Reply #229: you're suggesting there's something racist about his having...

[mike_c]

...a skull and muscles? That's utterly absurd. Of course the artist exaggerated his features-- that's what makes it caricature. I find your objections especially hard to fathom since the artist didn't particularly exaggerate racially distinctive features-- rather, he emphasized personally identifying features, e.g. Sen. Obama's narrow face and sharp chin, his ears, etc. That's not racism, at least not as I define it. It's just political caricature.