Amos, Obama's reply to the question of the New Yorker cover, on Larry King, illustrates some of the characteristics that would make him a good President.

I'll take his comments a bit further, though, and point out that another reason this intended "satire" was unsuccessful -- and probably hurt the Obamas a lot more than the alleged "real targets" of the satire -- is that a good political cartoon caricaturing a politician is supposed to be an exaggeration of real attributes or features of the caricatured one.   Neither of the Obamas has ever been a Muslim, anti-patriotic, a flag burner, a Black Power militant, or any of the sorts of things portrayed in that cartoon. It wasn't a caricature, it was false accusation - veiled in attempted humor as it may have been.