# if Obama were gay as alleged, what would he have to lose confessing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756 "2011-10-06T04:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/63 "2011-10-07T18:54:18Z")
What are you people doing? Why are you even responding to this nonsense? ETA: mods, please move this thread to the pit, where it belongs and the OP can get the answers he merits. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/64 "2011-10-07T19:16:41Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I thought the OP’s linked allegation was that Obama was frequenting a gay bathhouse. But maybe he was only visiting for the articles. From the article, it’s actually a “grand old bathhouse”. From this we can conclude that Obama is not only secretly gay, but secretly Republican as well. Perhaps a secret Log Cabin Republican. Hey, those 40M Google hits (see **Foggy** ) can’t all be lying! > [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Barack is only the second Hussein I’ve ever “known”. Among famous Husseins, you also have the late King Hussein of Jordan. And Usain Bolt. It does seem to be a quite common name. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/65 "2011-10-07T19:42:50Z")
> [@QuarkChild](#): > > What about Hoover? Are you confusing president Herbert Hoover with former FBI head J. Edgar Hoover? ---
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/66 "2011-10-07T21:07:17Z")
> [@hazynlazy](#): > > He’d almost certainly lose his bid for re-election, as unfortunate as that is. Four years ago I would’ve said this is correct, but now I’m not so sure. People really don’t care a lot anymore, especially with the economy the way it was. They are interested in their pocketbooks. I have to admit, I’d probably vote for a murder if he could convince me he could fix this economy back to where it once was. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/67 "2011-10-08T01:59:06Z")
> [@AndyLee](#): > > People really don’t care a lot anymore, especially with the economy the way it was. Yes, they do. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/68 "2011-10-08T02:17:36Z")
> [@QuarkChild](#): > > What about Hoover? You’re not gay just because you’re married to somebody named Lou, you know. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/69 "2011-10-08T03:32:55Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Hussein isn’t a Muslim name, it’s an Arabic name. > > If a man’s name is Patrick, that doesn’t make him Catholic, does it? Of course not. It makes him Irish. I worded my question incorrectly. I didn’t mean to imply he HAD to justify his middle name. I was really asking about the origin of the name and who named him that? I’m sure political opponents had a variety of theories, none of them accurate. (please don’t answer this, since I believe it’s been answered in the thread already) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756/70 "2011-10-08T04:17:44Z")
Someone who asks why Obama’s middle name is Hussein is legitimately trying to learn about him, so nothing you’ve said in this thread is bothersome to me. On the other hand, someone who comes up with some ridiculous, false, and malicious theory about where the name comes from and then publicizes that theory by giving a speech about it, printing it in an article in a newspaper or magazine or in a book, or who posts it on a website is evil and/or stupid. It’s easy to do the research to find out that Obama was named after his father and that his middle name came from his grandfather. Anyone who can’t be bothered to do that research and who thinks that he has a right to spread his theory to other people is simply increasing the amount of ignorance in the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-obama-were-gay-as-alleged-what-would-he-have-to-lose-confessing/598756.md?page=3)