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, I 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 is it an added virtue? — is that doing so would no doubt be denounced as anti-Muslim as well as racist.
