Obama outraged by satirical cartoons

Published: 11:18AM Tuesday July 15, 2008 Source: ONE News

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The campaign of Barack Obama is outraged by a satirical cover of The New Yorker magazine.

It shows the Democratic presidential hopeful wearing Islamic dress while his wife holds a Kalashnikov.

The influential weekly is defending its cover, titled The Politics of Fear, as a critique of unfounded allegations during the campaign that have attempted to paint Obama, who is Christian, as a closet radical Muslim.

But Obama's campaign spokesman says it's tasteless and offensive.

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