Why Did Bob Kerrey Mention Obama's Middle Name -- Hussein?

ABC's Political Punch:

Some Obama supporters have asked why former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., who endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., today, mentioned her opponent Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's middle name in remarks published in The Washington Post. (LINK)

"I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim," Kerrey is quoted as saying. "There's a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal."

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Comments

[MRb1000]

They did this because they are racists. Hillary Clinton and Bob Kerry to do something like this is racist. Obama would not call her by her middle name. Who calls anybody by the full name. Only reason I can think of is racist reasoning. Hillary Clinton and Bob Kerry are todays worst persons in the world. Why didn't the just use the N word!!!!!!!!

[Liberterna]

That really is a plus right now.

Xenophobic rednecks aside the empathy he'll garner will be far more useful to US standing on the world stage.

Or we'll simply become utterly irrelevant as a nation.

If you haven't noticed being anglified is no guarantee of success either.

Hillary is sinking this low though? pathetic

Hillary is becoming as vile as the worst of the right wing neo-cons. At least the neoclowns believe in this american empire crap, hillary will simply say whatever the hell she thinks will get her the immediate political payoff.

She probably needs to "consult" her campaign manager if you ask her how her weekend was!!

[SeanGardner]

very stupid. I mean, in endoring Hillary, he didn't say, "I endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton". Her middle name is left out. But yet, in referring to Obama, who he did not endorse, its "Barack Hussein Obama".

Yeah, I know that's his name, but why did he have to emphasize his name and the "muslim" aspect, if he didn't endorse him?

Team Clinton strikes again.

Two high-level Clinton volunteers were vilified in the press for attacking Barack Obama with a vicious "Obama is a radical muslim terrorist" e-mail smear campaign that has been both disproven and discredited. DOubters can even look here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

That link pretty much debunks the controversy.

Pure and simple, this was a way for Team Clinton to raise an issue with actually brining it up. Its the same thing Bill Shaheen did last week when he insinuated that Obama might have been a "drug dealer".

I thought Kerry was more honorable than this.

[Tankan]

The name Barack means Blessed and is African in origin, in Hebrew pronounced Baruch.
The name Hussein means Good or Handsome One, and is Arabic in origin!

Why did Bob Kerry mention this, because he wants to join the Mile High Club for pathetic idiots!

[nomobull]

idiotic