I just think it's ridiculous to assume the guy was being a big racist from out of the blue. At the same time, though, I don't get what's supposed to be funny about the cartoon. So a rampaging chimp gets shot, what does that have to do with the stimulus bill?

Maybe he was making some metaphor that was too deep for it's own sake, like that the chimp itself is the support of the stimulus bill? Probably not, but who knows. Because if he was just going to call Obama a monkey, he could have at least drawn the chimp in a business suit. Not that it would have been funny in the slightest if he had, but then I would be seeing the correlation to Obama. I don't see much of one as it is. I see paranoia and thin skins.