I didn’t like the Obama-Joker poster and explained why here; the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott goes much further and declares it “a racially charged image.”

But he also insists that the similar Vanity Fair illustration of Bush “at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics.” Er, okay.

Just think, all of this controversy could have been avoided by making the simpler, clearer point that by running as a moderate and governing as a liberal, Obama is . . . Two-Faced.