Oh, I don't think people are being stupid. Most folks just don't like the image of the gun to W's head. It would not be any "better" if the artist depicted W as Lincoln in Ford's Theatre or a black in the south being hung, etc.
But, it is indeed a political cartoon. And while contemporary editorials don't usually have the raw context of this one historically this type of artistic commentary is not unique. Some of the political cartoons of the early days of the US were as strong or stronger.
No, I don't agree with you that people here are being stupid. And I'm not sure the author is being stupid either in that he has fanned a responsive fire to his work.
I just don't like to see a gun to W's head.
500 posts and counting, all because people (including Drudge) are too stupid to realize this is a POLITICAL CARTOON...There is an alternative interpretation.
PERHAPS some of those who have been self-importantly pontificating on this thread about their own (imagined) superior mental capacity are not as cerebrally gifted as they presume.Try to bend your mind around this fairly straightforward concept:
MOST of us who are extremely disappointed and saddened by the trivialization of such a EXTRORDINARILY powerful image from a very troubling time in the social history of this country DO "get" this cartoon.We just do not LIKE it.
Condescension is a character defect best left to the liberals, IMHO.