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McCain camp disavows use of Obama's middle name
Newsday ^ | 10-09-2008

Posted on 10/09/2008 12:57:29 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign disavowed an introduction here yesterday that included Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein.

William Platt, chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Party, twice referred to "Barack Hussein Obama," which other supporters of McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have used to link the Democratic candidate with Muslims. Obama is not a Muslim.

McCain has disavowed the tactic, most recently when it was employed earlier this week.

"We do not condone this inappropriate rhetoric which distracts from the real questions of judgment, character and experience that voters will base their decisions on this November," campaign spokesman Paul Lindsay said in a prepared statement.

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To: Swampmarine

That’s the description of those in the swamp too long.


61 posted on 10/09/2008 5:31:18 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Off With her head.....)
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To: skr
It’s uncommon to use middle names...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard Milhouse Nixon
Ronald Wilson Reagan
George Herbert Walker Bush
George Dubya Bush

Not that uncommon?

62 posted on 10/09/2008 5:36:56 AM PDT by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: My Favorite Headache

WTF?! Cheese and crackers, so “THAT ONE” is okay but God forbid if you say That One’s middle name.


63 posted on 10/09/2008 5:39:05 AM PDT by new cruelty (I don't want my daughters punished with obama.)
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To: skr

W

Yeah... we’d never use a middle name to refer to someone in politics.


64 posted on 10/09/2008 5:44:27 AM PDT by new cruelty (I don't want my daughters punished with obama.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Fine.

Barack Stinky-Snorey Obama.


65 posted on 10/09/2008 5:48:45 AM PDT by littlehouse36 (Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind.)
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To: Allegra

True. Calling someone by their middle name shouldn’t be a big deal. That the other side is offended by it says more about them than it does about those who use the name. Still, it’s a darn good thing that the McCain campaign has chosen not to comm... oh wait... never mind.


66 posted on 10/09/2008 5:48:52 AM PDT by new cruelty (I don't want my daughters punished with obama.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I think this is a good strategy of saying we won’t be using “Hussein” during the rest of our campaign. McCain just brought bigger attention to this by saying this. This means conservative talk will continue to say “Hussein.” Good strategy.


67 posted on 10/09/2008 5:53:33 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: My Favorite Headache

The guy is so tough and then he says sh** like this.I would tell the little marxist muslim to own up to his name, if he doesn’t like it he should change it! What is wrong with McCain sometimes?


68 posted on 10/09/2008 5:57:47 AM PDT by calex59
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To: new cruelty
Things like this are much more important.

The middle name issue is just drama-queen bait.

69 posted on 10/09/2008 6:06:07 AM PDT by Allegra ( Go Sarah!)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Good observation.

McCain is either a PC-diversity doofus on his way to losing this election, or he’s a cagey old jungle fighter with the instincts of a reincarnated Sun Tzu and Machiavelli’s DNA grafted on to boot...

I pray it’s the latter, so Sarah can occupy the executive branch in some capacity anyway.


70 posted on 10/09/2008 6:11:40 AM PDT by VigilantAmerican (We will not waver, we will not tire; we will not falter, we will not fail)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Who is running this dog and pony show? This man is asleep.

Are you kidding me? McCain making the statement that he did will get more press than if he said nothing. The articles will bring more attention to his middle name. McCain doesn't have to say anything else and can focus on Ayers.

71 posted on 10/09/2008 6:14:47 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: JMS
OK Let’s not use his full name, we should call him Barak Hussein.

OK, but let's Americanize it to Barry Hussey.

72 posted on 10/09/2008 6:17:19 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: BlueVelvet
If we win it will be Sarah’s doing.

Perhaps. Or it could be that the next 3 weeks show what a crook That One is.

73 posted on 10/09/2008 6:20:02 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Osama HUSSEIN Obama afraid of his own middle name?


74 posted on 10/09/2008 6:26:00 AM PDT by RasterMaster (CHANGE is not a destination - HOPE is not a strategy!)
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To: All

Hell, I’ll use Osama SADDAM Obama...we’ll still know we’re talking about an ENEMY of the US.


75 posted on 10/09/2008 6:29:30 AM PDT by RasterMaster (CHANGE is not a destination - HOPE is not a strategy!)
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To: Allegra
The middle name issue is just drama-queen bait.

and McCain took it. If he was going to say anything about it, he should have said "just make sure you get my name right on November 4th".

76 posted on 10/09/2008 6:40:04 AM PDT by new cruelty (I don't want my daughters punished with obama.)
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To: Poincare
If Obama wins this election it will be America’s last election (except perhaps for some “show” election).

America has already had our "last election" as this current "election" is nothing but a "show" election, from the primary to present.

77 posted on 10/09/2008 6:42:18 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: My Favorite Headache

McCain is McCain’s worst enemy.


78 posted on 10/09/2008 6:51:01 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: new cruelty
...and McCain took it.

I respectfully disagree. By making this statement, it draws attention to Obama's whining and it also gets his middle name out there again. And again. And again.

Amd McCain comes off looking like the class act.

79 posted on 10/09/2008 6:55:07 AM PDT by Allegra ( Go Sarah!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

My God, McCain really makes it hard to vote for him. What a wuss. Without Gov. Palin this man would be at least 20 pts behind. Seems like every day he manages to stick his thumb in my eye.

Let me be clear—I’m voting for Palin not McCain.


80 posted on 10/09/2008 6:56:28 AM PDT by dools007
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