35 thoughts on “Not So Mad About Obama”

  1. I’d like the last one better if it said “Worry?” rather than “Hopeless”.
    Just say’n

  2. Isn’t he our VP?

    Your hope? Alas no, no such luck. He is our Pee. And he continues FDR and Truman’s grand schemes and gives us the “Big F**n Deal”.

    Krauthammer’s Take: On Vice President Biden’s profane utterance at the signing ceremony for Obamacare [“This is a big f**n deal”]:

    Obama sees himself as a successor to FDR and Truman, so now we have the historical procession: the New Deal, the Square Deal, and the “Big F**n Deal.”

  3. MAD Magazine never recovered from Don Martin’s departure. Granted he was very much a one-of-a-kind artist, but they sorely missed him.

  4. From Mad Magazine’s circulation figures, this is not as momentous as it once might have been. Circulation peaked at 2,132,655 monthly average in 1974. By 2008, circulation had declined over 90% to 174,567.

  5. There’s a reason Mad Magazine lost 90% of their circulation. The people who used to read it, teens and young adults, grew up and moved on to have kids of their own.

    But the NEW target market is so self-centered and oblivious that Mad style humor is lost on them. They take themselves, their lives, their likes and dislikes so seriously, they are humorless.

    It’s a shame.

  6. ic said: “Obama sees himself as a successor to FDR and Truman, so now we have the historical procession: the New Deal, the Square Deal, and the “Big F**n Deal.”

    HST would’ve kicked this lyin’ SOB’s ass down the White House steps. Damn, could we use someone like him now.

  7. Also, the old MAD (and by “old” I mean when I discovered it, as a kid in the late 1950s) expected a level of cultural literacy among their readership that the Dumbest Generation clearly doesn’t have. At age seven or so I didn’t get a lot of their references, but I was curious enough to try to learn what they meant; so for me–despite its reputation among the more strait-laced at the time as “trash”–reading mAD was educational. Today if someone makes a reference that the hearer doesn’t get, it seems to be considered a faux pas on the spart of the speaker, not the hearer, especially if it’s a reference to a book or movie from the ancient past (meaning, anything older than last week).

  8. The only similarity between Truman, FDR and Obama is they sat in the WH. BO doesn’t have a clue. His next step as he “tackles” illegal immigration will be an attempt to provide amnesty and citizenship to them for more support in the November elections.
    Guess why.

  9. Speaking of generational disfunction, it still boggles me how many people simply didn’t have the smarts to be born in 1969.

  10. That second picture makes we want to change the punctuation on Alfred E. Neuman’s famous quote.

    What, me? Worry.

  11. Bilwick’s right – the older MAD used to make a lot of jokes that I had to look up. I remember in the 1970s when they had a crack about former glam-rockers suffering from “nostagie de la Bowie”. Not bad for an adolescent humor magazine. My understanding is that it’s deteriorated steadily, though.

  12. Billwick is exactly correct. We are contemporaries, it appears.

    But in order to have what he correctly calls “cultural literacy”, one has to have a culture that is in some way literate to begin with. The culture now is so dumbed down thanks to the influences of “Rap” and similar forms of so-called “music”, video games, and TV/movies that the average 24 year old these days graduates from college as a functional illiterate.

  13. If you’re anything like me, I’m sure you won’t worry about those SEIU goons. If they were to visit me with malevolent intent, they’d be carted away in a meat wagon. Then I’d say, “Send more goons!”

    chicopanther

  14. Just a comment on the photo. Didn’t Dana Carvey say back in 2008 that O looks like “a cross between the Mad Magazine guy and Urkel”?

  15. I bought an issue of Mad for one of my kids a few years back. I was atounded by how unfunny it was – liberal hate in cartoon form. I have instead bought him the complete works of Don Martin. It stands the test of time, unlike the terrible magazine that mad has become.

  16. It takes a certain kind of chutzpah for a couple of guys who admit they were educated by MAD Magazines to talk about how stupid and worthless ‘kids these days’ are.

    I mean, really — rap and video games? Did it impress you at all when your elders complained about ‘you lousy kids with yer fast cars and yer rock-and-roll music?’

  17. “I mean, really — rap and video games? Did it impress you at all when your elders complained about ‘you lousy kids with yer fast cars and yer rock-and-roll music?”

    It took automotive knowledge to make a car go fast and R & R did not talk about Hos and bitc@@s and proving yourself by gunning another n@@@@ with your 9.

  18. “I mean, really — rap and video games? Did it impress you at all when your elders complained about ‘you lousy kids with yer fast cars and yer rock-and-roll music?”

    Didn’t have any effect on me because back then rock’n’roll was “teenagers’ music” to me, and I would never develop much of a taste for it. The ’50s hot-rodder phenomenon was also of little interest to me. I don’t know what contributed to the Dumbest Generation being as dumb as they are, although whatever it was that turned them off reading books probably had a lot to do with it.

  19. “The people who used to read it, teens and young adults, grew up and moved on to have kids of their own.”

    And as we’ve now discovered, smoking all that dope DID them & their children stupid.

  20. What a bunch of ignorant twats… I mean you guys – the posters. I don’t think you or Mad Magazine are racist, I think you’re willfully ignorant jackholes.

    Obama never said he was HST or FDR and you know it – the media drew that comparison.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99618417

    You guys want him to act like an elitist or a phony so badly you have to make shit up. Bush, btw, directly compared himself to HST:

    http://themoderatevoice.com/6401/bush-compares-himself-to-harry-truman/

    I also remember him making comparisons to Lincoln. This one always cracks me up. I doubt lincoln would have thought much of the whole “death panel” meme. Party of Lincoln. What a goddamn joke.

    True, Pres. Obama hasn’t fixed what economists say was going to be the worth economic downturn since the great depression but he wasn’t exactly handed a well-running country and these things take a long time. It’s pretty sad when the right’s best argument is that the administration that took over after their guy didn’t fix Bush’s mistakes that were made in the name of greed, hate and fear FAST enough.

    Fuck. You.

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