""Die Tageszeitung, a Berlin newspaper that supports socialist and leftist causes, predicted Obama's election in June when it published a large front-page photo of the White House under the headline, "Uncle Barack's Cabin.""


If you actually knew anything about literature, you would know that the book having its title parodied here was "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher-Stowe.

You would also understand that the main character referred to as Uncle Tom was the kind of black slave who pandered to the white slave owners, and their cronies by being servile and obsequious in the extreme.

In short, he would have been tugging his forelock and saying Yassuh Massa Rig, sho' nuff Massa Sawzaw.

Not, you will have to admit, characteristics exhibited by Barack Obama, and I derive considerable pleasure from the fact that many republicans, to their eternal chagrin, will have to say Yessir MR. President to him for at least four years.

Don T.