re: #151 rwdflynavy

This is not completely wrong but messages/images mean different things in different context.

To prove your point, if they had dressed Obama up as an American Indian shaman or a central American psychic surgeon, the response may very well have been different and more folks would have focused on the quackery bit.

However, the problem conservatives have with Obama is not that he’s promoting quackery, or absurd alternative medicine, or even primative approaches to health care. In fact, he’s promoting the exact opposite using science and peer review to promote good medicine.

This is exactly why the image has no meaning for people other than the racist message. If they try to explain it any other way it would show their complete ignorance of political messaging, policy differentiation, and arguments within science-based medicine.