Okay...I just wanted to chime in on something.
We are all wondering if Obama will be successful or not. Well, I can't say for sure either way. I will give you this though...it is my opinion that Obama will turn on the Democratic party. Why you ask? Because he will have to do so to be successful. Let me explain:
Right now, the parties are divided. Democrats won't budge an inch and Republican's won't move a muscle. So how do you get all the kids in congress to play nice? You give them all a bit of what they want to get them to start "kicking the ball" again.
Take health care. Obama will give a boost to health care. But only to the very old and the very young. Why? Because in doing so, he will be giving the democrats some of what they want. But by not opening the free healthcare up for those people who should be out there making a living...and not opening it up for illegal immigrants...he will be appeasing the republicans as well.
Abortion? Pretty much the same thing. There will be pro-choice in action...but there will be limitations. I would dare say it will be more difficult monetarily to obtain a legal abortion. I would wager there would also be long, manditory counciling classes that would have to be attended. This will land two fish with the same hook. Republicans will see a drop in the abortion rate beause it would not be as easy as it is now to get an abortion. Democrats will be happy because the choice will still be available to those women who wish to have an abortion.
What do yout think?
Okay...this was just something I found that was funny, interesting and food for thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8B3HQNmdco
Makes you wonder about Palin.
Obama team decry satirical image
The magazine said the image "combines... fantastical images"
Barack Obama's team has decried The New Yorker magazine for a cartoon cover depicting him in traditional Muslim garb and his wife as a terrorist.
The magazine says the cartoon is intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator.
An Obama campaign spokesman said the cartoon was "tasteless and offensive".
A spokesman for John McCain, Mr Obama's Republican rival in the presidential election, also criticised the cartoon.
The image, drawn by Barry Blitt and featured on the front cover of this week's New Yorker, shows Mr Obama wearing traditional Muslim dress, while his wife, Michelle, is dressed in combat trousers and carrying a machine-gun.
The couple are shown standing in the Oval Office, greeting one another with a "fist bump", with an American flag burning in the fireplace, and a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall.
'Mirror to prejudice'
In a statement, The New Yorker magazine said the cartoon "combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are."
The New Yorker said the cover, called "The Politics of Fear", was a critique of unfounded allegations that have tried to portray Mr Obama, a Christian, as a closet radical Muslim.
"The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall? All of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover," the statement said.
The portrayal of the Obamas "fist-bumping" one another was a reference to a campaign rally in St Paul, Minnesota, back in June, at which the couple were seen to "fist-bump", an action described by one Fox News commentator as a "terrorist fist-jab".
The presenter - E D Hill who subsequently lost her Fox News show - later apologised for the comments, and insisted that they had not been meant seriously.
The New Yorker said that this week's edition carried two "very serious" articles about Mr Obama.
But Obama spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the cartoon, saying: ""The New Yorker may think... that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create, but most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
Okay...I know that many of us here have differeing views on B. Obama. And that is understandable. But...I just think a widely distributed medium like the New Yorker would be more responsible. After all...there are those who may believe that Obama is Muslim and I'm not making comment on that....but still...to put this on the cover of this magazine. Do any of you think this was out of place? Would love your opinions.
