Alex Massie, responding to a report that the Royal Shakespeare Company sent out a press release entitled, “Obama: Is he an Othello for our times?” writes:

Perhaps the RSC mean to suggest that Obama will be manipulated by his subordinates – one of whom may feel that they have, unjustly, been overlooked for, nay denied, a prize they thought was deservedly theirs. Presumably, then, the RSC mean to cast a woman as Iago and that this actress will bear an uncanny, if disturbing, resemblance to one Hillary Rodham Clinton…

To take this further, perhaps the suggestion is that after being denied a prize to one of his subordinates, the person who feels slighted manipulates the one who was actually chosen as his lieutenant. In other words, does that mean that Joe Biden  is Cassio?