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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 335762" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>You really have trouble spelling "Barack", but not "Hussein"? I'll take you at your word, but most people refer to him as Obama, or Senator Obama. I've yet to read a news article or opinion piece that refers to him as B. Hussein Obama, or hear anyone on TV call him that. </p><p></p><p>I can't speak for anyone else on this board, and I'm certainly not calling you a racist, but when you consistently refer to him in that manner it does appear that you are making a point of the fact that he has an arab middle name. </p><p></p><p>In a perfect world, no one would care what name his parents gave him (or what church he went to), the only issues would be his domestic, foreign, and economic policies.</p><p>I think we both know that we don't live in a perfect world, and there are plenty of people in the U.S. who won't vote for Obama because he's black, or because he has an arab name, or because he's from "Nigeria" (I actually had someone on my route tell me this), or because he's a "secret muslim". Heck, look what Moreluck just posted- she "can't get past" the name Hussein. What's the point of debating policy differences when someone has already declared that they won't vote for him just because of his name?</p><p></p><p>So just speaking for myself, when I hear/see someone constantly referring to him as "Hussein", the impression I get is that they are making a campaign tactic out of anti-arab sentiment. Incidentally, I'm not alone in feeling that way:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/28/tennessee.gop/index.html" target="_blank"><em>The RNC rejects these kinds of campaign tactics," Duncan says (click)</em></a></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/02/25/daily24.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-size: 10px">McCain apologizes for Bill Cunningham's Obama comments (click)</span></em></a></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">The people you referred to at the end of you post are people who were commonly known by their middle names, in most cases because that's how they chose to refer to themselves. Obama has never gone by Hussein anymore than McCain has ever gone by Sydney.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="color: Black">But hey, if you just want to annoy diesel, have at it <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 335762, member: 4805"] You really have trouble spelling "Barack", but not "Hussein"? I'll take you at your word, but most people refer to him as Obama, or Senator Obama. I've yet to read a news article or opinion piece that refers to him as B. Hussein Obama, or hear anyone on TV call him that. I can't speak for anyone else on this board, and I'm certainly not calling you a racist, but when you consistently refer to him in that manner it does appear that you are making a point of the fact that he has an arab middle name. In a perfect world, no one would care what name his parents gave him (or what church he went to), the only issues would be his domestic, foreign, and economic policies. I think we both know that we don't live in a perfect world, and there are plenty of people in the U.S. who won't vote for Obama because he's black, or because he has an arab name, or because he's from "Nigeria" (I actually had someone on my route tell me this), or because he's a "secret muslim". Heck, look what Moreluck just posted- she "can't get past" the name Hussein. What's the point of debating policy differences when someone has already declared that they won't vote for him just because of his name? So just speaking for myself, when I hear/see someone constantly referring to him as "Hussein", the impression I get is that they are making a campaign tactic out of anti-arab sentiment. Incidentally, I'm not alone in feeling that way: [COLOR=Blue][URL="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/28/tennessee.gop/index.html"][I]The RNC rejects these kinds of campaign tactics," Duncan says (click)[/I][/URL][/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue][B][URL="http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/02/25/daily24.html"][I][SIZE=2]McCain apologizes for Bill Cunningham's Obama comments (click)[/SIZE][/I][/URL] [/B][COLOR=Black]The people you referred to at the end of you post are people who were commonly known by their middle names, in most cases because that's how they chose to refer to themselves. Obama has never gone by Hussein anymore than McCain has ever gone by Sydney. But hey, if you just want to annoy diesel, have at it :wink2: [/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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