I would have said it was accidental as well (the cartoonist claims his children had watermelon-flavored toothpaste, and that triggered the idea), until I heard he HAD been asked, and basically didn’t.Also, the slant of his cartoon was clearly to make Obama look clueless. Let’s turn it around: Obama has had more death threats than any recent president — possibly since Lincoln — and the Secret Service allowed someone IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The fault here is not Obama’s, despite certain media outlets’ attempts to make it so. It is an appalling screwup by the Secret Service.
I would have said it was accidental as well (the cartoonist claims his children had watermelon-flavored toothpaste, and that triggered the idea), until I heard he HAD been asked, and basically didn’t.Also, the slant of his cartoon was clearly to make Obama look clueless. Let’s turn it around: Obama has had more death threats than any recent president — possibly since Lincoln — and the Secret Service allowed someone IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The fault here is not Obama’s, despite certain media outlets’ attempts to make it so. It is an appalling screwup by the Secret Service.