Political Satire or a Crude Attempt at Controversy

[Auricauricle]

Probably available, but not here. We're PG rated, apparently....

[JSE]

I chuckled.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I chuckled.

No you dent, you farted!!!

[JSE]

No you dent, you farted!!!

Hehe.....that makes me chuckle to.

[GMichael]

Hehe.....that makes me chuckle to.

Dude! Please don't fart while wearing that grass skirt. I just saw... well...
nothing I wanted to see.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Clearly Jesse is jealous of the buzz that Obama has created with his campaign. Jessie certainly didn't get this much attention when he ran, that is for sure.

I want to paint a couple of pictures when I think of this incident. Picture the sun(Obama) rising in the sky, and the moon(Jessie) wanting to remain in the sky, even though night time is over. As the sun shines brighter and brighter, the moon get's dimmer and dimmer. At some point it is so dim it doesn't matter if the moon will not set willingly.

I picture a relay runner, baton in hand crossing the point where he should have done a hand off, but fails to do it and keeps running. Much to his dismay the relay partner he passes up catches him, takes the baton, and runs like the wind leaving him in the dust.

As far as the New Yorker front page....as a New Yorker(doesn't matter that live in Cali, I will always be a New Yorker) I expect nothing less than that tasteless picture from them. Will it sell mags, yep, and that is the desired effect of creating controversy. Why they had to go there, I don't know. What I do know is that this is going to give ammo to everyone who thinks that picture is actually valid.

[Ajani]

Clearly Jesse is jealous of the buzz that Obama has created with his campaign. Jessie certainly didn't get this much attention when he ran, that is for sure.

I want to paint a couple of pictures when I think of this incident. Picture the sun(Obama) rising in the sky, and the moon(Jessie) wanting to remain in the sky, even though night time is over. As the sun shines brighter and brighter, the moon get's dimmer and dimmer. At some point it is so dim it doesn't matter if the moon will not set willingly.

I picture a relay running, baton in hand crossing the point where he should have done a hand off, but fails to do it and keeps running. Much to his dismay the relay partner he passes up catches him, takes the baton, and runs like the wind leaving him in the dust.

I agree with you 100% on this point.... Jessie's time came and went and worse yet, his mindset is stuck in the past, Obama appeals to younger generations because he sees that times have changed and he embraces them... Though we must give Jessie respect for all his work in the past, he is irrelevant today...

[JSE]

Though we must give Jessie respect for all his work in the past.........

You can but not me. I personally think he has done the African American community more harm that good. He has made a living off the problems facing African Americans. He's not about the try and solve those problems because he would be out of a "job" with nobody to listen to him.

[bobsticks]

I agree with you 100% on this point.... Jessie's time came and went and worse yet, his mindset is stuck in the past, Obama appeals to younger generations because he sees that times have changed and he embraces them... Though we must give Jessie respect for all his work in the past, he is irrelevant today...

That's a problem with all social activists that become cause celebrite. Once the poparazzi convince an individual of any stripe that his character is of a certain value independent of action they often behave badly...generally doing more to harm the cause to which they had previously served dutifully.

...in this case, Jesse, is almost a caricature of himself.