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Old 10-09-2008, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Omaha, NE
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Is using Barack Obama's middle name wrong? Maybe not but the tactics and strategy employed by the McCain campaign is. Ask yourself why a middle name is important in an election. We don't hear anybody refer to John McCain as John Sidney McCain. This is very obviously a scare tactic to link Obama to Muslim terrorists even though no link exists. Obama is half white, half black, born in Hawaii with a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya. He attended Harvard and became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. The terrorist insinuation is a thin veil for the racism that clearly exists in this election.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:01 PM
 
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:02 PM
 
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Is using Barack Obama's name wrong? Maybe not but the tactics and strategy employed by the McCain campaign clearly is. Ask yourself why a middle name is important in an election. We don't hear anybody refer to John McCain as John Sidney McCain. This is very obviously a scare tactic to link Obama to Muslim terrorists even though no link exists. Obama is half white, half black, born in Hawaii with a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya. He attended Harvard and became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. The terrorist claim is a thin veil for the racism that clearly exists in this election.
We sure heard Hillary RODHAM Clinton a lot.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:07 PM
 
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Is using Barack Obama's middle name wrong? Maybe not but the tactics and strategy employed by the McCain campaign is. Ask yourself why a middle name is important in an election. We don't hear anybody refer to John McCain as John Sidney McCain. This is very obviously a scare tactic to link Obama to Muslim terrorists even though no link exists. Obama is half white, half black, born in Hawaii with a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya. He attended Harvard and became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. The terrorist insinuation is a thin veil for the racism that clearly exists in this election.
Anytime you use someone's name in a way that don't care for that's a slur. A sign you don't respect them.

If my name was John Theodore Thomas? And I made it clear I didn't like people calling me Theodore or using Theodore when calling my name that would be a perfectly normal reaction some people have to their odd or unusual middle names.

Wingers calling him by his full name, using Hussein, is just their way of showing disrespect.

They're not fooling anybody. 3rd graders do this.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Omaha, NE
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Default Hillary Clinton

Rodham isn't her middle name. She prefers to use her maiden name, Rodham, in conjunction with her middle name, Clinton.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:09 PM
 
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Anytime you use someone's name in a way that don't care for that's a slur. A sign you don't respect them.

If my name was John Theodore Thomas? And I made it clear I didn't like people calling me Theodore or using Theodore when calling my name. That's a perfectly normal reaction people have to their middle names.

You calling him Hussein is just your way of showing disrespect.

You're not fooling anybody.
Well at least they aren't calling him pitbull with lipstick or pig with lipstick or any number of other names McCain and Palin have been called.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:10 PM
 
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just call McCain and Palin "RACIST" and you basically don't even have to say their government names
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:11 PM
 
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We sure heard Hillary RODHAM Clinton a lot.
RODHAM is not her middle name - it's her maiden name.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:11 PM
 
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Rodham isn't her middle name. She prefers to use her maiden name, Rodham, in conjunction with her middle name, Clinton.
Still...you hear the Rodham a lot, and other times just Hillary Clinton. Not necessary to use the Rodham, just like it's not necessarily to use the Hussein. But not wrong either.
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Old 10-09-2008, 09:12 PM
 
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Rodham isn't her middle name. She prefers to use her maiden name, Rodham, in conjunction with her middle name, Clinton.
Sorry, didn't see this before I posted.
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