What's in a name? Everything according to this thread..(Hussein is out, now BARRY is out)

none | 4/18/08 | georgiadawg32

[GeorgiaDawg32]

We all know we can't call Obama by his middle name, Hussein, because it's racist. We can't criticize him in any way because it's racist, and now calling him Barry, which is the name he went by years ago, is now also a "thinly veiled racist comment". So, no nickname, no middle name, no criticism..exactly HOW is McCain supposed to say anything during the GE WITHOUT being labeled a racist?

The only people injecting race into this contest aren't Republicans, or Democrats, Independents or "bitter" people, but Obamas OWN supporters who choose to see racism in every comment, every look, every glance..

This thread proves my point (please copy and paste into your browser so the hits don't come directly from here). Liberalism truly is a disease..

[GeorgiaDawg32]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5566751

[Red Badger]

They are at each other’s throats!............

[svcw]

I give...how is the name Barry racist?

[weegee]

Brak.
Brak H. Osama, er Obama.

[weegee]

[Nea Wood]

We all know we can't call Obama by his middle name, Hussein, because it's racist. We can't criticize him in any way because it's racist, and now calling him Barry, which is the name he went by years ago, is now also a "thinly veiled racist comment".

I wonder if a simple "Your Majesty" would be acceptable?

[weegee]

The name Barry probably evokes images of one of these guys:

[weegee]

Fearless Leader.

[svcw]

Their banter is hysterical.
One good point however is that people use “Barry” to demean him.
Yep, they found me out because that is the very reason I use the names Barry and Mickey.

[weegee]

DUfu PING!

[martin_fierro]

B*tch filled me up.

[weegee]

Is it Barack, Barrack, Barak, Barack? Barry is a “friendly” name he used to go by.

And he still retains the muslim name his grandfather adopted after converting away from Catholicism.

[misharu]

I especially liked this post:

As a white woman I didn't understand the reasoning behind much of what was seen as racist behavior until I became the parent of some precious little brown folk and experienced some of the weight of prejudice myself.

Ummmm...how gracious and compassionate of you to pull those little BROWN folk up out of the gutter and give them a better life. SHEESH! Talk about racist! LITTLE BROWN FOLK? How friggin' condenscending!

[weegee]

Might as well add this Obamalogo to the thread too. It fits:

[Fundamentally Fair]

Chaos!

[MrB]

I call him Barry out of general disrespect for any “typical liberal person” - same as I use “Hitlery” and “Hildy”.

What we’re seeing here is the use of the rhetorical “rifle butt to the head” of the cry of “racist”.

Whitey, you’re supposed to shut up and pay up, and don’t you dare criticize a “person of color”.

That’s what this is about.

[weegee]

I’m white and have been on the receiving end of prejudice too.

I’ve been called the profane versions of jew, italian, homosexual, none of which I am.

I’ve also been on the receiving end of hate speech for being heterosexual, male, and white.

But like water off the back of a duck, I never gave much thought to the incidents of racism that I have endured. They are dumb people who said really dumb things.

[MrB]

Ah, why should you be surprised?

Leftists ARE leftists in order to be arrogant and condescending.

[misharu]

Right there with ya, weegee.

[misharu]

Leftists ARE leftists in order to be arrogant and condescending.

Too true. I must have had a brain fart there for a minute and forgot that truism.