The reaction of the Obama campaign to that New Yorker cover was revealing both in its humorlessness and in the willingness to make an issue out of something that was obviously designed (as Senator Obama clearly understood) to satirize some of the wilder stories that his opponents have been circulating about him. Now we have this nonsense:

CHICAGO (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker magazine’s satirical cover depicting him and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals doesn’t bother him but that it was an insult to Muslim Americans. “You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things,” the presidential candidate told CNN’s Larry King. “And for this to be used as sort of an insult, or to raise suspicions about me, I think is unfortunate. And it’s not what America’s all about. “

It’s going to be a long, long, eight years if this man becomes president.