Posted on 09/22/2010 9:17:02 PM PDT by techno
In an interview with Greta Van Susteren tonight Sarah Palin referred to the President as Barack Hussein Obama.
Could Sarah be going after the redneck vote?
Ummm, from what we know of him, that’s his name. If Mr. Obama had said “Hillary Rodham Clinton”, would that have been sexist?
That's his name.
That's his name.
Naw, she’s just having so much fun trying to rile the Left, she can’t resist a gratuitous poke.
It may be a seismic test, to see if the MSM still goes into dutiful gasms of feigned outrage when someone disses his majesty. Or if they are still hanging on every word or gesture of hers.
Or maybe a test of the MSM’s own Obama Fatigue?
That’s his name, what does it have to do with the Hill William vote?
John McCain made it taboo to say the entire name. In addition many people on the Left have tried to imply that in invoking his middle name that we are subtly suggesting he is a Muslim.
Isn’t he?
Ever notice how some terms describing various ethnic groups are never used in a public forum - at least without massive PC attack?
I’ve noticed that all types of people - including the PC police - somehow never have a problem with referring to others as “rednecks”.
What - precisely - do you mean by the term?
“John McCain made it taboo to say the entire name. In addition many people on the Left have tried to imply that in invoking his middle name that we are subtly suggesting he is a Muslim.”
I thought it was racist? Really, I can;t keep up with all of the PC commissariat’s directives, they come and they change so quickly.
I think she is tweaking the Obama boot lickers at PMSDNC (also known as MSNBC). Wasn’t it Chrissy “Thrill up my leg” Matthews and others on that sorry excuse for a “network” (and I use the term loosely) who said Obama has clout with the Arab/Muslim world because of his middle name? They were using his middle name and extolling the virtue of using it. Now if they attack Sarah, she will simply lay the smack down on them with little more than a twitter.
Should we stop saying a person’s name simply because the Left tells us it’s ‘offensive’ .. even if that’s his real name ?
Say by some unfortunate coincidence Ronald Reagan’s middle name happened to be Hitler, would the Left be following the same middle-name-out-of-bounds rule they have set for Baraq Hussein Obama ?
Folks who are conservative, square shooters, usually gun owners, work with the hands or run small businesses, who hate political correctness and appreciate politicians who do NOT couch their language.
Yes there will be some elitists who will be offended that Palin used “Hussein” but that is NOT her constituency. Much of her constituency is the working and middle class who have no hesitation of using Hussein.
“Crackers” and “rednecks” are demeaning terms for whites. Whites are a free target from the LSM, as are Christians. Their ‘hurt feelings’ don’t matter.
There’s no reasoning behind what groups libs choose to add to their protected list. Muslims murder homosexuals (remember the Iran doesn’t have gays comment that generated laughter at a student forum? What the President of Iran meant to say is under Sharia law they are killed.) Women being treated as property. Rape allowed. They few Jews as inhuman and want to wipe them off the face of the earth (Mohammed personally beheaded several hundred Jews — and he’s their role model!). Yet... Muslims made the protected list from the LSM.
Zero uses his full name frequently when showing he’s a citizen of the world. Why shouldn’t Palin or anyone else be allowed to do the same? Or is this one of those mysterious ‘I can do it you can’t’ leftist things?
Growing up in the “olden days” in the middle of the U.S., it was not a deragatory term - but a descriptive term for primarily men who worked outside, such as farmers, and had every part of their anatomy except for the area on the back of their neck between the bottom of their cap and the top of their collar. It was always exposed to the sun in the summer and was forever red. Interestingly, in our part of the country these people also went to the local car races on Saturday night, always went to church on Sunday, helped their neighbors, did not tolerate laziness and cherished and respected God’s earth which provided them with their total livelihood.
Why not call them “patriots” then? or “Taxpayers”? Or “conservatives”?
This Ivy leaugue yankee has more in common with working class melanin advantaged honest people than I do with “East Coast Elites” - and I am far from alone in my Demographic.
The guy’s name is Hussein. I think a MUCH more appropriate question is why did he change his own name from Barry Soetoro TO Barrack Hussein Obama.
Must have been when he was committing to Christianity.
Your posts may have more impact if you can keep from referring to others in derogatory terms. There is no need to buy into the story that Palin supporters are an isolated sub-group, and try to label them with a soft term for racist.
You and I must have grown up in the same area.
I’m familiar with the historical interpretation and development of the term. And I would much rather hang out with one than a lawyer.
In the “well educated” parts of the country, the term is used to describe poorly educated whites, and there is more than a small nuance of “racist” in it.
Just a quick Google search gives this definition:
red·neck (rdnk)
n. Offensive Slang
1. Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.
2. A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.
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