Well well well…Michael D’Antuono’s chickening out and won’t be unveiling his painting after all! Fausta notes that he issued the following apology:

I just thought that through that painting people would see different things. The right and the left would have different interpretations of it based on their political lens. But I have to admit I was very surprised that instead of that I got thousands of email complaining on the religious front. And that was not my intent at all. I wanted to create a dialog politically but not religiously. I didn’t mean to make fun of anybody’s religion; maybe I did so naively but I didn’t mean it that way. In the bible Jesus is The Truth and comparing Obama that way isn’t something I meant to do at all.

We’ll soon see how fast he changes his website. Just for posterity, I took a snapshot of the page in question:

Sorry Michael, cat’s out of the bag.