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Hmm, I think I've seen Elmer Fud depicted the same way. As well as Rochester. :SCertainly a comment on the relative skin color of the presidents depicted. Racist? Maybe. I'm not sure anymore. I think my answer would change with my mood.

BTW I'm generally a supporter of Obama.
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If it's okay to joke about Sarah Palin's teen daughter having sex with a baseball player, then it ought to also be okay to joke about Obama's skin color.



Yes John, that makes perfect sense.

Please do me a favor, go to your local comedy club's open mic night and do that. Make sure you video tape it so we can put it on YouTube.
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It is racist if Limbaugh or Hanity did it. If done by the comedian on press night or Harry Ried it is just in bad taste:P

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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That is disgraceful.

you cunts that thought that was funny are mindless morons.

probably the same guys that love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW.

that type of thinking is what is keeping the USA from being a part of this century and stagnating in last century.
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If it's okay to joke about Sarah Palin's teen daughter having sex with a baseball player, then it ought to also be okay to joke about Obama's skin color.



Neither one is ok.

Honestly, there's enough stuff to joke about without falling to the level of skin color. Have you seen the size of the man's ears?

Better yet, how about the size of his deficits?
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That is disgraceful.

you cunts that thought that was funny are mindless morons.

probably the same guys that love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW.

that type of thinking is what is keeping the USA from being a part of this century and stagnating in last century.



How about the Condoleezza Rice "house nigger" cartoon? Is that ok, Rhys? How about when she was called "Aunt Jemima" and Colin Powell was called "Uncle Tom"?

I suppose that's ok with you, since none of those came from people that "love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW"?

You're going to have to explain why "opposing socialism" is a *bad* thing, btw.
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BTW, here's the article.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/tennessee.email/index.html

"The chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party wants a Republican legislative aide fired for sending out a "reprehensible" e-mail depicting President Obama as two cartoonish white eyes peering from a black background.


Sherri Goforth, a Tennessee state senator's aide, said she mistakenly sent the image "to the wrong list of people."

Obama's image is in the last square of a collage containing portraits of the previous 43 U.S. presidents. The e-mail, which was sent to other GOP staff members, was posted on the Internet Monday.

Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

According to the Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, a note on the e-mail said it was paid for by the Tennessee Republican Party, but GOP officials denied they produced it. Black leads the Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus.

There was no comment from the White House as of Tuesday afternoon........"

Article goes on.
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That is disgraceful.

you cunts that thought that was funny are mindless morons.

probably the same guys that love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW.

that type of thinking is what is keeping the USA from being a part of this century and stagnating in last century.



Why do you feel the need to insult females with that nasty wording. You hate females or something?

Disgusting[:/]

the word you use here makes the "N" word seem like a nursery rhyme term.......

(and NO, I dont like either word I am just comparing)
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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That is disgraceful.

you cunts that thought that was funny are mindless morons.

probably the same guys that love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW.

that type of thinking is what is keeping the USA from being a part of this century and stagnating in last century.



Why do you feel the need to insult females with that nasty wording. You hate females or something?

Disgusting[:/]

the word you use here makes the "N" word seem like a nursery rhyme term.......

(and NO, I dont like either word I am just comparing)


marc, that word doesn't have the same horrible connotation in other countries as it does here. spend a week in britain and you'll hear it a lot. Heck, it doesn't even specifically target women, IIRC.

it's like saying "assholes"...i highly doubt rhys was targeting females with that usage.
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>How about the Condoleezza Rice "house nigger" cartoon?

That wasn't OK either. Moral relativism isn't really a good way to define your standards.



Then why do y'all use it so much? "Look what they did NOW!!!!"
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That is disgraceful.

you cunts that thought that was funny are mindless morons.

probably the same guys that love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW.

that type of thinking is what is keeping the USA from being a part of this century and stagnating in last century.



Why do you feel the need to insult females with that nasty wording. You hate females or something?

Disgusting[:/]

the word you use here makes the "N" word seem like a nursery rhyme term.......

(and NO, I dont like either word I am just comparing)


marc, that word doesn't have the same horrible connotation in other countries as it does here. spend a week in britain and you'll hear it a lot. Heck, it doesn't even specifically target women, IIRC.

it's like saying "assholes"...i highly doubt rhys was targeting females with that usage.


Ok, fair enough, howerver, he is not from the UK

But thanks in any event.

(I still hate that word)
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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said she mistakenly sent the image "to the wrong list of people

:o

Pity there isn't an "oops I didn't mean that" button on computers.

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NZ and Oz use it similarly, i think.

I used to hate that word, then realized there are many more things in the world that are more worth the energy...lol



So true, still dont change my mind for the use here. And that is how he meant it.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Sherri Goforth, a Tennessee state senator's aide, said she mistakenly sent the image "to the wrong list of people."



So, exactly what list of people did she think it was ok to send it to; the "White's Only" list?
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Why do you feel the need to insult females with that nasty wording. You hate females or something?



That word has radically different usage and interpretation on different (English speaking) continents. It's a lot less offensive in Australia, or England, than it is here.

FWIW, the word "fanny" has a similar usage spread, but in the other direction.
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How about the Condoleezza Rice "house nigger" cartoon? Is that ok, Rhys? How about when she was called "Aunt Jemima" and Colin Powell was called "Uncle Tom"?



Those were lame, too.

Just because there are jerks on the other side of the aisle doesn't make it ok to be one on your side.
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Why do you feel the need to insult females with that nasty wording. You hate females or something?



That word has radically different usage and interpretation on different (English speaking) continents. It's a lot less offensive in Australia, or England, than it is here.

FWIW, the word "fanny" has a similar usage spread, but in the other direction.



In this case we are talking about a US topic with US people using a word that we here in the US KNOWS its meaning. Only a damned pig would use it regardless of the meaning in other parts of the world. I think you and he knows that
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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In this case we are talking about a US topic with US people using a word that we here in the US KNOWS its meaning. Only a damned pig would use it regardless of the meaning in other parts of the world. I think you and he knows that



Have you ever used the word dick? Is that insulting to men?
Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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That is disgraceful.

you cunts that thought that was funny are mindless morons.

probably the same guys that love guns, oppose socialism, like palin, and voted for GW.

that type of thinking is what is keeping the USA from being a part of this century and stagnating in last century.



Why do you feel the need to insult females with that nasty wording. You hate females or something?

Disgusting[:/]

the word you use here makes the "N" word seem like a nursery rhyme term.......

(and NO, I dont like either word I am just comparing)


Seriously, can the outrage. It's fucking stupid that that word is even offensive. Would you be just as offended if he would have called us vaginas? Cause that's essentially what he did. You do know the technical definition for the word, right?

I'm going to assume you don't so here's the definition. ;)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cunt

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