Thin-skinned Obamas come unhinged

A clear cartoon parody on the cover of the avant garde magazine New Yorker of Barack and Micelle Obama has their campaign, and the candidate himself, in a major tizzy.

If you haven't surfed the web and seen it yet, the cartoon depicts the Oval Office, with Barack standing their in full Muslim dress with a turbin, and Michelle in full Angela Davis mode--complete with an exaggerated Afro, AK47, and full terrorist gear. A painting on the wall is of Osama Bin Laden, and an American flag is burning in the fireplace.

The cover is so obviously a take-off on current events, printed to sell magazines and draw attention to the New Yorker, that's it's hard to take seriously, if you're anyone other than Obama. There is no companion article inside the magazine that the cartoon calls attention to, a common magazine ploy. There is a 15,000-word tomb on Obama's days in Chicago, but it doesn't tie in to the cover cartoon.

The over-the-top reaction of the Obamas (the magazine doesn't even hit the newsstands until tomorrow), suggests that maybe some of the internet rumors are true. Maybe Obama is a closet Muslim. Maybe Michelle does hate America. Maybe their Chicago friendship with Weathermen Bill Ayres and Bernadette Dorn, and all the radical hate-America spewings of their 20-year pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright--they support.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. When you're not able to look at an obvious parody and have a good belly laugh, no matter how close it hits to home--you're taking yourself too seriously.

We're still nearly 5 months from the election. This is just a minor hit, compared to what's undoubtedly coming. If the Obamas aren't tough enough to stand up to this minor brushfire, they're in bigger trouble than anybody thought.