I agree with Musketeer. This cover was an attempt to show that people on the right are stupid for having the view that Obama is a Muslim and his wife is a terrorist.
While I don't think she is a terrorist, she certainly has some friends who are.
The Obama campaign is so busy looking to take on any "swift boating" of Obama, that they've fired a torpedo at their own sub. Unfortunately for our side, McCain also fell for this and came out denouncing the cover. He should have denounced the cover for it's tasteless stereotyping of conservatives, rather than for making fun of Obama. It was not supposed to poke fun at Obama, Senator McCain. It was supposed to make conservatives look stupid. Of course, since McCain isn't much of a conservative, IMHO, he wouldn't understand the joke any better than the hyper sensitive Obama and his campaign do.
What a sad state of affairs our national political scene has descended to. Sheesh. When Jesse (The Body) Ventura can make waves about whether he's running for the Senate from my home state, we've got troubles. He hadn't even announced whether he'd run or not and a poll already had him leading Al Franken. Stormin' Norman Coleman is a wishy washy moderate RHINO as far as I'm concerned. I think Jesse may have won. I don't think I would have voted for him, but I think there are enough people who are frustrated with the choice between Coleman or Franken that Jesse would have had a shot at winning. Some folks, like me, may not have voted for any of the three choices, where others may have voted for Jesse just to shake up the two party shindig going on in Washington. That's exactly how he beat Coleman and "Skip" Humphrey (Hubert H. Humphrey's son) for Governor of Minnesota, back in 98.
Coleman then ran against former VP Walter Mondale (Carter Admin.) for Senator, after Mondale replaced Paul Wellstone after Wellstone was killed in a small plane crash. The democrats turned Wellstones funeral into a campaign rally, which probably turned off a lot of people. So, Coleman, who is a former democrat and was the Mayor of St. Paul, got to be the Senator. He's not real popular. Democrats hate him for switching parties and taking Wellstone's Senate seat. Conservatives aren't convinced he's one of them. Independents don't seem to place any value in him. He supported the Iraq war and has been a big time Bush supporter. With the President's approval so low, the democrats will be trying to tie Coleman to Bush in a big way. Jesse would have done the same, while lambasting Franken for many of his negatives. Thus, Jesse would have had a shot, again.