A rose by any other name calling ... STILL STINKS!

This utter nonsense over Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein is simply mind boggling to me! The mere fact that people are using his middle name to incite anger and outrage in the Republican base is nothing short of hilarious. It illustrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the party's base is generally ignorant. If they are so easily enraged by a candidate's middle name because they instantly equate it with Saddam Hussein.
The logic is this. Obama's middle = Hussein, Saddam Hussein = evil Islamic dictator, so by default Obama = muslim terrorist who hates America. However if you asked them about John McCain's middle name which is Sidney, they would have no adverse reaction whatsoever. So in an attempt to educate those of you Republicans who would hold Barack Obama's middle name against him as being indicative of his religious affiliation and political aspirations ... I offer the following.
In 1944, as the Republicans were running a futile campaign behind hotshot New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, attempting to deprive the Democrats of 16 consecutive years of White House control, they did whatever they they could to gain traction against the incumbent party. The most famous misguided line of attack was aimed at FDR’s little Scottie dog Fala; the most reprehensible, though, was an allusion to labor leader Sidney Hillman.
A founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which is still a major force today as the second half of the AFL-CIO, Sidney Hillman had amassed considerable power by 1944 and was often consulted by the federal government on domestic policy concerns. So great was Hillman’s percieved influence that in the run-up to the 1944 Democratic National Convention the New York Times reported that Roosevelt had instructed party leaders, before making their choice for the vice presidential preference known, to “clear it with Sidney.”
Unstated, but obvious to all, was the reason why the line “clear it with Sidney” gained such traction. In the 1940s, the name Sidney was as much an identifier of ethnicity and religion as Hussein appears to be today. Quite simply, a man named Sidney was an outsider on Main Street, since he was most likely a Jew.
As longtime presidential speechwriter Sam Rosenman wrote, this campaign tactic “was clearly an unabashed, unvarnished appeal to anti-Jewish prejudices.” And these prejudices were certainly prevalent at the time the 1944 campaign was fought.
So by the Republicans own logic
McCain's middle name=Sidney, Sidney Hillman = evil Jew who helped organize AFL-CIO, so by default John McCain is really an evil Jew who hates America.
BTW -
The boy's name "Hussein" is pronounced hoo-SAYN. It is of Arabic origin, and its meaning is "good; small handsome one".
The boy's and girl's name Sidney is pronounced SID-nee. It is of Old English origin, and its meaning is "wide meadow".
So there! Nanny Nanny Boo Boo!
3 Comments:
Maybe John McCain is a Jew. He does claim have a near religious issue with PORK.
You are funny, I like that. Does Sarah Palin know that Mccain is Jewish?
Michael, I really felt nice when I saw that you being an unknwon stranger to me believe in something which is so close to my heart. Accept my best regards friend.
I got to know about you and read this piece of text from one of your comments on some tv show "...We’ve become a society of people who are fearful of everyone and anyone we don’t know. I REFUSE to think that way..." !
This is a crucial statement you have made here. Believing that all people who dont look like you and behave like you all are your possible murderers is a well orchastrated theme being injected in the minds of all thinking world citizens by some negative world forces. I am an indian national living in india and I work for an US based corporation doing research here in india. These big western businesses are simply forming negative cartels with poor governments of developing countries, corrupting law and order, social values and increasing economic inequality here in India day by day. And what is happening to the US on the other side? people are loosing jobs like anything. Jobs are really "beings shipped out to countries like India and China". Is this what we call globalization ? Creating different flavours of social and economic misery worldover? However, Mr Barrack Obama, the new US president has righly stood against this sort of unplanned globalized outsourcing of misery. Congratulations! Mr Obama, I wish you all the best in the new office. Please do write to me if you want to know more about american businesses and their hidden side in India at madhuparnadutta4@gmail.com
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