OBAMARAMA

A bit of good-natured humor from satirical columnist Andy Borowitz:

Hillary Changes Name to Barack Obama
Attempt to Appeal to Obama Supporters, Experts Say

One day after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) revealed that he had raised $25 million in the first quarter of 2007, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) had her name legally changed to Barack Obama.

For a well-established politician like New York’s junior senator, the decision to change her name to that of her chief rival in the middle of a presidential campaign struck many observers as unorthodox.

But speaking to reporters in Washington today, the former Sen. Clinton said that the media “shouldn’t read too much into” the Clinton-to-Obama name-switch.

“I am just trying to reach out to as many people as I can,” she told the press corps. “I want them to get to know Barack Obama, the woman.”

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Coming to the New York senator’s defense was her husband, former president Bill Clinton, who told CNN that “it is every American’s right to change his or her name to Barack Obama.”

“I am behind my wife’s decision one hundred percent,” said Mr. Clinton, who said he will now be known as Michelle Obama.