"King: It’s ‘bizarre’ that Obama will use his middle name when being sworn in."

[jenmito]

"...After telling the Associated Press last year that Obama’s middle name was among the reasons Islamic terrorists would rejoice over his election, (Rep. Steve) King(R-IA) says he’s since been careful to avoid using it. Thus he found Obama’s decision to allow it be mentioned on the steps of the Capitol “bizarre” and “a double-standard.”

“Is that reserved just for him, not his critics?” King asked.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/16/king-hussein-bizarre/

:rofl: I can see Repubs.' heads exploding all over the country when he uses his middle name Tuesday. Don't they realize there's a difference between RWers using it to try to scare people, to make him look like he's a terrorist, and using it to send a POSITIVE message to the country and the world that we will not look at Muslims as "the bad guys" to the extent we elected someone who's middle name is one of the most common names in the Muslim world?

[H2O Man]

1. Rep. King

shuld be forced to change his last name.

[jenmito]

3. I agree...

maybe to "Fool" or "Idiot."

[Peacetrain]

35. Well King said this back in March

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking to a local Iowa radio station, said that terrorists would dance in the streets if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is elected president -- precisely because of not only Obama's position on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but because Obama's middle name is "Hussein," his father's Muslim roots, and his appearance -- or "optics," as King put it.

[Cha]

2. In your face, King...Suck

it up. zidzi Hussein.

Remember that?

[jenmito]

5. Yeah...

the good ol' days. :)

[Deja Q]

4. I don't care about his name. I care about what he does as President.

Anyone so fickle as to bleat over his middle name is a shallow little fool.

[jenmito]

8. It was a RW talking point to use the "Hussein" to feed into the "secret Muslim"

narrative. THEY care about his name and tried to BEAT him by using his name. They lost. And they don't get the difference between when they used it as a negative and when the rest of us use it as a positive.

[Mist]

9. Exactly--when Obama uses his middle name, the Rethugs can't use it as a scare tactic. Too bad. nt

[jenmito]

13. Yup. But Tuesday, I'm betting and hoping many of them will explode when

they hear it, with the same attitude as King.

[TTUBatfan2008]

6. I hope...

that over the next 8 years Barack will use his middle name as often as possible, to prove the point that 99.9% of the people in this world named Hussein are good people. The only way to change people's ignorance and bigotry is to show examples that are exactly the opposite of whatever stereotype exists in their mind.

[jenmito]

10. So do I...

and I'm sure that will take the "power" out of the hands of the RWers to vilify HIM or anyone else who happens to have that name.

[MzShellG]

34. Yes. That will bring about a paradigm change for sure. nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. No they're too thick. And, of course, bitterly disappointed at the extent to which it will

undermine their demonization of Moslems. They want to keep the population in fear and arms sales high. Never mind that the eminently-avoidable 9/11, alone, cost more civilian lives than most decades-long, national guerilla/terrorism campaigns.

[jenmito]

16. True...

it makes me happy that they lost their "Hussein campaign" against Obama. :)

[ddeclue]

11. Since WHEN has any President in recent history NOT used his middle name(s)?

:shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Yeah. It's bizarre to complain about what is actually a normal event.

[jenmito]

14. Jimmy Carter. n/t

[ddeclue]

15. OK but that's 32 years ago... I was 10 years old at the time..

[jenmito]

17. Yup-he was an exception. So was I! n/t

[yardwork]

24. We still all knew that his name was James Earl Carter, though.

It was just that he liked the nickname Jimmy.

[jenmito]

30. I know. And he was the exception. Obama will do what NEARLY all others did. n/t

[Bluzmann57]

18. As an Iowan, I am ashamed that he represents part of my state

I love this state, in spite of the extreme weather we've had lately, but this bastard makes us all look bad. Please understand that we have three Democratic reps., a relative maderate repub, and this asshole. It's still a good state to be in.

[Inspired]

21. I'm ashamed too, but grateful that my rep is Democratic.

[jenmito]

22. I don't doubt you...

I bet a LOT of Iowans are ashamed of him.

[Inspired]

19. Steve King is an embarrassment to the good state of Iowa.

[TeamJordan23]

23. Not just Iowa, he in embarrassment to America. nm

[Critters2]

20. Steve King should be an expert on "bizarre".

No one is more bizarre than the idiot from Iowa.

[yardwork]

25. I hope that Obama says his middle name very loudly. HUSSEIN.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. King is an ass; if you live in Iowa please let us know who runs against him in 2010

I plan on sending every penny I can spare to his opponent.

[TTUBatfan2008]

28. Agreed...

This bigot needs to be voted out of office. And at this point I think he can be considered treasonous for his claim that Al Qaeda would be dancing in the streets if Obama would be elected. If you want what's best for your country, you don't say that kind of thing about a Presidential candidate, and now the President-elect.

[Xipe Totec]

27. Clearly, when the world is about to implode, Obama's middle name is the most important subject n/t

[Liberalboy]

29. On Tuesday....

all of America's middle name will be Hussein! :-)

[jenmito]

31. It already is...

but I just can't wait to read the freepers' comments about it. :D

[LynneSin]

32. Oh geez.....

Just because Steven A. King doesn't want to mention his middle name - well we all know "A" stands for asshole

[asdjrocky]

33. Hey King-

SUCK IT!

[Doctor_J]

36. It's bizarre that a pathetic loser like King gets $170,000 tax dollars every year

time for the IA voters to kick him off of the gravy train