I thought the Sept 10 mindset was the one Bush had while he was out cutting brush on the ranch and ignoring intelligence reports that bin Laden was going to attack the US.

I've watched this, like, 5 times on other websites and I still can't figure out what the ski guy is saying. Is it no longer cool to enunciate?

That's the biggest load of horses**t I ever saw.

I am an older woman and I would never have voted for Clinton. I wouldn't have voted for McCain but I would have sat out the election. Here's why.

Hillary Clinton came to my town and spoke at the same hotel where George Bush spoke several months earlier. On both occasions our local peace group held up a wall that stretches an entire city block with the names of all our soldiers killed in Iraq. Bush snuck in the back door to avoid us. So did Hillary. We stood for four hours and begged Hillary to come talk to us. Our governor came out and spoke to us but Hillary did not. She would not even come to the door of the hotel and wave at us. She would not even wave to us out a window. We sent a party of local clergy to meet with her. She would not see them. She snuck out the back door and left.

What was the difference between Hillary Clinton and George Bush? Nothing.

Never, ever. So I have no sympathy for Hillary supporters - you were backing a pro-war jerk. And if Obama puts her on the ticket I will vote Green Party.

My support for Obama is based on hope. Hope that he will often (not always, I am not unrealistic) do the right thing. He is the first candidate in years I have hoped for. If he fails I think I may not vote again. (I am in my late 50s). This is my last shot at democracy.

I doubt you are a New Yorker subscriber for 30 years, otherwise you would not post the reaction you did, at least if you read the magazine rather than stacking it on the shelf. This cover, you would know if you were a long-time subscriber, is typical New Yorker. It is one reason I subscribe. I am used to conservatives wanting to censor. It is unsettling to see the same thing coming from liberals. If this is going to be the Obama legacy count me out, even though I voted for him in the primary.

If Remnick apologizes, I will throw up. There is nothing to apologize for.

karenn22 says "This cartoon reveals more about the fears of the people who created it than it does about the Obamas"

UMM. It's not about the Obamas. It's about the lies told about the Obamas. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people who are totally incapable of interpreting something. If you were in my class -- F.

You ask "has New Yorker done equally shocking satirical covers about Bush?

I'm not a New Yorker subscriber, but is this level of satire pretty consistent with other political footballs? God knows Bush has given the likes of New Yorker plenty of material over the years. I think the outrage over this cover should be evaluated by New Yorker's satirical commentary in the past...there could have been equally "scandalous" covers that we don't know of, but just aren't thinking of."

The answer is -- plenty of covers. And if you were a subscriber you would know this. Check out the Bush Brokeback Mountain cover. And tons of others. Yes, "scandalous" covers you don't know about. If you don't read the magazine, don't comment. Duh.

Quiet Type says, "I can't figure out if the New Yorker is:

Naive, to think that most of America outside New York even gets satire"

Excuse me. The New Yorker could care less if most of America gets satire. (By the way, I am outside New York, and I get it.) The New Yorker is writing for intelligent, educated people who read the magazine. They are not going to dumb down for the rest of the idiocracy.

This is indeed a "smart vs dumb" issue. And if dumb people destroy smart publications, we are in the last days of civilization.

The covers are online. Duh.

I hate censorship. I hate it from the right, and I hate it from the left. I hate it as a writer. I hate the ignorance and lack of critical thinking that leads to it. And I especially hate when the last few precious outlets we have, such as the New Yorker, come under attack from the ignorant. The posts on this and other blogs demonstrate the incredible lack of education out there. I'm used to it from conservatives. I didn't realize the extent to which liberals also share in it. Frankly, that freaks me out.

OK - maybe I'm picking on the wrong person, and I apologize. This whole thing is just very upsetting. I lived through a situation where school textbooks were being censored and attacked. And the New Yorker is, like, the epitome of free expression and a great magazine. Right wing attacks are one thing. I never dreamed I'd see this sort of thing from liberals. I voted for Obama but this makes me want to just sit out the election. I would never vote for someone who allows his campaign to attack the New Yorker. And the ignorant comments -- God, I want to leave the country. How did we raise such philistines?