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Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein

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Posted by gorb 2010-07-09 02:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 How about being a closet anti-semite, Barry?

Posted by twobyfour 2010-07-09 03:19|| 2010-07-09 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I think gorb's inline comments at the beginning of the article give the Israelis enough reason not to trust him.
Bambi would just love it if both sides signed a "peace" agreement while he was still in office. He could claim that it was all his doing -- and he should get another Nobel.
Of course, Jimmy Peanut got the Israelis and Palestinians to sign the Camp David agreement. He didn't get a Nobel, and the Israelis and Palestinians are still fighting.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-07-09 04:03|| 2010-07-09 04:03|| Front Page Top

#3 It's just his narcisim rearing it's ugly head.

Obaminition: "It couldn't be about what I say or do. It's much more personal. It has to be." *Runs off crying because some one in the international community doesn't like him*

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-09 07:09|| 2010-07-09 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 C'mon now, folks. Some of my best friends are Jewish fellas.

Posted by Barry O 2010-07-09 10:22|| 2010-07-09 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Putz

Posted by mojo 2010-07-09 11:15|| 2010-07-09 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Worst $#@&!#& president in history! A complete disaster.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-07-09 12:32|| 2010-07-09 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't that your name? It fits, so what's your point?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-07-09 12:41|| 2010-07-09 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 If Obama had a shred of patriotism, before running for president he would have announced that considering it was less that 10 years after 9/11 he didn't feel comfortable with his middle name, and publicly change his middle name to "George" or "Abraham" (or anything even vaguely Judeo-Christian). The fact that he didn't was one of the first things that made me suspicious of his values and agenda.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2010-07-09 12:57|| 2010-07-09 12:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I bow to no-one in my contempt for the moron, but even I have to think that's kind of unreasonable. He is what he is; I blame the 52 percenters for their imbecility. To blame Obama for being Obama is like cussing out the scorpion what was hiding in your shoe when you ought to be off finding yourself some anti-venom ASAP.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-07-09 13:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-07-09 13:27|| Front Page Top

#10 You can call me Ray or you can call me Jay or you can call me Ray Jay or you can call me Raymond Jay or you can call me RJ; but you don't have to call me Hussein.

Posted by borgboy 2010-07-09 16:55|| 2010-07-09 16:55|| Front Page Top

#11 dear mr. president: Your middle name is "Hussein" here in the United States too.

Why not try (maybe) just one trust building measure for those citizens in the U.S. for whom you are paid to help?

Posted by whatadeal 2010-07-09 17:02|| 2010-07-09 17:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey Mitch.H, most folks would have looked into the shoe first for a scorpion snake before putting it on.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-09 17:39|| 2010-07-09 17:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh, and Micheal Totten just posted the below at
http://www.michaeltotten.com/

Hussein Has Nothing to Do With It
President Barack Obama agreed to be interviewed by Israel's Channel 2, and at one point he came across like a peevish and blinkered man who hasn't a clue how others see him or how the Middle East works.

During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that "some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion."

If he was trying to reduce anxiety among Israelis by making that comment, I can assure him he failed.

I was in Jerusalem the day he was inaugurated. Everyone knew his middle name then, and the Israelis I met on that trip swooned over him as much as my bohemian neighbors in Portland did. Whether for good reasons or bad, his plummeting poll numbers are based entirely on what has occurred between then and now.

Posted by Michael J. Totten at 12:58 PM

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-09 17:47|| 2010-07-09 17:47|| Front Page Top

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