“We Are All Hussein” … F*cking, Heh!!!
Meet: Clueless Hussein … Mindless Hussein … Hopeless Hussein … Taxless Hussein … Dickless Hussein …
Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
By JODI KANTOR (NYTimes)
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.
Mr. Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. Hussein is a family name inherited from a Kenyan father he barely knew, who was born a Muslim and died an atheist. But the name has become a political liability. Some critics on cable television talk shows dwell on it, while others, on blogs or in e-mail messages, use it to falsely assert that Mr. Obama is a Muslim or, more fantastically, a terrorist.
“I am sick of Republicans pronouncing Barack Obama’s name like it was some sort of cuss word,” Mr. Strabone wrote in a manifesto titled “We Are All Hussein” that he posted on his own blog and on dailykos.com.
So like the residents of Billings, Mont., who reacted to a series of anti-Semitic incidents in 1993 with a townwide display of menorahs in their front windows, these supporters are brandishing the name themselves.
“My name is such a vanilla, white-girl American name,” said Ashley Holmes of Indianapolis, who changed her name online “to show how little meaning ‘Hussein’ really has.”
The movement is hardly a mass one, and it has taken place mostly online, the digital equivalent of wearing a button with a clever, attention-getting message. A search revealed hundreds of participants across the country, along with a YouTube video and bumper stickers promoting the idea. Legally changing names is too much hassle, participants say, so they use “Hussein” on Facebook and in blog posts and comments on sites like nytimes.com, dailykos.com and mybarackobama.com, the campaign’s networking site.
New Husseins began to crop up online as far back as last fall. But more joined up in February after a conservative radio host, Bill Cunningham, used Mr. Obama’s middle name three times and disparaged him while introducing Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, at a campaign rally. (Mr. McCain repudiated Mr. Cunningham’s comments).
The practice has been proliferating ever since. In interviews, several Obama supporters said they dreamed up the idea on their own, with no input from the campaign and little knowledge that others shared their thought.
Some said they were inspired by movies, including “Spartacus,” the 1960 epic about a Roman slave whose peers protect him by calling out “I am Spartacus!” to Roman soldiers, and “In and Out,” a 1997 comedy about a gay high school teacher whose students protest his firing by proclaiming that they are all gay as well.
“It’s one of those things that just takes off, because everybody got it right away,” said Stephanie Miller, a left-leaning comedian who blurted out the idea one day during a broadcast of her syndicated radio talk show and repeated it on CNN.
Ms. Miller and her fellow new Husseins are embracing the traditionally Muslim name even as the Obama campaign shies away from Muslim associations. Campaign workers ushered two women in head scarves out of a camera’s range at a rally this month in Detroit. (The campaign has apologized.) Aides canceled a December appearance on behalf of Mr. Obama by Representative Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim congressman.
Mr. Obama may be more enthusiastic, judging from his response at a Chicago fund-raiser two weeks ago. When he saw that Richard Fizdale, a longtime contributor, wore “Hussein” on his name tag, Mr. Obama broke into a huge grin, Mr. Fizdale said.
“The theory was, we’re all Hussein,” Mr. Obama said to the crowd later, explaining Mr. Fizdale’s gesture.
Some Obama supporters say they were moved to action because of what their own friends, neighbors and relatives were saying about their candidate. Mark Elrod, a political science professor at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., is organizing students and friends to declare their Husseinhood on Facebook on Aug. 4, Mr. Obama’s birthday.
Ms. Nordling changed her name after volunteering for Mr. Obama before the Kentucky primary.
“People would not listen to what you were saying on the phone or on their doorstep because they thought he was Muslim,” she said.
Ms. Nordling’s uncle liked the idea so much that he joined the same Facebook group that she had. But when her father saw her new online moniker, he was incredulous.
“He actually thought I was going to convert to Islam,” Ms. Nordling said.
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Just like Ron Paul’s groupies, Obama’s radical supporters are doing to do more harm for him than good.
Keep it up fools, you make it easier for us.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pmMy generation is filled with fuck ups. Terrific
June 28th, 2008 at 6:13 pm“My name is such a white girl name”.
She’s doing what a lot of young people do - assume that disagreement and rebelliousness in and of itself is a demonstration of intellect and independence. She’s just as clueless and unoriginal as every generation of teen and twenty somethings that has come before her.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:19 pmI agree Reagan. These brats are just falling for the latest American Idol candidate, nothing more. They aren’t old enough to remember Carter or McGovern so they think Obama is “original”…sheesh.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:21 pmYou will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:23 pmObamatons. The New Order of Hussein arraying brotherhood.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:00 pmObama IS a terrorist. End of story.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:01 pmObama: Zeek!
June 28th, 2008 at 8:16 pmChorus of drones: Hiel!
Obama: Zeek!
Chorus of drones: Hiel!
Obama: Zeek!
Chorus of drones: Hiel!
Obama: Zeek!
Chorus of drones: Hiel!
Obama-bots
June 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pmWill they be surprise to find Obama is 6 percent african negro 44 percent arab and 50 percent white.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:41 pmObama’s NEW campaign slogan:
Es ist zeit fur rache
Wir mussen die Amerikaner ausrotten!
June 28th, 2008 at 8:49 pmevery time i hear the name Barack Obama i just want to close my ears and eyes. just knowing how horrible of a President he would make, knowing how much disdain he has for our military and the role the US takes in the world. knowing how much he will fck up our credibility and power, accomplishments and culture. he is just disastrous and i cant believe out of 300 million people in this country he is our second option to lead the entire free world.
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
June 28th, 2008 at 9:17 pmObots, unite!
I couldn’t even finish the article. Got through the first paragraph.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pmHow do I feel about my generation. Listen to Blood for Blood, “Ain’t like You” ya know, that song in the credits sequence for YA.
man, these dipshits really look like a bunch of tools.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:14 pmWTF is up with these dorky ass white liberal lemmings who have no soul and no minds of their own.
What a fucking joke! These people need a lot of mental help, seriously.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:12 pm————————————————————–
You sure Mr. Obama didn’t break into a grin there Fiz, when he realized he has you all duped….
Suckas.
June 29th, 2008 at 12:42 amfucking morons.
My parents gave me my name, to change it for some idiotic cause would be an affront to them.
I’m with Reagan T. and T-Bagg, we’ve really got some shit-for-brains voters in our generation.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:43 amSo now youngsters are choosing Hussein as their middle name. What a bunch of young fools. I guess next they’ll tattoo and pierce it on themselves. I guess they were in elementary school when Sadam Hussein butchered and tortured thousands of people. So, this is the youth who will be deciding our ‘change’ … great judgement! These kids have no sense of history, or hard won traditions. They are ready to change anything and everything at a drop of a hat. What’s next? … changing their middle names
June 29th, 2008 at 9:04 amto Hitler, or Stalin?
real deep ‘article’ by the PRAVDA of the Obamanation
like head up their collective asses deep
time to restore the draft for these useless idiot Obamabots too…
get their punk asses off facebook and rock their world
“Some said they were inspired by movies, including “Spartacus”….”
get the fuck outta here
June 29th, 2008 at 9:13 am
“We are all Hussein.”
Translation: “We ae all insane.”
June 29th, 2008 at 11:39 amare*
June 29th, 2008 at 11:39 amI wish we could edit on here after we’ve pushed submit.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:40 amMy new middle name is Sidney. I support John Sidney McCain III for President!
June 29th, 2008 at 11:45 amOh yeah, restore the draft. Didnt have it in the 80’s and the fuckup’s that ended up at Ft. Benning eventually turned out half assed O.K.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:54 pmWell I’m fine with my middle name: ‘Sergeant.’ It’s shared by my father and many of my ancestors. I shit you not.
“Mark Elrod, a political science professor at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., is organizing students and friends to declare their Husseinhood on Facebook on Aug. 4, Mr. Obama’s birthday.”
BIG surprise there, PoliSci is ripe with flaming libs. I will ridicule anyone I know on facebook who participates in this.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pmA.S
i like that middle name. mine is wayne and i was named after John Wayne. dads idea
pretty fitting most of the time
June 29th, 2008 at 2:43 pmThese are the same asshats who will vote for sharia law in America, grab their little prayer mat and shuffle off to the mosque.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pmbob USMC— those are our future NCO core>>
June 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pmany catholic that votes for a pro-abortion politician should be excommunicated…
Re: Middle name ‘Sergeant’ … My Sara is about to have her baby girl (I’m hoping for July 4th) … She has a first name, ‘Sophia’ … Needed a middle name … That one sounds good.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:20 pmJohn Wayne, Peace be upon Him. After all he was a far better actor than that other guy and more likeable.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:22 pm[…] Pat Dollard we read about these Obamabots who take “Hussein” as their middle name on Facebook. […]
June 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pmLemmings.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:20 pmHow’s it look?
June 29th, 2008 at 8:56 pmlemmings for obama.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:34 pm