Really?

Someone send a support ticket letting Firefox know that Obama isn’t just a random politician anymore….  he’s the PRESIDENT (elect) now.  Please, please! make that red line stop showing up when I type “Barack Obama”.  At this point it feels pretty damn disrespectful.

Bex Huff says it best:

Barrack Hussein Obama… quite an unusual name… and remarkably sucky when it comes to winning over the red states in an election…

Also, virtually all spell checkers think its a misspelling! Every time I write his name in a new application, I get that damn squiggly red line, and I keep second guessing that I might have spelled it wrong. Here is what they think I meant to write:

• Apple Spell Checker (TextMate, Mail.app, NeoOffice): ABeam, ABM, IBM
• Firefox 3: Obadiah, Obadias, Bamako, Alabama
• TextPad: Baa, Bam, Badman, Bagman, Barman, Batman, Bema, Bamako, Brahma, Banal, Bwana, Banta

hehehe… Batman…

Oddly enough… Microsoft Office 2003 does the correct thing by accepting the spelling. So a 5-year old application know more about the proper spelling of Obama than Firefox 3… which came out 2 months ago.

You may begin your rioting now.

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