Megan McArdle

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You mean Barack Obama is black? Who knew?

12 Mar 2008 01:03 pm

Comments (13)

The clip needs some Toto on the soundtrack.

Ralph Phelan

Since we’re no longer allowed to use Barak [redacted] Obama’s original middle name, we need a replacement.

The first two that popped into my mind were “Mary” and “Nancy” but I’d rather not make him replace all his monogrammed hankies. (After all, we've all heard from Michelle how tightly stretched their family budget is, with the barely $500,000/year combined income.)

“Hillary” is much too butch for him to carry off.

But if you’ve ever seen the plurally eponymous movie, “Heather” has the perfect air of rich, spoiled, airheaded social-climbing fashion-plate bimbo.

So how about from now on, we refer to him as Barack Heather Obama?

In a few weeks, he’ll be begging people to start calling him “Hussein” again.

How about He-who-cannot-be-criticized

Actually, I think if "Hussein" is off limits, we can go with "Harold". Since he is informally called "Barry", you get (drumroll)....

Barry Harry Obama

*rimshot*

Thank you, thank you very much.

He who must not be middle named

My outrage doesn't stem so much from Clinton's constant reminders of Obama's race, but rather Clinton's subtle reminders of how black voters don't matter.

By suggesting that Obama wouldn't be where he is today without the "black vote" presupposes that there's something wrong with those votes going to Obama. Meaning..."It's just those black people that are voting for him."

If Ferraro and the Clinton campaign don't understand why this is insulting, then there's nothing we can do to enlighten them.

Michael Foody

Ralph Phelan: John McCain's Middle name is Sidney. There is a reason that people don't know that. McCain's life of public service has him at a net worth of around 30 million. Let's grow up.

Ralph Phelan

John McCain's Middle name is Sidney. There is a reason that people don't know that.
Yeah, it's boring. But I'll see what I can do with it. I need a classic "Hey you kids, get off my lawn" type grumpy old bastard from popular culture.

McCain's life of public service has him at a net worth of around 30 million.
Yeah, but at least he's not going around claiming to be a class warrior on behalf of the poor, or to be bringing a new kind of politics. It's the hypocrisy that's comic. And once you've noticed that Obama is just as sleazy as McCain or Clinton, what *else* has he got to offer?

Let's grow up.
Nah, you gotta laugh at these jerks so you don't cry for the country.

I can't believe how low people will stoop to prevent Balack Hussein Obama from becoming President.

His middle name is forbidden..
"Verboten" seems to have a better rhyme to it.

Barack Verboten Obama

I didn't remeber what color Obama was because he's an empty suit, just like the rest of them...

You Clinton kool-aid drinkers are so sad. It isn't so much that you keep reminding us that he is black black black or that his middle name is Hussein Hussein Hussein (jeez only morons don't know that by now) but thats basically your campaign platform, kind of like in the video above.

If Shillary hadn't run the lowest kind of campaign, surrounding herself with dirtballs like Penn, Wolfson et al whe would have wrapped this race up a long time ago!!!

Ha Ha, your candidate is losing to a 46 year old big eared black guy with a half term of Senate experience named Barack Hussein Obama!!! You couldn't make this kind of stuff up.

That is embarrassing to say the least. I would think it calls for some serious introspection on the part of the Hil and Bill campaign to figure out how they could have been so clueless and incompetent.

If the way she runs a campaign is anything like she would run her Presidency, thank God she is losing. Not to mention the great success of Hillarycare .Oops.

Why try to complicate this? Obama doesn't care if his middle name is used, He only cares if it's used to insinuate, discriminate, or otherwise, cause injury or damage to his campaign. Everyone knows this, but yet they keep stoking the fire of deception with a convenient scheme to associate his name with that of Suddam Hussein. I wonder how many babies have been named "Benito", with no thought of Musssolini.

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