We have a commenter
I swiped this post:
A simple question to Barack Obama from Neanderpundit a few days ago as I thought it was funny and relevant.
Today, Phyllis Jones offered the following comment:
I have noticed that all the Conservative News Reporters when they report on anything that Barack Obama does, they always show his name as B. Hussein Obama. I read two articles on Friday and they both showed his name as "Hussein". They specifically use "Hussein" in their reporting of him, I don't like that because they want to implicate him as being a part of the enemy or the muslim religion which we know he's not. Barack's mother and father gave him that middle name years ago before anybody knew anything about the history of Hussein so they are not being very fair to him. Also, Sarah Palin and company are intentionally not letting her have interviews with the press or news media. I feel she has things to hide and John McCain is protecting her from the media. If she says she's strong and hangs with the "Good Old Boys" then she should be strong enough to stand up to the media questions. How are we suppose to evaluate her in the next 58 days if she doesn't speak afterall she is running for the second most important job in the country, and possibly, the first if anything happens to John McCain. John McCain wants everyone to think he has changed, but you and I know he hasn't. He is using this Palin choice as a cover job in hopes that she'll steal the limelight from him and not show his flaws. He cannot, which he is doing, use his military story to run the country - it was very historic - but come on, enough is enough. Another note, when John McCain took so long to make his decision or inform the public about his pick for VP, everyone in the Democratic party should have known that he was going to pick a woman - he was just waiting to see if Barack was going to pick Hillary as a choice for VP, the first woman VP choice (this move would have been historic as well as a good move for the Democrats (18 million votes) - we messed up on this one and McCain knew it. Barack could have picked Joe Biden as his Secretary of State, like Condoleeza Rice is. So to steal his thunder, he picked Palin because he knew all the women were waiting for a first pick woman in this position. Barack Obama should definitely show in all of his ads the picture of McCain and Bush together as often as possible so the people will get the message. You need to get the message out there that this is what America is voting for on the McCain/Palin ticket - 4 years of the same old thing. Palin's views on everything must be explored and exposed - she is not off limits just because she is a woman and a mother (aren't we all mothers). She accepted the nomination for VP and has hung with the "Good Old Boys" as she has stated over and over again, so she should be treated the same as any man would running for the same position and answer all the questions that are thrown her way. I'm not comfortable with her avoiding the media and not answering questions because she is hiding something that the public needs to know. Democrats please don't just register to vote, go out on election day and "VOTE", that is the only way we are going to win for White House. Let's do what the Republican's do - get out and show we really want something really big and historical for the country - get out and VOTE on election day, don't just talk about it "DO IT" - we can win the White House if we all stick together and vote for Barack Obama.
Just wow... Og at Neanderpundit noticed my link, came for a visit and had this reply to Phyllis:
Phyllis: I gotta know. Does it physically pain you to be this ignorant? I mean, I would certainly hope that your level of bloodymindedness would cause you some pain, or are you so sedated/numb that you have no idea?
Phyllis -- the Hussein is used because that is his name. Of course he was named way before Saddam Hussein was in the public eye; that is not the point. The point is that, while growing up, he had connections with Islam, attended a Muslim school in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971. His twenty-year connection with Jeremiah Wright's church opens the possibility of connection with the Nation of Islam as there was a good measure of cross-pollination between the two.
As for Sarah Palin not granting interviews; she has only been the Republican V.President candidate for a few days (nominated on Sept 2nd) Since then, she has made several campaign stops as well as hunkering in and learning more about her job. She has several interviews scheduled.
As for (your words) "
using this Palin choice as a cover job"; McCain got inside the Obama
OODA loop and disrupted it. A good and unconventional but wise decision and one that successfully tripped up the Obama campaign.
You said: "
when John McCain took so long to make his decision or inform the public about his pick for VP, everyone in the Democratic party should have known" OODA loop again, McCain waited until the last moment and then struck -- successfully too if current poll numbers are accurate.
You:
(aren't we all mothers) I'm not. About half of the people I know aren't either.
Posted by DaveH at September 7, 2008 9:40 PM