As an Obama voter, I would like to add my voice to that of the Romney voter whose letter objected strongly to the tastelessness of the Post's day-after cartoon on the presidential election. Obama, clunkily armored, sits on top of a Romney dragon whose blood spills on the ground from a fatal knife in the neck.
In what sense, even figurative, did Obama win by a cut-throat attack?
Even if I disagreed with Romney's views, which of them was evil enough to make him a dragon deserving execution by a bloody shiv? And how in an election season permeated by racial themes, spoken and unspoken, does the Post enlighten its readers by advancing a crude image of black-on-white violence? Or does the satire cut the other way, rejecting a myth of our president as knight in shining armor, making Romney a corpse to get the point, as it were, across?
The Post has now been reduced to renting out its editorial cartoon space. May readers ask you to shop harder, more thoughtfully, and as your Republican reader pointed out, in better taste?
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Daniel Shea • St. Louis