I drew this cartoon at the time of the 2008 American Presidential election. Mike Hackabee suffered from Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome back then and it would appear that not much has changed in the intervening years. Not if this week's Time magazine is any indication. In it, Mike Huckabee is quoted as stating that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and was sympathetic to the "anticolonialism" of the Mau Mau rebellion. Then, backtracking, he said he simply meant to imply that Obama had a "different world view," having been raised in Indonesia. "Most of us grew up going to boy scout meetings, and our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrasahs." Of course, Obama was raised in neither Kenya nor Indonesia (where he did spend four years) but in Hawaii, by his Kansas Republican grandparents. He was a Boy Scout. He didn't attend a madrasah. There are a multitude of Rotary Clubs in both Indonesia and Hawaii. And about the anticolonialism business, isn't that why Americans, especially the Teasies, adore the Founding Fathers? At least he's leaving the gays alone this time around. We should be grateful for that, I guess.
Acknowledgement:
"In the Arena"
Joe Kline
Time Magazine: South Pacific Edition
21 March 2011
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