{"id":3133,"date":"2008-08-22T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2008-08-22T06:08:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:08:55","slug":"introducing-mitchell-wilson-berg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3133","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Mitchell Wilson Berg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily at X Perspective <a href=\"http:\/\/genxperspective.blogspot.com\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/29hussein.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=middle%20name%20hussein&#038;st=cse&#038;oref=slogin\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">reports a new movement of Barack Obama supporters<\/font><\/a> who are &#8220;expressing solidarity with him&#8221; by adopting the middle name &#8220;Hussein&#8221; on Facebook pages and in daily life.<\/p>\n<p>A cursory look at the results for a search of &#8220;Hussein&#8221; on Facebook today netted: Tonya Hussein Van Tol, John Hussein Hartman, Dustin Hussein Hamari, and Kyle Hussein Randall, all in the first 2 pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a hunch a lot of people are going to look back on this campaign in about 20 years the same way people <font size=\"1\">just a couple years older than me <\/font>look back on feathered perms, The Village People and parachute jumpsuits.<\/p>\n<p>ASIDE:\u00a0 Other than policies and proposals and personality cultism and peek-a-boo\/ is-or-isnt&#8217;-he playing of the race card, y&#8217;know what really bugs me about the Obama campaign?<\/p>\n<p>How his <strike>supporters <\/strike>fans call him &#8220;Barack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a Senator, and a potential President of the United States.\u00a0 He should be &#8220;Mr. Obama&#8221;, &#8220;Senator Obama&#8221;, or even just &#8220;Obama&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Call me old-fashioned; the word, I guess, is &#8220;conservative&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily at X Perspective notes: The New York Times reports a new movement of Barack Obama supporters who are &#8220;expressing solidarity with him&#8221; by adopting the middle name &#8220;Hussein&#8221; on Facebook pages and in daily life. A cursory look at the results for a search of &#8220;Hussein&#8221; on Facebook today netted: Tonya Hussein Van Tol, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}