Chuckers,

You would look good standing on my lawn...just make sure you bring a beany and a whip. I also like black and white checkered shorts, not the red and white.

Thanks...

Oh and I suspect that it looks this way because of manufacturing standards, not malice.

Are you going to vote Obama, Chuckles?

And look, he's groping his nuts. That's not right.

WTF! Even MLB bobbleheads are better representations than that!

At least he/it's wearing a flag pin.

That is a gigantic flag lapel pin.

And, I wonder if its eyes close when he lays down?

I hate that Obama will become the projection plate for all blindly lobbed contemporary minority struggles.

And.. uh... it doesn't look anything like him...

>What’s wrong with this Nemeski’s vision?

Um, he's German.

I love European stereotypes of American icons!:

1. The Indian with the full headdress.
2. The Cowboy with a gigantic 10-gallon hat
3. Any variety of black person: Cotton-picking, Auntie, Soul-Brother
4. Plantation owner.

(From what I've seen, the Dutch are the best at it.)

All Schwarzeneggers look the same to me.

So they slap a standard issue black baby boy head on a body wearing a suit with a flag pin and call it Obama?

I can decide if this is charmingly funny or horrifying.

the only wrong he committed was creating new clothes for a generic doll.

@8, those are stereotypes right here at home too.

In any case, I guess it's better than a monkey doll.

It's the choad Obama!

I'm jealous. Where's MY joke shop items??? Where's MY Older Than The Earth items for sale, huh huh???? Where's MY Bush Beanie Baby being hugged by me huh???

YES! Another post by Charles with no links or references. Do all the dolls appear this way? Are all the dolls childlike and poor representations? Are all the dolls just a super cheap way to try and make money? Will Malibu Barbie show up in her SUV with a blind spot to run over the "Obama" doll? And once again, I get inspired to not feel like letting it go.

Germans are clueless. They still call chocolate-covered marshmallow candies "Negerkuesse" ("Negro kisses"). But you can't actually *talk* about racism there; that would be racist...

That doll looks more like Gary Coleman than Obama.

Imagine, something racist from Germany...I mean I am SHOCKED I tell you; just shocked! The Germans, I expected so much more from them after their long history of embracing blacks and jews. I mean wasn't Hitler a Black Jew from Nigeria?

That can't be an Obama doll, it's wearing a lapel pin. =P

http://www.puppenklinik.biz/impressionen/index.html

http://www.deutsche-klassiker.de/beruehmtheiten/index.php

All his dolls look like children, including his Mozart, his Lady Di, and his pope dolls. None of them are very good likenesses. I don't think his Obama doll is meant to be racist. It's just using the same parts that make up all the other dolls. More lazy than racist.

Personally, I'd like to know why people in Europe are making dolls of presidential candidates in the US. I can completely understand following the politics of a country that has such global influence, but making novelty toys? As a limited edition keepsake? Seriously? Are they tired of dolls of the Royal Family? Or is it too tiresome to make a new President of the European Council doll every six months?

They chose "dark black" because Obama is black (aka half-white).

JC, Charles thanks you for doing his legwork for him.

It's not a doll, @18...

Where is the mccain grampa doll? I hear it drools on itself and is grumpy if it doesn't get a nap.

Or the Cindy mccain evil Stepford wife doll that eats the babies of all of the other dolls.

Srsly?

@26

Cindy McCain doll is unavailable at this time. It is selfishly waisting its time in some third world country fixing cleft pallets and cleft lips on little baby poor people.

The evil bitch.

@28

Don't be fooled by the right wing hype, she has already posted recipes for the children on her website.

mmmmmmmmm!

Fixing wooden platforms? Good for her!

I thought the white dude was Steve Coogan at first glance.

I recall something he said in an interview ... something about not doing a Hillary doll because it would be hard to get a good likeness.

The imagination reels, jigs, and hornpipes.

The skin color is off, but after glancing at the Puppenklinic's website, it looks like all the dolls are infantile by design.

It looks exactly like every other German doll I've seen, with a different skin color and clothes

(anecdotal evidence I know)

Common mistake -- that's the Mugabe doll.

Oh, man. This is not a good day. I actually agree with Chaz.

So we've established that this doll doesn't look like Obama because no German dolls look like anybody over the age of five. Can we next tackle the question of why anyone would want to buy this?

I think this a leftover Jesse Owens doll from the '36 Olympics. Hitler naturally put the kibosh on it, but those enterprising Krauts knew that it would come in handy some day....

Does it come with or can you purchase other outfits? A nice bicycling ensemble might be nice.

That is clearly an Idi Amin doll.