"Homeboy's middle name be what? Dayuuuum"
Posted on 12/18/2008 6:22:07 AM PST by IbJensen
Two critics of the Muslim religion think it's interesting that Barack Obama will not shirk from using his full name when he takes office January 20.
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, the president-elect said he will follow the tradition and use his full name -- Barack Hussein Obama -- when he takes the oath of office. "I think the tradition is that they [previous presidents] use all three names, and I will follow the tradition," he said. "I'm not trying to make a statement one way or another. I'll do what everybody else does."
But best-selling author Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch thinks Obama's statement is ironic in that throughout the campaign it was considered taboo to mention the Democratic candidate's middle name.
"Because it was suggesting that he had some connection to Islam and to the Islamic world," says Spencer. [And] now he's exploiting the same thing. Although he says that it's only because every president uses his full name when being sworn in and he's simply going to follow that tradition, it does seem as if there's a signal being given here that there's more to it than that."
Brigitte GabrielBrigitte Gabriel is founder and president of ACT! for America and the author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. She says Obama's background is part of his identity.
"He was born to a Muslim father, raised in his early childhood as a Muslim, [and] enlisted in schools as a Muslim," says Gabriel. "There is no denying the fact that Obama at one point was a Muslim raised as a Muslim."
Whether the president-elect is practicing Islam now or not, she argues, is "irrelevant."
right on! Some dam honkey bout got his ass sued for us'n Obomba's middle name.
Always wanted a presdent with a forin soundin name. We had a Clintonian named Togo, now we's got a Barack Hussein Obomba! Cool!
I’ve been calling him “Buraq” on here...
but it just occurred to me, could that be the name on his birth cert, and the reason he’s spent millions to keep it hidden?
Isn’t “Barack” a Hebrew name as well?
Talk about your weird middle names...
It is a semite name and both groups use similar names.
I call him Obomba The President Boy.
I thought it was “Uh Barack Uh Hussein Uh Uh Obama”
Also the name of Mohammed’s horse that ascended with him into heaven according to muslim legend—
http://ldolphin.org/allah.html
How about if the look at the one possible positive side of this - he has selected Rick Warren to swear him in, which IMO means that he will be using the Bible.
dyslexic redundancy?
"Homeboy's middle name be what? Dayuuuum"
He is using his middle name to give us the middle finger
I’m not convinced that Obama is a practicing Muslim.
I am convinced that Obama is a practicing racist, however.
The Muslims should love us for having a president named Hussein.
“Whether the president-elect is practicing Islam now or not, she argues, is “irrelevant.”
One of the more ridiculous statements I’ve seen in a while.
I call him Hussein the Kenyan.
“Whether the president-elect is practicing Islam now or not, she argues, is “irrelevant.”
“One of the more ridiculous statements I’ve seen in a while.”
Actually, I think her meaning is: he was raised by it and is thusly still affected by it, regardless of whether he’s a practicing muslim. I doubt she was taking his side.
From the Washington Post:
His wife, Rosalynn, held Carter's Bible. And Carter, whose full name is James Earl Carter Jr., added another presidential first when he took the formal oath as "Jimmy."
Carter Is Sworn In as President, Asks 'Fresh Faith in Old Dream'
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