Are you offended?

The political controversy of the day is a cartoon on the front of the New Yorker magazine taking a "satirical" look at the various Internet rumors surrounding Barack Obama.

The Obama campaign has called the cartoon by Barry Blitt "tasteless and offensive."

The magazine stands by its cover.

In a statement, the magazine said the cover "combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall? All of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover."

What do you think? Are you offended by the depiction? Cast your vote in the poll at the top left side of this blog.

For more on the controversy, visit www.newyorker.com