Posted on 11/01/2008 9:37:44 AM PDT by publius1
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – “John McCain! Not Hussein!”
So goes the latest popular chant on the campaign trail with Gov. Sarah Palin, demonstrated at a morning rally in central Florida.
Ms. Palin was midway through her stump speech when a group of supporters began shouting it in unison, drowned out a few seconds later as Ms. Palin talked over them.
A similar chant, “Vote McCain, not Hussein,” was heard at a campaign event for Ms. Palin in Williamsport, Pa., earlier this week.
Senator Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein, a fact that some of his opponents say proves that he is a Muslim. Mr. Obama is, in fact, a Christian.
After the rally in Florida ended, two of the people leading the chant explained why they did so.
“Because it rhymes,” said Shirley Mitten, 64, a volunteer at a pregnancy center and a resident of Brooksville, Fla.
She said she does not know if Mr. Obama is a Muslim. “He says he’s not, but we have no way of knowing,” Ms. Mitten said.
Her husband, John A. Mitten, 64, took credit for starting the chant. “I was trying to get it going!” he said. “I just do not want Obama to be elected.”
Mr. Mitten said he could not trust Mr. Obama because of his past association with William Ayers, the 1960’s radical, and because of his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. He also pointed out that Mr. Obama’s father was a Muslim.
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Palin is divisive.
They are just steamed, because nothing rhymes with “Sydney”.
Go ahead, news media. Report this. A lot of people don’t even know his middle name is Hussein. So, PLEASE go and tell everyone all about it while trying to push the idiotic idea that using someone’s middle name is ‘racist’.
If his middle name is racist, doesn’t that make his parents racist for naming him?
A Christian? Where and when was he baptized?
So, I guess the gist of this is ... Obama’s parents were racist?
0bama was on the Tavis Smiley show in Oct 2007 hyping up the fact that his middle name was Hussein. It would help with credibility amongst Muslims in the Middle East.
Why is it off lmits now?
It just wouldn’t sound as good to say: Vote McCain not 0bama.
Those are GREAT chants!!!!! Hats off to the people who came up with those!
JOHN MCCAIN, NOT HUSSEIN!!!!!!!
We could add:
SAVE OUR NATION, NO’BAMANATION!!!!!
maybe they can come up with one like “Can’t eat Kidney, don’t like Sidney”. Something like that.
‘John McCain, not Hussein!’
I am very upset...that I didn’t think of it. :-)
I’ll be chanting that when they call PA and VA for McCain/Palin!
Hopefully, that's not his real name.
They are just steamed, because nothing rhymes with “Sydney”.
Of course, there is one for our side:
Vote for Sydney or you'll have to sell your kidney!
This chant cuts to the heart of the matter regarding media coverage and 0bama’s “everything is off limits” doctrine. It’s his actual middle name for God’s sake!
Sarah Palin...
DA 3 DEGRESS OF RACIST
Hussein = Muslim = Racist
It is so satisfying irking people!
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