The new Vanity Fair McCain cover parodies the New Yorker's Obama effort

Barack Obama was none too happy about a New Yorker Magazine cover that depicted he and wife Michelle as two ragtag terrorist types. Now Vanity Fair is taking aim at that cover by doing their own cover of John McCain.

The magazine takes aim at McCain's age and wife Cindy's battle with prescription drugs. Although not quite as meaty as the Obama slams, they have to work with the material at hand.

"We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker," says Vanity Fair's website. "We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear... in a selfless act of solidarity with our downstairs neighbors here at the Conde Nast building, we'd like to share it with you."