Emily at X Perspective notes:

The New York Times reports a new movement of Barack Obama supporters who are “expressing solidarity with him” by adopting the middle name “Hussein” on Facebook pages and in daily life.

A cursory look at the results for a search of “Hussein” on Facebook today netted: Tonya Hussein Van Tol, John Hussein Hartman, Dustin Hussein Hamari, and Kyle Hussein Randall, all in the first 2 pages.

I have a hunch a lot of people are going to look back on this campaign in about 20 years the same way people just a couple years older than me look back on feathered perms, The Village People and parachute jumpsuits.

ASIDE:  Other than policies and proposals and personality cultism and peek-a-boo/ is-or-isnt’-he playing of the race card, y’know what really bugs me about the Obama campaign?

How his supporters fans call him “Barack”.

He’s a Senator, and a potential President of the United States.  He should be “Mr. Obama”, “Senator Obama”, or even just “Obama”.

Call me old-fashioned; the word, I guess, is “conservative”.

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