Yeah, it's all well and good to say it's satire, but... I've heard too many stories on the radio where actual American voters said things like "Well, I won't vote for Obama because he is/used to be a muslim" or "He was raised in a foreign country and you know how they brainwash people over there" (both actual quotes from people interviewed by NPR, for God's sake). As others have commented, the satire will be lost in the media feeding frenzy, and Limbaugh plus the usual suspects at places like Fox will no doubt make much hay over this. Stoooooooooopid.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be less than 100% enthusiastic about Obama even if you're a Democrat (and I DO intend to vote for him), like his support of the terrible FISA bill, his intention to continue Bush's Faith-based initiative (didn't Obama read any of the stories by the guy who was bamboozled into running the program and then quit when he discovered it was a sham?), his support of the Supreme Court's smackdown of the DC gun control law and so on. Why add fodder to the smear machine, even with tongue in cheek? I think the New Yorker will find that they're biting that very superior tongue off this week.
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There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be less than 100% enthusiastic about Obama even if you're a Democrat (and I DO intend to vote for him), like his support of the terrible FISA bill, his intention to continue Bush's Faith-based initiative (didn't Obama read any of the stories by the guy who was bamboozled into running the program and then quit when he discovered it was a sham?), his support of the Supreme Court's smackdown of the DC gun control law and so on. Why add fodder to the smear machine, even with tongue in cheek? I think the New Yorker will find that they're biting that very superior tongue off this week.