Oops: “Barack Osama” on the ballot

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 10, 2008 03:16 PM

If a GOP elections commissioner were responsible for this, well you know what they’d shriek:

RAAAAACISM!

Read:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s last name is spelled “Osama” on hundreds of absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County.

The misspelling, which elections officials on both sides of the aisle insist was simply a typo, is causing embarrassment for the county.

”No question this is an honest mistake innocently done,” said Edward McDonough, the Democratic commissioner. ”We catch almost everything.”

”This was a typo,” said Republican Commissioner Larry Bugbee. ”We have three different staff members who proof these things and somehow the typo got by us.”

Officials say the flawed ballots were sent to approximately 300 voters. On row 1A Barack Obama’s name is spelled Barack Osama.

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  1. #1
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, Rob said:

    A Freudian slip

  2. #2
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, DesertLover said:

    Freudian slip anyone … gotta love it … :lol:

  3. #3
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm, sandyb said:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  4. #4
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, walterc said:

    If the turban fits . . . .

  5. #5
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, YTZGal said:

    I love it ! Thanks for the smile…

  6. #6
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    not much difference between the two anyway eh??

  7. #7
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:23 pm, mojoe said:

    Typo?

    The “s” is nowhere near the “b” on my keyboard.

  8. #8
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, granite said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:23 pm, mojoe said:

    Typo?

    The “s” is nowhere near the “b” on my keyboard.

    Exactly!!

    Ya beat me to it!

  9. #9
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:26 pm, maine yankee said:

    One of them is man enough to grow a beard. Other than that ?

  10. #10
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm, DesertLover said:

    mojoe

    but if you put them together you definitely get “bs” …

  11. #11
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, walterc said:

    If the turban fits . . . .

    (updated with link)

  12. #12
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pm, letget said:

    Thanks Michelle for the only feel good story today. This is just so funny.
    L

  13. #13
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pm, calamityville said:

    What’s the difference?

  14. #14
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    57 states” with “one left to go” (US)

  15. #15
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm, CleanGuy said:

    ”We catch almost everything.”

    The devil is in the details…

  16. #16
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm, Lindsay said:

    Osama bin Biden?

  17. #17
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm, shooter said:

    …and your point?

  18. #18
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Buraq Hussein Osama

  19. #19
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm, DagneyT said:

    I think this was done by someone with a wicked sense of humor. On my keyboard, the “s” & “b” are FAR apart on the same hand. LMBO

  20. #20
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Ted Kennedy must have typed it up.

  21. #21
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, Ron Rockstar said:

    letget, I am not sure this is a feel good story. I’ll bet you a dollar to a donut that Obama lawyers/thugs are already on their way down there. Somebody has been disenfranchised and I guarantee they will be black.

  22. #22
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm, corona said:

    It’s called a Freudian slip.

  23. #23
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm, corona said:

    Whoops, Rob already knew …

  24. #24
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm, CleanGuy said:

    ”We catch almost everything.”

    The devil is in the details…

    The devil was in Saul Alinsky’s head.

    In the front matter of Alinsky’s last book, Rules for Radicals, he wrote an acknowledgment to Lucifer.

    You can’t make this stuff up.

    And what does that say about Barack Obama that he was both a student of, and teacher of, Alinsky’s radical methods?

    And what about Obama’s totally unBiblical concept of “collective salvation“?

  25. #25
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm, Milwaukee Mike said:

    Sorry about the typo!
    That should have been:
    Barack Marx

    My bad!

  26. #26
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm, uhangtight said:

    more like a freudian slip, don’t ya think? i wonder if there will be any voters with that batch that will go ahead and select Osama? if this were in detroit, i would say all 300 come back with Osama selected.

  27. #27
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm, flaming_o said:

    an honest mistake innocently done

    Sure. If a Republican had been responsible for this, it would be a repeated talking point in the Osama (I’m sorry. I meant Obama. Really. An honest mistake and innocently done.) campaign.

  28. #28
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm, iamsaved said:

    John McCain typed it. You know, he’s behind the times and can’t use a computer or even type an email :)

  29. #29
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pm, bruins90210 said:

    Dems screw-up everything they touch.

  30. #30
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, sambo said:

    He’s gonna get the muslum vote for sure!

  31. #31
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm, tre said:

    HAHAHAHA!!

    Even Jeff Foxworthy couldn’t make jokes THAT funny!

  32. #32
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm, rightisright said:

    A Freudian slip

    even the demos know what he is.

  33. #33
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm, Trollman said:

    Oh well, the main thing is they didn’t use his middle name!

    :wink:

  34. #34
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    HhaHAHAHAHAHHAH

    The oba.,.,…

    hahahahhah

    Aw never mind, hahhahah

  35. #35
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Barack Osama

    Doh! Sorry about that!
    Here:
    Bin Laden, Osama
    Don’t know what I was thinking.

  36. #36
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm, Right By-The-Sea said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
    Ted Kennedy must have typed it up.

    :lol: Hilarious! Brings Paul Shanklin’s “Osama Obama” parody to mind…Rush needs to bring that one back for an encore with this ballot “faux pas.” :lol:

  37. #37
    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    Prophetic?

  38. #38
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Obama and Osama may have more in common than just similar names…

    I want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

    If any of the TRUTH: statements here are untrue, then I challenge Barack Hussein Obama to “Fight the Smears”.

  39. #39
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm, TMoney said:

    A good laugh wakes me up on Friday, just before I go home from work. :) )

    Gotta luvit!

  40. #40
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, sambo said:

    He’s gonna get the muslum vote for sure!

    Have you seen the English translation of the title they gave his book when it was sold in the world’s most populous Muslim country (Indonesia)?

    Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse

  41. #41
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    In a voluntary poll with a sample size of about .1% of the total U.S. population (and about 1500% larger than the sample size of a typical MSM poll of 20,000 people)…

    A majority of the respondents from all 50 states answered “Yes” to the question:

    Is Obama A Fake Christian?

    The only place where a majority answered “No” was in Washington, D.C.

    Barack himself said:

    Whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?
    Whould it be James Dobson’s or Al Sharpton’s?

    Is O[s/b]ama practicing Taqiyya?

  42. #42
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:19 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Yes, I can laugh at the ballot mistake, but I can’t laugh at the thought of a Communist Jihadist becoming President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.

    That is simply not a laughing matter.

  43. #43
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:19 pm, Right By-The-Sea said:

    Yes, Red Pill…Obama is practicing Taqiyya.

  44. #44
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, John Ansell said:

    ROTFLMAO. But Mojo is right, this is no typo.

  45. #45
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:22 pm, marybeth said:

    What state is this in? All I can think of is the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville.

  46. #46
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:26 pm, marybeth said:

    Never mind . . . New York.

    LOL – that is REALLY funny!

  47. #47
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm, Henry said:

    LOL

    I have friends in Rensselaer, I just sent an email to see if they got one of these.

    LOL!!

  48. #48
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm, FamilyMan said:

    MY MIND CONTROL METHODS ARE BEGINNING TO WORK

  49. #49
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Select one:

    John McCain for 44th President of the United States
    Barack Obama for 12th Imam

  50. #50
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:48 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    :shock:

    FAMILYMAN IS GREAT
    FAMILYMAN IS GREAT
    FAMILYMAN IS GREAT

    :shock:

  51. #51
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm, Paul Revere said:

    You can spell “Sambo” out of Barack Osama. Clearly, those ballots are racists!

  52. #52
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:56 pm, John Ansell said:

    Can we buy them on E-bay?

  53. #53
    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Crap, that was funny. Three proofreaders.

  54. #54
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    Even with the typo I imagine Christopher Buckley, William Milliken and Susan Eisenhower can still figure it out.

  55. #55
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm, Room 237 said:

    Q. How is Obama like Osama?

    A. They both knew people who bombed the Pentagon

  56. #56
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pm, docflash said:

    It could have been someone ACORN hired off the street for booze and cigs.They are educated so well aren’t they?

  57. #57
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm, John Ansell said:

    Was Ted Kennedy one of the proof readers?

  58. #58
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:09 pm, flaming_o said:

    ITookTheRedPill,

    Taqiyya? You amaze me. And I’ve learned something new. It’s a suppression of belief (stealth belief?) during wartime.

  59. #59
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pm, Room 237 said:

    Even with the typo I imagine Christopher Buckley, William Milliken and Susan Eisenhower can still figure it out.

    There was just too much going against McCain this year. Bush’s screw ups and unseriousness and now the banking panic, the press and the elites mostly in the tank for Obama. Too much to fight, even for McCain.

    Oh well, we have only oursleves to blame, that we conservatives waited too long to force feet to the fire. The K Street Project should have been the sign, but we shambled along. And when Trent Lott was voted into the Senate leadership last year — was that not a huge warning signal?

    I have decided that I can be a conservative or a Republican, not both. I have decided to be a conservative and stand aside shouting STOP! when the interests of my philosophy no longer line up with the GOP.

  60. #60
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Obama bin Biden is a typo too!

  61. #61
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm, legendx3 said:

    is it a blue turban

  62. #62
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm, Khyris said:

    Somehow I doubt Osama is going to lose New York by 300 votes…

  63. #63
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pm, tanksoldier said:

    Freudian slip.

  64. #64
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:31 pm, JDinTX said:

    The proofreaders must have been recruited by ACORN. Don’t know how to vote and don’t know how to read.
    Buraq Insane Osama

  65. #65
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm, drivingjack said:

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! This definitely makes my day!!
    sarc_on Must be a product of our public educasion. /sarc_off

  66. #66
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm, melinda said:

    What’s really funny is that I was typing an email to a friend about the election and my word processor changed “Barack” to “BARRACK”. Like an Army Barracks… the very thing barrack whoops- Barry Osama hates- our American Soldiers! irony!

  67. #67
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm, melinda said:

    Room!

    Ba-dum-dum Chhh!!! :)
    Good one!

  68. #68
    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:55 pm, Sergeant Tim said:

    They printed Teddy’s ballot the same way so he could understand it.

  69. #69
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:13 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    BOOOOOOSSSHHHH did it! No, wait! It was the Cheney-Haliburton cabal with their wireless “we can make typing changes to any text anywhere in the world” keyboard. MWAAHAHAHA!

    I wonder how the democrats would react if there was a Republican candidate named Jameson Crow and it got changed to “Jim” on the ballot. They would find the person that committed that typo and pull every string to make sure he got a pulitzer prize. And the democrats would demand it was for non-fiction!

  70. #70
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm, ajmontana said:

    1A: Barack Odopey
    that one
    :shock:

  71. #71
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, Pachyderm2 said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 4:22 pm, marybeth said:

    What state is this in? All I can think of is the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville.

    Hey Marybeth, are you in/around Jax?

  72. #72
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, Robroy said:
  73. #73
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm, srhoades said:

    That’s no typo, it’s a Freudian slip.

  74. #74
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:30 pm, AliasK said:

    Now some democrat election official will print their ballots with ‘McSame’ and call THAT a typo.

  75. #75
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, nbarry said:

    They must have been thinking of Wednesday’s Nobel Chemistry Prizewinner Osamu Shimamura.

  76. #76
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm, melinda said:
    Like an Army Barracks… the very thing barrack whoops- Barry Osama hates- our American Soldiers! irony!

    I wonder why American soldiers are donating more to Obama than McCain by a 6-1 margin? Could it be that McCain is the one who is not a friend of the military?

  77. #77
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm, obdurate said:

    Doesn’t matter, Obama’s dolts are illiterate for the most part, products of public education.

  78. #78
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:52 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm, obdurate said:
    Doesn’t matter, Obama’s dolts are illiterate for the most part, products of public education.

    Are you sure about that?

    More

  79. #79
    On October 10th, 2008 at 6:56 pm, rlwo2008 said:

    It wasn’t a typo. That’s who he is.

  80. #80
    On October 10th, 2008 at 7:04 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    TheOtherSide, I searched for that story and practically every instance was the exact same story. No new info, just regurgitated spew from the AP. Also, that report is from August 14th. I’ll bet it’s changed since then. Of course, I can’t find any other story except that one so if it has changed, it’s not being reported.

    All hail The One(tm) as our new fuehrer! He will lead the armies to victory over the forces of freedom!

  81. #81
    On October 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm, CantCureStupid said:

    ROFLMAO!! Seriously, having trouble breathing here.

    Osamabama must’ve peed his pants when he heard about this.

  82. #82
    On October 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm, tuffy said:

    >snort<

  83. #83
    On October 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    TheOtherSide, that’s a poll. How many times do I have to say that polls are crap? I’ll say it again.

    In 2004, the pollsters OVER-polled Republicans so it would look like Bush had a big lead. Over the next few weeks they evened out the numbers so it made Kerry look like the “come-back kid!”

    POLLS ARE B.S. Even if they “prove” to be “accurate” later, they can be manipulated to acheive any desired outcome.

    Kind of like ACORN manipulating the voting rolls to get as many necro-proxy voters for The One(tm).

  84. #84
    On October 10th, 2008 at 8:22 pm, FamilyMan said:

    TheOtherSide
    One of the first things I was taught in my advertising classes was the more education a person had the easier they were to manipulate. There is a limit.

  85. #85
    On October 11th, 2008 at 9:17 am, Mooseman said:

    I’ve been calling him Osama Obama for a long time now. What is the big deal? :-D

  86. #86
    On October 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On October 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm, Room 237 said:

    Q. How is Obama like Osama?

    A. They both knew people who bombed the Pentagon

    Islamophoic Room 237 (#55)the Human Rights Commission will be calling.
    Mooseman (#85): report for re-education
    TheOtherSide (#76) Morning jerk. See you are wrong again.

    ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
    Should be a convenience store
    NOT a Government Agency

  87. #87
    On October 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Prediction: These ballots will be the “hanging chad” of 2008.

    Leftists will claim that BUSH caused the confusing ballots to be printed and that tens of millions of ACORN registered voters in the county were confused and thus disenfranchised by the tampered ballots and thus failed to vote for Obama/Osama.

  88. #88
    On October 11th, 2008 at 6:29 pm, dan_bujok said:

    TheOtherSide

    Again, we go through this flawed argument…myself BEING in the military (and an Operation Iraqi Freedom Vet), I can say with a certain amount of confidence that there are:
    #1-more republican supporters than Obama supporters and
    #2-there are just a FEW more brave men and women than the less than 2000 listed in this article.

    Again, get a clue, and the only way the strongly republican (or prefers GOP in Washington!!!) military vote gets skewed is if we have another Florida debacle

  89. #89
    On October 12th, 2008 at 12:06 am, tbear44 said:

    I find it very hard to believe military members favor Osama 6 to 1 over McCain.

  90. #90
    On October 12th, 2008 at 11:19 am, rightwingrocker said:

    Freudian slip, typo, whatever.

    It’s still hilarious and apropos.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  91. #91
    On October 12th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    No, it is not Freudian slip, it is:

    FRAUD – ian slip. BHusseinO is a fraud.

  92. #92
    On October 12th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    That’s a misprint? I don’t get it. Looks correct to me.

  93. #93
    On October 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pm, ErinF said:

    KIDS ONLINE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ALERT:
    The Nickelodeon Channel is extremely liberal, and right now they’re running their “kids pick the president” online election for kids to “have their say”. Anyone can vote. Anybody here interested in throwing this toward McCain/Palin, feel free:

    http://www.nick.com/kpp/

    (The last two presidential elections, they did this, and of course Gore and Kerry both won in landslides.)

  94. #94
    On October 13th, 2008 at 9:56 pm, mattm said:

    I wouldn’t be suprized is a Dem did this to gin up sympathy/support for Obama.

  95. #95
    On October 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    NJ-Aviator–#92…I’m with you. When I first saw this, I said to myself, So, what’s the problem?.
    Room 237 – THAT was funny – keep ‘em coming.

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