John L. Perry
Monday, Aug. 9, 2004

Leftist media are even now busily endeavoring to orchestrate Obama’s elevation – leapfrogging him out of national obscurity – to the United States Senate. Can 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue be far behind?

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Pseudo-journalists are huffing and harrumphing over the audacity of Alan Keyes to oppose Obama by moving his residence from Maryland to Illinois – one of the five “home” jurisdictions of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., if you count the District of Columbia and her Global Village.

Please, No Four-Letter Words

No denying Obama has what it takes for a boffo political career in this era of mass-comm quick-take sound-bites. His last name is loaded for alliteration with letters you can count on the fingers of one hand, with the help of a left pinkie to remind you of his political coloration.

What a godsend Obama is to harried headline writers cursed with a job requirement to shoehorn candidates into one-column width. Ike might otherwise never have made it to the White House.

Think, also, what license the dyslexic rent-a-crowd poster-scribblers will have with Barack Obama’s moniker. Seemingly endless permutations off the letters spelling Obama are good for many a quality-time family-values game of “Anagrams.”

Top of the Charts

Already you can hear rappers ranting out best-seller CDs without once repeating themselves:

“Obama, Boama, Amabo, Maboa.

“Oamba, Bamoa, Abamo, Maoba.

“Oabam, Baoma, Amoba, Moaba.

“Obaam, Bamao, Aobma, Mboaa.

“Obmaa, Bomaa, Aobam, Maaob.”

Captures the very heart and soul of America, doesn’t it?.

Everybody Sing Now

“We’re Barack Obama bound!

“There'll be no heebie-jeebies hanging 'round.

“All aboard Barack’s Express!”

AF-LAC!

Who let that duck in?

John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two presidents, is a regular columnist for NewsMax.com.

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