When Will Microsoft Word Stop Making Obama Into Osama?

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you are all wrong and it doesn't matter!!!

Natale of MO 2:21PM November 01, 2009

My spellchecker suggested Moreon to Barone.

You get the Picture?

M. Ndiaye of OH 9:07PM March 12, 2009

Now if I could just get it to stop putting Hussein as his middle name...

Josh Einstein of NJ 8:58PM March 12, 2009

Until Barry (aka Barack) stops spending money to hide his original birth certificate and school records from public scrutiny and explains how he traveled to Pakistan on something other than a US Passport (it was illegal at the time) he is not officially a native born citizen in mine and alot of others eyes. Might as well be Osama!

I wish I had a million dollars to piss away to keep those documents hidden. That is the estimate of what he has spent on laywers. Easy thing to do would be show them.

Then again maybe he has something to hide!!

Jeff of WI 6:58PM March 09, 2009

Geez, c'mon, update your software. I use a two-year-old version of MS Word and it recognizes Obama correctly.

Hey Barone, just how old is your software - does it recognize Roosevelt? Lincoln???

aVirginiaReader of VA 1:21PM March 09, 2009

I think it is your version of Word. Obama on my verison is accepted, even with spell check.

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Carl Wiley of NJ 12:29PM March 09, 2009

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