Are those Barack Obama's hands on cardboard cutout?

[proud2BlibKansan]

It seems a certain cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama has white hands. Or does it?

Advanced Graphics, a Utah company in its 25th year of producing cardboard cutouts, released its Obama during election season. Many fans have posed for photos next to the life-size model of Obama, which is popular at sites around Washington, D.C. The cutout even made it to a funeral home in Jersey. Then the online magazine The Root published the story "Black President, White Hands?" in which the author said the body on the cutout appeared to have been grafted from a heavier, white man.

Not true, said Steve Hoagland, vice president of Advanced Graphics. The cutout's hands "certainly were not white," he said.

The cutout was pulled from the line recently, Hoagland said, because the firm learned that Obama does not wear glasses. (The original Obama cutout is holding a pair of glasses and isn't wearing a wedding ring.) As Hoagland tells it, a retailer contacted Advanced a couple of weeks ago to report he had heard from a customer who said the real Obama signed his cutout and remarked that he knew the hands weren't "his" because he wouldn't be holding glasses.

more . . . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-talk-whitehandsjan30,0,1895185.story

[skeewee08]

1. Obama is Bi-Racial there fore certain parts of his body will appear lighter/darker

this is common with bi-racial people.

[zulchzulu]

2. I have one of those and it's more the symbol of him there than the literal issue

I have one of those and had many, many people have their picture taken with it, I mean , him.

Actually, the cutout's height is shorter. Obama is 6'2" (same as me). The height of the cutout is about 6'0" or so. The cutout has him holding some nerdy, thick glasses. And the cutout's head is proportionally a little small for the body.

It's a Photoshop file! Printed on cardboard! It's not really Obama! Really!

:hi:

People wanted to have themselves taken with Obama as a symbol. And they were happy as hell to have it so!

[populistdriven]

3. They are John Kerry's Hands

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. LOL!