LOL! That too. But you DO know "obamaphones" can go back to any number of Presidents/FCC rules, etc, even back to the 30s. In modern era, expanded under Reagan, Clinton, W Bush and Obama. Under W, was when cellphones were added. It had always been landlines, but cell phones could be anywhere. The purpose of the entire thing was to give a lifeline for some people.
But did you know, there can only be 1 free phone per household, not social security number, there's income limits, etc. In other words, if 5 people are living at one address and someone has the free phone, nobody else can get one. The program did expand greatly under Obama because of the almost "great recession" when the economy collapsed in 2008. More people qualified after losing their jobs. They are just basic phones.
In my line of work, learned a lot of how all this works. When you are trying to find people jobs, they MUST have a phone.