Barack Obama, as the frontrunner in the presidential election of 2008, has attracted more than his share of nasty attacks. Republicans are becoming desperate. Unable to attack Barack Obama’s politics or qualifications, which are both strong, they’re going after superficial nonsense…
…like Barack Obama’s middle name. They’re actually attacking Barack Obama for the middle name that his parents chose to give him, as if that has anything to do with Obama himself.
It’s become a mantra for the radical right: Barack Hussein Obama. The movie you see below deals with this ridiculous name bashing rather well, I think. The idea is this: If people are going to engage in the religiously bigoted and racist attack that Barack Obama can’t be President because his middle name is Hussein, well then, my middle name is Hussein too.
Think of it as the “I am Spartacus” of the 2008 election. They’ve put it on a bumper sticker too, which you’ll see in this video.
