Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

I’m Hussein And So’s My Wife
by Hal_10000

Talk about your dumb pointless gestures:

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 [Hal - isn’t that credit card fraud?], 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.

They’re trying the counter the whole “Barack Hussein Obama” meme, which I’ve had my fill of as well.  But I really think all this will do is drive voters away.  I can’t explain it—maybe you guys can—but adopting Hussein as a middle name to show “solidarity” bothers me.  It’s pointless.  It’s pretentious.  It’s meaningless. It smacks of the whole Obamessiah crap (Thou Shalt Not Take Thy Obama’s Name In Vain).

In short, it’s a very very liberal thing to do.

Posted by Hal_10000 on 06/29/08 at 11:04 AM in Election 2008  • (22) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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