Typography/Motion Graphic #8 - SOTU

CNN did an awesome job (and surprisingly entertaining) graphical recap of President Obama's State of the Union address from yesterday. 

Best of Racist Kofoed Obama Jokes

The following jokes are courtesy of my good friend Garret Kofoed. They are extremely racist, but also extremely funny. I received all these texts throughout the day today. It made me day very cheerful.

12:34pm Statue of Liberty is coming down today! Aunt Jemima is going up in her place, holding a chicken leg.

12:51pm I was at the grocery store and all they sell is chicken and watermelon. WTF? Must be a new law.

1:04pm What does JFK, Lincoln & MLK have in common with Obama? Nothing YET! lol

1:31pm Washington dc Pennsylvania Ave. residents worried about plummeting real estate values due to "different' neighbors.

2:03pm Obama walks up to Jesus in heaven and says, "I'm Barack Obama, the 1st black pres of the US." Jesus says, "When did that happen?" Obama replies, "About 20 min ago."

2:35pm How do you say Obama in Chinese? Coon-soon-dye.

2:49pm Things are looking up! Dick Cheney just invited Obama on a hunting trip!

3:01pm If Barack and an apple fell from a trip, who would land first? The apple silly. The rope would stop Barack.

3:07pm All white people must report to the cotton fields tomorrow morning at 7:00am for orientation.

3:29pm U know why it's cold outside today? Because people said it would be a cold day in hell before a black man became president! Bundle up biatches!

4:01pm I bet if the Founding Fathers would have known how this would have turned out, they would have picked their own damn cotton!

Thanks Kofoed!

Will Smith on The Colbert Report

This is so hilarious. At the beginning of the interview, both of these guys don't act even slightly modest about anything.

Tracy Morgan's Thoughts on Hillary and Obama

I don't think I could ever get tired of Tracy Morgan. Ever since Brian Fellow's Safari Planet, I've been hooked. 30 Rock hasn't helped my addiction either. One day I'll do a tribute to Tracy Morgan, but for now, I'm going to show you his recent comments on the two leading democratic presidential bids.

Reuter Pictures of the Year 2007 (My favorites)

Tears run from the eyes of U.S. President George W. Bush during a ceremony in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham in the East room of the White House in Washington, January 11, 2007. Cpl. Dunham was killed when he jumped on a grenade to save fellow members of his Marine patrol while serving in Iraq.

A bicycle burns on an unattended property near Del Dios Highway in the Rancho Santa Fe area of San Diego, California October 23, 2007.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton listens to his wife, U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speak at a campaign fund-raiser in Washington March 20, 2007.

A person burns in a minibus shortly after a bomb attack in Baghdad, January 21, 2007.

Arsenal's Thierry Henry controls the ball as David Bentley of Blackburn Rovers looks on during their FA Cup fifth round soccer match at the Emirates Stadium in London February 17, 2007.

Senator Barack Obama stands in front of Senator Hillary Clinton as they arrive for U.S. President George W. Bush's annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 23, 2007.

Members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team appear at a news conference at the University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 10, 2007. The team and school officials held the news conference after U.S. radio personality Don Imus made racial slurs about the team on his radio and television show.

Words painted onto the wall of a house are illuminated by car lights on a deserted street in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, August 18, 2007.

Victoria Beckham throws out the first ball before an MLB game between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, California, June 11, 2007.

Bolivian President Evo Morales controls the ball at the 19,500 feet (6,000 meters) high snow-covered Sajama peak, the highest in Bolivia, during a match with soccer fans to protest FIFA's ban on international soccer matches at venues over 2,500 meters above sea level, June 12, 2007. FIFA says matches in oxygen-thin conditions are a health hazard and distort fair play. The ban means Bolivia,Peru, Ecuador and Colombia would not be able to host international football matches, including World Cup qualifiers, in some of their largest cities. Morales is leading efforts to have the ban overturned, saying it is "nonsensical" and "discriminatory".

Bosnian Muslims cry beside a coffin of their relative prepared for a funeral near Srebrenica July 10, 2007.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin fishes in the Yenisei River in Siberia as he makes a tour together with Prince Albert II of Monaco, August 13, 2007.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Jonathan Papelbon celebrates winning the World Series against the Colorado Rockies in Game 4 of Major League Baseball's World Series in Denver October 28, 2007.

A student cries as she looks at Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, April 17, 2007. Norris Hall was the scene of 30 of the 32 killings on the campus. Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui opened fire on students and staff in an apparently premeditated massacre, leaving the sprawling rural campus reeling with grief and shock.