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You know, the guy in the White House right now, Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Did all the crazy right wingers also refer to Bill Clinton as Jefferson? If you have a seething hatred for arabs and anyone with a foreign sounding name, then just come on out and say it. Quit with this ridiculous song and dance where emphasizing Obama's middle name is just some subtle dig and not deeply prejudiced.
I dunno. Why do so many people call George Bush "Dubya"?
Same difference.
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Originally Posted by ChrisFromChicago
I can also think its slightly ad hominum or "against the person" You are attacking Obama not on his policies, beliefs, or arguments but trying to discredit him based on his name.
It is a fallacious attack for non-thinkers with no real argument other than name calling.
Name calling? WTF! His parents named the freak. I had nothing to do with it.
Jeez!
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Originally Posted by workaholics
If your screen name is any indication then you should be smart enough not to draw a false equivalency between "Dubya" and "Hussein." Bush's nickname was innocent and was actually used by many of his friends before he became president. Calling our president "Hussein" is meant to draw comparisons to Saddam Hussein and other Arabs. It's a tactic to make him seem dangerous, radical and less American than presidents with anglo sounding names.
Apparently, your feeble education didn't teach you that little thing about "A rose, by any other name," blah blah. Sorry for you.
It always cracks me up when the very people who get upset cause someone calls the President by their legal name, runs around insulting others.
Is there some big rule book that we must follow as to what we should get upset over?
Yeah, I'm sure you're cracking up right now and not seething with feigned outrage. You must have been out in the fields harvesting for days to put together that straw man.
You know, the guy in the White House right now, Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Did all the crazy right wingers also refer to Bill Clinton as Jefferson? If you have a seething hatred for arabs and anyone with a foreign sounding name, then just come on out and say it. Quit with this ridiculous song and dance where emphasizing Obama's middle name is just some subtle dig and not deeply prejudiced.
Yeah, I'm sure you're cracking up right now and not seething with feigned outrage. You must have been out in the fields harvesting for days to put together that straw man.
I'm not the one who started the thread getting all upset cause someone calls the President by his legal middle name.
Name calling? WTF! His parents named the freak. I had nothing to do with it.
Maybe they should have stuck with Maya and Mayo?
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