So,...Now Obama Is A CHIMP ?? Is That Right????

In response to the cartoon in the New York Post I can only say the following......

I am afraid that the two colleagues of mine that wonder about their individual reactions to it are both correct...
It is a tactic of this type of person (the cartoonist in this case) to use offensive terminology, or imagery in a tangential way that leaves them with what to their mind is effective obfuscation of their intention,..to wit the spreading of a racist ideal or image....
At the same time they can say to anyone that dares question them, "That must be how You see it, but I was not trying to do that".. Shifting the onus of racism to the questioner...
It is rather cowardly and intellectually questionable but that is the right-wing in the U.S. today...full of themselves and ready to push their collective asses in your face at every opportunity.
I remember another comment from someone who was quick to point out that they were both overreacting and that, "Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey"...or words to that effect....

Sometimes an apologist is just the racist's friend in disguise...


Just to be clear about whom I'm calling racist...it was NOT my friends....they are feeling outrage and should be doing so...saying otherwise only outs the person saying it as either a racist for political belief or a racist from pure hatred ...
Another friend is right also; even tho satire has a long history here in this country...there are currently historical boundaries that have the absolute Need of being untouched...
Just like you cannot falsely scream ,"Fire" to get better theater seats, you just can't go past these boundaries at this time...maybe in the future it will be an acknowledged format of satirical import...but there are No level headed folks around that would really try to defend this cartoon as other than it was intended ,...skewed racism.