Only in America will a person get ridiculed for pronouncing a name of another country correctly. Obama's pronunciation is correct. As JSp points out, "Lay off him, ignoramuses."

HILARY AND BILLYGOAT CLINTON HATE THE OUT OF DATE OVEN CHIP EVEN MORE THAN THEY HATE THE TEXAS SUPERDOUBLEDECK ONE POUND CHEESEBURGER

HILARY TOLD BILLYGOAT THAT SHE FEELS SORRY FOR THE BLACKANWHITE CAT HOLDING THE EMPTY KENTUCKY CHICKEN BUCKET OUTSIDE McDONALDS*

BILLYGOAT HAD A CHANGE OF HEART AND SAID Dear Liza Down On The Peanut Farm SAYS
THAT THE BIGGEST SUCKER OF ALL
WILL BE THE PARTY CAUGHT HOLDING
THE WAR PRESIDENTS*
CAN

SO TELL THE PARTY FAITHFULL TO VOTE FOR THE OVEN CHIP
THIS TIME ROUND

AND GIVE THE BLACKANWHITE CAT HOLDING THE EMPTY KENTUCKY CHICKEN BUCKET AN EVEN BREAK

*

THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION

*

SUPERSIZE THAT OVEN CHIP

SUPERSIZE THAT SUCKER

LOLINITM8*

I am sick and tired of all this rubbish, he said this or she did that, do you fools realise what a bunch of idiots you look like to the rest of the world. I have dual nationality I am half American and half British so I am qualified to comment.. The push for the White house should be done with honour and respect and not by using every dirty trick you can dig up about your opponant or their cat or dog.
For God's sake America GROW UP.
Johnny Stinger

As soon as I heard Senator Obama pronounce Pakistan correctly, I knew there was going to be an uproar by ignorant Americans. Some of these people are so disgustingly xenophobic that the mere mention of something foreign to them triggers a nationalistic rush of blood to their brain.

America has got to be the only country on earth in which one is lambasted for something he or she pronounces correctly!

My mother still gives me a dirty look when I pronounce words correctly - in contrast to her upstate-New York accent.

Here in America, unless something is mainstream, watered-down, or painfully vulgar, it is regarded as 'foreign' and immediately deemed unacceptable.

My personal example: I speak Spanish fluently, and here in southern California many cities and street names are of Spanish origin. I have a tendency to pronounce these names correctly (in Spanish), since I just cannot bring myself to anglicise Spanish words. People have used bigoted words towards me, and I'm not even Mexican.

But of course it's not right for an American, particularly a major political leader or candidate, to have any awareness at all about anything outside America, let alone the correct pronunciation of a country's name. Bad Obama, indicating that he actually researches/knows about things like this.

I dont know if anybody has noticed the striking resemblance between Mr McCain and the character from the famous UK show "CatchPhrase" with Roy Walker, called Mr Chips.

Let alone the similarity in his name and a UK oven chip producer.

If only Mr Chips, sorry Mr McCain could achieve the same popularity as the above show and snack he would walk it to the White House.

Perhaps he should re-invent himself, advertising that the USA should farm spuds, kill Moose (techniques on a DVD by Mrs Palin, RRP $1 Billion) , process and feed to the folk of the USA.

Vote "McCain and Palin", America can eat it's way out of recession.