This was such a missed opportunity to do the same cover, only with Cindy wearing the gun and sporting a blond Afro and John McCain wearing the Afghani garb while “terrorist fist-jabbing” with a picture of binLaden hanging over his shoulder. That would have been much more thought-provoking and smart. No matter the context it was in, the viewer wouldn’t have been able to draw easy conclusions from it.

They could have then done a companion cover with Michele and Barack subbed in for Cindy and John hyperbole (something like Michele as a Stepford wife lighting a cigarette with a rolled up $100 bill and Barack as a doddering old grampa with a tin hearing piece).