on barack obama and “hussein”/the “muslim” garb
First, the “Muslim” garb. I don’t care about this; it wasn’t “Muslim” garb (unless said Muslim was from a cartoon — there’s a Muslim man who does his prayers near my office and he usually wears a suit); I wouldn’t have cared if it were Muslim garb, and here’s why:
Just in case you can’t or didn’t want to watch that, that’s President Bush — dancing with and kissing a scimitar while locking arms with a Saudi prince, whose family is among the leading funders of radical madrassas in the world. I personally think that clip should be played in the corner, like the ASL translator on PBS, every time Bush is giving a speech about “fighting terrorism”. (Nick Berg’s head could not be reached for comment.)
Second: the “Hussein”. No one who brings this up is fooling anyone as to why. The same excuse the Clinton campaign gave for pushing the “Muslim garb” photo was used by others to justify referring to Obama at every opportunity by his full given name. It’s pure coincidence, a happenstance of his birth, and everyone knows it.
There’s enough not to like about the Obama candidacy. Leave these things out.
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