Remember when there was all that hullabaloo about the Clinton campaign’s making Barack Obama look blacker than he is in one of its ads? The campaign dismissed the claim, but we know enough about political advertising to be aware that not one single second of any spot isn’t agonized over. (Case in point: The idea that the famous “floating cross” in Huckabee’s Christmas ad was anything but planned is ridiculous.) But maybe we were too quick to judge: Last Thursday we noticed that Clinton isn’t the only one with trouble nailing down Obama’s exact facial characteristics. The Wall Street Journal’s crack team of stipple artists (led by Noli Novak) couldn’t quite get it right, either. Instead of Obama’s trademark dark brow and big open eyes, we got an image of a man who looked, well, a little bit like a generic black dude. That’s weird, right? But maybe we should just chalk it up to the limitations of the medium. And in that case, let us say that said limitations are kinder to Hillary. When was the last time you saw her looking that joyful and young?
Clinton, Obama Go on Attack as Superdelegates Hold Key [WSJ]
