Members GoldenDogs Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Ahhhh... some links for the King of Links! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members George008 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 I hope so. I couldn't tell you for sure. Where do you think we would be if Clinton policies were in place during the war, mortgage crisis, oil prices, and 9/11? Wouldn't be pretty....... Let's get Obama in there!...he will tax more than Clinton...sounds good to me... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bandbfan Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 I'll use the gun argument of people pulling the trigger. These companies are the ones who actually made these loans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members George008 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Republicans did not give him the name Hussein...His mother did. Was she trying to link him to Islam? I think this is just HILLARIOUS!! I have never heard of a politician that couldn't be referred to by his full name!!! How ridiculous is that? His name is off limits!!! True...but keep in mind which party did the coercion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bandbfan Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 ' Obviously there is a negative connotation when used in a certain manner. Is it normal to call people by their middle name, unless that's what they go by? Of course not. We don't called GWB "Walker" or BC "Jefferson." Why would anybody WANT to do this? Also, the originally Community Reinvestment Act was opposed by big banks. Yet they were all over it handing out the loans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members George008 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 I've heard McCain called John Sydney McCain several times... I've heard Clinton called William Jefferson Clinton several times..John Fitzgerald Kennedy...Ronald Wilson Reagan..Frankin Delano Roosevelt.....Dwight David Eisenhower...etc.... Fact is most middle names of Presidents are known and used....Obama is the only one that seems to want to "hide" his... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cct Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Ok, maybe so. I don't profess to know the situation in your high school, and I may be reading too deeply into your comments based on some conversations I had at work today. I do not blame teachers solely for the reason why education is the way it is. I also blame adminstrators, communities, parents, students, government, etc. The problem is far too complex to base on one factor. Unfortunately, no one wants to look at this issue very deeply right now in this Presidential election. That's OK; the school house is only where it all starts. (snark) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members George008 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 They understood the implications (reason for their initial opposition)....then they also understood the implications to their "community image" if they did not comply and follow suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cct Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 I'm not trying to hide his middle name; I was only curious where the H. came from all of the sudden. Now I know where...question answered. bandb raises an interesting point, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bandbfan Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Again, it is all about the connotation. People know how they mean it when they say it. If you truly don't mean anything negative, then okay, say it all you want. And by saying Barry H, you are implying that his last name is Hussein, which is just wanting to make the "connection" that much clearer. I will admit that I've referred to GWB as George W. But that again, is a different connotation. I don't mean to draw attention to his middle name at all. It just sounds "country" and he fits that image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members George008 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Like it or not his father is muslim. His middle name is Hussein...negative connotation or not, the connection is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bandbfan Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Ehh, when has Wall Street cared about its image? Enron didn't care about its image when it was being run into the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GoldenDogs Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Well... I might consider ceasing the tactic for you, cct. But I think calling him Barry is mild compared to what has been said of Sarah Palin and her family... "...she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread," columnist Cintra Wilson wrote in Salon. "She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism." Palin appeals to "the white trash vote" with her "toned-down version of the porn actress look. Husband Todd looks like a roughneck. . . What normal father would want Levi 'I'm a [bleeping] redneck' Johnson prodding his daughter?" "She's friends with all the teenage boys. You have to say no when your kids say, 'Can we sleep over at the Palins?' No! NO!" "Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman." I'm sorry you're offended by my references of your candidates nickname... but I'm plenty offended by the above. But nobody cares about that. Maybe calling him "Barry H." is my way of striking back at what I deem to be unfair... Whatever the pyschology is behind my bad behavior, I'll take your request under advisement. Thank you for being decent about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bandbfan Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 It doesn't matter if the connection is there or not. It's not about a connection. It's about a scare tactic to connect Obama to a side of Islam of which he is not a part of. Many in the United States don't know anything about that religion other than those who attacked us belong to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wales2004 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 That is how it comes across. Most of us are used to hearing him referred to as Barack Obama, Obama or sometimes Barack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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