Obama is humorless, and full of himself. That would make him a great target for satire, except that his followers take the position that any mockery or criticism is racist. The prospect of four years of that sort of thing is the best reason I can think of not to vote for him.
Personally, I found much of the mockery of George W Bush to be tasteless and unfunny. However there has been some great satire taht shows him as an unthinking, bumbling, nitwit. One example is the "In My World" series on Imao.us
"Are you going to drill in ANWR?" a reporter asked [Bush].
"Why wouldn't we? Who would stop us? Moose? Eskimos? We can handle them. I'm thinking we'll also drill in Canada. I hear they have oil there and they don't have any use for it because they're not technologically advanced enough."
"Will we be drilling in Iraq?"
Bush looked confused. "There's oil there?"
"What about research into alternative fuels," another reporter asked.
"I have a clock that runs on a potato," Bush said. "It's pretty neat."
"I mean how about paying others to do research into alternative fuel?"
"Oh. Well, we're doing that. The drill we're using in Yellowstone runs on ethanol. With research like that, we'll be able to continue to drill for oil even if we run out of oil."
So my distaste for much the humor mocking Bush, is exactly that, a matter of taste. I don't think simple jokes of Bush's head on a moneky's body are clever, now having Bush ues a laser pointer to trick Hellan Tomas to jump out of a window...
Again that's personal taste. I'm not against the *idea* of mocking
the president. The ability to critizie, saterize, mock, and deflate
our political leaders is a good thing. It shows that in this country
one can be critical or simply scathing of those in power.
That's why it's worrying when Obama supporters say "that any mockery
or criticism is racist."
Over at National Review's the corner are some "Obama friendly" jokes about "How many people it would take to change a lightbulb?"
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