Barrack to use full name at swearing in ceremony (interview, liberal, Afghanistan)

[bily4]

Buckle up folks for your next President and Commander in Chief. Barrack

HUSSEIN Obama!



President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to "reboot America's image" among the world's Muslims and will follow tradition by using his entire name — Barack Hussein Obama — in his swearing-in ceremony

Obama hopes to reboot US image among Muslims - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_interview - broken link)

[Who?Me?!]

Originally Posted by bily4

Buckle up folks for your next President and Commander in Chief. Barrack

HUSSEIN Obama!



President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to "reboot America's image" among the world's Muslims and will follow tradition by using his entire name — Barack Hussein Obama — in his swearing-in ceremony

Obama hopes to reboot US image among Muslims - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_interview - broken link)

YES! I will LOVE hearing that name as PRESIDENT!!!!!
Barack HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!

Better get used to it!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!



AND it IS tradition to use all three names ....YEAHHH!!!

[LIS123]

Who cares? IMO, there are plenty of reasons to be opposed to Obama (wanting to raise taxes, pass the EFCA, appoint liberal justices, etc.) but his middle name is not one of them.

[Siouxcia]

Originally Posted by bily4

Buckle up folks for your next President and Commander in Chief. Barrack

HUSSEIN Obama!

So what?

[pirate girl]

Originally Posted by bily4

Buckle up folks for your next President and Commander in Chief. Barrack

HUSSEIN Obama!



President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to "reboot America's image" among the world's Muslims and will follow tradition by using his entire name — Barack Hussein Obama — in his swearing-in ceremony

Obama hopes to reboot US image among Muslims - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_interview - broken link)

Why is it that you can't spell Barack correctly but you have mastered the spelling of Hussein?


And rightfully so- that is his full name and he should use it.

I don't despise all people named Ted or Bundy because a serial killer had that name.

I don't despise all people named John or Wayne or Gacy because another serial killer had that name.

Give me a break. This is pathetic.

[idahogie]

Originally Posted by LIS123

Who cares? IMO, there are plenty of reasons to be opposed to Obama (wanting to raise taxes, pass the EFCA, appoint liberal justices, etc.) but his middle name is not one of them.

Except that he wants to lower taxes, and he'll probably appoint moderate judges.

Otherwise, your recitation of right-wing talking points is terrific.

[flu189]

Yeah, I'm sure that by amplifying the H in BHO is going to mellow out the world, especially the sharpshooters and RPG guys waiting to greet the fresh new troops that he will send into provinces and mountains of Afghanistan. Time to buy more stock in Kool Aid and Reynolds Wrap.

[Innovator831021]

Originally Posted by Who?Me?!

YES! I will LOVE hearing that name as PRESIDENT!!!!!
Barack HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!

Better get used to it!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Yikes... aren't you worried about sharp shooting racist neocons? I don't think those guys will get used to it.

[odanny]

We might show the world we are not a nation with a majority of ignorant, right wing rednecks who shriek over the use of a name they don't consider fully 'Murikan enough.

Wonderful progress, and a giant leap forward from the previous 8 years, which are considered by many to be the American version of the Dark Ages.

[GreenGene]

I think it's interesting that the actual wording of the oath of office, as found in the Constitution (Art. 2, Sec. 1) doesn't include a provision for the incoming President's name .... perhaps because at that point, the person's name would be well known?

Anyway, here's what the Constitution says:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Also, according to Wikipedia,

Although it is not required, presidents have traditionally used a Bible to take oath of office (some exceptions: Chester A. Arthur in 1881 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 did not use a Bible, while Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963 used a Roman Catholic missal, because there were no Bibles aboard Air Force One). George Washington began this practice, borrowing a Bible from St. John's Lodge No. 1.

Although no law requires that the oath of office be administered by someone, new presidents are traditionally sworn-in by the Chief Justice of the United States. Washington was sworn-in by Chancellor of New York Robert Livingston, there being no federal judges before Washington took office and appointed the first of them. The oath of office was administered upon John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson by lesser-capacity judges, and Calvin Coolidge by his own father who was a notary public.

Another tradition is to finish the oath of office with the words, "so help me God." It is commonly believed that George Washington began this practice at his first inauguration, though evidence for this is circumstantial at best. While this phrase is not an official part of the oath, many presidents have finished the oath with those words.

I don't know if any Presidents have ever followed the Constitution exactly when it comes to the wording of the oath, and the inclusion of their name. I checked YouTube, and in 2005 it was George Walker Bush; in 1933, it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt; but in 1963, on a plane heading out of Dallas, Lydon Baines Johnson's name wasn't included in the oath of office. I guess we can understand that. But he got it right in 1965.