Posted on 02/27/2008 6:35:46 AM PST by pissant
No less an authority figure than Karl Rove has warned Republican operatives from demagoguing Barack Obama's middle name.
At a closed door meeting of GOP state executive directors in late January, Rove said the safest way to refer to Obama would be to use his honorific, "Sen. Obama."
"The context was, you're not going to stimatize this guy. You shouldn't underestimate him," one of the executive directors said. Rove said that the use of "Barack Hussein Obama" would perpetuate the notion that Republicans were bigoted and would hurt the party.
Rove also said that Republicans should refer to Hillary Clinton as "Sen. Clinton," rather than "Hillary."
Right wing figures are set to ignore Rove's advice. Rush Limbaugh used Obama's middle name more than a year ago, and Ann Coulter regularly uses the middle name, once calling him "President Hussein." So does Michael Savage, who once asked whether Obama was a "so-called friendly Muslim" or one more "radical."
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton...meet William Jefferson Clinton.
Oh my God! I said their middle names!!
Did you mean the serious conservative movement that John McCain is the leader of ??
I wonder if those dashing to preserve Obama’s honor here are also spent time and energy scolding those who call McCain McPain, or Mitt Flip, or Rudy Ghouliani or Lyndsey Linseed or Huck Schmuck?
Rove should just shut his mouth and stay out of things. We know where his loyalty is, and it's not toward American citizens! IF I never hear another thing from that traitor pos, it will be too soon for me! He should just move to Mexico along with his boss, elPresidente Boosh!
One question......WHY?
Answer: Political Correctness!!
We must use the middle name Hussein over and over again. Alot of libs I run into are surprised when they learn his full name. The lib media doesn’t tell them about it.
We must use the middle name Hussein over and over again. Alot of libs I run into are surprised when they learn his full name. The lib media doesn’t tell them about it.
We must use the middle name Hussein over and over again. Alot of libs I run into are surprised when they learn his full name. The lib media doesn’t tell them about it.
sorry for the triple post
The fact that we lost the 06 mid terms should not be held against Rove. Republican and Democratic presidents alike have fared miserably at the midterms.
It would be better for Rover if he were only "out of touch" because the alternative is that he's a traitor pos just like his good buddy, elPresidente Boosh! They should move to Mexico since their loyalties are with the Mexicans! Oh wait, I forgot, they don't have to. They have moved Mexico to America! < / sarcasm >
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Yeah. I heard that about Marion Michael Morrison, too.
What a complete girly man he was.
The name makes the man, right?
re: “don’t ‘Hussein’ Obama
OK, Karl, we won’t ‘Hussein’ him..... let’s just ‘SWIFTBOAT’ his lying leftist butt!!!!
I hope this is a bluff. By coming out and saying “I will not make an issue out of my opponents middle name”, you actually make your point. However, I am not sure that the architectect of the 2006 debacle is serious about this.
This was done again (for the same reason) by the MSM and democrats when they would call Dan Quayle, John DANFORTH Quayle???
Dan Rather used to call him John Danforth Quayle ALL THE TIME--because he knew that it irritated Quayle. No problem there, no problem at all.
Cunningham may have gotten a little wired; but Hussein was right on target. It IS HIS frickin NAME!
Are we to avoid it; because it makes the Left uncomfortable? Or Obama is embarassed? (Is he proud of his name or uncomfortable with it. If he does not like it; then he can CHANGE it! Perhaps we should ask his permission. . .)
Worst here; is Rove seems to think it OK for the Left to dictate how we speak; just as the radical Islamists want to dictate which words we choose.
STOP THE FASCISM! This is how an entire population gives way to it's worst elements. We are already sliding on the Left's slippery slope.
Am sick of this.
GET OVER IT Karl; we have serious enemies in the world; and this is not helping.
Cunningham may have gotten a little wired; but Hussein was right on target. It IS HIS frickin NAME!
Are we to avoid it; because it makes the Left uncomfortable? Or Obama is embarassed? (Is he proud of his name or uncomfortable with it. If he does not like it; then he can CHANGE it! Perhaps we should ask his permission. . .)
Worst here; is Rove seems to think it OK for the Left to dictate how we speak; just as the radical Islamists want to dictate which words we choose.
STOP THE FASCISM! This is how an entire population gives way to it's worst elements. We are already sliding on the Left's slippery slope.
Am sick of this.
GET OVER IT Karl; we have serious enemies in the world; and this is not helping.
LOL!
Right out loud, too!
Shame!!!
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