Ok maybe we can post stuff here. The GOP is desperate. The only people this is going to effect is the ignorant mass that would not vote for Obama anyway. This is the same ignorant mass that dosen't take into account that Obama was born before Saddam rose to power. It is the GOP that put Saddam in power. It is also the same GOP that helped Osama Bin Laden become what he is today. That is what the GOP should be worried about.

I would respond about this, but thanks to the Huffington ban on free speech maybe I shouldn't.

Seems like we're off to Jonestown.
"Hey, why are we here?"
"Well, because he looks good and speaks well."
"Oh, okay. Hey, what are we doing in this line?"
"Refreshments!"

I hope the republicans continue to use his middle name, just spot lights their racists attitudes and nasty campaign tactics. It's having the reverse affect they want however, I know every time I see mention of his middle name I go to his web site and make another donation LOL.

Good Grief! We are possibly going to elect the first Black American President and people are hung up on his middle name? And we have a viable female candidate, too, for the first time (you never know). I thought we were showing real signs of progress in this country (oops! That word: progress. Isn't that sort of like progressive, as in forward looking and advancing the rights of people and recognition of them as equals? Is that a bad word? I guess, to some). What if we had a candidate by the name of Jesus (pronounced Haysuse) Martinez.? Would that be offensive? more than likely, to the same people who can't get past "Hussein" (the BAD one is dead and gone). C'mon folks. Use the brains you were born with! P.S Barack, I understand, translates as "blessing". Feel better?

As a 10-e-c progressive I knew it was only a matter of time before my state's inbred, racist, neo-facist repugs would once again shine the national spotlight on good ol' Tennessee. They've been so bored ever since they lynched Harold Ford Jr. Good work boys, now go burn some books or crosses or something.

Maybe he is ashamed of his middle name. How many times have we heard Hillary referred to as Hillary Rodem Clinton. Why are we letting the press derail us from getting answers to the questions concerning "OUR" everyday life? We deserve better reporting.

The funniest part about this is just how powerless the wingnuts really are. They got a beat down from their own party, it's hysterical. You think more off them would have voted for Huckaby... shame.

Well, his full name is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

The Junior part is not dignified! Can you think how "President Junior" will sound to people? He should address that vigorously.

That reminds me of a fellow named Sonny (Whatever his last name was, I won't say since he is still alive and might sue me!) who in the tail end of the good old days when All White men were Mister to all Blacks, roared his anger when one old Black man 'forgot':

"I'm Mister Sonny to the likes of you, Boy."

Gotta maintain our God given dignity!

By ther way, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was born into a Muslim family but became an atheist before Barack, Jr. was born. Oh my gosh, now Barack needs to defend that, too. Of course, Barack had no way of being affected by that for his father left the scene when he was two.

And here's another horror Barack, Jr., must defend: he went to school in Indonesia from the age of six to the age of ten, and in that school, he didn't speak English! The instruction in the school was in Indonesian. That could have poisoned his mind. Would you want your child to be forced to use Indonesian?
And it was a public school he went to in Indonesia. And kids from Christian, Bhuddist and (horrors!) Muslim families went to it. Could we tolerate a multiculturally educated president?

Can we bear the notion of a president who went to school in some Asian country just because his Mother and stepfather were there?

Is it thinkable to have a president that speaks a foreign language? Can you stomache it?

It is so great that we aren't yet subjected to such horrors. Our great Dubya shows the way. He speaks no human language well, isn't really educated worth a damn. ("Are there any Blacks in your country, Mr. Cardoso?" he asked about Brazil.)

So much to answer for to so many of us who resemble our dear Bush more than we realize!

Of all the crappy things the republicans have done in the past seven years and beyond, does anyone else find it a wee bit pathetic that the only denunciation McCain can muster is over the supreme horror of actually using a candidate's middle name?

The Tenn GOP is out of line.
The use of the H-word has no place in American politics.

Yep. Silly season is certainly in full swing. Looks like Obama got that right also.

Remember that Republicans speak in a code that instantly kindles a primal reaction in the SBC God-fearing crowd that is their base (all 20+% of them). Their use of certain words is carefully chosen. Now what kind of response do you think "Hussein" would evoke?

In Tennessee the primal percentage that would respond is higher, so there you go. They've got so little to attack with, it shows.

Sounds like something the Bush's would do. Still I think the country understands there is only one reason why it's being done. There is nothing positive the GOP has done.

Aren't these people learning yet that these innuendos show their pettiness and ignorance?

Dan Abrams had a Congressman from GA on last night questioning Obama's lack of a flag lapel pin. Abrams got him quickly by noting that the Congressman didn't have a pin on either and all but called him an ingnorant fool.