In all truth, I have friends who are of i think every ethnicity possible. And being muslim in this time is hard for me, people like this make it harder. I have been hit by "random searches" ever since i was 10 and was interrogated and yelled at, AT 10 if i was hiding bombs and if i was working for a terror group by these FBI officials. Now i dont support America far from it I love it here but when a country is run by people like this is disgusts me. Having the middle name Hussein would in fact increase global thoguhts of us thinking that we can get over minor things like a middle name. To tell you the truth I think all of these minor issues that are being hyped by the media are dispicable and are based off of more personal bias towards Obama than his actual skill in polotics.
Thank you for your time,
Ali MOHAMED Ahmed

This is like that group who thought it was a good idea to take all Muslim/Arabic citizens and put them in internment camps (Like we did to the Japanese during WW2), it's scary what a primarily Muslim terrorist group can do t frighten America.
There's a guy I know named Benito who I work with, people are always making that fascist salute when he turns around, and one guy calls him 'the axe' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces). It's shameful.

BUT DON'T FORGET, Obama is only one letter away from Osama!

Haha, I was debating politics with someone and he tried to use the middle name argument to prove Barack was Muslim (another fun internet rumor!). I said "So, his middle name doesn't make him a muslim." The argument was over.

It didn't change his mind, but he was at least forced to realize how stupid his statement was.

It just goes to show that the right will smear anyone about anything. Give it time, they'll be sending rumors 'round the internets saying "DONT VOTE OBAMA, BECAUSE HE'S A DUMB-DUMB-FACE!"

I'd rather be named Hussein than having gay sex in public restrooms like this conservative feller.

I say move to autralia where you don't need to worry about canidate being dunbass's but it is a must to vote
that or go north to maple country
"if you stupid and you know it clap your hands"

Happens everyday now-a-days. Have we already resorted to mud slinging? It seems that some extreme right-wing is blaming everything on terrorism...Kind of sad really.

p.s You really seem to be the most political member of the NG Staff, may I ask why?

I can't see Obama winnin'. He's black and supports gays. Their's a lot of poeple in Texas and the southern states which don't like that too much I think... unless hollywood has lied to me my whole life and southern US loves blacks and gays.

Your lucky Ross. Canadian politics suck. Last time things were actually interesting was in the days of Sir John A. Macdonald and the pacific scandle and crap. Anyway what do ya think of Ron Paul? He supports the legalization of cannabis I hear. So ya know I like him. :P

It would be cool but VERY surprising if Obama wins. I always thought his name would come into play somehow. I mean..obama, osama and now we learn of his middle name and that picture they show of him in the news all the time with the turban.
He has the cards stacked against him public relations wise just by his name alone.
If he wins it would mean the world's not as stupid as I think it is. Hopefully it not..

ive heard people call him that, but i never knew it was his middle name. guess you learn something new everyday

He'd be the same person if his middle name was Jesus.
So this is some sort of scare tactic employed by the politicians? It reminds me of a Family Guy episode, called "It takes a village idiot, and I married one", and it's about Lois running for mayor, and the townspeople couldn't figure out what her policies were about, so she ended up saying that everything was somehow related to terrorism. The town lake needed cleaning up because terrorists/Hitler/comic book villains had their base set up in the lake. It's an exaggeration, but it seems a lot of people are edgy about terrorism to the point that they'll believe some ridiculous things. It's understandable to an extent, but linking Obama and Hussein by a name is a little low... it's encouraging racism, anyone of this religion, dresses like this, talks in this language, has this name, comes for this country is a terrorist. I know we can't trust people to the extent of pre-9/11, but there's a difference between letting people live their lives and going out of your way and letting them know you think they don't belong.
It's a little disappointing...

It's yet another example about how morons continue to use 9/11 as a means to express their hatred and bigotry against those they disagree with and to make them feel like big men. Goodie.

One wonders if we can really ever win this supposed "war on terror" when we're becoming those we're fighting against. With every drop of baseless hatred, every race or religion-based epithet, every civil liberty taken, every cruel act we inflict...we are lessened.

Our President vetoed the waterboarding ban yesterday, calling it one of the most valuable tools we have (implying we used it a fuckload more times than previously admitted). Where's our moral standing now? How can we criticize others for torture when our leader supports it?

It's a depressing time. I can only hope that the next Presidency really is a movement towards enlightenment and not another four years of the same descent into...whatever it is at the end of the dark tunnel we're traveling.

When politicans stop getting success (mostly amongst the moronic members of the electorate) with cheap-tactics that discredit their opponents, I'll eat my hat.

>:(

I love that picture. Politics don't interest me much, specially not foreign politics ( even if they do involve the future fate of the entire world ). Twas an interesting read though.

Even though I don't particularly like Obama (I consider him inexperienced, because he honestly is), but seriously, so what if his middle name is Hussein? Will that affect him as president in anyway at all? Assholes....

Just because obama's middle name is Hussein, that means everyone can go jumping to conclusions say he's a Muslim and start to call him by his middle name??? Now look, i don't care about anyones last name or first name. All i care about is that no matter what, we don't have another president like Bush and that at least some of the problems in America that Bush created can be fixed by our next president!

I know it was Larry Craig. ;-) But c'mon, look at King's face. It just screams "can I grab your penis under the stall?"

Well that just shows he's got nothing to hide.

A rather right-wing family member of mine forwards me religous chain mail a lot. Most of it is harmless, but some of it I take offense to.

One particular chain mail started out explaining how Muslims couldn't be true Americans for various reasons, all of them extremely bigoted. Then at the end it said "And Barack Hussein Obama, a Muslim, wants to be our President? You have GOT to be kidding! Wake up America ! Obama even says if he wins the election, he will be sworn in on the Quran---not a Bible!"

I replied "Propaganda like that is dangerous" and provided several links to prove otherwise, including an excerpt from his book, in which he describes how his Kenyan father was raised Muslim but neither of his parents were religious, and how he was baptized later in life.

One of the reasons I stopped attending church several years ago was the amount of politics in organized Christian religion today. If you didn't vote Republican, or are not rabidly pro-life, then you are a bad Christian. When one of the pastors actually said during prayer that "George W Bush can lead this country in the right direction" (before the 2000 election), I got up and walked out.

rodham.. the other white meat lol...

So I guess that's like saying "Don't vote for Hillary because she's a female!". If only people would actually vote on what the president will DO as a president, not as what the person actually is.. like actually vote on the issues, not on the ... "physical" differences? Hmm .. well you know what I mean x|

Ha, well, that's mudslinging for you. These days politics have become nothing but a popularity contest and desperate (nonsensical in this case) attempts to soil your opponents good name with retarded comments that really have nothing to do with "the issues" at all. I'm starting to think that all the other americans think everything should be like Jerry Springer and other such reality TV shows, and that's what basically what they're doing in the campaign right now.

Take for example, Hilary Clinton. Every time she loses, she cries. People see this and automatically feel sorry for her. These are the kind of people that should just be dropped off the face of the earth. And besides, who want's a crybaby for a president anyway??? Hasn't anyone noticed that the people who are really focused on fixing America are not being covered by the media? No, instead they don't research anything and decide to vote on race or gender instead of on their future. God bless America, this message was brought to you by McDonalds, the 3 square meals of at least 75% of Americans.

~ThisUserNameSucks~
P.S. I still don't like Obama :)

I was trying to swoon my extremely partisan dad over to the side of Obama and he said something along the lines of, "He seems like a nice guy, but there's some things I just can't get past: he's extremely liberal... and his middle name." The first part was sort o fa misnomer and something you can forgive someone for saying and simply 'enlighten' them, but the latter comment broke my brain. I felt like a pane of glass in my head just got shattered by a giant boulder. I thought my dad was better than this.

Oh well. They'll learn to deal with it over the next four-to-eight years.

much like CaptainBob, i received a chain email about obama being 'a radical muslim who will not recite the pledge of allegiance.' the email i got said that this had been confirmed by snopes. but check this out:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/
muslim.asp

for anyone who doesn't feel like following the link and reading it all, it basically says that the email is, in fact, false, and that whoever wrote it must have counted on people not bothering to go on snopes and look it up.

hilarious.

that sure is a good point, middle names don't matter.

mr. ross OSAMA HITLER CHE STALIN SATAN LOKI SUTOR ARES HADES synder.

Damn his eyes are sexy.

I completely agree with you!
It feels like people will do <em>anything</em> to dig up "Dirt" on people. Even if its false and ignorant.