Let's be serious for a moment, here: the idea that Barack and Michelle Obama are urban terrorists -- working in cahoots with underground communist rebels, and Osama Bin Laden, to destroy America -- is so ridiculous that nobody with any sense of decency believes it. But if that's the case, why has that idea come to dominate the 2008 presidential election? And what have we done to stop it?
Sure, the cover on this week's issue of The New Yorker will...
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