Yesterday, the official portraits of former President Barrack Hussein Obama and his wife were unveiled at the national portrait gallery.  The former President’s portrait was done by the violent racist, Kehinde Wiley. (This is the same Kehinde Wiley who once painted Judith, a beautiful Hebrew widow, as a black woman beheading the Persian Holofernes who Wiley portrayed as a white man…an expression of his violent racist inclinations which he himself admitted to New York Magazine.)

The choice of artist, of course, fits nicely with Obama’s racist view of the world and is not surprising.  What is surprising is the gaudy cartoon that Wiley produced.  Although, without meaning to, Wiley has actually provided the world with an appropriate depiction of the Obama presidency.

From a distance, the viewer is left to wonder when the little Leprechaun (oh sorry, “vertically challenged” Leprechaun) is going to jump out of the background exclaiming “oh they’re after me lucky charms…they’re magically delicious!”  However, a closer inspection of the portrait shows that the greenery is more along the lines of poison sumac, which provides all sorts of underlying representations of the nature of the Obama presidency and its impact on the United States.

Another oddity, is that Wiley thought that the President needed 6 fingers on his left hand.  I don’t recall the former President suffering from polydactyly, but perhaps I never noticed.  Or maybe it is an artistic representation of Obama’s tendency to stick his fingers where they don’t belong in blatant violation of the constitution and the separation of powers between three co-equal branches of government.

In any event, long after we are all gone, and no one remembers (or cares about) the Obama presidency, this cartoon will still be hanging in the national portrait gallery. Next to the formal and distinguished portraits of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Truman, and even Clinton, this garish portrait will cause future generations to wonder in stunned amazement.  Or, more likely, they will simply laugh at the foolishness of President Obama…much like we do today.  As such, kudos to Kehinde Wiley, for a more perfect portrait was never painted.