no jokes about Obama

Here is a ridiculous story about how TV comics, principally on the late night talk shows, are not telling many jokes about Obama. The line that really made me shake my head was the following though:

""The thing is, he's not buffoonish in any way," said Mike Barry, who started writing political jokes for Johnny Carson's monologues in the waning days of the Johnson administration and has lambasted every presidential candidate since, most recently for Letterman. "He's not a comical figure," Barry said."

Are you kidding me? The guy is nothing but a buffoon. How about making fun of his pomposity and arrogance? The truth is that the TV comics are writers are 1) all Libs so they don't want to diss their guy, and 2) they're scared to death of doing anything that might even vaguely smell of racism so they won't lay a hand on the guy. Really, really sad.