it's okay to draw cartoons of Mohammed*, but not of Obama-messiah

This in the news:

Attendees at a Family Research Council convention were buying up “Obama Waffles” like hotcakes before organizers decided they contained images that could be deemed racist and suspended sales.

Not long ago a family member of mine died, and clearing through the things I came across a dusty unopened box of "Bill's Skillet Cookies". It was virtually identical to this box, except that there was a more noticably caricatured stereotype - the "down home white" stereotype.

The caricature was far more unflattering than this one. And all over the box, the humor was pretty harsh - the complete image of the ignorant hick.

And it was pretty funny.

When it's aimed at a strong person, you can laugh at a joke like that without wondering if he is emasculated by it. If Bill Clinton has ever once whined about the "white trash" slurs thrown at him, I don't recall hearing it.

And this isn't a race thing. If any of a number of strong black men ran for President - if Condi Rice ran for President - people attempting to jab at their race would simply not get the same mileage that people get mocking Obama, because the real problem isn't that whites have the wrong attitude toward Obama's skin color, but that Obama and those who are obsessing over his skin color have the wrong attitude toward taking criticism and being the subject of satire.

Every clip I see of him lately, every quote I see picked up, he's whining about something or other. Ohh they lie, they are liars, he says. Ohh, they're baddies.

Someone better tell the blacks in this community that if they want real representation (with real respect), they have to pick someone tough.

Those are our community standards and we're not going to change them, and we're not going to apologize for them. You want to be our leader, it is up to you to impress us.

Don't whine and cry over satire; there's no way to get past whatever the racial equivalent of a glass ceiling is without standing up to the best they can throw, and emerging victorious. And instead, the Politically Correct Police just keep reminding us that supposedly black men can't take what Bill Clinton could take - what Condi Rice has had to put up with (and did you ever hear her bitching about the caricatures done of her, many of which are a thousand times harsher than anything Obama has even yet faced?)

What's gonna happen if we get Obama elected and he gets into a conflict with, say, Putin, and Putin calls him a racist name. What's he gonna do, cry? "You can't put missiles there, that's rayyycist...."

When we are ready to have a black man as President, he will be a masculine man (or a strong woman), capable of holding his own in the political arena. He will know how to roll with the punches without wetting himself the way Obama has been. Women had to put up with Hillary Clinton "nutcrackers" and worse. We would expect our Democratic nominee to be at least as capable of taking a punch as the nutcracker-girl. You did want to be leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, right?

No wonder people always depict Democrats as effete. What a bunch of wimps!

Oh, and that article I quoted?

Stacy McCain is right: This is just a recycled joke from 2004.

I’m sure that if Hillary had won the Democratic nomination, Whitlock and DeMoss would have marketed “Hillary Waffles” — and then would have been accused of promoting sexist stereotypes, no doubt.

Wrong about one thing - the waffles are funny, because some of us have certainly not forgotten "why can't I just eat my waffle?" - and, yes, that's funny. But this isn't:

More troubling, though, is that he’s almost certainly right about this:

Is it possible to caricature a black man without being accused of “racial stereotype”? (Note to editorial cartoonists: If Obama is elected, you’ll have to endure four years of this crap.)

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* update of sorts: Let me make clear, this title is meant to be a reference to the controversy over cartoonists depicting Allah and/or Mohammed.

The United States is supposedly better because, although there are things that you perhaps should not publish, we have freedom of speech, and allow people to speak their mind.

There are Politically Correct (P.C.) people, however, who want to change that. They do not like me.

In any case, I have tampered just a little with what I originally wrote, trying to make very, very clear that I am not trying to attack Muslims in any way, nor am I trying to link Obama to the Muslim faith (I personally would like Obama better if he'd stand up and say "so just what is wrong with being Muslim anyway?").

The intended target of my attack is the double standard - and those who employ it, regardless of race or religion.