No self-respecting AK-47 user would have any use for any kind of bandolier. The Kalashnikov uses magazines.

I love the New Yorker and am glad that you are considering dropping your subscription. You will most certainly show the editors. All information should be spoon fed to the American public as to not arouse any dissenting opinions. Whenever I read (which is seldom) I want to read things that make me warm and fluffy inside. I want to be told what to think. I only want to hear the good things about Obama (doesn’t matter if they are true or not). Any negative press is racist. Good for you Robert you are my hero.

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Lil’ Jimmy

I have been a life long reader of The New Yorker and a huge fan. Nowhere can one get more interesting articles – and your usually more liberal writers have made this years election all the more interesting.

Now you come out with what you obviously think is a satirical cover about all the rumors about Obama and his wife. Possibly in the old days when only people who read intelligent magazines would have been the only ones to see this cover would have “maybe” excused it as excessive.

However, in this new world of blogs and right wing media such at Fox and all the others, this cover will reach every person in the world for week after week- and just strengthen their beliefs that the rumors are true.

You should be completely ashamed of this stupidity and thoughtlessness you exhibited in permitting this cover to be published.

At the very least, I believe that you owe in to the Obama – and the entire country – to make your next cover read something like this:

THE NEW YORKER MOST DEEPLY REGRETS AND APOLOGIZES FOR THE COVER WE HAD LAST WEEK IN THIS MAGAZINE. IT WAS WRONG – IT DID GREAT DAMAGE – AND WE ASSURE YOU THAT WE WILL DO EVERY THING WE CAN TO TRY TO RECTIFY THE DAMAGE WE HAVE CREATED BY THIS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE ATTEMPT AT SATIRE !! – THE EDITORS AND STAFF OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE.

It is unbelievable that you could have been this dumb. Should I cancel my subscription ? Probably – but I will not do so – however, I am sure there will be thousands who do – and I may yet join them.

But to be fair maybe their next issue should have a cover with McCain as the Manchurian Candidate? ;o)

*blech*

It will be an interesting test of the United States to see how they handle this presidential candidate. The world is watching.

Note: The same “I never heard of him before now” that the first commenter said about Obama applies to most of the US presidential candidates over the years. Funny how short a memory most people have, or how unplugged from politics they largely remain.

Since he is, in fact, not a muslim, does that mean you don’t have problem then ?

” I say again this is my Opinion of what I feel and see in this picture. ”

Then you obviously have missed the point of the picture, clearly spelled out in the article.

The picture is INTENDED to outline the impossibility of Obama being all of those things illustrated in the picture.
It’s a parody of the ridiculous negativity of the attacks.

The bottom line is …

These things, though they are not true, give racists a reason to say they don’t support him, without
having to admit they are racist.
Fortunately, the only ones who believe the junk never were gonna vote for him anyway.
they sway noone.

If he done all these things or accomplishments why was he ever on the news for doing so. A Old saying says once a crack head always a crack head.. Once a Muslim always Muslim.. Now we are at War fighting Terrorist that are Muslim I don’t think this country needs a Muslim or former Muslim running a Country fighting Terrorist.

I personally do not trust him or even want him in office. If any other Black American was running for office I would not have a problem with it as long as they were not a Muslim.. I hope I do not upset anyone’s belief in Muslim but we have to many people in the world dying from Terrorist of Muslim or Islam Faith. I look at this picture of what I think will happen. I say again this is my Opinion of what I feel and see in this picture.