Fresh Loaf

As results came in election night, some conservatives were warning that Barack Obama’s presidency would prove a disaster for America. The morning after, talk-radio hosts and bloggers echoed those concerns.

“To me, it feels like the devastation of 9/11 again. And I feel like I just want to say to everybody, ‘Welcome to the end of America as we know it.’”

— Republican Zoe Walker, interviewed by GPB News at Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ campaign party

“Some of you people really drank the Kool-Aid. This guy is just a shyster who was born in Kenya. I’m not going to partake in this affront to my sensibilities. I refuse. Kumbaya my ass.

— Election-night comment left by “gamefan” on PeachPundit.com

“If you look at Nazi Germany, how many Jews said, ‘Oh, c’mon he won’t do that?’”

— Radio host Glenn Beck, warning listeners about Obama’s agenda

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Creative Loafing, Oct. 15

I was so pleased with Creative Loafing’s Obama-rides-a-unicorn cover (left), which graced our election issue.

Something about a presidential candidate going bareback on a mythical creature — look, Ma, no hands! — that gives you just a bit of faith in the guy.

I mean, if he can lasso a unicorn he should be able to rein in Wall Street, find peace in the Middle East, make the transition to clean energy, eliminate the budget deficit and win the respect of cowboys everywhere.

Then, this week, Young Thomas Wheatley — who was tipped off by Christa at Pecanne Log — passed along the deflating news that we weren’t alone in a breakout of obamaunicornitas.

It seems LA CityBeat took the concept one step further by dismounting the Messiah off his high horse, so that he could frolic with the animals (left). I gotta admit that I kinda like it.

At the same time, if unicornitas has now gone bi-coastal, I really am concerned that expectations for an Obama presidency have gotten too high.

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In a sign that the presidential race has tightened and the contest is narrowing to just a few battleground states, the New York Times reports today that the Obama campaign has pulled ads in Georgia.

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A bar-owner in Marietta is selling t-shirts depicting Sen. Barack Obama as a banana-chomping chimp.

From AJC.com:

Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he’s peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ‘08″ scrolled underneath, are “cute.” But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.

But don’t call Mike Norman a racist!

Norman said those offended are “hunting for a reason to be mad” and insisted he is “not a racist.”

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