I'm 56, and a cynical Boomer with a GenX daughter. Then I see this, from Millenials. I tear up.

[Faygo Kid]

June 29, 2008
Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
By JODI KANTOR

Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.

The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago. . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?hp

[babylonsister]

1. So beautiful, this makes me proud. Of the young people and Obama!

There's another kind of faith that's running rampant, and I love it.

[Bobbieo]

3. Yes, Obama does have a shot at the White House

[az chela]

7. Well lets all adopt his name for our middle name

Judy Hussein,I love it

[babylonsister]

9. Done, here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6423664

[IDemo]

2. One more rec, Husseins!

You kids get on my lawn!

[blondeatlast]

6. Good one! I'm giggling! nt

[asdjrocky]

4. Just seeing the kids care.

Just seeing them be involved and interested is enough for me. When I saw that 7 mile march in Texas to the early polling place it gave me such hope for our future.

Remember kids, once we get that man in office, don't stop, don't let up, and hold everyone, Dem or Pug, responsible.

[Chulanowa]

5. And according to some...

We're all soulless degenerates who've crapped in our own wheaties.

[rockymountaindem]

19. No no no

We're all pot-smokers who can't put down the X-Box. Or the iPod. Or whatever other totem of modern technology certain people can't adapt to.

Also, I, for one, eat honey-nut Cheerios.

[Chulanowa]

23. Philistine! Apostate! Republican!

Everyone knows all we pre-apocalypticals only eat frosted flakes! Who are you, and who are you working for?!

[rockymountaindem]

27. Uh, uh, uh,

:hide:

[Faygo Kid]

29. Wait a minute: I thought we were the pot smokers. What's an iPod? Is that, like, 8-track?

I thought my generation was the pot smoking one.

From what I can remember of college in the early 70s, I think we did a damned fine job of it.

In terms of technology, I'm still trying to adapt to the birth of fax machines.

[Cha]

41. I had one of my kids during the

Summer Of Love and the other one the summer after and grass being the number plant of choice.

[RedLetterRev]

48. You can remember the 70's?

You didn't get the good shit :D

Uh, what were we just talking about?

[Faygo Kid]

49. Don't bogart that joint, my friend. Pass it over to me.

Haven't done the bong in two decades.

Love good wine now, though.

[RedLetterRev]

50. House rules: poke 'n' pass, no holding. It ain't an exclamation point. n/t

[JVS]

34. No. You're a bunch of fucking meth-heads who can't find jobs

[FrenchieCat]

8. Frenchie Hussein Cat right here!

Beautifully inspiring in so many ways!

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. Frenchie, I love your new sig pic. I just commented on the one you had before.

That was my absolute favorite rendering of Obama. :hi:

[FrenchieCat]

16. Did you want it? Cause I can give it to you......

You are talking about the French Magazine cover one or the WSJ sketch?

Whichever one, they are sized and ready to go.

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Thanks for the offer, but I'm technically challenged. I'll just enjoy your new one...

[blondeatlast]

10. It's not supposed to be that way--we're supposed to inspire the younger ones. Bravo; Husseins!

With leadership like that, my son is in good hands. Way to go!

Signed,

Blonde "Hussein" At Last!

[blondeatlast]

11. Blonde "Hussein" at Last is beaming at this! V "Hussein" at Last is

inspired by his slight elders!

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. When I read things like this, I am so encouraged about the future of...

this country. Sen. Obama has struck some kind of nerve in the national psyche, not all good mind you, but his willingness to reach across the longheld racial and ethnic divide, and the willingness of the American people (especially young people) to say "NOT THIS TIME", just fills me with all kinds of (dare I say) hope?

And the portrait they're posing with just happens to be one of my favorites. Frenchie has one in her sig line that's my all time favorite.

[nc4bo]

14. I LOVE this!!!! n/t

[Tatiana]

15. What a great group of kids. Brings a tear to my eye. I love them! n/t

[AZBlue]

17. The photo and the article are both very moving - AZ Hussein Blue

Thanks for the post. K&R.

[Jackpine Radical]

18. Who's sane?

Like Jackpine (Who's sane?) Radical

[Mz Pip]

20. Mz Hussein Pip

I like it. :thumbsup:

[FrenchieCat]

22. Me too!

looks very cool! :headbang:

[barack the house]

24. Folks may not beleive me but I was the first to put this idea out there so glad it took off so big..

Gneration XY Hussein

[GeorgeGist]

25. And the great American melting-pot ...

is replenished by more fodder to disquise it's terrible base.

I were you, I would cry too.

[Adelante]

26. It's about their future

That's what I tell people my age (60). Give it up! It's about them now.

[northernsoul]

28. The kids are alright!

Northern "Hussein" Soul

[TBF]

30. Kids are taking back their country - there are many adults on DU who could learn from them.

[aikoaiko]

31. The genXers did the same thing with Clinton (Bill that is) in 1992

but then many got disillusioned to various degrees. At least thats what happened to me.

[Writer]

55. Yes... but they didn't honk their horns to celebrate.

Then they got disillusioned and listened to Kurt Cobain. :smoke:

[Coexist]

32. knr

[mopinko]

33. mo hussein pinko. oh, skinner can i please?????

perty please with sugar on top? not that damn high fructose corn syrup. real can sugar.

[Faygo Kid]

35. Maybe Skinner ought to allow all of us to change our names that way until November.

I sense a movement here, and I don't mean bowels.

[mopinko]

36. people should use the alert function on this thread.

ask in the email if this is possible. i do not see why not.
i begged shamelessly.

come on people- rec it up.

[The Magistrate]

39. Please, Ladies And Gentlemen, Do Not Alert On This Thread For This Purpose

It will only give us chaff to wade through.

[The Magistrate]

38. My Suggestion, Ma'am, Would Be To Contact Mr. Skinner Directly

Obviously, I cannot say what the result would be, but that is the way to try.

[mopinko]

42. well, the usual result, not that i have contacted him often, is nothing.

i know that you folks are up to your armpits. but i think in all the time i have been here my existence has been acknowledged exactly once. and that was only after following the approved process to start a new group. the answer was no.
i am having a sort of bad day here, and i know i am feeling a little knarly, but it seemed like a way to actually, possible, get someone's attention. i withdraw my suggestion, then. but i still think it would be a great idea.

good to see you, tho, sir.

[depakid]

37. It's an intersting dynamic

If 2004 ushered in the meet up, 2008 has ushered in facebook and youtube.

[Cha]

40. Awesome! A pic to go with the article we read

a few days ago. Great minds think alike and all that..remember a few months ago when a bunch of us on DU were taking Hussein for our middle name to take away their power of snidely refering to Obama's middle name like it was a bad thing?

Somebody wrote "Jesus Hussein Christ" and I said "I wondered what the H stood for?

zid hussein zi

[librechik]

43. Millennials are the godam fucking best!

they could save us all, seriously.

[kestrel91316]

44. I, kestrel Hussein 91316, am cynical no longer.

[stlsaxman]

45. K & R with tears of pride and hope- stlsaxHusseinman

[Faygo Kid]

46. Thank you. I never expected this to get to the "front page."

I'm surprised, but proud of these kids and what they are working for. Geez, I am humbled this evening.

[stevedeshazer]

47. Changed my sig line

[uponit7771]

51. NICE

[ooglymoogly]

52. KR nt

[ccharles000]

53. Obama will get the vote of this 19 year old.

[Arugula Latte]

54. This young generation is so much better than mine (I'm 42). Frankly, mine sucks.

This one is great. My nieces are in this one, and they are so damn smart, compassionate, giving, international, liberal, and informed.

[Writer]

56. Your generation does not suck... your generation

doesn't have a marching band following it.

It's hard to make noise with less people.

But aside from that - I like what these kids are doing.

[Arugula Latte]

59. Well, I know it's a ridiculously sweeping generalization, but

we were in middle/high school when Reagan came in and let's just say that many of those little preppy kids drank the Kool-Aid and turned into greedy, materialistic types mainly concerned with perfecting their golf swing and buying the latest flat screen or SUV.

[Doremus]

57. In solidarity! Dore Hussein Mus n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

58. Yeah, call me 40' Hussein Under

I will use it with my "real" name when I go into work. Think of the stir we can make with the MSM....