Using his full name in a neutral context, not partisan at all.
But to a number of right-wingers it’s become the equivalent of a bratty little brother in the back seat of the car holding his finger right next to his sister’s ear saying, “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you…”
“I’m not arguing that people with part of their name in common have to share the same political opinions – that would be stupid. And I’m not saying that the president having a Muslim-sounding name means he’s a bad person – that would be racist. I’m just saying the president’s full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Are you telling me I can’t say the president’s name? (Which is Barack ***Hussein ***Obama, by the way). Maybe *other *people might try to make some political point regarding the presidents name (arack-bay ussein-hay bama-oay), but I’m just saying it, so don’t even try to rebut any political point you think I might be making, because I’m just saying a name. Barack Hussein Obama.”
That’d be “del año,” I think. “Del ano” could be “of the year,” which is kind of prescient since FDR was named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year three times.
Agree with leahcim. When I see/hear someone refering to him as “Barack Hussein Obama” (in a non-formal context), my assumption is that that person is petty, and I don’t have much regard for anything else they’re saying.
Truman is kind of a special case. S is his middle name, to honor both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. Whether to put a period after the S is not entirely cut-and-dried, although his presidential library and the AP stylebook both do.
I’ve also heard him referred to as “#41”, at least at Texas A&M where one of the schools and a library is named after him, complete with a diner called “The Forty-One”. Fun guy if you ever get a chance to see him speak in person. Does a great H. Ross Perot impersonation (evidently the two are or used to be friends).
Yes, it’s partisan in most contexts. He doesn’t go by it, so unless you’re writing a biography or something (as mentioned), it really shouldn’t be used.
I don’t think it’s the fact that it’s a Muslim name, I don’t think Barack Aahil Obama would get nearly as much mileage. I think it’s more the fact that it specifically draws similarity to one Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti.
It’s interesting that my grandfather, my father and I all share the same first and last name and even with that the only times we ever used our middle names was when we were signing some sort of document where our identities might have been confused (like listing a beneficiary on an insurance policy or a will.)
So if Barack Obama isn’t all that concerned about being confused with all the other Barack Obamas, I won’t worry about it either.
Not unless the word “Rod-ham” makes you giggle like a twelve-year old.
And I believe she herself uses it publicly. A very crappy analogy about this thread topic would be if you knew someone who had “Wayne” as a middle name, and you kept overemphasizing it to imply he was a serial killer.
No, since she’s chosen to go by that name at least some of the time. In fact I remember there were some polls in 2008 that indicated she polled better as Hillary Rodham Clinton than as Hillary Clinton, but her official campaign stuff tended to say Hillary Clinton.
