Democratic name jokes are harder to make

The trouble with the Obama surname from a humour point-of-view is that the senator from Illinois and his wife are the two most famous people bearing it. There are no others who are comparable.
   For example, antipodeans can keep using ‘Ah, McCain, you’ve done it again!’ to tie in with a food company in Australia.
   With Sarah Palin, there are countless Monty Python references through Michael Palin, e.g. Michael Palin in Pole to Pole, Sarah Palin in Poll to Poll.
   On the other side, Joe Biden is way tougher name-wise to get gags going. There are already 43,000-plus Google references to the most obvious, ‘Biden time’.
   I heard, ‘Once Biden, twice shy,’ but you have to change a word to fit.
   Similarly, I know we have Obamanomics and words like that but they are not that punny.
   Even last time the Democrats gave us Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the Massachusetts senator, so we could say Beantown meanz Heinz. Not very funny but tolerable.
   And ask David Letterman for any jokes relating to Clinton.
   The Dems have taken out so much of the potential humour in the names in ’08. (Republican headline: ‘Democrats rob US of humor: national laugh index would drop under Obama’.)