New Yorker: Barack and Michelle Obama as radicals

Release a magazine cover with a presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in Muslim garb, and adorn his wife in militant underground attire and armed with an AK-47, and there's sure to be a seismic reaction. And did we mention the burning U.S. flag? When the then-presidential hopeful happens to be <a href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/barack-obama"><a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT007408" title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic">Barack Obama</a></a>, drawn here on the cover of The New Yorker in the midst of a so-called "terrorist fist jab" with his wife <a href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/michelle-obama">Michelle</a>, attempts at fun-natured satire are sure to be lost on the involved parties.<br>
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Issue date: July 21, 2008

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Release a magazine cover with a presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in Muslim garb, and adorn his wife in militant underground attire and armed with an AK-47, and there's sure to be a seismic reaction. And did we mention the burning U.S. flag? When the then-presidential hopeful happens to be Barack Obama, drawn here on the cover of The New Yorker in the midst of a so-called "terrorist fist jab" with his wife Michelle, attempts at fun-natured satire are sure to be lost on the involved parties.

Issue date: July 21, 2008

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