Obama plans to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

President-elect Obama says he plans to use all three of his names when he takes the oath of office in January, giving voice to a name that was used heard during the campaign except by critics.

In his first post-election newspaper interview, with reporters from the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, Obama was asked: “Do you anticipate being sworn in as Barack Obama or Barack Hussein Obama?"

He replied: “I think the tradition is that they use all three names, and I will follow the tradition, not trying to make a statement one way or the other. I'll do what everybody else does.”

In fact, all presidents have not used their middle names when taking the oath of office. Jimmy Carter famously went as “Jimmy Carter.” Ronald Wilson Reagan took the oath as simply “Ronald Reagan.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16406.html

[doodlebugg 10]

so what? Is Hussein such an evil-doer name now?

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Yes indeed, shocking given that is his real name! Sometimes no news is truly no news...

[almaty 19]

yes, it is his name and a custom

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Yes indeed, shocking given that is his real name! Sometimes no news is truly no news...

Doornail newsday @ politico?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Wow - that journalist really had nothing else to submit...

[Mags 112]

It's his name, full marks to him for not being made ashamed of it by dirty politicos and mud slingers.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

Because of the subtext.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

Because of the subtext.

What if people interpret the subtext of the swearing in as Obama outing himself as a terrorist?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

Because of the subtext.

What if people interpret the subtext of the swearing in as Obama outing himself as a terrorist?

Then they are stupid.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

Because of the subtext.

What if people interpret the subtext of the swearing in as Obama outing himself as a terrorist?

Then they are stupid.

You mean the same people who'd hear a McCain supporter say 'Hussein' and make an association to terrorists?

We were worried about what those people thought then. Why aren't we now?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

Because of the subtext.

What if people interpret the subtext of the swearing in as Obama outing himself as a terrorist?

Then they are stupid.

You mean the same people who'd hear a McCain supporter say 'Hussein' and make an association to terrorists?

We were worried about what those people thought then. Why aren't we now?

Because the guy isn't ashamed of his name - only the way that it was used by competing political campaigns in a shabby (and desperate) attempt to make Obama look "Unamerican".

That said - it didn't seem to have much of an effect on the election turnout so "worried" probably isn't the right word to describe what happened. But in that context the guy surely has the right to denounce insulting innuendos that are directed against him...

Edited December 10, 2008 by Paul Daniels

[spookyturtle 9,466]

How come the Obama campaign made such a stink of Hillary and McCain campaign officials/supporters using Hussein?

Because of the subtext.

What if people interpret the subtext of the swearing in as Obama outing himself as a terrorist?

Then they are stupid.

Wizards first rule: People are stupid.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

President-elect Obama says he plans to use all three of his names when he takes the oath of office in January, giving voice to a name that was used heard during the campaign except by critics.

In his first post-election newspaper interview, with reporters from the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, Obama was asked: “Do you anticipate being sworn in as Barack Obama or Barack Hussein Obama?"

He replied: “I think the tradition is that they use all three names, and I will follow the tradition, not trying to make a statement one way or the other. I'll do what everybody else does.”

In fact, all presidents have not used their middle names when taking the oath of office. Jimmy Carter famously went as “Jimmy Carter.” Ronald Wilson Reagan took the oath as simply “Ronald Reagan.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16406.html

Well, it's his name.

Watch him slip up and say Barack Hussein Osama..... er Obama.