Curious Obama?
This article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution talks about a bar owner in Georgia who’s selling t-shirts with a likeness of the classic childrens’ book character “Curious George” (a chimpanzee, in case you didn’t know), looking longingly at a banana, with the caption “OBAMA ‘08″.
Now, George W. Bush (a.k.a. Incurious George) has been likened to chimps from just about day one. This search on Google Images shows plenty of examples of Bush’s simian similarity (many with direct A/B comparisons to real chimps), and apart from the rabid, blindly fiathful twenty-somthing-percent who still think “Ol’ Bushie’s doing a heck of a job”, no one seemed to care.
Now that a black man is being likened to a likable childrens’s book character who happens to be a somewhat anthropomorphised chimp, every bleeding heart in the country with nothing else to worry about (like food, shelter, clothing, education, et cetera) is having kittens.
It’s moderately ridiculous.
What’s more, people in and around the bar’s neighborhood are trying to pressure the town to prohibit the bar owner from selling the shirts. As long as the Constitution of the US is still provisionally in force, the bar guy has an opinion and he’s entitled to express it. The rest of us are free to ignore him or debate him, but we’re not free to shut him down or shut him up.
…and besides, the bar guy is an Obama supporter.