The New Yorker magazine nailed the cover right on the head (“Radical Joke on O & Wife,” July 14).
Touché!
Larry Vincent
Manhattan
Finally, a magazine that is not afraid to tell it like it is.
Although some will say that it’s just satire, those of us who see through Sen. Barack Obama know the truth. He will coddle Osama bin Laden and destroy America.
I know that sounds like the ranting of a right-wing fanatic, but his words and his actions prove me right.
I hope more Americans see this about him and don’t vote for him. A terrible fate faces America if he gets elected.
Bret Wallach
Hicksville
Rather than “outing” those whom the magazine believes are unfairly describing the Obamas, the cover complements their criticisms. The picture provides them with a visual they can use to continue their attacks.
I am pleased that The Post was able to include in its story that the McCain campaign agreed with the Obama campaign that the cartoon is “tasteless and offensive.”
Politics does make strange bedfellows.
Gil Caldwell
Asbury Park, NJ
If the Obama camp is so infuriated by the New Yorker’s satirical cover, the erudite presumptive candidate and his wife should examine the history of often-brutal political cartoons in this country, dating back to Benjamin Franklin and perhaps earlier.
As one legendary Democrat, intimately familiar with the perils of the presidential politics, put it, “If you can’t stand the heat . . .”
Susan M. Silver
Manhattan