'When Your Name Is Barack Hussein Obama, Getting Elected Is Difficult'

Telegraph(UK) ^ | May 15, 2012 | Jon Swaine

[Steelfish]

US election: 'When Your Name Is Barack Hussein Obama, Getting Elected Is Difficult' Prejudice among some American voters will make it difficult for President Barack Obama to win re-election, he has suggested.

The remarks were made on ABC's The View By Jon Swaine 15 May 2012

Asked during a television interview how close he expected the result of November's presidential election to be, Mr Obama said: "When your name is Barack Obama, it's always tight". After a host noted that his full name was "Barack Hussein Obama," he repeated this twice, stressing the middle name that has led conspiracy theorists to claim erroneously that he is secretly Muslim.

The remarks, made on ABC's The View, appeared to be a rare admission by Mr Obama that four years after he became the first black US president, his ethnicity continues to repel some American voters.

Asked "why do you say that now, after four years?" Mr Obama appeared to gather his thoughts and said: "I think it's going to be tight because the fact of the matter is, the country has gone through a very difficult time – the worst financial crisis, the worst economic crisis, since the 1930s."

[Steelfish]

Well, why not try some more of that “hope and change,” it worked last time around.

[Steelfish]

Well, why not try some more of that “hope and change,” it worked last time around.

[ansel12]

That is kind of a weird claim, after you have already been elected President, and are saying it from the Oval Office.

[cld51860]

Oy. This guy does not give up on this, does he? Even after having been elected the first time around. Because we have such antipathy toward people who have “different” names.

Ugh.

[RC2]

It has nothing to do with “Prejudice”. It has everything to do with being the worst President in the countries history.

[doc1019]

Prejudice among some American voters will make it difficult

If this were true he wouldn't have been elected in the first place.

[TigersEye]

Unless the GOP throws the fight. Again.

[mkjessup]

Ahh suck it up ya loser, oh wait: errr, let me rephrase that.

[doc1019]

LOL! Good one.

[ETL]

When you launch your political career in the living room of two 60-70s communist terrorists, or when your “spiritual adviser” for more than 20 years says “God-D*** America, US to blame for 911, America’s chickens...are coming home...TO ROOST!, when you (Obama) and Osama both had friends who bombed the Pentagon, it doesn’t help matters much either. And this doesn’t include all the destructive things he’s done as president

[Venturer]

He got elected last time BECAUSE he was black.

Racist blacks and Guilt ridden white put him in.

After looking at his record as President, I don’t think there is enough white guilt left to carry his load again.Of course the black vote is a given.

[BitWielder1]

Why, can't blame racism anymore? Is it name-ism now?
It could not POSSIBLY have anything to do with throwing the country in the toilet.

[ETL]

He got elected last time BECAUSE he was black.

And because he promised to give away lots of free stuff. Actually take it from others to give away as if it were his.

[aruanan]

'When Your Name Is Barack Hussein Obama, Getting Elected Is Difficult'

The first time wasn't as hard as the second time will be, not because we know your name, Barry, but because now we know YOU.

[SERKIT]

His skin color and Islamic name was simply offset by assassinating the character of any political opponent in his way. Then, just use the Daley/Madigan machine to stuff the ballot boxes. That was easy!

[mikrofon]

"Prezidentin' is Harrrd!"

[Gay State Conservative]

If he loses in November he obviously will have been fired. So will it be racism that resulted in his dismissal or will it be his poor performance over the previous 45 months?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That is kind of a weird claim, after you have already been elected President, and are saying it from the Oval Office.

He's a professional victim.

It's a black thing.

Or maybe a half-black thing.

Or maybe a half-Arabic thing.

[aruanan]

After a host noted that his full name was "Barack Hussein Obama," he repeated this twice, stressing the middle name that has led conspiracy theorists to claim erroneously that he is secretly Muslim.

According to Jeremiah Wright in his interviews for the book The Amateur, Obama came to him with a Muslim background and asking for help because he didn't know who he was. The interviewer asked Wright if he was able to convert Barry to Christianity. Wright said he wouldn't go that far but that he taught him enough not to feel too uncomfortable still holding on to his Muslim heritage.