Am I The Only One Who Objects to This?

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Granted, sock monkeys are an established stuffed animal genre, but I find portraying Obama as a monkey seems somewhat offensive, especially considering that he's the first African American Major Party Nominee and there's a (racist) history of comparing black people to monkeys...hmm.