Obama on the cover of the New Yorker

Some people are saying that this is tasteless and offensive while others see this cover as the satirical lampoon that was intended to be.

In efforts to flip the right-wing comments and statements that have been targeted to Michelle and Barack Obama, the New Yorker created this cover as an "opener" for the distortions in which they were created.
"The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall? All of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover, said the New Yorker magazine.

The Obama campaign (as well as the McCain campaign), find this cover as "tasteless and offensive" and believes that readers will as well.

Other reports have been made that the Obama campaign should embrace this cover and let America know that these judgments are not true, and spin this cover in thier favor.

So should the Obama campaign embrace this, or is this just "tasteless and offensive"?

I am personally at a stand still on the issue and I think that speaks to the apathy that my generation has for this country and its politics. However, I can see how this can be funny, on the same token that this may appear funny, it is offensive. This situation goes to show that America jokes and pokes fun at things misunderstood or things that makes one uncomfortable. We(America) are unprepared and afraid to have a Black president. Thus these are types of things that we see in free press.

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