The politics of bad taste

Each of these politically inspired images or cartoons is in terrible taste, there is no disputing that.

Moveon.org did the one on General Petraeus before he even took over as the top commander in Iraq.

The disgusting image of Senator McCain in black garb in the corner of his Hanoi cell was done by a South Carolina group known as "Vietnam veterans against John McCain."

The equally disgusting last cartoon was done this week by New Yorker magazine, portraying Senator Obama as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a counter-revolutionary terrorist bent on keeping "Whitey" at bay, while the flag burns in the fireplace.

A Statement and a Question:

Statement: Sadly, there are groups of people in this country - large groups on both sides - who think one or more of these are funny, which they are not. People who admire this sort of thing make me ashamed that they reside under the same blankets of freedom that my family, my friends, and I myself, for that matter. No matter what your persuasion or beliefs, there is absolutely no need for indecent sophomoric nonsense like this, especially when these things come from sources that claim to be "above the norm" socially and intellectually.

Question: Which one of these do you think is getting - and presumably will continue to get - the most attention? You don't have to answer that.

They're all pieces of shit as far as I'm concerned, and I'm not talking about the images...I'm talking about those who perpetrated and approved of them.

Peace...unless otherwise necessary.
JL4