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Old 01-06-2010, 12:17 AM
 
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Really? How? By shedding crocodile tears on tv?
LOL...
I suppose you think Chris Matthews on MSNBC is more credible!
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Old 01-06-2010, 05:37 AM
 
Location: S.E. US
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Yes, what is the point of the "Hussein" in every comment anyway? Is it meant to be purely inflammatory? Or are you pointing out that he has a "scary name"? Or are you just going to hide behind it and just say "It's his middle name" and be disingenuous about your true intent?
What is it about that middle name that is so upsetting to supporters when it is used. Seems they have a gut reaction to it. Maybe because they don't like it? It is, after all, his middle name. It's OK to use anybody else's middle name, why not Obama's?
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Old 01-06-2010, 01:43 PM
 
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I have looked it up. When Beck first started attack Van Jones I did quite a bit of research. It was clear that Beck had his facts wrong and spinning other material.

Where is your link for the second arrest?

Glenn Beck's Crazy Lies About Van Jones | Environment | AlterNet
What facts did he have wrong? Van Jones was arrested twice. He was in jail and he was a self professed communist.
"I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" ....... "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."......... "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," ........."By August, I was a communist."
Those are Van Jones' own words.
Where is the lie that Beck told? What facts are wrong?
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Old 01-06-2010, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Highland, CA (formerly Newark, NJ)
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What is it about that middle name that is so upsetting to supporters when it is used. Seems they have a gut reaction to it. Maybe because they don't like it? It is, after all, his middle name. It's OK to use anybody else's middle name, why not Obama's?
Because it's obvious they're doing it to purposely antagonize middle easterners but they hide behind the innocent "I'm just calling him by his middle name" argument. The user who frequently does that is the same one condoning the Psalm 108 campaign. He/she really isn't fooling anyone.
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Old 01-06-2010, 02:00 PM
 
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Because it's obvious they're doing it to purposely antagonize middle easterners but they hide behind the innocent "I'm just calling him by his middle name" argument. The user who frequently does that is the same one condoning the Psalm 108 campaign. He/she really isn't fooling anyone.
I don't understand *why* it would antagonize middle easterners. I think it's a common middle eastern name.
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Old 01-06-2010, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Inland Empire, Calif
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Because it's obvious they're doing it to purposely antagonize middle easterners but they hide behind the innocent "I'm just calling him by his middle name" argument. The user who frequently does that is the same one condoning the Psalm 108 campaign. He/she really isn't fooling anyone.
"Because it's obvious they're doing it to purposely antagonize middle easterners"
Let me assure you, no one is trying to antagonize the middle easterners, we only want our Middle Eastern President to start doing his job, and stop being so crooked. The pres is a very bad man...
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Old 01-06-2010, 02:11 PM
 
Location: Highland, CA (formerly Newark, NJ)
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I don't understand *why* it would antagonize middle easterners. I think it's a common middle eastern name.
It's pretty obvious they're using it in a derogatory way.
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Old 01-06-2010, 02:13 PM
 
Location: Highland, CA (formerly Newark, NJ)
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"Because it's obvious they're doing it to purposely antagonize middle easterners"
Let me assure you, no one is trying to antagonize the middle easterners, we only want our Middle Eastern President to start doing his job, and stop being so crooked. The pres is a very bad man...
So then why do they go out of their way to call him "Hussein" as though Middle Easterners are "very bad men"?
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Old 01-06-2010, 02:15 PM
 
Location: S.E. US
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"Because it's obvious they're doing it to purposely antagonize middle easterners"
Let me assure you, no one is trying to antagonize the middle easterners, we only want our Middle Eastern President to start doing his job, and stop being so crooked. The pres is a very bad man...
I wouldn't call him bad. He's probably well intentioned. Just in over his head, in a job that might just be a bit above his pay grade. He said he was going to count heavily on the people he surrounds himself with, and now it appears he's going to have to get rid of some of them - who knows how many - but at least he may realize he doesn't have the advisors he needs. Or, maybe he's going to get rid of those who disagree with his course of action on a lot of things.
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Old 01-06-2010, 02:47 PM
 
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So then why do they go out of their way to call him "Hussein" as though Middle Easterners are "very bad men"?
They go out of their way because they like to rile up the PC crowd that loves to get offended on others behalf.
Stop making it a big issue and it will go away.
Its only fun to antagonize people that cry and whine. Stop the whining and crying and the problems solved.
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