The New Yorker magazine cover caricature of Barack Obama  and his wife Michelle should be seen for what it is: Part of an ongoing, sustained, and concerted effort co-ordinated at highest level of the magazine, and in deference to the anti-Obama, pro-Clinton surrogacy long engaged in a synchronized drumbeat of smears surreptiously trumpeted through the intertnet, talk shows, magazines, newsmedia, etcetra, all designed to further racialize the Obama campaign and impugn his patriotism. The expectation here is predicated on a strategy that seeks to inflict maximum damage to Obama as to put in doubt the chances of his nomination, come Democratic Convention, following a primary that had all but rendered his nomination a foregone conclusion. Hence Hillary remains a viable alternative should Obama's survival of these smears and attacks prove unsustainable as insidiously intended by these surrogates whose bitterness over Hillary's loss of the primaries, and their unwillingness to endorse Obama has galvainzed their hostility toward him and solidified their will to go to any lengths and at whatever cost to the Democratic Party to secure Hillary's nomination. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but the New Yorker magazine cover smear should be seen in the broader context of personal and power relationships attached the New Yorker and the Clintons, which have given rise to social and political imperatives dictating the reciprocity of their mutual  interests.