The problem is that Americans don't really have much of a sense of humor or absurdity.
I see the absurd idea being represented here as something that would receive a giggle
rather than a smear if the American public weren't so ill informed and had such a star-struck crush on Obama. The idea that Obama is any kind of "terrorist muslim" is so absurd that I don't understand how people can take it seriously. It speaks to the real ignorance
of the American public that they even entertain such an idea.

I think the New Yorker overestimated the sophistication of the public to receive this image
in its proper context, a complete ridiculous idea fostered by some malicious and ignorant
idiots on the GOP side. If Americans were more educated and less indoctrinated, this
cartoon on the front cover of the New Yorker would have been taken as satire and not
some smear.

The problem is that Americans are being inundated by so many smear tactics that they have become hyper-sensitive. It reminds me of the absurd and dangerous reaction
given by some members of the Muslim community to the cartoon in the Danish newspaper which prompted insane murders.

Why can't Americans grow up?