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Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

kll5 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:37:20 EDT

Why don't we just call him by his initials... B.O. He stinks.

kll5

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

jackvinyl — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:36:25 EDT

@Hez: speaking of Obazzers what's going on in your blogette (i don't even understand what that is but i ended up in there last night) - more pictures... hmmm?

jackvinyl

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Road_Rash — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:27:30 EDT

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Bravo, well said.

Road_Rash

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Hez — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:07:51 EDT

@jackvinyl: Obazzer?

Hez

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jackvinyl — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:24:50 EDT

@matto: I'm surprised the Brit-rags haven't started calling him Baracca, or Obucca, or Oba...

"Blimey, you 'eard the lates' tattles 'a Barry Oba?"
"Obucca? Bollocks."

jackvinyl

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

RedHotAries — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:23:45 EDT

If he was Australian he would be known simply as 'Bazza'.

RedHotAries

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Tony the Tiger IS BACK — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:13:26 EDT

Barry is a lot scarier than Barack. I like the sound of a Barack Attack. Much better than Scary Barry.

Tony the Tiger IS BACK

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matto — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:56:05 EDT

@Koreanish: Punahou kids don't generally hang with the Hawaiian bitches, IYKWIM.

matto

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Koreanish — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:36:16 EDT

I'll just tell you right now, those Hawaiian bitches know how to throw down, no joke. Barry would not have done. He would have gotten tossed right out of the fucking luau.

Koreanish

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Cheap Shot — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:22:32 EDT

Barry Obama Baba O'Reilly

Cheap Shot

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Yank — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:42:59 EDT

Barack to the Future?

Yank

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

notsofresh — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:03:05 EDT

Newsweek is just answering the question "Barack? What the hell kind of name is that?", which its readers are asking in Buick dealerships, American Legion halls and assisted-living centers everywhere.

Next week: Why Kids Don't Pull Their Pants Up Anymore.

notsofresh

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

rantersparadise — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:36:41 EDT

@Eac_o_System:
Nooooo......

But I DID laugh..a little..

rantersparadise

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

donmiguel — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:15:36 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: Hey! My name IS KeShawn Wiggins! I keed. I keed.

@MrInBetween: How soon before "Crazy Eyes" Hussein becomes a news story on Fox?

donmiguel

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Eac_o_System — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:49:07 EDT

Yes We Name!

Eac_o_System

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

TedSez — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:49:06 EDT

@cassandra: It also means "blessed" or "blessing" in Arabic... one of the many similarities among the Semitic languages.

TedSez

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Nesbiteme — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:45:44 EDT

Transformers, more than meets the eye.

Nesbiteme

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

cassandra — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:23:37 EDT

@TedSez: Barack is also an Arabic name (befitting a candidate who attended a madrassa!). Maybe Obama can bring peace in the middle east just through nomenclature!

cassandra

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jackvinyl — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:39:37 EDT

@drugman: ditts.

jackvinyl

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MrInBetween — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:23:32 EDT

This might have been worthy of seven open pages of a deader-than-dead newsweekly if -- and this is a very big if -- the Newsweek investigtors had discovered that "Barry" asked everyone at Harvard Law to call him "Crazy Eyez Hussein." But Barry didn't. And, in a dark room in Chappaqua, N.Y., Hillary weeps.

MrInBetween

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oudemia — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:04:48 EDT

Sweet fancy Moses: Newsweek has published a 7pp article on someone who switched from using their nickname to using their full name in college.

Do you think anyone called McCain "Johnny" in 8th grade?

oudemia

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

rantersparadise — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:01:45 EDT

@Mike_Jahn:
Heh!!

Nooo, he couldn't be call that dude...cause he ain't got no black relatives has he? He'd be called Brad....something?

rantersparadise

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

if_i_only_had_a_heart — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:43:44 EDT

barry barry bo barry, ba na na na na fo farry, fee fi fo farry ... baaaaaaary

good god the r's really don't have anything to talk about do they

cuz if they stop coming up with irrelevant crap like this, the political airspace might be filled with talk of, oh, the endless war, the billions squandered, the crashing economy ...

much more fun for them to play the name game

if_i_only_had_a_heart

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Mike_Jahn — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:23:49 EDT

I wonder if Barack Obama isn't benefitting from the African name. Maybe the rednecks would be out in even greater force if his name was KeShawn Wiggins. The bigots can't relate to the African name that much because it doesn't suggest anyone they fear or loathe.

Mike_Jahn

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drugman — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:23:48 EDT

I'll say it well before the weekend's out, but Ian is a champ. Very quick, and nice political flavorings. hooray.

drugman

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

TheRightHonourablePrimeMinister — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:23:44 EDT

"Barry" makes me think of a sewn name patch on a pair of appliance repair shop coveralls.

TheRightHonourablePrimeMinister

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TedSez — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:22:47 EDT

Barak means "lightning" in Hebrew, and is the name of a military leader in the Bible. With a guttural "ch" at the end instead of a hard "k," it's related to the word "baruch," or blessed. Either way, it's not an uncommon name among Israelis.

Of course, "Barry" is a well-known Jewish name, too.

TedSez

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ms.creant — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:22:04 EDT

@wretched_of_the_mirth: you're right--buchanan overload on my part.

ms.creant

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

wretched_of_the_mirth — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:14:14 EDT

@4_Chan!!!!!11!one: And I'm just happy that there might be an improbable president.

wretched_of_the_mirth

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Buzz Killington — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:08:34 EDT

I'm just happy that he's probably not going to be president.

Buzz Killington

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

phlox — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:05:51 EDT

This must be the biggest non-story of the hour, if not the day.
Why couldn't he just say: "They call me Mr. Tibbs".

phlox

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wretched_of_the_mirth — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:02:48 EDT

@ms.creant: Totally missing the point here: He does not come from slaves. Peppermint Patty needs the evil pastor to preach a gospel of gratitude, not the future pres. Let's not confuse bigotries.

wretched_of_the_mirth

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sgtusmcpeter — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:01:10 EDT

Black or White equal in U.S.3-30-08
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 NH.veteran@yahoo.com
Does it matter Black or White. Judge Peter Fauver, the NH gov and the Veterans admin must be worried about the number of people reading my letters. I send out thousands of copies every day. Judges, public officials, newspapers even to hundreds of ordinary people and my readership is growing as I write every day. People across the U.S. and Canada call, write or email me with gut wrenching facts of government discrimination or just plain criminal acts against individuals. I may be a 100% disabled U.S. Marine with serious pain and discomfort but I continue because we the people and the U.S. must be protected against power hungry, greedy, self rigorous, criminals like Judge Fauver and the others that violate the Constitution. I have violated no laws but they have.
The Boston Globe and the Veteran's Admin advocate that I commit suicide as soon as possible. Publicly newspapers and the Gov advocate a program to help U.S. military and returning Veterans reduce the need for such action. These are people that most likely never indiscriminately kill others or lived in the most uncivilized degrading conditions not even imaginable to such socially high priced individuals. The newspapers will grant themselves awards for coverage not with standing the fact censorship of the peoples opinion has allowed returning U.S. military Veterans to be discriminated against and criminally harmed by gov officials and these very same newspapers. I am dead already. I died along time ago when I committed my first kill. I learned the day that I stepped off the plane in San Frisco and some girl spit on me and called me a baby killer that I came back to a world that I did not belong. I continue no matter what because if we do not try to make the U.S. better future generations will loose everything.
For the news and gov to know that the VA stopped a 100% disabled veterans medical in an effort to stop my letters to the editor and they cover it up, something is wrong. For the VA and the Boston Globe to advocate that a Veteran commit suicide rather than expose to the public criminal acts by judge Fauver and the NH judicial branch must mean they are looking for another award from the socially elite society.
It does not matter Black or White a U.S. Marine gives his life equally for every citizen of the United States of America. Newspaper censorship hurts us all equally Black or White.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi

sgtusmcpeter

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ms.creant — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:53:46 EDT

Clearly this can all be traced to his ungratefulness towards white America.

ms.creant

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

Mike_Jahn — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:52:08 EDT

And a fine tip of the Easter bonnet to Jerry Rivers.

Mike_Jahn

Barack Obama Chose Scary Foreign-Sounding Name

In Other News... — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:48:17 EDT

In other news, comedian Louis C.K. will now just be known as "Louie."

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