Is It Partisan to Say "Barack Hussein Obama"

I recall once hearing Ann Coulter (or maybe Malkin, or some other cunt of that variety) refer to him as “B. Hussein Obama.” Come on now.

I object to that characterization. Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin don’t deserve to be called cunts. Cunts are beautiful, useful, pleasure-having and providing things. Ann and Michelle would be more fairly characterized as boils or hemorrhoids.

I remember during the recall election that replaced Gray Davis with Arnold Schwarzenegger, one Los Angeles radio station talk-show host insisted on referring to Davis as “Joe Davis.” Since his formal given name is “Joseph Graham Davis,” this could be taken as a sign of respect. But it wasn’t… The same host next took to referring to him as “Gumby,” making fun of the shape of his head and the cut of his hair.

Carbuncles.

There’s nothing wrong with it, but there’s also no reason to use it because that’s not what he calls himself and it doesn’t differentiate him from his father. The bottom line here is that he’s never gone by his full name. It’s absurd that it’s become a partisan thing, but most of the time, it is: Republicans made it a partisan matter and Democrats reacted the way they usually do to this kind of silliness.

The story is that, long before he was president, back when he was in the Air Force, George H.W. Bush’s nickname, amongst the other pilots, was “George H.W. Bush.”

I think it flows better, and stops people abrevating it to BO/Body Odor.

In any case, they are all better than B. Hussain Obama. Did someone actually seriously call him that and not be laughed off the stage?:mad:

I disagree about the flow, personally. Barack Obama flows nicely; “Barack H. Obama!” may become a swear word in the future. :wink:

…He’s the president. That’s just a little bit beneath his concerns, or anything you need to be concerned about on his behalf.

This really happened. But it was on Fox News, so…

This is what I love about** Qin**'s threads, he tosses out an OP like this one and hasn’t been heard from since.

[sup]Even though he’s posted 10 times since in other threads.[/sup]

If he does show up, ask him what he thinks. The answer to OP is so obvious, my only curiosity here is about OP’s view.

You mean back when he was in the Navy?:smiley:

Me and my kind… the attention to detail challenged.

What, armadillo-pig-aardvarks with gems in their foreheads?

It’s his name, that’s a fact, and I don’t think facts are partisan.

I heard plenty of William Jefferson Clinton and George Herbert Walker Bush, were those partisan?

She was still Hillary Rodham for a number of years after her marriage.

She apparently took up Clinton after Bill lost his bid for re-election to the AR governorship - it wasn’t playing well to use her birth name, apparently.

Saying “Barack Hussein Obama” is a cheap partisan ploy, almost always used by the same people who attribute evil to the “Democrat” Party (instead of the Democratic Party).

People who do this are in the same juvenile league as those who can’t refer to the “Republican Party”, but employ variations like Pubbies and Rethuglicans.

He can’t stay in one place long if he wants to keep them all going. Haven’t you noticed the “Sabre Dance” playing in the background?

Not so much, but I do recall hearing her husband called “Billary Rodham Clinton” a few times. (Or “Clintax,” when they were feeling extra witty.)

Uh huh…

From a non-American point of view (though, really, I’m surrounded by American media) - whenever I hear someone use his full/middle name, I pretty much always assume that they are Republicans and trying to make a point about…whatever they think the name Hussein is making a point about. It isn’t a positive statement.

In other words, I’ve never heard it used in a non-partisan context, even though there certainly are non-partisan contexts (like fact-sheets and Wikipedia entries, I guess).

In theory there’s nothing partisan about using his middle name, but in practice I’ve never heard it used otherwise. A fact is neutral, but the sneer on the mouth the fact issues from isn’t.