As the philosopher Seinfeld remarked, “Look to the cookie, my friend!”

On that note, goodnite all!

But pills and a mistress? Too true.

You have impressive cookie references. (I went for those ridiculous pink sugar wafers. But my mother did buy those pfefferneuse and could even pronounce them. … Scandavian, I assume …. ginger flavored were they? Anise?)

Joining late.. not sure this was mentioned … Digby on 7/14/08 has an interesting perspective on Michelle’s portrayal in New Yorker cartoon, the Angela Davis look ….

I’ve been wondering since 9/11 when the right would get around to conflating the Muslim terrorists with “black Muslims” and I think it may have finally happened in the couple of Barack and Michelle Obama. It would seem odd that the right wingers would smear him as being muslim. He’s black, not arab, and it doesn’t fit the stereotype. But it does fit the stereotype of the Farrakhan type of militant black muslims and that’s what they’re getting at with this. The image of the dangerous black radical is the purpose of the muslim smear, not the terrorist association. It’s good old, All American racism.

and then later she concludes

This whisper campaign is just a message to racists that they can safely use the muslim/militant tag to explain why they can’t vote for a black man. The New Yorker cover snidely laughs at these silly rubes who believe such silly things, but it misses the point entirely. Those rubes know exactly what they are doing. I’m afraid the joke’s on us.

And don’t tell me liberals can’t be racists; I’ve met too many.