[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Some cartoonists (Ben Sargent of The Austin American-Statesman and Steve Bell of the Guardian in Britain, for example) consistently drew George W. Bush as a monkey. The cartoonists all chose to draw Bush with big monkey ears and a huge, monkey-like upper lip, so drawing Bush as a monkey was a natural progression. Now the cartoonists are all drawing Obama with similar, big monkey ears and we’re starting to hear complaints from readers about how we draw Obama’s lips. Presidents get shorter in cartoons if they don’t perform well — and chimps are short."

Apparently pointing out that he looks like a chimp or monkey is considered racist, whereas the Bush cartoons were not because Bush is a caucasian. Bush's Tourette's tics were exploited to suggest that when he curls his lip up he looked like a chimpanzee. As political cartoons go that seemed harmless. It's not clear the chimp cartoon about the stimulus bill was intended in any racist sense. But they will trouble stopping people from seeing the similarity. During the campaign someone had made a Curious George T-shirt which also drew protests, presumably for suggesting a resemblance to Obama, perhaps because of the ears. Some of those are posted online:

It seems fair enough for the media to observe the guidelines and avoid cartoons with apes, chimps, or monkeys. But that probably will not stop it from happening or from people noticing a resemblance.

[FrdmLvr]

While the world celebrates the anniversary of Darwin’s birthday, it at the same time condemns what Darwin and his followers believed in, that the negro could have been the missing link. I’ve seen hundreds of scientific illustrations from that era that tried to prove that.

[AnAmericanMother]

Since when does Bush have de la Tourette's?

I've known some unfortunate people with that syndrome, and I saw no signs that he had it. A few ticcish habits, sure . . . but full blown de la Tourette's is no joke.