And yet: Tapper takes note of the glee with which Obama critics embraced and distributed the cover. "No single illustration could more perfectly convey the legitimate -- I repeat, legitimate -- fears and concerns that so many of us have about the prospects of an Obama Presidency," writes a blogger at StoptheACLU.com.
Writes a conservative commentator at JosCafe.com: "Evidently the artist did the drawing to sum up all 'conservative' fears of this man. The artist is correct. But I don't call them fears. They are concerns. The picture show's all things we now to be true about them -- except the picture above the fireplace."