middle names

Summary: Guests include anti-racist activist and author of White Like Me Tim Wise and Councilman Erik Cole of the Fightin’ 7th. Plus, Elbert Ventura and the Media Matters for American Smackdown.

Summary: Guests include anti-racist activist and author of White Like Me Tim Wise and Councilman Erik Cole of the Fightin’ 7th. Plus, Elbert Ventura and the Media Matters for American Smackdown.

Summary: Guests include anti-racist activist and author of White Like Me Tim Wise and Councilman Erik Cole of the Fightin’ 7th. Plus, Elbert Ventura and the Media Matters for American Smackdown.

There’s a reason the New York Times endorsed John McCain in the primary. Witness the BHO (Barack Hussein Obama) controversy.

From the Nashville City Paper:

While Sen. John McCain this week repudiated using Sen. Barack Obama’s middle name of Hussein, the Tennessee Republican Party embraced it Wednesday but later backtracked after a scolding from a party elder.

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John Rodgers has his version of the Hobbsian Husseining of Obama controversy up with a doozy of a quote from Tennessee GOP Chair Robin Smith:

I was reading along to Bill Hobbs, as I regularly do when I need a laugh, and he’s trying to defend himself from the accurate charges that he’s attempting to make hay out of the fact that Obama’s middle name is the same as Mohammad’s grandson’s first name (and the same as a certain dictator’s last name) when he says:

Bob Krumm comes down foursquare against those Republicans who think it kosher to use Barack Obama’s middle name as a cudgel with which to attack his candidacy:

I received two unsolicited emails from two Cincinnati area family members last night.  Both are die-hard conservatives and talk radio listeners.  Both thought that having WLW personality Bill Cunningham on the stage for a John McCain rally was monumentally stupid.  Just as I think highlighting Obama’s middle name when it is not in common use is also monumentally stupid.