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Obama campaign, Democrats slam New Yorker Obama cartoon

For the record, the presidential campaigns for Barack Obama and John McCain are agreed that the latest cover of The New Yorker magazine is "tasteless and offensive."

The satirical image that fronts this week's edition depicts Obama in Muslim garb and his wife, Michelle, as an assault rifle-toting Black Panther look-alike. The two exchange a connubial fist bump in the Oval Office as an American...

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