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Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster has gotten a lot of play and now the man himself has written a letter thanking Fairey. It’s pretty ballsy for a presidential candidate to write a letter to a graffiti artist thanking him. Obama (or whoever wrote the letter) evens points out that “Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign.”