我是一直到今天看中文的新聞然後google一下才知道原來有這麼回事...
I am not aware of it till I read the news in Chinese and later found out from Google.Obama = Osama?
Or rather, does it equal Saddam? You see, Senator Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ but has a distinctly Muslim (Arab actually) sounding middle name, perhaps in honor of his Muslim paternal grandfather. Now that Obama is a rising star in the Democratic Party and is widely believed to be giving serious thoughts to a presidential run in 2008, an interesting drama is developing around his name.
Fingers are wagging in the political name calling. Republicans claim that the Dems started it all by calling the now defeated Senator Allen from Virginia by his full name, George "Felix" Allen and by slyly bringing up his Jewish heritage. I agree that Democrats are no babes in the woods when it comes to shrewd demagoguery. But that the Republicans are going to make much bigger political hay out of Obama's name is an easy bet. After all, this is the party that has perfected race and religion baiting. The Willy Horton campaign ads used by Bush's dad George H.W. Bush in 1988, racially charged ads against Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee as recently as the 2006 mid term elections or Rush Limbaugh never forgetting to call Bob Dylan by his birth name of Robert Zimmerman, come to mind. Even a French ancestry is enough to cast a pall of suspicion on a candidate in Republican circles. During the 1988 Republican primaries Bush Sr. (again!), pointedly addressed his opponent (Pierre du Pont) by his given name of Pierre instead of Pete, the name Mr. Du Pont preferred to go by.
Source: http://accidentalblogger.typepad.com/accidental_blogger/2006/12/obama_osama.html
美2008大選歐巴馬、賓拉登差一字 NBC耍烏龍搞錯
2008/02/21 18:02記者許瑜菁編譯
美國國家廣播公司（NBC）最近鬧了個大烏龍，他們在播放歐巴馬的新聞時，竟然放了蓋達恐怖組織領導人賓拉登的照片，引發歐巴馬陣營的關切，隨後主持人趕緊向歐巴馬和觀眾道歉，聲明是無心之過。
NBC新聞主播：「俄亥俄州初選，還有再來...歐巴馬說什麼呢？」明明是提到歐巴馬，怎麼畫面上出現了恐怖大頭目賓拉登呢？NBC的新聞談話節目18日晚上播出時鬧出了大笑話，歐巴馬陣營立刻要求解釋，NBC也在幾分鐘之後立即道歉。
NBC解釋，這是一名圖片編輯所犯下的無心之過，絕對不是刻意修理歐巴馬，而這個事情的癥結可能就在於歐巴馬的名字，和賓拉登的名字歐薩馬只有一字之差。
把兩人搞混的烏龍事件這並不是頭一遭，去年CNN在討論賓拉登的下落時，字幕上竟然大剌剌地寫著「歐巴馬身在何方」！
說實話，真正和歐巴馬同名的並不是賓拉登，而是另外一個被布希形容成一代暴君的海珊。歐巴馬原名巴拉克‧海珊‧歐巴馬，中間名和伊拉克前總統海珊一模一樣。
CNN記者：你知道他中間名嗎？就叫作海珊。美國民眾：拜託讓我死了吧！
歐巴馬最近在美國初選中勢如破竹，接連拿下10州的勝利，不過要是他一旦成為美國總統，可千萬不要把他的名字念錯成歐薩馬，或是只念他的中間名海珊，這可是會引發大誤會的。
Source: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080221/17/tw5o.html
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