Jack - "What the New Yorker, perhaps, should be learning is that people can't be expected to interpret all of their cartoons as exaggeration, except for one, that because they say so, we must interpret as ironic exaggeration."

That's what I'm saying! ;-)

If, on the other hand, they are lying...and it was a deliberate attack on Obama... Well, that would be quite something, wouldn't it?

I can't see them deliberately trying to go after Obama instead of McCain, but I suppose it's possible.