Why Did Bob Kerrey Mention Obama’s Middle Name — ‘Hussein’?

I don’t understand the sensitivity Obama’s supporters have over his middle name. It is public knowledge. It is so ridiculous. Get over it. My candidate has three first names, Ron.. Ernest.. and Paul and I love it!!!

well it is his name, he should be proud of his name and not try to hide it, and the facts are true, are they not?we cant hide from our past or our roots, we have to embrace them head on, and get on with our life, i don”t want him as my president, but lots of folks do

Thanks Hillary for continuing to support the Republican Neoconservative base. Democratic progressives will continue to leave your campaign for your divisiveness and underhandedness. spoken through the words of another member of the Skull and Bones Society.
Shouldn’t you just be happy riding around in you aircraft nicknamed the “Hill-o-copter”?

Your name is one of those things you just cant hide and no matter how hard Hillary tries, she can’t hide her last name.

If not elected President, I hope Obama ends up on the Supreme Court!

Ron Paul raises $6,000,000 in less than 24 hours today!

Well it all has come out that Obama is really a Muslim but tried to hid it from the public until Kerrey came out with it. Now people will get to know the truth. He did a good recommendation of Obama but supported Hillary Clinton. Maybe he burns the candles at both ends. That’s all this country needs in the white house a muslim. Its bad enough he is a former drugger and boozer and now wants to become president. This country may be in bad shape but we don’t need Obama to straighten it out. We need someone that’s capable with good experience and intelligence. And that is Hillary Clinton. Hillary doesn’t need Iowa and New Hampshire to win the nomination, she needs the bigger states and I believe she will get them. Let Obama have those two little states because he isn’t going to win too many. Iowa and New Hampshire are not that important as people say. Bill Clinton didn’t need either one of them to win twice. He skipped Iowa, lost in New Hampshire but won the big ones.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, George Walker Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Barak Hussein Obama, John Fitzgerald kennedy, Richard Milhouse Nixon Franklin Delano Roosevelt etc.
What is the big deal?

Much better to have Hussein as a name than Bush or Clinton. They sold him weapons he never used, they waged war on him for weapons he never had. They killed thousands of innocent people in Iraq and they are insinuating Hussein and Muslim is a bad thing? And let’s not forget that Bush did 911 not binLadin. Building 7 just was demolished to coverup the office of operations in th Guiliani headquarters in imploding both WTC towers, and sealing the exits after they made the biggest bank robbery in American History.

I wonder why it seems that so many of HRC’s supporters can neither read nor write. Clearly Kerry was praising with faint damns, and this is nothing less than I would expect from the Great Divider’s camp. Shocked and amazed–NOT. Next trick?

Forget about Obama, Clinton, Rudy, and the others, they’re all the same. Ron Paul raises over six million dollars in 24 hours, a R3VOLUTION has begun and it started with the people. Google, find out with people of all backgrounds are flocking to this man

This is so stupid. It’s his fricken NAME. His mother picked it, get use to it. If he didn’t like it, he should have changed it to…Billy Bob Smith, or something…

Thank God for Ron Paul… oh, and Mariann Pepitone, you’re an idiot- it shows in your comments and your candidate.

Hillary is a pathetic dunce. Bill was elected promising universal health care. Congress was democratic. 80% of the public was behind it. The economy could support it. Yet her program was 1000% failure. She had another 6 years to try to revive it. Zero happened. Can anybody actually be that incompetent? Now there’s an election, she’s suddenly talking healthcare again – with a mandatory plan that’s been proven not to work – except as a big windfall to the insurance lobbies that fund her. She flunked healthcare, Iraq, Iran, the Washington bar exam, and as a housewife. She can’t manage a campaign without planting questions, widespread funding scandals, slanderous e-mails, personal attacks, and every manner of corruption. But wants to be your president. Obama is a brilliant and visionary leader with a powerful brain. He graduated first in his class at Harvard. He’s a uniter with broad appeal that gets all the difficult things right

Obama will not be our first black president, that was Clinton. He will not be our first Islamic president, that was Carter. He won’t be the first to bow before the enemy, that was Chamberlain.
He won’t be the first to try to shuck and jive his way to the top. He won’t be the first to offer hope by stealing hope from those you have already earned it and would like to keep it.
He may be the first to beat a Clinton and live to talk about it.
The Obamanation just keeps rolling along.

I’m sure glad you reported all of Kerry’s remarks’, Jake. Obviously if you look at his remarks’ he just admitted Barack should really be the one to lead this nation, however, he’s playing the “politics as usual” ticket. In his heart, he knows Barack should be the one, but he endorses Clinton thinking she’ll get the nomination, and is possibly the better one to beat whatever the Republican’s decide upon for a nominee, in the hope he’ll get her support for his New School. He know’s Barack won’t scratch his back if he’s the chosen one. I feel Mr. Kerry’s “politics as usual” tactic is for naught.

Bob Kerrey himself said, “Clinton’s an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?” Was he speaking of Bill or Hill? Sounds like he learned a thing or two about lying from them, anyways, as he could now say the same thing about himself. Kerrey’s just acting in simple self-interest by endorsing this Corporation disguised as human being called Hillary Clinton. Kerrey’s motive is obvious to anyone with 1/2 a brain. This creep knows someone like Obama or Biden does not seek (and, more likely, would seek to avoid) his impotent endorsement, so, in a “swift” move, he pokes at Obama’s middle name (straight out of the “Republican playbook” co-authored by Hillary and her main advisers Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson), endorses this robot, and then tries to spin it as if he did something kind for Obama. Kerry has become such a great liar under the tutelage of the Clintons that he probably believes his own B/S. It’s really sad. (Kerrey: Go listen to some more Rush Limbaugh. You might learn of some more “fun” ways to underhandedly swipe at others while actually inflicting damage on the candidate you have endorsed.)

And what’s with “George Herbert Walker Bush” anyways? Multiple middle names? That’s odd… did they forget to cross one out when choosing?

chris – “but right now, the best choice for our children, our soldiers and our Nation, is Senator Clinton.” —- Humm, lets see, with her we get a lefist who has historically leaned not just to socialism, but to communism (want proof – read her college thesis). In order to provide coverage for 85% by replacing what we have with a second rate, extremely expensive socialized version that forces everyone into governement coverage. Increase taxs to the point of stagnating the economy far worse than her husband ever did. Exact unconstitional government control over corporate America. And, engage in “wealth redistribution” across the board – the democrats say this is to rebuild the middle class, but in fact, it is a plan to taking the money straigt out of the pockets of warking America and divide it up using guidelines chosen by the government… In other words, no longer government controlled by the people, but the people being controlled by the government… Think hard, is this what you want?

This is a very stupid
article. Husseim is
his middle name. It is
very proper to use it
in referring to the
Candidate. The writer
and his editor need to
get a life.

Speaking of names…why the ‘hil-o-copter’? Why not ‘The Broom’?

These leftist writers and editors, I tel ya.
I bet they are both Middle-Eastern (Semitic)American. The ones that try to create a guilt-complex onto the Christian Americans as their leader, Israel Cohen (Communist) taught them.

Bob Kerrey is a war criminal. This is part of the record–it is even part of his Wikipedia entry. Look it up. The Village Voice did a number of stories on the topic. He was in charge of a SEAL mission that killed, according to his account, around 14 people, almost all women and children. He has disavowed any direct hand, but at least two of his fellow SEALs say he was directly involved.

Bill has taken over Hillary’s campaign. I am afraid that this new development points up that Hillary’s primary experience is riding the Bill show as First Lady. Now that things are getting a little hot she has resorted to taking cheap shots at Obama and letting her husband take control again. Hillary has let Bill take over control of her campaign.
If only Bill had showed up for Gore in 2000, or to oppose this President’s disastrous policies over the past 8 years. It makes me wonder what he is about. And his comment that he was against the Iraq war like Obama is, I am afraid, nothing better than disingenuous. It makes me question Bill’s self control again.
Anyway, Bill is no Kennedy. His new attempt to copy Obama by saying Hillary is a “change agent” (see article linked to above) sounds like more marketing to me. As recently as a few months ago Hillary was going along with Bush to vote the Iraqi army as terrorists.
What Hillary and Bill should be doing is what Obama is doing. Talking about getting out of Iraq and starting to talk to other countries who are not friendly. Huckabee had it right when he said our President is in an “arrogant bunker mentality.” And Hillary already has chastised Obama by saying she won’t talk to suspicious nations unless she “knows what their intentions are.” Well how are you going to know unless you talk to them? It’s another more of the same catch 22.

“I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama…”
Ya?
US toppled President “Hussein” of Iraq. Does Bob Kerrey really think that Americans will have a “Hussein” as their president?
This is not Obama’s fault. The name was given to him. But it is a wrong name, dude.
“President Barack Hussein Obama”, that will be the freakiest thing imaginable.

Since he was born of a Muslim father, according to all four schools of Sunni Sharia jurisprudence, as well as that of the Shiite denominations, Barack Obama was, in fact, a Muslim. He was also raised as a Muslim in his early childhood years, and even recited the Shihada at elementary school.
He claims not to have been particularly religious until he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior sometime in his early adulthood. This, also according to every mainstream interpretation of Islamic law, is apostasy from Islam, which is indeed a capitol offense.
Consider how much weight the Democrats put into the idea about formulating a foreign policy based on “why Muslims hate us.” What will the Muslim world think about the “Great Satan” led by its first Muslim-apostate president? That would be even worse than our first Jewish president, wouldn’t it?
Maybe democrats should re-think nominating Obama. It may become another western, “root cause” for terrorism that needs to be appeased.

Barack should come out and say, “My middle name is ‘Hussein’.” Then describe what it means and what it means to him, then say, “I understand how people can take a good long look at my name. It’s only natural. It’s a large part of a person’s identity. But if you can’t trust me because of my middle name, I don’t want your vote. If you can accept it or even look past it, then I welcome you as I welcome every American to join me in rebuilding our standing in the world and remaking our government into an institution that works again.” He should be strong and forceful on this issue. He might not need a Mitt Romney/Mormon speech yet (a horrible Romney speech, btw), but he should probably address it in some way.

The bias in the media is disgusting. I am not necessarily a fan of ANY candidate, but he MENTIONED HIS MIDDLE NAME because IT’S HIS MIDDLE NAME! These people are not saying things that are not true! Where is the outrage coming from??? THEY ARE STATING THE TRUTH!

BOB KERREY was a loser to Mr. Clinton and he will lose his mind and a double loser with OBAMA – The respected Senator turns to be Myopic, Scary tactitian and propangandist for Mrs. Rhodham…. LET THEM GO THE RING and have a good fight!!!
Senator BOB KERRY can be a good coach to Obama’s Opponent!
He hurts the feelings of Intelligent People with his racist remarks…
I am a Republican I am for OBAMA 08′
- GNVL Thom/07

Surely no one is really surprised by ditry politics coming from a Clinotn campaign. How could anyone not expect it? I can’t believe that people are somehow shocked by it.

May God have mercy on your soul Mr Kerry. You surely need it. Your the pawn to biggots and power hungry politicians who have controlled our country since Jimmy Carter left office. You have no decency and i can only pray that your ignorance and the ability of Iowans to see above your words will finally bring this country together.
Division politics is her game and now we see again and again its yours too.
Americans hopefully don’t want to keep playing pawns to the powerful elite who want to beat us down by hook or crook.
Iowa the ball is in your court and may you see the truth and deliver this country to a new direction where our children are not used to keep the military industrial complex and the corporations in power. God has sent us a deliverer but as Jesus said may those with ears hear and those with eyes see.
OBAMA08

And Hillary is for Change — she will never change and she is a dirty fighter hope the Iowans see through her facade. As far as Mark Penn, boy did he put on weight, and how slick can you be do people who like Hillary really trust this “slimy looking” promoter.

The conventional wisdom today is candidates who can give the best speeches, media savvy answers or are the best talking heads on television is somehow equivalent to leadership in which no historical record of actions and results are required for qualifications. I think our electronic-media generation that is behind Senator Obama is confusing great media public relations with leadership.
Sure Senator Obama can give a firery speech and shout in social-economic political rhyme but has trouble but has a problem putting a legislative bill together without the help of Senator Biden or Senator Kennedy. I will vote for someone less flashy and caviler like Senator Obama for someone with great ideas and with a solid record and experience in all aspects in government.
In the end, leadership is the sum of a candidate’s record of actions and achievements to date, that include both wins and losses to define the candidates’s ability, character, and moral compass to lead and elevation of stature.

The conventional wisdom today is candidates who can give the best speeches, media savvy answers or are the best talking heads on television is somehow equivalent to leadership in which no historical record of actions and results are required for qualifications. I think our electronic-media generation that is behind Senator Obama is confusing great media public relations with leadership.
Sure Senator Obama can give a firery speech and shout in social-economic political rhyme but has trouble with putting a legislative bill together without the help of Senator Biden or Senator Kennedy. I will vote for someone less flashy and less caviler, unlike Senator Obama, for someone with great ideas and with a solid record and experience in all aspects in government.
In the end, leadership is the sum of a candidate’s record of actions and achievements to date, that include both wins and losses to define the candidates’s ability, character, and moral compass to lead and elevation of stature.

And why do I keep getting nameless insinuating emails emphasising the ‘Hussein’ in Barack Obama? Looks like Hillary is going outside her campaign headquarters for more dirty tricks.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
-Lord Halifax Obama has many
I am surprised that this Curry person, side of the mouth complement; wasn’t he going to run for President until he started making big bucks — boy are the Clinton’s scared — and the tactics to make one barf!! I cannot go through more Clinton —- And did you hear her on am shows?? Does she EVER give a straight answer and not talk over or under or through the questioner — She is not capable of giving an honest answer unless it is on her script.

If there is any doubt about whether this is racist and prejudiced, then replace all of the Muslim comments with Jewish:
“I think [Insert Jewish name here]‘s name may be a weakness to Republicans, but I think it is a strength. First, he is [Jewish], and he can speak to [young Jews] in a way that no white person can. I mean there are hundreds of millions of [Jews] in the world and he can speak to them in a way that no one can”
“lead with it as a strength. There’s this nonsense out there about him being a [Jewish] Manchurian candidate. He should do a commercial, look the camera straight in the eye, and say, ‘My wife Michelle and I are Christians, but my father was a {Jew] and my paternal grandfather was a [Jew], and that fact and my name means I can speak to [millions of] people around the world who need to hear from the United States.”

First, they complain that Hillary Rodham Clinton always gets her middle name included, and that somehow showed a bias toward her.
Now, they want us to leave out Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name because it somehow evokes unpleasant images.
Make up your minds, Obama crybabies. Which one is it?

Today – in 2007, racist trolls jump on a man’s middle name. An educated public servant reaching out to unite people, regardless of their religion, deserves some measure of respect.

reply to:Jeff from PA
Think before you post.It’s not the mere fact that he brought up his middle name, but the relatedness of his comment to the fact he’s endorsed HRC and is expecting favors from her.In addition, for a lot of crazies out there, it’s open season on muslims. I’m sure you’re aware of this fact. So, reminding people of Obama’s mddle name plays to that insanity.

What are the Dems so worried about with Oprama’s middle name mentioned? It is his middle name, yes? He does have an Islamic background that cannot be honestly denied; and his middle name just so happens to reflect this little discussed fact. Those that claim racism are hiding behind an old race card that has become worn and tattered. When all else fails, let’s pull the race card, that will get some people stirred. For my part, it is one weird coincidence that six years after 911; a potential Presidential candidate comes out of the political woodwork that just so happens to have an Islamic background. Wow, that is wild, man, wild. A little too wild for my tastes. I am racially and religiously tolerant, but what are the chances? We have not had a potential Presidential candidate with an Islamic background or heritage in the 200 years we have been an organized nation. Suddenly, we have a candidate that says all the right things that he knows some people “need” to hear. I am not confused. I am not supporting him because he is a lousy dancer. Ellen should have had him bake cookies or knit a sweater instead. His much discussed race and little discussed religion have nothing to do with it.

Dumb article. Whats the big deal that is his name. Stop trying to make Hillary Clinton look bad for something thats not even an issue. The media needs to take a Hillary bashing break and get a life. I am sure there are more news worthy stories to cover. Perhaps we can debate experience or voting records, but then again that would put Obama at a disadvantage and the republican lead media wouldnt want to do that. The republicans cant wait to have obama nominated so they can rip him to shreads. Good democrats, dont let it happen. Vote for strength and experience, vote for Hillary!

It seems to me that there is much prejudice against Muslims since 911. Not all Muslims are terrorists or extremists. All religions have their extremists. Look at the extreme right in the USA for example. That is Bush’s ilk. So what if Barrak Obama has Hussien as a middle name. So what if his father was Muslim. What is the next step? stripping Muslim Americans of their citizenship like the way Hitler took the citizenship of the Jews from them? So what if Obama is African American. This whole thing about Obama being Muslim is a false rumor designed to smear his reputation. He is a Christian anyway and Obama says so on his website. Prejudice is a sin. Has this country become so Godless that politics gets sunk to an all time low?
>Jesus|Freak

All the rumors floating around on the net about Obama are finding there way into the mainstream courtesy of the Clinton campaign. Its not about him so much as it is shedding a very bright light on her character. I expected to see these tactics from the republicans not the Clinton’s…
a former HRC supporter

Obama is a Christian and has had no connection to a Muslim other than by blood. He barely knew his father. I don’t think it should matter in any event. but clearly the Clintonistas were raising the issue to place fear in many Americans’ minds, as many Americans do care if he’s Muslim. After 8 years of fear-based politics, we need a change. I’m not wholly convinced by Obama’s record, but I sure don’t believe in Hillary’s experience by proximity while in the White House. What Obama does have is the ability to move beyond division and rancor. He won’t eliminate it, but the Clinton’s will certainly exacerbate it.

Get a grip, Ellie! Stop drinking the Bush administration’s Kool-Ade, and start thinking for yourself. Perhaps your rational mind will reject the “middle name Hussein” = muslim = terrorist nonsense. Or the “Saddam was behind 9-11″ nonsense.

ellie wrote: omg people get a grip, can you imagine calling our president barak hussien obama….i cant, i pray no one would be disrespectful enough to put this man in our whitehouse…what a cruel blow to all the 911 victims!!
Hahahaha, shut up, ellie. Seriously.

No matter what if Obama’s last name is Hussain he should not hide from American people. Let American people know and explain the fact. Hillary did not torture him but MacCain will massacre him.

KERRY IS A DUMB MAN. I HOPE HE HAS HIS FINANCES IN ORDER BECAUSE THIS IS SURELY IT FOR HIM.
NOBODY PICKS THEIR NAME FIRST MIDDLE OR LAST NAME. AND OBAMA WAS ESTRANGED FROM HIS FATHER. HE WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE MOTHER.
NOBODY PICKS THE RELGION THEIR PARENTS CHOOSE FOR THEM EITHER. I HAD TO DO WHAT MY PARENTS TOLD ME.
THE RACE IS NOT ABOUT NAMES OR OTHER DUMB STUFF. IT IS ABOUT THE CHANGE THAT OBAMA SEEKS.

Under no circumstances am I oblidged to solve the equations of politics, yet who could in good conscience change their first/middle/last name one is given. Obama has enogh conspiracy against him and the changing of his name with any legality will arouse even more suspision that has already. YET WHO EVER will refuse the vote to change the problems in THEIR own campaign who’s slogan is change it self. He has not once ever directly stated the type of change that OUR country will be shrouded in. Weather or not these accuations that the acclaimed “humanitarian” is in fact for the true good of this nation. To all those that seep into his words truth or not is up to us the “Democracy” that we live is in fact falling to the knees of the media and will ineviatably fall victom to the most widly known of the canidates. I hope that our electorial colledges will collect sufficiant and TRUTHFUL information to make the good vote. I am sory if any of what I’ve said is offincive to any one that is not what was ment towards this post, but mainly to inform the TRUE AMERICAN that our world is changing we don;t need somone telling us that the way we live is hard. We know. We live it every day. Yet appreatiate the compassion and sympithy put forward by this man yet we have live and will continue to live and thrive if we and together our God make the effort.