By the numbers
Minimum number of times that journalists and politicians on TV have referred to Barack Obama as “Osama”: 8
Times they have referred to Osama bin Laden as “Obama”: 8
Source: Harper’s magazine
Speakeasy
“I don’t think we can party as hard as they are now, but 20 years ago we could.” – GOP lobbyist Scott Cottington, explaining to the Associated Press, why Democrats seem to party more than Republicans.
“If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed.” – George Hussein Onyango Obama (half-brother of Sen. Barack Obama), in an interview with the Italian edition of Vanity Fair.
