Posted on 06/23/2012 1:51:59 PM PDT by EveningStar
Joe the Plumber recently resurfaced in the news. It reminded me of something that occurred to me when he originally became a national figure.
As you know, his full name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Most of us know people who have gone by their middle names. Some of you here probably go by your middle names. Three presidents went by their middle names: Stephen Grover Cleveland, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, and John Calvin Coolidge. And of course, Willard Mitt Romney is a presidential candidate.
However, we've had media folks and others saying "His name's not Joe! It's Samuel!"
I'm not a fan of Joe the Plumber, but I have to ask, why is it wrong for him to go by his middle name?
Because Sam the butcher is already using that name.
Floyd is taken as well.
Easy. Because HIS NAME is not "Hussein", it's "Barack!"
And Bob Kerrey’s first name was Joseph. And Mitt Romney’s first name is, of course, Willard. Nobody thinks those two are phonies (well, at least not because they go by their middle names). What’s the problem?
‘the’?
Why is anyone or why should anyone care?
Poor Joe
The MSM spent more time investigating him in 2008 than they did Baraq Obama.
Wrong by whom? The MSM? The MSM is a media meme conspiracy. So put on your conspiracy hat.
Joe vs. Samuel.
Everyday Guy vs. Jew
Which one do Democrat conspirators think will sell worse in Peoria?
That's how they think. Racism is bad for you and me - for them, it's BIG business.
Two of my sons use their middle names: Allen Patrick “Pat” and Jonathan Francis “Frank.” My great-uncle Leon James was called “Pete,” for no reason I ever heard.
Joe is not Islamic?
Middle name people:
William Roger Clemens
Anthony Nomar Garciaparra
George Ivan (”Van”) Morrison
Argeo Paul Cellucci (former MA governor)
Luther Scott Harshbarger (former MA atty general)
John Donald Imus (...in the morning...)
Pure ignorance.
I go by my middle name and first initial not because I’m a wannabe snob but because my parents always called me by my middle name. Then as I got older people wanted to know my middle initial. It got to be a pain to explain to them I actually had a first initital. To prevent the problem I just started signing my name with the first initial. When I asked my mother why they didn’t just put the name they were going to call me first she said, “We just didn’t think it sounded as good that way”.
Barry Soetoro comes to mind. What is his middle name?
Years ago I had a girlfriend named Johnene, both her brothers and father were named John. The youngest brother went by his middle name. My name is John too BTW.
My dad’s name is Harold Arthur but he answers to Bud.
I have 5 brothers. 3 of them go by their middle names.
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