He Whose Full Name Shall Not Be Spoken

Times Watch ^ | February 27, 2008 | Clay Waters

[yoe]

John Broder and Elisabeth Bumiller teamed up for Thursday morning's "McCain and Obama Trade Jabs on Al Qaeda in Iraq." In a replay of a Times attack from yesterday, the paper criticized a conservative group's use of Barack Obama's middle name and tried to goad John McCain into another apology.

Meanwhile, Tennessee Republican officials defended a press release issued Monday that said Mr. Obama was anti-Israel and was supported by anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan, founder of the Nation of Islam. The release uses Mr. Obama’s middle name, Hussein, and includes the widely distributed photo of Mr. Obama in native Somali garb on a trip to Africa in 2006.

Mr. Obama, responding to a question at Tuesday’s debate, rejected Mr. Farrakhan’s support and proclaimed his support for Israel.

Bill Hobbs, spokesman for the Tennessee Republican Party, said the party issued the release because “Barack Obama has surrounded himself with people who do not have the best interests of Israel at heart.” He said the party had gotten complaints from Democrats and some Republicans, but had not heard from the McCain campaign.

Mr. McCain said he could not control the activities of such groups until he was the nominee.

As TimesWatch demonstrated, columnists for the paper have used Barack Obama's full name on several occasions, making it hard for the paper to credibly attack conservative groups or opinion-makers for doing the same.

[Old Sarge]

Well, he has one thing going for him that no candidate before now has ever had:

White Guilt.

In our emasculated society, that will carry him all the way to the WH.

[IM2MAD]

Can’t we just call them He Who and She Who?

[kempo]

I Agree

[Minnesoootan]

I have to agree,cuz Bush vs Gore and Bush vs Kerry were smooth ;-)...but,I do think the population is much wiser to the DNC today than 4-8yrs ago...i think our big tax increase we just got handed will help with (R) turnout here in MN also.

[Ciexyz]

I thought this was a Harry Potter thread, hehehe.

[PeterFinn]

Even though we have a weak candidate Barrack Hussein Obama will not become President.

I agree. Although I believe he won't become President because the Clinton's will have him whacked before the convention.

[JoanVarga]

Um... if he wins, what name must he swear-in under?

-Joan

[Old Sarge]

[Beckwith]

Barack ‘I am not a Muslim’ Obama

That's not what his sister says.

In an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, 2007, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

I assume Maya thinks of Obama as a member of her family -- ergo?

[Beckwith]

And it just occurred to me - - is Maya saying that her mother was a Muslim - - did Anna convert?

She did spend her life in Indonesia.

[McGruff]

LOL

[Jeff F]

I swore I wouldn’t mention his middle name is hussein..so, in keeping with my promise hussein won’t be mentioned..:)

You said the unmentionable TWICE! That proves you are a racist, no, I mean a bigot -- oh what the hell -- you must be a racist bigot xenophobe. /s

[AmericanInTokyo]

I really don't know which disgusts me more this election year.

Barack Obama?

or

John McCain's ABJECT P.C. APPEASEMENT OF HIM?

[Always Right]

That's not what his sister says.

Hense, the quotes.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I did NOT..I swore I woudn’t say hussein, and I haven’t..;-)

[MacDorcha]

PING! BAHAHAH!

Barack “Marvalo” Obama!

[nyyankeefan]

just call him b. HUSSEIN......forget the barrack!!!!

[The Drowning Witch]

"He whose Name shall not be spoken."

Yimach shmo vi zichro.

[kitkat]

hussein, hussein, hussein!

His father died leaving THREE WIVES, none of them ex-wives, and 7 children, according to USA Today.

[paudio]

What did John Stewart say?