I'm seriously perplexed by all the buzz surrounding the NYPost cartoon about the cops shooting the chimpanzee. Primarily, I don't understand why so many people have leapt, rather like deranged primates, to the conclusion that the chimp must be a political allegorization of Barack Obama.
The cartoon policemen clearly say, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
I understand why it would be upsetting to depict a man with an African father as a chimpanzee, but what I don't understand is why anyone with any basic knowledge of American government would think the chimpanzee in this comic represents the President.
The cartoon would only point towards Obama if Obama had written the stimulus bill. Since when does the executive branch write bills? Aren't bills written by the legislative branch? Does anyone really think Obama personally wrote the 1,000+ page package? If the monkey allegorizes anything, it is the Congress and the Senate -- or rather, the unleashed Democratic majorities in those legislative bodies.
It's just a shame the cartoonist didn't write, "Obama will have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." It would have saved a lot of headache for him.
In any case, the Democrats are getting about as heated up over this as a bunch of Islamic radicals getting heated up over those Danish Mohamed cartoons (only I think I have a better understanding of what the Islamic radicals would take offense to the Mohamed cartoons).
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