Obama is tasteless and offensive
by Bryce Martin

Other than teenagers who wear their caps sideways, who doesn't think fist-bumping is crude and tasteless? Especially coming from a grown man.

Now you have presidential hopeful (in case you haven't heard) Barack Obama calling the satirical cartoon of him and his wife gracing the current cover of New Yorker magazine as "tasteless and offensive."

Of course, in addition to fist-bumping his wife, who is carrying a rifle over her back, he is wearing a turban and in the background an American flag in a fireplace is burning.

This Obama is supposed to be a literate and knowledgeable man. I guess not. He doesn't understand satire, a basic requirement of any learned individual and he has not paid much attention to history. Anyone with the faintest of memories should be able to recall how all politicians are regularly skewed by cartoonists.

Where's the diversity? From Obama, that is. I guess street gestures such as goofy "handshakes" are okay but fuddy-duddy traditions are off-limits.

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