Well, yes, it would have been, except that I had no reason to think "oh what if Obama is in this comic, I should google the title to check if he is on the cover"?
Also, it's not unheard of for comic artists to lean heavily on celebrity likenesses when drawing characters, so even if I had checked I might just have thought "they made the heroic african-american politician look like obama, how creative".
But LUCKILY, someone mentioned that is was indeed Mr Obama, and so the light was shown to me without any googling or supposition necessary. Lucky me!