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Quite frankly this cover is hateful and sick.Why would you choose to publish it? The Obamas are to be respected not vilified.

After many years as a subscriber to the New Yorker I am repulsed enough to cancel my subscription. The cover is way beyond "poor taste" and the editor should have realized how it might effect our sensitized voting public. I hope they have inadvertently done Barack and Michelle Obama a supreme favor!!

I think it shows the truth about these two - they hate this country, they desire to destroy it, and may succeed in doing so if they are elected.

Sadly it plays right into the right's Rovian playbook of lie about your opponent until people believe the lies. Obfuscate the real issues (the war, the economy) and people will vote based on their fear, based on the lies they are now believing.
How far does our country have to fall before people start
to vote on the truth?

This saddens and disgusts me. What debate, discussion or other constructive purpose could this cover possibly generate? This cover, and the controversy and coverage of it, just fuels the worst kind of hate mongering and fear and turns the New Yorker into a tool of the most crass and ugly faction of the Right.

Satire depends upon exploiting the weaknesses, proclivities, foibles of its subjects. Since the Obamas are not guilty of any of the above, this cover cannot be "satire."
These portrayals are NOT satire; they are just plain mean.

Before the New Yorker takes refuge behind this excuse, I would advise them to consult a dictionary.

BFSchutz

Look at past covers----Bush has been pictured badly several times. It is politics. "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"

Bad, hateful and hurtful idea for a cover. Will the board PLEASE fire the editor.

The american media takes public figures like the Obamas and makes fun of them all the time. They take things that are true and untrue alike then twist it into things like the New Yorker cover. I mean MAD Magazine does this kind of thing all the time. Where are all the people defending Sylvester Stallone when MAD Magazine makes fun of him talking with a drooping bottom lip. I'm not a big Stallone fan but even if I were I understand that we, as Americans, have the right to express ourselves. It is not against the law. I guess its only okay to poke fun and/or put any kind of a twist on a story when its popular to hate someone (i.e. George W. Bush). Double standards aren't right or fair. So, if its far to poke fun or hate on George W. then it should be fair to do so at the Obamas' expense as well...By the way, I am not a Bush supporter. I'm just a fair-minded american citizen... at least I try to be.

When will you people wake up!!! Obama is a muslim planted in our country by the islamo-terrorists many years ago - he is the USA's worst nightmare! Wake up everybody, just like the New Yorker did!