Mad Magazine has outdone themselves again with their January cover featuring an over stressed Obama. Love them or hate them, you must admit these folks are geniuses! Read about this cover and see photo below.
Obama Mad Magazine Cover
Instead of going the normal route of the *first hundred days* of the Presidency, Mad Magazine opted for the first hundred minutes … which I find not only giggle fitz funny but quite appropriate as well.
The caricature shows a completely stressed-out Obama puffing on several cancer sticks simultaneously as he holds his head in his hands. (That’s what happens when the world knows you’re a reformed smoker who admits to occasional lapses.) An open bottle of Pepto Bismol is on the desk, as is a bottle of Excedrin.
Newspapers with ominous headlines surround the One, along with over-flowing ashtrays. Can’t help but wonder how that closet smoker thing is working out for him now that he is in charge of the world. The only thing missing is any reference to Alfred E. Newman and his ears.
So far in one week, things have seemingly gotten worse by the hour. It’s a good time for a little levity. So … what do you think? Is it funny or disrespectful? An artist rendition or a photo ? 
January 27th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
He’s not stressing! You have to have a clue to stress.
January 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Satire is good. It’s funny, and it’s disrespectful. But it’s not personal. That makes it OK with me.
Let’s take a look at BHOs hair color and wrinkles in four years to see if he’s experienced any stress.
January 27th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Totally bogus that the ears weren’t mentioned, let alone shown. Now that he’s talking about his Muslim background, we can talk about it too. Do you think he’ll ever mention his ears?
January 27th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Tough to do ears after the GWBush caricatures.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
i love it ….
January 27th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
It’s pretty lame, but funny! For really funny stuff, check out the Onion’s latest pieces. The Obama pieces aren’t bad (funnier than this), but the FUNNIEST ALL TIME piece of political satire:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/al_gore_places_infant_son_in
It’s about 6 mos. old, but it is a scream. If you haven’t seen it, you absolutely must.
The Radical Centrist.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I wonder if Obama and the Democrats in congress will start a petition to ban Mad? They are both pretty thin skinned.
You are not much a man if you can’t take criticism and can’t laugh at yourself.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Yeah, I’d feel pretty much the same if I’d inherited a mess from incompetent predecessors.
Props to Mad Magazine.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Stag,
But he does not feel that way. That is why it is funny. He is using his skills as a community organizer to fix everything. It should all be fixed by him by March because he it the Obamessiah. Everything touches turns to gold.
I think the next President should be a PTA President.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I am shocked that you on the left are not demanding that Obama stop smoking. He has 2 young daughters that need positive role models. Plus the second hand and now the 3rd hand smoke is just like smoking yourself.
Where are smoke police on this? Does he smoke in the limo? I think the girls should be placed in protective custody until this can be sorted out.
Remember how the rise in oral sex (no pun intended) took off during the Clinton years. Now we will have kids smoking.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:08 am
I subscribed because of this, I am a long time reader but lost track, thanks MAD for not joining in the socialist madness. In addition to the cessation of smoking, do you think we could get him to stop trashing our country? Hey???? where’s all the love for his fellow blacks? Elections have consequences………GET A JOB!
January 29th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Stagolee;
“Yeah, I’d feel pretty much the same if I’d inherited a mess from incompetent predecessors.”
Right, how far up did you have to reach to pull that out ?
You guys are gonna keep saying that crap line til you’re blue in the face hoping it will become true one day ?
We live in a capitalistic free market that no president has been able to have as much effect on as you claim when its bad but give props to when its good.
Dont forget that upon Bushs first few weeks he had the class to not put the blame on Clinton even though he could of with good reason.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:01 am
very nice
February 1st, 2009 at 8:36 am
[...] and didn’t seem overly abundant. It’s funny how you can find those on the Left and the Right talking up the current issue [...]
February 17th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
I am a diehard Democrat and I found the Mad Magazine cover absolutely hilarious! I stopped at the airport magazine rack and actually dropped my luggage laughing so hard. This is real comedy. The fact that Obama doesn’t stress out about things makes this even funnier.
As a Democrat, I can take a joke. You guys should relax a little.