[Vision2020] Barrack Hussein Obama

[keely emerinemix]

I would also point out that before the internet, newspapers had to use shorthand when possible for headline-counting purposes -- thus FDR, JFK, LBJ, which then lead to the obvious use of their middle names in the text of the story.  

Headlines used to be set on a point system -- most letters were a single point, except for "m" and "o," which were two-pointers, and "f l i t j ,"  which we pronounced "flit-jay,"  which were 1/2 points.  When your editor screamed he wanted, say, a 30-count sug head, you knew that the all-caps FDR (6 points) gave you a lot more flexibility than writing "Roosevelt" (just for fun, 8 1/2 points -- The capital "R" is 2, and this has now ceased to be at all interesting . . . )

But the point stands.  It's no longer the case that in the vernacular, we use candidate's middle names -- does anyone know McCain's? -- except for those who appreciate the race-baiting benefits of hawking "Hussein."

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/


> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:19:30 -0700
> From: chasuk at gmail.com
> To: no.weatherman at gmail.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Barrack Hussein Obama
> 
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 17:32, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I received an off-list inquiry about my use of Barrack Hussein Obama's
> > middle name. Here was my response:
> 
> > Franklin Delano Roosevelt
> > Harry S. Truman
> > John Fitzgerald Kennedy
> > Lyndon Baines Johnson
> > James Earl Carter
> > William Jefferson Clinton
> 
> Your list is accurate as far as it goes, except that the last two
> examples you cite weren't commonly known by their middle names.  They
> were known as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
> 
> > Barrack Hussein Obama's middle name doesn't bother me; should it?
> 
> No, it shouldn't.  But it does inflame the prejudices of a lot of
> mental midgets, which is why it is used, more often than not.
> 
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