Me, too.
“President McCain” or “President Giuliani.”
Either is OK with me.
PISTOLS AT DAWN!
Or not. I’m not really a morning person. 
Not sure what the answer to the problem is. If I were on the election strategy team, I might suggest trying to include his title as much as possible…Senator Obama said/did whatever. I’d be hoping even the fuckiest fuckwits would realize that Osama is not a U.S. Senator. Not sure I’d be willing to place an even money wager on it though…
This is one of those issues that I hope won’t make a big difference, but I have a sinking feeling that it actually might.
I can only hope that the morons who wouldn’t vote for him because of his name, just like those who wouldn’t vote for him because of his skin color, probably wouldn’t be caught dead voting for a Democrat anyway.
That’s why Barak should change his name to something American like DeShawn Jenkins.
Prior to the 2004 elections I occasionally heard some jackass on the O’Really Factoid who always called him “Obama Baracka.” Subtle, huh?
Okay, slick. I get it. 
Problem is, Bush has pretty much ruined any chance for either of them.
But those two would be my choices to go down to whatever Democrat does get the nomination. For it to be Clinton would just be icing on the cake.
I can dream, if I can just zen these idiots out of my mind. 
It could work both ways.
We had a promise from our current president (and anyone who runs on his party ticket will get tarred with his brush) to catch Osama. We didn’t.
I think anyone who wouldn’t vote for Obama because of the name wouldn’t vote for any non-male WASPY politician…this gives them a convienient excuse.
Jesus Christ. I’m just going to pretend that you’re a dirty liar and this episode never happened. I have to retain some kind of faith in my fellow man.
Well, I’d like to “show” you 
, but I think that if you kinda ask around you’ll find some similar sentiment. I was surprised.
Your faith is well placed. Guys like my pal are in the minority.
Part of the problem is that, if you watch shows like Sean Hannity, you can get wrapped up in that kind of mindset. Instead, I had my cable disconnected.
God, some of us humans are stupid.
I miss the early 1980s when I could say I was pro-bush all the way, and it didn’t have a political meaning.
His name isn’t like real American names like:
Kennedy
Byrne
O’Sullivan
McCarthy
Regan
Clinton
Smith
Green
Agnew
Van Buren
Warszawski
Adesida
Kim
and on and on…
America is a country made up of children of all nationalities isn’t it? That’s what the US is kinda all about on some level, isn’t it?.
I’d take it as a ringing endorsement of Obama myself. The wanker in the OP is going to vote against him anyway most likely. He’s not a possible GOP candidate so no vote that way by default. The only thing he can see to attack the guy on though is his name!?
Ha. If this is the argument from the hardcore moron right then game on. Give Obama the ticket and he’s gonna take the White House. For every one of the OP’s morons there are thousands who just want a good intelligent leader because they have seen first hand what a bad leader means in the long term. Those thousands will not care one jot about what the guy is called.
Early days but this sounds good to me(from a interested foreign perspective).
Bolding mine. Before or after he left his wife who was dieing of cancer?
Both. If you’re making an accusation, make it, but be sure you know the complete story.
Quasi
The funniest of the “Vilsack sounds like AFLAC” jokes was at the beginning of last night’s show. After the running gag of Jon forgetting his name and the duck reminding him (as in the AFLAC ads), Jon announced that tonight’s guest will be…and then he forgot. The duck pipes in and chimes:
(in a refined British voice) “Governor Tom Vilsack, Democrat of Iowa.”
Around here when he was running for office, Obama cracked a joke to the effect of a skinny black kid with a funny name making it in politics, people laughed, and he won with something like 70% of the vote. The only slur I heard about him was a coworker of my husband’s who, back when Jack Ryan was still the Republican candidate, said he wasn’t “gonna vote for no nigger.” Yeah, that worked out - after Ryan’s scandal and dropping out of the race, the IL GOP dragged in a carpetbagger from the East Coast, Alan Keyes. Yeah, another black guy. The not-entirely-joking view was that he was the closest Republican they could find who would be willing to throw himself under the bus for the state’s GOP.
Oh, and apparently at the beginning of his run, some out-of-staters would do double-takes upon seeing the “Obama” campaign buttons.
My stomach hurts. I’ve run out of superlatives for the flabbergastedness that such utter stupidity causes in me.
I dont know how to link to the audio, but the Bob Rivers show in Seattle did a (wo)man on the street bit thats worth listening to. Click here and look for Kaci goes K Walking to ask: Obama or Osama?, airdate 12/15/06.
The man’s got some work to do. I dont know if he could be elected president in '08, but I would love to see him as VP and run in '16. For me, he represents the future that America should embrace, but that I am not sure it will.
Or perhaps it might be Ted Kennedy.
Last week on the Ed Scultz radio show, Senator Obama was asked about the Name issue, pertaining to his middle name, Hussein, and I was impressed with his dealing with it with calm grace: From this site , an Obama blog site, hope that’s kosher, only place I could find the quote; it’s accurate:
Left out was that he said it was his father’s and grandfather’s name as well. So, he’s supposed to erase his history? He handled it so straightforward and decently, without any yammering or crappy sound-bite speak. How refreshing!
There’s the other little snipe going around; some pundit called him a “Halfrican American” Ain’t enough :rolleyes: for that. Grow the Hell Up.
Lightnin’, and wasn’t it Fox News that started calling Bin Laden Usama for a while? What was up with that?
And I have to agree with you: Let him do just one thing his opponents disagree with, and out will come “Osama”.
I also agree with Oakminster’s solution, which is to add the word “Senator” to the man’s name to offset the stupidity (negativity) which will be associated with it.
Q