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Al-Obama

Now it is apparently safe, at least for celebrity humorists, to make fun of The Obamessiah.

On Tuesday, the nationally televised comedian David Letterman offered a ?Top Ten Signs Barack Obama Is Overconfident.? One, he said, was Obama?s proposing to change the name of Oklahoma to ?Oklobama?; another, ?measuring his head for Mount Rushmore.?

Actually, since it is well known that Obama intends to make a major effort to bring some deep South states into play by energizing the black vote (what George Wallace used to slyly refer to, with a wink and a nod, as the ?block vote?), Oklahoma may not have been Letterman?s best choice. In fact, have a better one: I?ve been considering referring to the state where I was born and grew up as ?Al-Obama.?

The only drawback of using this term ? or it an added virtue? ? is that doing so would no doubt be denounced as anti-Muslim as well as racist.

Full post as published by Discriminations on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).