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Hussein in the brain
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| Posted by: Bill Thompson |
3/16/2008 11:06 PM |
If only for its title, Cypress Hill’s rap classic “Insane in the Brain” came to mind after a recent dust-up among Star-Banner readers over a letter about Sen. Barack Obama.
In the letter the writer references Obama’s middle name, Hussein, and questions the sincerity of Obama’s departure from Islam for Christianity. The letter generated plenty of response from people who jumped all over the writer for making an issue out of a non-issue (Obama’s middle name of all things) and religious bigotry.
Interestingly, while the letter was written by a self-identified Democrat, some on the right wing also think Obama’s middle name matters because it implies Obama is a closet Muslim bent on handing us over to Osama (remember, it rhymes with Obama) bin Laden. This mind-set has even infected members of Congress. And some on the right are indignant that Sen. John McCain would downplay the name game, and even denounce people for making the reference. Now, the right-wingers ask “What’s so bad about using his middle name?” and whine about themselves being victims, of political correctness.
The right wing seems to believe that chanting “Barack Hussein Obama” like Gregorian monks would lead people to connect the Illinois senator to the other Hussein, Saddam, and scare people on the fence into voting for McCain. They better watch the connection they want to make.
After the latest Pentagon report, showing yet again (the third time at least that a major government investigation has resulted in this finding) that Saddam had no ties to al-Qaida or Osama, their constant refrain of “Hussein, Hussein, Hussein,” might make people think of Saddam, but not how they want.
Those who aren’t inflicted with “Hussein in the brain” might remember that Saddam, though an evil tyrant to the Iraqis, not only had no connection to al-Qaida, but also had no WMD, including nukes, no way to attack America and thus, posed no threat to the U.S. And the more they think of Hussein, they’ll recall how the noecon-men who conned us into invading that hellhole without a just cause, and how closely aligned McCain is with the neocons on Iraq, and they might start asking questions, such as the one posed by this intriguing column.
If you want to attack Obama's ideas, plans, policies, votes and so on, fine. But if the Hussein-in-the-brain people, by sticking to something as asinine as his name, are determined to deliver America to Democrats who want even bigger, more intrusive, more costly government, well, these tactics will surely help get us there.
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Re: Hussein in the brain |
By d. Baker on
4/12/2008 10:04 PM |
| Why are people so afraid of what they do not know,Just like anything in life you will never know until you try it, give the man a chance, hell give clinton a chance when it is all said and what do we really have to fear we got past Bush can the three be any worse? |
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