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June 29, 2008
Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, who have adopted the middle name Hussein include J. T. Marcum, left, Aaron Barclay, Alex Enderle, Norm Shoemaker and Chelsey McCune. They use the name on the Internet and in greeting one another.
Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.
Jeff Strabone of Brooklyn now signs credit card receipts with his newly assumed middle name, while Dan O’Maley of Washington, D.C., jiggered his e-mail account so his name would appear as “D. Hussein O’Maley.” Alex Enderle made the switch online along with several other Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, and now friends greet him that way in person, too.
Mr. Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. Hussein is a family name inherited from a Kenyan father he barely knew, who was born a Muslim and died an atheist. But the name has become a political liability. Some critics on cable television talk shows dwell on it, while others, on blogs or in e-mail messages, use it to falsely assert that Mr. Obama is a Muslim or, more fantastically, a terrorist.
“I am sick of Republicans pronouncing Barack Obama’s name like it was some sort of cuss word,” Mr. Strabone wrote in a manifesto titled “We Are All Hussein” that he posted on his own blog and on dailykos.com.
So like the residents of Billings, Mont., who reacted to a series of anti-Semitic incidents in 1993 with a townwide display of menorahs in their front windows, these supporters are brandishing the name themselves.
“My name is such a vanilla, white-girl American name,” said Ashley Holmes of Indianapolis, who changed her name online “to show how little meaning ‘Hussein’ really has.”
The movement is hardly a mass one, and it has taken place mostly online, the digital equivalent of wearing a button with a clever, attention-getting message. A search revealed hundreds of participants across the country, along with a YouTube video and bumper stickers promoting the idea. Legally changing names is too much hassle, participants say, so they use “Hussein” on Facebook and in blog posts and comments on sites like nytimes.com, dailykos.com and mybarackobama.com, the campaign’s networking site.
“It’s one of those things that just takes off, because everybody got it right away,” said Stephanie Miller, a left-leaning comedian who blurted out the idea one day during a broadcast of her syndicated radio talk show and repeated it on CNN.
Ms. Miller and her fellow new Husseins are embracing the traditionally Muslim name even as the Obama campaign shies away from Muslim associations. Campaign workers ushered two women in head scarves out of a camera’s range at a rally this month in Detroit. (The campaign has apologized.) Aides canceled a December appearance on behalf of Mr. Obama by Representative Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim congressman.
Mr. Obama may be more enthusiastic, judging from his response at a Chicago fund-raiser two weeks ago. When he saw that Richard Fizdale, a longtime contributor, wore “Hussein” on his name tag, Mr. Obama broke into a huge grin, Mr. Fizdale said.
“The theory was, we’re all Hussein,” Mr. Obama said to the crowd later, explaining Mr. Fizdale’s gesture.
Some Obama supporters say they were moved to action because of what their own friends, neighbors and relatives were saying about their candidate. Mark Elrod, a political science professor at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., is organizing students and friends to declare their Husseinhood on Facebook on Aug. 4, Mr. Obama’s birthday.
Ms. Nordling changed her name after volunteering for Mr. Obama before the Kentucky primary.
“People would not listen to what you were saying on the phone or on their doorstep because they thought he was Muslim,” she said.
Ms. Nordling’s uncle liked the idea so much that he joined the same Facebook group that she had. But when her father saw her new online moniker, he was incredulous.
“He actually thought I was going to convert to Islam,” Ms. Nordling said.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Absolute, mindless, idiots! Hussein Youth and even adults....anybody seen Dr. Mengele?
This may be the most pathetic, feckless, and fatuous development! The name readily identifies them as traitors and unimaginative, backward-thinking stooges, just like their namesake.
What is scary about this is this is step one, what is next, will they join Islam?????
This reminds me of the stupid white kids who rap and try to act black. And their parents let them which shows where they get their stupid from.
Just thinking about that it was also done in a movie.......remember this? hahha
This is funny I never realized there was this line in the movie.....
" " I don't think we'll make it past the cops"
" We'll make it past the cops, I just hope we don't see no Muslims"
( the double negative is the line in the film not mine haha)
Posted by Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 02:50 AM
Comments
These poop culture socialists are "INSANE!"
How about a Senator John HITLER McCain, or a John STALIN McCain? Think Mac would still be in this race with those middle names? - darth CALIGULA crUSAder???
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at June 29, 2008 05:35 AM
This has got to be the dumbest generation I have ever seen! They just don't remember that Saddam Hussein is the reason we joke about Barack's middle name. Hussein killed thousands, if not millions of his own people. He was his own WMD! They were taught that the Iraq war was unjustified and unconstitutional, but no one EVER told them that we promised him we'd be back if he broke the rules we laid out for him and he broke them. The man deserved to be executed for atrocities to mankind. I remember my daughter, who is 18 and part of this generation, coming home all upset because of what she heard at school and how she was made fun of for believing the other way--the conservative way. I can't believe how stupid these kids are. Where are their parents? My parents would have been so mad at me if I'd done something like this. I'd have no brains left in my head. But they want the government to just give them everything and take care of them because it's getting harder to find a decent job in America. Yeah, it's hard--it's suppose to be. My family would never ask that the government take care of us and just give us something.
I wish every teacher who ever used their classroom to air out their political rhetoric would be drummed out. If you're a math teacher, teach math--that's what you were hired to do. The only classroom eligible for political discussion is government classes and that discussion should be limited on the topic. Teachers, run your classrooms, don't let the kids dictate terms.
These kids make me puke.
Posted by: Lynn at June 29, 2008 06:58 AM
And they have the nerve to call Rush listerners, 'Mind numbed Robots'. These kids are not 'mind numb', they are brain dead.
This is what happens when the schools teach these kids that we, America is evil. They don't learn anything positive about this country, just the negative and this is what you get, kids who can't think on their own.
If this is the best we can do for the next generation then we are in trouble.
Posted by: Mark at June 29, 2008 08:27 AM
Richard Pryor starts out wearing the purple jacket- which is an Airborne Ranger jacket- Vietnam era- looks like-- how cool!! then Gene Wilder wears it- Ranger jacket-- right guys?? -
Well I am hoping most American teens are smarter than these -- what a stupid thing to do- it is just crazy ignorant! Can't wait for these idiots to wake up and see him for the loser he is!!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at June 29, 2008 08:29 AM
Stupid is,
what stupid does,
Nuke tha ACLU!!
Posted by: Chief at June 29, 2008 10:01 AM
Cheryl - it's a jacket with 82nd Airborne patches on it.
Well, if Obama wanted to keep his middle name low profile for this election, that plan is out the window. I hope this childish idiocy makes a whole bunch of fence straddlers sit up and pay attention.
I don't think these name adding kids are any more representative of their generation than the Hare Krishners were of the 60's. But, too many others may be more like the more numerous 60's hippies, socialist in thought.
Posted by: TomR at June 29, 2008 11:29 AM
What a bunch of young fools. I guess next they'll tattoo and pierce it on themselves.
I guess they were in elementary school when Sadam Hussein butchered and tortured
thousands of people. So, this is the youth who will be deciding our 'change' ... great judgement!
These kids have no sense of history, or hard won traditions. They are ready to change
anything and everything at a drop of a hat. What's next? ... changing their middle names
to Hitler, or Stalin?
Posted by: Gina at June 29, 2008 12:40 PM
"Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim" She very well might!!!
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ideology stressed the racial purity of the German people and persecuted those it perceived either as race enemies or "life unworthy of life". This resulted in the systematic murder of approximately six million Jews and about five million other people, mainly Russians, Poles, Roma, thousands of political enemies of the Nazi regime, along with homosexuals, people with disabilities, and religious minorities, Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally or physically disabled, communists, liberals, and social democrats were also killed. Let's not forget the atrocities of the Stalin rgime, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot and Lon Nol and North Vietnam against the South, millions put to death due to the same ideology these assholes embrace.
Sounds as familiar as the mantra touted by the Muslims doesn't it. The human abuses of Saddam Hussein and his two offspring, the same human toll in Africa by muslims are lost, meaningless on these idiots. Perhaps that 19 year old twit and her colleagues need to see up front and personal what some of us have seen at that tender age, atrocities perpetuated by their beloved Communists and the ever present Husseins of the world. spit!!!
Posted by: Jack at June 29, 2008 01:08 PM
Darth, let's see I will pick ....
Wild Eliminator Thing
heh heh
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:11 PM
Lynn, that's what I don't get, where the heck are the parents and if they are going along with this stuff they are vile horrible parents or old hippies or what I don't know. Mayeb the parents agree with this stuff too that makes it even more of a nightmare.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:14 PM
Mark, I agree!!! They are brain dead, I am so disgusted at seeing this kind of thing.
Yes they get liberal teachings at school, many have parents that agree with it or don't care what their kids are taught. The whole thing is wrong from the get go.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:19 PM
Cheryl, I sure hope they do wake up. I hope their parents aren't going along with this and stop this baloney.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:21 PM
Tom yes that is the thing, how many realize what they are doing and have the ok from their parents.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:25 PM
Gina I agree with all you said. This sends off alarms as to what is to come if these idiots don't wake up, learn history the true history and not what some liberal teacher and possibly their parents have taught them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:30 PM
Jack, AMEN!
God help any kids like these if I met them and they said that Hussein was their middle name online. I would not hold back with what I would tell them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:34 PM
Chief, Ditto that!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 29, 2008 05:36 PM
Mohammed and it's variations is now the second most popular baby boy's name (after Jack) in the UK. It is the most popular name in Oslo.
This group of Obama supporters who took Hussein as their middle name is just the tip of cult Obamamania should he become President. It won't be long before we see many baby boys named Hussein. They will grow up to be Hussein-Americans.
I can hear the chants now. Hussein rules! Hussein rules! Been there, done that.
http://www.wehaitians.com/saddam_gun.jpg
http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/asie/images/saddam-hussein.jpg
Posted by: Les at June 29, 2008 06:50 PM
Couldn't this put those kids all on the "terrorist watch list?" God, what a stupid generation.
Posted by: Lynn at June 29, 2008 08:30 PM
Maybe I should make my middle name FU-Hussein, or GD-Hussein. No, can't stomach Hussein so will stick to James.
Posted by: Bob at June 29, 2008 09:56 PM
Les, that is so sad that is happening, yuk I would never want any part of my name Hussein.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 30, 2008 12:13 AM
Lynn that is a really good point to bring up because they do have names on a list for flying that are big no's.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 30, 2008 12:16 AM
Bob, LOL I agree stick with James.....that is a good name.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 30, 2008 12:18 AM
PS: Wild Eliminator Thing = WET?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at July 3, 2008 06:03 AM
