The caricature of Romney gives him quite a chin. If you color it in, he looks like Lincoln. I think that's an accident, but subliminally it could have quite a positive effect.

I know Romney was good with his facts at the debate but was he that good? - that he needed notes? Maybe you're right, Liberals and I hope you are!

I never missed an issue of "The New Yorker", (and former editor Bill Shawn insisted it be addressed that way), from 1952-87. (I "read" my parents' copy before I could actually read) When they became overtly political I sadly gave up on them.

I'm willing to bet they think the cover is a slam on Romney, by portraying him as imitating Eastwood while their poster boy Obama remains somewhere above the fray.

President Romney combined his law school education with his MBA, and added in his real world experience,
(which we used to expect from our presidential candidates) and smoked barack.
I have to wonder if barack even went to class in law school.
And I have to wonder if barack was chewing khat.

Clint's chair has legs. Obama fit the narrative perfectly at the debate. Maybe now some of the Dims have finally gotten Clint's point.

FTA:" But here is what I don’t understand: why isn’t everyone embarrassed to be a liberal? Or, put another way, a Democrat?" IMHO, two reasons; one, they want to be thought of as reasonable, thoughtful, and caring. Two, if they were to finally admit it would be devastating to realize that one was so wrong for so long.

Whoa. As said before, if you've lost the New Yorker...

I have a gut suspicion. I'm wondering if the Obama handlers plan to stage a phony 'hero thing' for the president, who will bravely be rescued from 'whatever.'
.... My 'gut' is rarely wrong.

This cover was a surprise. All evidence that the left is angry with a loser, one of them. Axelrod has so much cleaning and pruning to do that I wonder how he gets any sleep at night.

I am sure poor Obama is getting advice (make that "direction") on how to behave on the next round. Too much prodding Axelrod, and you are going to make him petulent.

The world is watching.

The libbies are desperate. The American People are wise to the Chicago mob, i.e. obama and jarret.

The cover doesn't mean a thing to WE the People. It may give solace to the demorats who are whinnnning these days....

The economy will do obama in -- no matter how he cooks the books.... It's tough out here and WE KNOW it....

LZK

This is The New Yorker's clever way of warning Obama that he has to do a better job in the next two debates or he is finished.
Remember, too, that those who write for and edit The New Yorker are some of the smartest wordsmiths on the planet. They knew an empty chair when they saw one.

Not to worry. The next debate between them is gonna be even MORE fun. Bet on it. King Putt is mega-flustered now and is not equipped to recover, IMO.

Pop LOTS of popcorn. :-D

#2, the answer is yes to the fact that he was that good. As far as ''taking notes'', I noticed he scribbled a few notes when Obama started meandering off topic.

I needed a new wallpaper for my computer and now I have it.

Obama has been busy convincing his base of lo-info voters that CEOs are overpaid leeches who provide no value, and get by on insider conections.

Oops... one of those drones just mopped the floor with him, and sopped up the mess with a media talking head for good measure.

ps. Don't miss the comments in New Yorker article... most are more scathing on Obama's performance than the picture is!

This is a big deal there is not on elib I know who isn't talking bout this...
Ozymandias time...

I'd love to see the New Yorker read Hillbuzz and give us some enlightenment on 0bama's drug use.

Maybe 0bama will make the cover of High Times.

The next debate is supposed to be about Foreign Policy. Jug Ears will point out that he killed Osama bin Biden and he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Every 4 years we are told that this is the most important election in American history and usually it's just hype. But if we lose this one I lose my health care in 2014. So it's plenty important to me. Along with I haven't had a pay raise in 4 years and my house is worth less each year. Speaking of debates I'm expecting Plugs to do much better than expected which will validate Clint Eastwood's observation that Ole Joe is the intellectual leader of the demoncraps.

#13, thanks for the suggestion!

I was told by our trusty MSM a few weeks ago that the Clint Eastwood bit was a rambling performance by a senile old coot.

Now, what is the one thing nearly everyone (Repub., Dem., Ind.) remembers from either convention?

He hasn't lost the New Yorker, though he might have lost the cover artist: every single article about the debate that I saw in that issue wsa pro-Obama.

Poster #2, welcome to the site! Too bad we'll never hear from you after the election...

I'll let you in on a deep, dark secret. Romney had a secret radio transmitter sewn into his Magic Mormon Underwear! That's how he really mopped up the floor with The Slug.

O, how the mighty have fallen.

The current New Yorker is nothing like the magazine under Ross. This left-wing rag (with an occasional funny cartoon) has abandoned Fauxbama. Wow, what's next? Mother Jones?

Now it's all up to Candy Crowley & the ''undecided voters'' as selected by(the unbiased)Gallup Organization.

replies #13 and #21 - I meant my reply to be completely sarcastic to the Liberals, I should have written it better.

If you are reading this site, thanks Clint!

The USA owes you big time.

I'm going to buy the magazine today. From now until election day, when the weather is good, we'll put the cover in a plastic sleeve and place it on an empty camping chair in front of our lawn. I suggest LDotters around the country do the same!

This isn't the first time The New Yorker has taken a swing at Obama:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/slideshow_blittcovers#slide=1

They get over it and return to the fold.

Breathtaking, this flop of Obama. Never to be forgotten.

The rise of President Romney.

Like any actor zero needs someone to write his lines and is lost without a script. He also is completely dependent on the "star marker" dept - the guys who really ran the "brilliant" campaign in 2008, the publicists, the agents, the trainers, the accountants, business managers, and on and on.

With his actual work record as evidence how could anyone have expected that this man had somehow accumulated any meaningful leadership experience in life before the White House or would bother to apply himself while in the WH?

He was never anything but a reflection.

NOW is the time to stop calling all these big oppressive government promoters, the good name of liberal. They are NOT liberal.
They are authoritarian, indivdual oppressing power mad traitors to the truth.
If every good soul simply stops and rethinks
this could change in a few days. Get over your fear to call them what they ARE.
They ARE socialists, statists, collectivists
reds, commies, anti Constitutioalists, not radicals but reactionaries, fellow travelers
Marxists, dictator crazed, believers in ever
larger cureaucracies, more taxes, more jails
more bureaucratic controls, everything needs to be controlled BY THE STATE. They want to close down the internet because they can't control it. Overcome your own personal fears, and try it out in front of the mirror. Try calling them the names above, pretend like you're Ayn Rand. She called them only what they are. She came from Communist Russia, escaped, really under stood how terrifying dictator like governments are to the destruction of the individual and their natural rights. Shape up.

Never buy this 'rag',.... this time I shall and will frame the cover,...who knows, perhaps I should get several and give them as a present to some Dems?!

Looks like all the lefties are leaving Obama. Who knew Obama would be thrown under his own bus.

The lefties knew all those skewed polls were lies, and Obama's poor performance only confirmed what alot of people already knew. Obama lies all the time, and nobody likes a liar. The left know Obama is going to lose, and do not want to be dragged down with him.

The left will sacrifice Obama and abandon him before they will ever admit their style of government is wrong.

November 6 is 'Impeach Obama' day.

Please, if Obama has even a nominally good performance in the next debate, the headlines will scream OBAMA'S BACK!! The media is definitely rooting for him like they root for every democrat.
No matter. Romney is the best choice for the country. Obama has got to go.

Good point, 31st poster, though I suppose we have to go with the common parlance, unfortunately.

As for Bams - my theory is that Clint's stunning performance put a sort of spell on him and that Romney continued this nailing of him to the wall that Clint began, to the point that he could hardly move or speak. A sort of literal metaphor.

Ooops.. #30, that is.

The same people who think Romney "cheated" with notes are the same ones who think there is nothing whatsoever wrong with a president who can't say gesundheit without a teleprompter. Wow.

If the dopes really believe that Romney had notes (it was a hankerchief), why couldn't he just memorize what was on the notes?

Good reminder, #33; lefties do not really give up... they re-organize.

Great ideas, #s 26 and 31. Especially like the empty chair on the lawn. Just make sure it's a chair you can do without. I fully expect the spoiled-sports to steal and or destroy. Maybe bring it in at night.

Ramirez's cartoon is even more devastating.

I expect the going to get much, much rougher, the lies to fly fast and wildly.

#27 I believe that "Fist bump" cartoon was taking a swipe at the right -- they were trying to say how "ridiculous" our claims were about Obama.

#8 I have thought about that also. I believe Obama is very dangerous at this point and would try anything to get re-elected. Hope I am wrong.

I hope Mitt mentions in the foreign policy debate how many military people we've lost since obit ramped things up in Afghanistan. It seems that's the only way the news will get out there. obit can brag that he got Osama, and it's still not a fact that "he" got him, but will he take responsibility for the service members who've lost their lives. He doesn't even acknowledge the loss or the sacrifice unless it helps him. And, Mitt should throw in how he, Mitt, not obama, is fighting for military absentee voting extensions in several states.

The only leftist to the left of the new yorker is dimfecal jaun willyms.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who noticed the "Lincolnesque" nature of the caricature. As #1 noted, it was almost certainly unintentional, but those are the kinds of things that often have a strong, if subtle, impact.
As for the rest of it, I'm willing to take the entire matter at face--or in this case, cover--value: The New Yorker mocked Obama. It means he's lost them...for now.

The last time The New Yorker criticized Obama with a cover (showing him and Michelle as Muslims, as I recall), it promptly apologized with a cover equating him with Lincoln, and maybe godhood. Stay tuned.

All the "know it all" pundits are gleefully reporting the Town Hall meeting format favors Obama. Since when? They're always overrating this guy. We saw the real slouch vote present on Wednesday night. Sure, we know they want a horse race, but Romney is not just any horse, He's become Secretariat running in the Belmont stakes. Go Big Red.

Yes #45, the New Yorker you mention cover did show Obama dressed as a Muslim. Michelle was in an Angela Davis style get-up, and I believe was holding a machine gun.

When the New Yorker got flak for that cover, they claimed it was "satire," i.e. a joke ridiculing not the Obamas, but the Right -- for our allegedly unfounded fears about the Obama couple.

The irony was that the "satire" was actually very close to reality ... i.e., the Right was right after all.

Wonder if the New Yorker's editors have figured that out now?

Eastwood Ho!

Obama is now the object of unadulterated ridicule...He is toast...when the ridicule and reality are the same, there is ZERO chance of recovering

#2, AKA #24

I got it on the first read. You did nothing wrong at all. Just came at it from a little different angle than most.

If Romney repeats in the second debate then we will truly have a very injured, desperate and powerful predator roaming the woods looking for relief, anywhere and anyhow.