Does anyone care that a future president (if elected of course) have the same middle name as Saddam? Of course Im not saying anything bad about him im just curious because i do find it very humorous actually.
2007-12-05 07:45:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
I know he was named after his father Barack Hussein Obama. And that he did attend a muslim school for 2 years. He was also originally named Baraka..its an Arabic word which means "blessed" and come from the Koran. Secondly I am not a republican..just wanted to hear feedback. I have nothing agains muslims nor do i really care of his name but its funny how hes not so open about his muslim backround. We stop people at airports that even look like they are middle eastern (has happened to me) yet we dont mind him going into office...hmm.
2007-12-05 08:14:58 · update #1
first i have to say that you're pretty:)
obama seems like a good guy but good guys dont last in the white house especially with little experience. thats not good in a time of war. we need someone with lots of experience like Hillary.
2007-12-05 07:53:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Does it bother you that Im not using his middle name to describe his character? That Im choosing a canidate for his issues and policies and his strentghs and not because of there race or gender? That Im not interested in what experience a canidate may have when experience lately has lead us to scandal, embarassment, war, and lies to the American people? That maybe, just maybe, we need a canidate who can fix our foriegn relations by talking rather than WAR?
Does Obama scare me, NO... Voters with out any knowledge and vote for someone based on the things I just listed above or vote on them because of there NAMEBRAND, yet wonder how we got Bush JR a 1st term and a 2nd term!
So what really scares people about Obama?
2007-12-05 17:15:58 · answer #2 · answered by 2008 matters 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's see: We have and have had politicians with sur names like, Schwarzenegger (Austrian), Eisenhower (German), Van Buren (Dutch), Perot (French) and now Obama (Kenyan Muslim), etc. Get the point. Muslim is not a religion, but an ethnicity. Islam is the religion and he is not Islamic, but Christian. And what's in a name? It certainly isn't the measure of the man. I find the name Bush to be quite humerous.
2007-12-05 16:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by Lettie D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, God, how I hate defending liberals.
Barack's middle name is irrelevant. He's not a Muslim, he's never been a Muslim, and while he attended predominantly Muslim schools for the time he lived in Indonesia, a Muslim country, he never attended the so-called Madrassas (spelling?).
Go after him on the issues. There's plenty of ammunition there. But stop the relgion-baiting. You make all Republicans look bad.
Vote for Rudy!
2007-12-05 15:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by Rick K 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
His name doesn't bother me one bit. The somewhat dishonest way he's portraying it - "same middle name" - does though.
His mother didn't "pick" Hussein as his name, any more than your mother 'picked' Smith, or Jones, (or Hernandez or Romanov) as yours - it's his family name.
"Hussein" is not what we in the west would call his "middle name". In the US the normal way to name a kid is a given name, then maybe a middle name, then the family name. So "John David Smith" would be referred to as "John Smith" in almost all usage.
In Islamic naming convention, though, it's different, and although he's Christian he was named by his father, who is Muslim. In the Islamic world, the name usage is given name, family name, tribal affiliation.
Thus the Dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, is known in all normal usage as "Saddam Hussein". The "al-Tikriti" - his tribal affiliation - would be used only in the most formal circumstances.
Similarly, Barack should normally be addressed as "Barack Hussein", or as "Senator Hussein", because it is Hussein, NOT Obama, that is his family name.
Richard
2007-12-05 15:51:14 · answer #5 · answered by rickinnocal 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Not at all and I don't see what's so bad about Saddam, I'm sick of hearing about it. America does business with all kinds of dirty countries who have dictatorships. So get over it. example: China they actually kill their prisoner's (who are in there for non-violent crimes) so their sick people can get their organs..Iraq is in shambles since Saddam left and their people can vouch for that. America it's time to move on!
2007-12-05 16:04:17 · answer #6 · answered by Love Child 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Doesnt bother me a bit...why would it
He didnt pick the name his mother did
2007-12-05 15:49:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
And the 'W' in George W. Bush stands for...?
"Witless?"
"Warmonger?"
"Woeful?"
"Worthless?"
"Washed up?"
"Whore?"
"Wanna-be?"
(Okay...I know it's really Walker; But does anybody else have more fitting monikers they'd like to suggest??)
2007-12-05 15:54:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 6⤊ 3⤋
I met him, hes cool.
2007-12-05 16:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by mikeydonatelli 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋