# Barack Obama

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama/257207>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 28, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama/257207 "2004-07-28T02:15:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama/257207/39 "2004-07-28T14:38:22Z")

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[hijack]

'08 Republican Presidential Ad:

(two overweight middle-aged white midwestern types sitting on a porch)

male: “Barack Osama? Bin Laden Obama?”

female: “Isn’t he that terrorist guy?”

announcer: “It’s just a few letters’ difference. Is that enough?”

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