Fabulous original post. Very well thought out.

This isn't going to hurt Obama. The election will not be decided by people who knew nothing about him but decided he was a terrorist based on a cartoon. (And the people who already believed that stuff weren't ever going to vote for him.)

I think The New Yorker is loving this: More negative coverage than they probably would have liked, but way more total coverage than they ever could have hoped for.

Personally, I find it rather offensive, even though I get the satire. But, some of their other covers referring to Bush have been just as bad, so if there's no outcry over them, I guess this one needs to get a pass, as well.

I am starting to get tired of how seemingly everything is somehow off-limits when it comes to Obama. If you're going to be President, some nasty things are going to be said about you. And many of them will be exaggerations or outright lies. In the end, he'll come off much better if he and his supporters realize this fact and toughen up, rather than playing the victim card every time something doesn't go their way. This is one of those things that would have been better to simply ignore.