Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

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Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

The below is reprinted from From February 27, 2008, because the issue is coming back up.

At Cincinnati, Bill Cunningham, according to the LAT, who "introduced presidential candidate John McCain at a rally here today accused Barack Obama of sympathizing with 'world leaders who want to kill us' and invoked Obama's middle name -- three times calling him 'Barack Hussein Obama.' " John McCain repudiated Cunningham's low tactics and said that using the middle name like that three times was "inappropriate" and would never happen again at one of his rallies.

I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama's name. It is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a blessed name. It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of General Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin. And denigrating that name is a form of racial and religious bigotry of the most vile and debased sort. It is a prejudice against names deriving from Semitic languages!...http://www.juancole.com/2008/10/reprint-edn-barack-hussein-obama-omar.html

[Skinner]

1. That is a good read. Thanks for posting it.

I encourage everyone to click the link and read the entire article. Lots of good stuff in there.

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2. Thanks for the notice. n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

I have a Hebrew middle name....I guess that makes me a terrorist. My first name is French... so I'm doubly evil by right-wing standards.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. K&R

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5. self kick-for the evening crowd-just in case. n/t