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      <![CDATA[get a life. i can't believe the amount of time people dedicate to making a fuss about any and everything possible. yes, the reader posted this cover just to piss you off and they are indeed implicating that obama is an idiot becuase he's BLACK! HE's BLACK OH MY GOD! HE's BLACK! He's black. one more time, he's black. Jesus Christ you all need to get a life. Write a letter to the editor about a fucking drawing - people are getting their heads hacked off in other countries, people are starving to death, people are being born with AIDS. You're in your cushy condo bitching about a fucking cover on a free paper. Get over yourselves you make me sick.
        
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      <![CDATA[Eh. The artist is an idiot.
        
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      <![CDATA[After thinking about and reflecting on the cover, I think that it's not racist, but it is rather juvenille and in poor taste.
        
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      <![CDATA[Add me to the list of people who think the cover was probably the wrong thing, and definitely at the wrong time.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[WHAT DA HELL?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED THAT! That's because they didn't bring the Reader to "DA HOOD" last week. (We didn't get one this week either, what's up with that?).  I know I certainly would have kept it. I would be telling everyone to look at it.  Nobody loves a good joke more than I do.  Cause that's what it is, a joke. To call the Reader a "NEWS PAPER". I'll check again but I can't remember the last time I got any "NEWS" from the Reader.  As an artist I do like the paper, and will continue to read it. As a Black (yes I said it, BLACK) Woman I was not offended by the cover that I saw, but I certainly wasn't expecting that. But it's ok.  Most "NEWSPAPERS" were celebrating history and making plenty of money doing it. The Reader is free. Free to state "Don't screw this up" to President-Elect Obama. As well as free not to state "What a screw up" to and about "THE PRESIDENT", George W. Bush.  I'm not sure if you are racist, I don't know you personally.  Printing that doesn't make that arguement either way. But you don't have to know someone personally to question their poor taste.  Yeah, I'm gonna go with poor taste.
        
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      <![CDATA[Writers and editors alike... doesn't seem like you guys employ copywriters though. Point taken. I'm not sure if racist is the right word, but clueless or naive might be better. Certainly your timing could have been better. Oy.
        
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      <![CDATA[In many of his speeches, including on election night, Obama has attempted to defuse unrealistic expectations. He's also asked to be held accountable. It's been a refreshing thing to come from someone who is also good at inspiring rhetoric. He doesn't demand or even want deference. That was Sarah Palin.
    
    He's also known for making jokes about scewing up and being irreverent about his own abilities. The Reader, being made up of people who follow his story closely felt this. I think they captured the self-deprecating side of Obama, but clearly not everyone saw this.
    
    Plus Obama is part of the Democratic Party, which has screwed up with several disappointing decisions since their 2006 victories. Obama's team will include people who disappointed before - including Joe Biden. And Obama himself went along with at least one notorious event: the rush to approve a FISA bill with telcom immunity. 
    
    It is possible to back a candidate and thing he's a best one but still dislike his flaws. The Reader was coming from that position. It took it in that spirit and found it amusing. I can, however, understand if someone have no patience for such jokes.
        
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      <![CDATA["You are African American. Okay. That's it? Is THAT all there is?"
    
    To much of this country, sadly, yes, that's all there is to him. So you learn to address that first before you can allow your "multifaceted" self to show through.
        
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      <![CDATA[Re the response by Panther (11/10, 12:43 p.m.): the comment that "blacks will play the race card" isn't "asinine." It's a PLOY, deliberate and unfortunately effective, meant to intimidate African-Americans--and non-African-Americans--from criticizing subtle or not so subtle racism in the public forum. There is NOTHING WRONG with anyone, black or white, voicing an opinion that the Reader's Obama cover reflected an insensitivity to how the "don't screw up" headline would be offensive. Racial relations isn't a card game -- it's a fundamental part of American history.
        
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      <![CDATA[Tyrone. Wow!  What can I say?  Many people are a culmination of their experiences, they are influenced by people they have known, places they have been and books they have read.  Most people are multifaceted and would be hard pressed to define themselves in a 2,000 page book, let alone a single phrase.  You are African American. Okay. That's it? Is THAT all there is?
        
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      <![CDATA[This was one of the worst covers ever.  Here's why.  First, it's not a good drawing. You could have picked a better artist.  Second, "don't screw this up" is a negative message in poor taste that doesn't match the sentiments of the country that elected him and certainly doesn't reflect how average Chicagoans and people from Illinois feel.  Hello! He's our Senator!  It was a bad decision to print it and that's why people didn't care for it.  Do a better job next time or people will just stop picking up your paper.  Obama rocks!!!
        
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      <![CDATA["By putting the words "don't die" on McCain suggests that he won't screw things up so long as he stays alive. "
    
    or, it means Sarah Palin is such a disaster anything would be better than her taking office.
        
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      <![CDATA[Andieiam, to answer your question. YES IT DOES!! It is who I am.
    
    I'm not saying the anyone at the reader is racist, I just think that things could have been worded a different way.
    
    I will admit that reading some of the comments on here has helped to open me up to seeing the caption in a different light, but I still think it could have been worded differently.
        
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      <![CDATA["Don't screw it up" this could have applied to both candidates because the new president has inherited such an enormous problem that will take more than one term.  By putting the words "don't die" on McCain suggests that he won't screw things up so long as he stays alive.  
    
    therefore the comments on OBAMA are unfair.
    
    We have such a huge debt but now how is it TAXPAYER responsibility to bail out banks, auto dealers and others business when we are struggling to survive.  
    
    I hope OBAMA closes the open checkbook policy that BUSH is doing the last few months in office.
    
    Bring out troops home and stop wasting so much money and lives irresponsibly.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yet another reason to be glad of the outcome: your artist can sorta draw the winner. M Guy asks, "What's up w/Obama's neck?" Where to start with the potato on page 12?
        
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      <![CDATA[I took this as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the immensity of the mess Obama is inheriting, and the fact that people's hopes are likely to be impossible to live up to.
    
    I can see why someone might be disappointed if this was the first thing they saw on the 5th, but does the Reader ever do cheerleading?  I'm glad they don't, and glad they didn't.  
    
    It's not a question of being snarky or hip, IMO, so much as the Reader is the last place in Chicago we can see the inner workings of politics exposed truthfully, and I have some bad news for you folks out there - Obama got a LOT of money from a lot of questionable people (Wall Street and banking concerns, biofuel/clean coal folks) and it is going to be very important going forward to make sure we keep him honest.  I am not very happy about him alluding positively to yet another government bailout for backwards & failed big business (the auto manufacturers).
    
    So be glad (I certainly am) he won, but if you think voting means your citizen participation has been fulfilled for the next 2 or 4 years, you do need a bucket of ice water poured over head.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am disappointed in the fact that readers continue to make asinine comments such as, "blacks will continue to play the race card," most specifically because callers (race unspecified) decided to voice an opinion about how they felt the cover was related to Barack Obama being black. I would imagine that many readers, across color lines may have shared in this sentiment. Thanks Steve, for being so limited in your view of the world that you feel the only people showing sensitivities toward the President Elect would be black.
        
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      <![CDATA[Evan, thanks for perfectly expressing what's so wrong about so many of these comments: "The Reader should celebrate with the rest of us."
        
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      <![CDATA[The cynicism underlying the controversial Obama cover is rooted in past defeats and disappointments, much like the entire conservative movement.  Obama needs no reminder from the Reader that the world is watching.  The Reader should celebrate with the rest of us and then admit that it's time to hand over the media watchdog role to the national and international media.  Then it can get back to local politics where it might have some impact.
        
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      <![CDATA[I think everyone agrees, of course, and hopes Obama doesn't screw up.
    The discussion here was about the cover, and this cover -- and the paper's recent contribution to any debate -- doesn't merit that discussion.
    Just a handful of years ago, the Reader might have had the very same cover, but inside there would have been a story about something substantive, like the role of William Dawson in the rise of Chicago's black political muscle. Something, anything, besides music listings. Back then, this cover wouldn't have felt so undeserved.
    I am not advocating that the Reader become boring -- it was not boring, and there used to be more humor in it. The Web site hasn't replaced anything.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree with Miner's position: we put Obama there, now we'll be watching.  My "cautious optimism" stems from the disappointments experienced during the Clinton period - an incredible opportunity to fix broken systems wasted by a "leader" that controlled both the House and Senate.  Now Obama finds himself in a similar position - albeit facing much greater challenges - and now all we ask is that he do the right thing, to not be corrupted by political paybacks, to not engage in safe, centrist policy-making.  Obama sold himself on providing a vision, a hope, for a new way of governing.  He was elected on this promise. It is our responsibility to remain vigilant in ensuing that he does not forget about protecting and advancing the interests of those he claims to represent.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jack Seaver]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Hmmm. "Snarky," "smarmy," "Yuppiesh," "too-cool-to-fool."
    
    Hey, Reader . . . don't screw up.
    
    Oh, wait, you already have.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was one of those folks put off by "Don't Screw this Up," and it's no surprise to me that it made others uneasy.  One blogger wrote that it's not the paper's job to be a cheerleader for politicians.  Okay.
    
    Here's my gut feeling about it: after eight years of irresponsible, destructive, possibly criminal political leadership at the top levels of American government, we look to Obama for an antidote, and it's hard to imagine he could screw things up worse than they are.  There is nothing in his rhetoric or political philosophy that seems to indicate he would screw things up.  It's not unlike the expectation Americans had after FDR won in 1932 - just give us real leadership, statesmanship!
    
    And analogy but comes to mind: the fire department pulls up to a house with smoke pouring out of its attic and they bust down the door and take a pick ax to the roof and the owner says to the fire captain, "hey, don't wreck my house!"
    
    I feel uneasy because, on some level, "Don't Screw This Up" sounds insulting.  Not because of race, not because we need a cheerleading press; maybe because it's snarky and smarmy in the yuppiesh, droll, too-cool-to-fool way.
    
    Now that I think of it, the Reader can go fuck itself!  I don't know if Obama is the second coming of Christ, but that's about what we need right now.
        
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      <![CDATA[Perfect headline. Most of the people I know - of all colors - are thinking the same thing.  And we are all crossing our fingers for him - and for us.
        
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      <![CDATA[Geez, I can't believe how anyone would think that cover as racist?? Was the McCain inside cover sexist b/c of the implied Palin presidency in the event of old man McCain croaking??
    
    "Don't Screw This Up" made me laugh, b/c that's what many of us are thinking. We're hopeful, we want it all to go well, yet maybe we know that politicians are only human, too. I chalk it up to "cautious optimism" on the part of whomever made the cover.
        
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