Obamarama

Earlier in the show, we talked about political slang.

You want to hear some more?

Of course I do, Grant.

Remember, I said that it’s almost impossible to keep up with all the plays on the name of Barack Obama.

Oh, yeah.

I just saw No-Bama in the paper today.

Exactly.

I’ve given up trying, basically.

And it’s just as well because in February, Chris Wilson’s encyclopedia Baraktanica appeared on Slate magazine.

It’s hilarious.

And they’ve even made a widget that you can post on your own website where you click the more button.

And every time you click it, it gives you a new word based upon Barack Obama’s name.

Things like, oh, bombastic rhetoric is spoken by Barack Obama.

Or Obama Rottery, goodwill and lighthearted rapport at a campaign rally.

There’s tons of this stuff.

If he’s elected president of the United States, we’re going to have four years of this.

Oh, my gosh.

And what about McCain?

I mean, isn’t there stuff you can do with it?

I mean, I realize that the name McCain isn’t as weird as Obama.

Oh, there’s stuff that you can do, but it’s all pretty kind of predictable and ordinary, like McCant or stuff like that.

The best Obama one that I’ve seen is where they put an apostrophe between the O and the B, and then they changed his logo to have a shamrock in it.

So it looks like he’s Irish.

Oh, no.

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