Obama Supporters Adopting Middle Name "Hussein" As Their Own

New York Times:

Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

"Emily Hussein Nordling," her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.

The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.

Jeff Strabone of Brooklyn now signs credit card receipts with his newly assumed middle name, while Dan O'Maley of Washington, D.C., jiggered his e-mail account so his name would appear as "D. Hussein O'Maley." Alex Enderle made the switch online along with several other Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, and now friends greet him that way in person, too.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[The5thW]

If nothing else, we need to show respect for the dictator who easily ran Iraq better than us with both hands tied behind his back. I wouldn't want to have to run against him for president of Iraq today and there are a lot of Americans who would happily return him to work if we hadn't made such a gruesome spectacle of his demise on behalf of the neocons' message to uppity Arabs.

[Chillinout]

Never even heard of this. I just went and changed my name at Facebook and myspace. Great idea, the more this gets out there, the less it is going to work using his middle name. Nip it in the bud so to speak.

[kevenhusseinseven]

And I thought I was first!

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

You were!

[kellygrrrl]

as far as I know, you were

xo

Mrs. Hussein

[goodtomeetyou]

Kevenhusseinseven, the original.

[AlexVonHussein]

I have been around for along time.

[SGreen]

I am Sam Hussein Green.
Yes, we can.
Join the Hussein Movement.

[patricklee5150]

I am Patrick Hussein Roberts and I approve his message of hope for our beloved country.

[kenbomc]

My name on the blogs at barackobama.com is 'Ken Hussein'. I'm glad it's spreading everywhere now. It first started when Fixed news started attacking Barack about his name.

[wmbear]

WHO'S SANE?

Hussein.

Who's INsane?

McCain....

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

I am TXOBAMAGIRL73 HUSSEIN

[lafrance]

I took the middle name a while ago on my Barack Obama sitename.
Alot of us have been using it.
I've thought about using it on other blogs but, right now it's just on the Barackobama one.

[Deparis]

I am K. Hussein Deparis and I approve this message.

[PAposter]

Carpe Diem!

[theotocopolous]

Cool idea. Unfortunately, it set off my biggest pet peeve.
Arabic is a language, Islam is a religion. The article frequently implies either that Hussein is an Islamic name or that Arabic and Islamic are the same thing.
Sorry -- My brain is what happens when you mix politics and semantics.

[Knowledgeseeker]

not a bad idea

[wmbear]

JOHN HUSSEIN MCCAIN...

(It even rhymes....)

[BabsfromKS]

LOL

[Texas4Obama]

Obama supporters have been doing it for MONTHS on the Obama website comments area - sort of old news by now.

[theone718]

Yeah we did this a few months back but it's wonderful if it is catching on and more people join,.

[BabsfromKS]

I agree

Babs Hussein from KS

[jkpcguru]

I'm going to do that on my facebook and e-mail. A bunch of my friends already do that too.