Dear Barak

Just an item for a slow news day.

As is traditional, Bush left Obama a note in the Oval Office.

Let's hope he did better on the spelling of his name than most of the population. You'd think with all the times Obama's name has been in print people would know this. It's as if they aren't reading newspapers.

Many Americans and others are still unable to spell Barack Obama's first name correctly. At least that is the conclusion of the folks at GooseGrade, a service that allows readers to post corrections for grammar, spelling and factual errors on blogs and other online media outlets using a free widget.

GooseGrade did some quick and dirty research and found at least 60 million pages on the Internet with Obama's first name misspelled. "Barak" is the most common misspelling, followed in close second by "Barrak", and finally "Barrack". It's one "r", a "c" and a "k," for those still having trouble. The startup even counted web sites intentionally placing misspelled 'meta-tags' or keywords into the site code of their pages to pick up traffic from misspelled searches.

Comments

[SacTownMan]

Funny I thought his childhood name was spelled B-A-R-R-Y!

My Bad!

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"The time for silly things is over." - President Barack Hussein Obama 1/20/2009

Have you wingnuts gotten your orders to report to your de-stupidification camps yet?

[Lala]

Most of the people I know who religiously read newspapers and watch the news are Republicans.

The ignorance of the general public is why ABC is able to get away with this manure

Scott Whitlock's blog
ABC Cites Only Democrats as the 'Warriors' in the Civil Rights Movement
By Scott Whitlock | January 19, 2009 - 17:37

On Monday's "Good Morning America," co-host Robin Roberts chose to tout only Democratic politicians in a piece honoring the civil rights movement and those "warriors" who made Barack Obama's election as president possible. Not a single Republican was mentioned or featured in the segment. Roberts began by announcing, "And on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we thought it would be appropriate to look back at all the warriors, black and white, who made this moment where we are today possible."

read it all at

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock

[Fred Beloit]

"Oh, and while the king was looking down,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while Lennon read a book on Marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.
...
And there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again.
So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
Jack flash sat on a candlestick
Cause fire is the [shaman's] only friend.
...
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that [shaman's] spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw [shaman] laughing with delight
The day the music died.
..."

Nothing serious that can't be fixed with a bit of effort in four years.

[Todd]

I'd be shocked if Bush spelled it right. He said he doesn't read newspapers. I'm thinking he probably spelled it Barock.

[seekeronos]

"Have you wingnuts gotten your orders to report to your de-stupidification camps yet? "

Nope! Must be that efficient new big government y'all libs were so hell-bent on making that is jamming up the notices to the 80 million of us who either non-voted for Obama or chose to non-vote at all.

As for the exact text of Bush's note:

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"Congrats on getting elected. Good luck cleaning up the mess Congress made over the last two years.

Peace and sparkles and rainbows -

-W.

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