Asked about the email in a brief phone interview with TPMmuckraker, McKalip said he believes that by depicting the president as an African witch doctor, the artist who created the image “was expressing concerns that the health-care proposals [made by President Obama] would make the quality of medical care worse in our country.” McKalip said he didn’t know who created it.

But pressed on what was funny about an image that plays on racist stereotypes about Africans, McKalip declined to say, instead offering to talk about why he opposes Obama’s health-care proposals.

“I have a busy day,” he said eventually, before ending the call.

That he resorted to crude stereotype shows that not only is David McKalip, M.D. a racist asshole, but he’s a lazy one. Instead of critiquing the plan or policy McKalip just points and shrieks, indignant that a black man had the gall to win an election.

Also, whoever put together the image could have at least balanced the lighting and color on President Obama’s head. Being a racist shitheel isn’t an excuse for shoddy workmanship.