
This sense that America is in need of fixing in order to be a great country points to Obama's real patriotism problem. And it's not Obama's alone...
The notion that what America needs is a redeemer figure to "remake" America from scratch isn't necessarily unpatriotic. But for lots of Americans who like America the way it is, it's sometimes hard to tell when it isn't.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, Jul 05, 2008:
Hillary Clinton is not Barack Obama's problem. America is Mr. Obama's problem... has he ever gotten misty-eyed over . . . the Wright Brothers and what kind of country allowed them to go off on their own and change everything? How about D-Day, or George Washington, or Henry Ford, or the losers and brigands who flocked to Sutter's Mill, who pushed their way west because there was gold in them thar hills? There's gold in that history.
John McCain carries it in his bones. Mr. McCain learned it in school, in the Naval Academy, and, literally, at grandpa's knee. Mrs. Clinton learned at least its importance in her long slog through Arkansas, circa 1977-92.
Mr. Obama? What does he think about all that history? Which is another way of saying: What does he think of America?
http://online.wsj.com/...
Think Progress, Jul 09, 2008:
After local Democrats "alleged racist campaign tactics," the Republican Club in Pemberton, NJ removed a banner yesterday from its website that compared Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to O.J. Simpson. "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole," the banner read.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
Don Feder, FrontPagemagazine.com, Jul 09, 2008:
Just because he refused to wear an American flag lapel pin last year, just because he wouldn't hold his hand anywhere near his heart while the National Anthem played, just because Frau Obama suggested that she never had a reason to feel pride in America until her husband's presidential campaign, just because his minister of 20 years regularly reviled the United States from the pulpit, is that any reason to question Obama's patriotism? That's a rhetorical question...
You can see why left-wingers get antsy when the discussion turns to love of country.
Treason permeates the Left. Its bastions -- Hollywood, academia, the establishment media and the mainline churches -- are nests of treason.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/...