Websites Spark 'Baracklash'

The Internet may love Barack Obama—he leads other presidential hopefuls in online fundraising—but some new Obama sites are a tad sarcastic, the Washington Post reports. Sites like BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com and SenatorObamas.com are poking fun at Obamamania even as they partake in it. “It’s a backlash with a small ‘b,’” liberal analyst Peter Leyden said. “A ‘baracklash.’”

Internet writers take pride in being ahead of the culture, Leyden added, so they are pulling back as Obama gets more popular. While some sites are legitimately hostile, most are actually run by supporters. “I didn’t see it as a pro-Obama site or an anti-Obama site,” said the Obama fan behind BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com. “I was just trying to be funny.” (More Barack Obama stories.)