"Depicting Obama as a Muslim and his wife, Michelle, as a machine-gun-toting militant - with a picture of Osama bin Laden hanging over the fireplace, while an American flag burns in it - is more slanderous than satirical.
The caricature is not really about race, but patriotism. The subtext is that the Obamas are a couple of flag pins short of being real, full-blooded, God-fearing Americans.
Now, where have we heard that before? You got it. In the throes of the immigration debate, it is U.S.-born Latinos who are often hit with the accusation that they are "Americans in name only.""
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_9939649
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