In my opinion, the posters who say/feel that I, as an ignorant, intellectually challenged, star-struck, humorless American, just don't get it, are the ones who don't get it.

The cover, to my mind, is as tasteless - and harmful - as a cover depicting John McCain as a prisoner of war sitting at a table plotting the defeat of America or of McCain as a doddering old fool of a president gleefully pressing the nuclear button against Iran.

As CarolC said, if the cartoon had been inside the magazine illustrating the points that some Americans choose to believe about a presidential candidate it would have been clearly satirical and as Wesley S said, a hoot.

Keep in mind that the people who don't "have two brain cells to rub together" do vote. In my opinion, there are people out there who will tell each other that national magazines don't buy the disclaimers about Obama and are using this means to get the truth across to voters.