Re: [ADS-L] Barack Hussein Obama

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 08:37 PM 12/3/2006, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/3/06 8:18:30 PM, Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL writes:
>
>
> > Kinda like the how Democrats in Virginia referred to George Allen as
> > "George Felix Allen," subliminally emphasizing the Jewishness that was
> danced
> > around?
> >
> > Or the way that Lloyd Bentsen's people called Dan Quayle "J. Danforth
> > Quayle", to make him seem, I dunno, patrician?
> >
>
>I never thought of "Felix" as a Jewish name--sounds Latin to me. But if the
>point was to make him seem Jewish, that would be a good thing to a Democrat,
>would it not?
>
>On the other hand, "Hussein" is the same name as the person that the Wit Who
>noW occupies the White House referred to as a great evil doer, the former
>president of Iraq, whose supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction were a
>threat to us
>all. This is the man who was president of Iraq when the United States invaded
>four years ago, shortly before the Wit Who now occupies the White House
>declared victory in Iraq.
>
>It is one thing to subtly make fun of somebody's fancy-ass name, as
>putatively was done with the now-long-forgotten Mr. Qwaile (did I spell
>that right?).
>
>It is another thing to not-so-cleverly attempt to associate someone with the
>Evil Doers.
>
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And speaking of Evil Doers, has anyone noticed (I'm sure you all have) how
often the term "bad guys" is thrown around now?  I don't recall hearing
this in wars past, but now it is our mission to everywhere prevent the "bad
guys" from hurting us.  Gee, if life were only so easy.

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