Democrat donkey with a capital M

This Japanese advert is attracting a lot of attention as some people assume it's targeting Obama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-lSLv9b4E

Surely the racist ones are the people who:

a. Infer that any monkey is automatically representative of Africa Americans, and;

b. Are completely ignorant of the cultures and social mores of nation from which the ad comes.

The Japanese Macaque is hugely popular in Japan (though maybe not with the local farmers) and is a generally very nice primate to be around. If the odd American thinks that this (brown haired, pink faced) primate looks like a black man then maybe it’s another case of the US templating its own set of values on another very different culture. Perhaps they should invade.