Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Prez

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

Supporters seem to play down the middle name. Opponents seem to drop it like a grenade. Supporters accuse opponents of using it. It gets TV play.

Hussein. It's his middle name. Hussein. If Dems (of both flavors) will just use it, a lot, it will no longer invoke "fear". Use Barack Hussein Obama all the time, and it will become ordinary, accepted.

A lot of presidents have middle names, some of them unusual. I've been around for Delano, S.(?), David, Fitzgerald, Baines, Milhous, Rudolph, Earl, Wilson, Herbert Walker, Jefferson, Walker, Hussein.

If we hide from it, it can be used as a weapon against the Democratic ticket. McCain will use it like a scimitar to scare the uncommitted.

If we use it, it's just a name. Hussein. Phht.

[Bucky]

1. What kind of fucked up middle name is "David"?

Hussein means "blessing." It fits.

[Bake]

2. David means "beloved"

How is that fucked up?

Thanks,
Bake (first name, David)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. "David" means "I have a better name than Milhous" nt

[Zynx]

9. It's my middle name.

[Alexander]

28. Actually Dwight Eisenhower's middle name was...Dwight.

He was born David Dwight Eisenhower, and switched his first and middle names.

[LSparkle]

3. L.A. radio host Johnny Wendell did a great mashup ...

Dave Cunningham's "Barack Hussein Obama" and some Cuban-sounding salsa music -- "Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, Barck Hussein Obama," like 40 times in a row. It got to the point where I was "singing" along and laughing ... TOTALLY took the sting out of it ...

[zanne]

4. The more the opposition throws it at him...

The worse they look. It's childish to mock someone's name, and most Americans know that.

[mmonk]

6. When all candidates are referred to that way, fine.

When only one is, something's up.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. We refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton

and nobody thinks anything of it. No big deal.

And if someone called her Hillary Diane Clinton or Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, it would be different, but also no big deal.

Just so we don't call the next president John Sidney McCain. That would be a nightmare.

[BuyingThyme]

22. Team Hillary actually polled it a couple years back and found

that less people were inclined to vote for her if she ran as Hillary Rodham Clinton as opposed to simply Hillary Clinton.

[Radical Activist]

31. What is McCain's middle name?

I'm going to start using it anytime someone uses Obama's.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. what annoys me is Bush has installed hate against Muslims

it is disgraceful that innocent Muslims are being branded as evil terrorists and that even Indians who are Hindu and look a bit like Arabs are branded the same. The whole thing is disgusting. I suppose the same thing occurred in Nazi Germany?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Not just in Nazi Germany

We've tried to de-humanize the face of enemies (real or perceived), even without Hitler's help.

Krauts, Japs, Gooks/Slopes/Dinks, Skinnies.

It makes them easier to shoot at, perhaps.

[rucky]

8. If his middle name was Wayne, I'd be worried...

Timothy Wayne Adams (Texas)
Shannon Wayne Agofsky (Texas)
Thomas Wayne Akers (North Carolina)
Stephen Wayne Anderson (California)*
Joshua Wayne Andrews (Virginia)
David Wayne Arisman (California)
Timothy Wayne Barnett (Alabama)
Gerald Wayne Bivins (Indiana)
Scott Wayne Blystone (Pennsylvania)
Elvis Wayne Botley (California)
Steven Wayne Bowman (South Carolina)
Ricky Wayne Brown (Florida)
Michael Wayne Brown (Oklahoma)
Dennis Wayne Bryant (Virginia)
Edward Wayne Bryant (Oklahoma)
Estell Wayne Buck (Ohio)
Bradley Wayne Cagle (Texas)
Seth Wayne Campbell (Texas)
Darren Wayne Campbell (Oregon)
Mark Wayne Campmire (Connecticut)
Michael Wayne Carter (Indiana)
Rodger Wayne Chastain (California)*
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. (Florida)
Douglas Wayne Clark (Texas)
Darryl Wayne Claughton (Alberta)
Kevin Wayne Coffey (Texas)
Michael Wayne Cole (North Carolina)
Joseph Wayne Cook (North Carolina)
Billy Wayne Cope (South Carolina)
Alvin Wayne Crane (Texas)*
David Wayne Crews (Tennessee)
Donald Wayne Darling II (Alabama)
Christopher Wayne Davis (Louisiana)
Gary Wayne Davis (Kentucky)
Jerry Wayne Dean (Kentucky)
Aryan Wayne Duntley (California)
John Wayne Duvall (Oklahoma)*
Dennis Wayne Eaton (Virginia)*
Dale Wayne Eaton (Colorado)
Michael Wayne Eggers (Alabama)
Gary Wayne Etheridge (Texas)
Michael Wayne Farmer (Maryland)
Ellis Wayne Felker (Georgia)*
Matthew Wayne Ferman (Ohio)
Michael Wayne Fisher (Pennsylvania)
Terry Wayne Freeman (Illinois)
Percy Wayne Froman (Alabama)
Ronald Wayne Frye (North Carolina)*
Morris Wayne Givens (Alabama)
Richard Wayne Godwin (Oregon)
Arthur Wayne Goodman, Jr. (Texas)
Richard Wayne Gorrie (New Zealand)
Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (Michigan)
Keith Wayne Graham (California)
Coleman Wayne Gray (Virginia)*
Charles Wayne Green (Arkansas)
Christopher Wayne Gregory (Texas)
Kenneth Wayne Gregory (Florida)
Ralph Wayne Grimes (Kentucky)
Anthony Wayne Grimm (Illinois)
Randall Wayne Hafdahl (Texas)*
Conan Wayne Hale (Oregon)
Kenneth Wayne Hall Sr. (South Carolina)
Michael Wayne Hall (Texas)
Steven Wayne Hall (Alabama)
Jerald Wayne Harjo (Oklahoma)*
Robert Wayne Harris (Texas)
Jerald Wayne Harvel II (Oklahoma)
Mark Wayne Hauseur (California)
Carl Wayne Heath (Maine)
Brandon Wayne Hedrick (Virginia)
Michael Wayne Henry (Texas)
Rodney Wayne Henry (Kansas)
Donald Wayne Holt (Maryland)
Bryant Wayne Howard (Oregon)
Kenneth Wayne Jackson (Texas)
Allen Wayne Jenecka (Texas)*
Mark Wayne Jennings (Virginia)
Robert Wayne Jiles (New York)
Jason Wayne Johnson (Texas)
Terry Wayne Johnson (Florida)
Timothy Wayne Johnson (North Carolina)
Mark Wayne Jones (Ohio)
Bruce Wayne Koenig (Maryland)
Derrick Wayne Kualapai, Sr. (California)
Dudley Wayne Kyzer (Alabama)
Monty Wayne Lamb (Texas)
Robert Wayne Lambert (Oklahoma)
Jonathan Wayne Larrabee (South Dakota)
Jeffrey Wayne Leaf (Oklahoma)
Christopher Wayne Lippard (North Carolina)
Kenny Wayne Lockwood (Texas)*
Mark Wayne Lomax (Texas)
Shelly Wayne Martin (Maryland)
Donald Wayne Martin (Texas)*
Steven Wayne McBride (Minnesota)
George Wayne McBroom (Arizona)
David Wayne McCall (Texas)
Rocky Wayne McGowan (Kentucky)
Robert Wayne McMillion (Florida)
Jason Wayne McVean (Colorado)
David Wayne Mears (Michigan)
Wesley Wayne Miller (Texas)
Jimmy Wayne Miller (Texas)
John Wayne Moore, Jr. (Missouri)
John Wayne Moses (North Carolina)
Jack Wayne Napier (Kentucky)
Danny Wayne Owens (Alabama)
Bryan Wayne Padd (Arizona)
David Wayne Pallister (England)
Jeffrey Wayne Paschall (Utah)
Michael Wayne Perry (Tennessee)
Jason Wayne Petershagen (Texas)
Curtis Wayne Pope (Texas)
Donald Wayne Rainey (Mexico)
Randy Wayne Richards (Canada)
Barry Wayne Riley (British Columbia)
Robert Wayne Rotramel (Oklahoma)
David Wayne Satterfield (Texas)
Christopher Wayne Scarber (Kentucky)
Michael Wayne Sears (Virginia)
Kenith Wayne Sherrill (Washington)
Dallas Wayne Shults (Tennessee)
Mark Wayne Silvers (South Carolina)
David Wayne Smith (Virginia)
Daryl Wayne Smith (West Virginia)
Richard Wayne Smith (Texas)*
Richard Wayne Snell (Arkansas)*
Richard Wayne Spicknall (Alabama)
Randall Wayne Stevens (Illinois)
John Wayne Stockdall (Missouri)
Michael Wayne Summers (Missouri)
Gary Wayne Sutton (Tennessee)
Bobby Wayne Swisher (Virginia)*
Michael Wayne Thompson (Indiana)
Andrew Wayne Toler (Texas)
Robert Wayne Vickers (Arizona)*
Billy Wayne Waldrop (Alabama)*
Anthony Wayne Walker (Ohio)
Jerry Wayne Walker (Kentucky)
Jessie Wayne Walker (North Carolina)
Chadwick Wayne Wallace (Illinois)
Daniel Wayne Warfield (Virginia)
John Wayne Warrener (Colorado)
Alexander Wayne Watson Jr. (Maryland)
Louis Wayne Watters, Jr. (Texas)
Coy Wayne Wesbrook (Texas)
Larry Wayne White (Texas)*
Michael Wayne Williams (Virginia)
Richard Wayne Willoughby (Maryland)
Kenneth Wayne Woodfin (Virginia)
Bobby Wayne Woods (Texas)
Darrell Wayne Wright (Texas)
Jerry Wayne Wright (Tennessee)
William Wayne Wright (Texas)
Sirhan Wayne Sirhan

ok, I made that last one up. the rest of them are convicted murderers.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. A list without John Wayne Gacy (Illinois)?

Maybe didn't make the list because he was executed?

[rucky]

14. sorry...link here

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

Gacy's in there.

[The Anti-Bush]

10. I couldn't agree with you more. n/t

[anonymous171]

12. OK! I support Barack Hussein Obama

Hussein
in the membrane

[eissa]

16. This whole name thing reminds me of

Quayle and his race-baiting taunt of "MAAAARRRIIIIOOOOOO" Cuomo. Didn't work back then, won't work now. Those that vote based on fear and ignorance vote republican anyway.

[ieoeja]

17. Cool! Ford was named for a reindeer. n/t

[NanceGreggs]

18. I take your point ...

... it's just that the other side of this is the fact that when someone uses your full name, complete with middle name, it sounds like you're in trouble.

How many of us grew up knowing we were in shit if our parents called us by our full name?

I remember when the GOP started referring to Big Dog as "William Jefferson Clinton" - and every time I heard it, I pictured him with his head hung down as he was marched off to the principal's office.


:7

[NanBo]

21. So true

and kind of funny as well. Fortunately, this is all going to get very old very soon.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. You're right. When my mother used my three names

I knew I was in for it.

So who uses middle names?
Kids in trouble
Presidents
Mass murderers

And it's really only the high-profile presidents. I had to look up the middle names of Carter and Ford, they were just too "ordinary folk" to use the middle name.

[Shakespeare]

19. I am so sick of the faux naivete about this. Let's not be coy....

The right (and a few of Hillary's folks) use the middle name to conjure this:



And it's disgusting. It's not about being proud of or ashamed of the name, it's not about embracing the ethnic origin of the name. It's about conjuring up a bad, old boogeyman.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. Right. But it's a common name. A lot of people have it.

Not quite as common as Ali or Mohammed, but still common. I'm in S.E. Michigan, where there are many folks from the middle east, and many more second- and third-generation Americans with middle-east ancestors.

[Shakespeare]

26. But they're not running for president, now, are they?

Like I said, I'm tired of the coyness and faux naivete over this.

[Zyg]

20. My middle name is Zygmund

heheheheheheh...

*breath*

Seriously, the dude's coloured/of ethnic decent/Black/whatever PC term you want to use. DEAL WITH IT!! He is who he is who he is. And if the **********'s weren't destroying the democratic process by rigging the election (by the way, Democrats ain't winning, no matter how many y'alls turn out - Diebold ain't counting your votes!), I think a Black candidate with a middle name that resembles that of a dictator the USA instated in the middle east during the 80's would be something that the world might be proud of.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. A middle name of Zygmund

is still better than "Milhous"
:rofl:

The Repubs can rig things "a little" and get away with it. We need to win by a lot, so there's no point in them trying.

[Greyskye]

25. My Golden Rule of names

It's really freaking simple.

I call a person by the name that they refer to themselves as.

If someone introduces themselves to me as "Michael", I do not call them "Mike".

My dad has a truly messed up given name - it was a family name passed down for generations, but was so 'old fashioned' that it was basically a joke. His entire life he has either gone by his initials or by his middle name. I have never heard him referred to by his first name.

I extend Barack Obama the exact same courtesy.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. You're right, of course

If he doesn't use the name, neither should we, to be polite.

I guess I wasn't looking for "courtesy", but "victory", and how to defuse John Sidney McCain's jab.

[kentuck]

30. I can see the newspaper headlines now...

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TRAVELS TO AFRICA

THRONGS WELCOME THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

ADORING CROWDS WELCOME PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN JORDAN

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA CHEERED IN MALAYSIA

ADDED SECURITY AS PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ARRIVES BACK IN US

[Bucky]

32. not a bad idea

[RememberWellstone]

33. Rhymes with

Insane!! Haha.