12-11-2008, 05:57 PM
$tevie wrote:
If his middle name was Fred we wouldn't be having this conversation right now and you know it.
Exactly - it never never would have even come up if his middle name was Barack Harold Obama, giving him the very same initials, but without the much more "scary" sounding Hussein connotation. As someone else alluded to, Hussein=code for "possible terrorist" to all of the backwater folks. Just like if if his middle name was Abdul (instead of Alfred), Sahib (instead of Samuel), or Rahel (instead of Ronald).
We're not the ones starting these threads (notice who started this one), but somehow it continues to be a subject of "controversy" to some of you. The rest of us wonder what the BIG deal is, it's a freaking name!