Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you today not to praise Barack Hussein Obama but to bury him.



Now, you may be asking yourselves how an admitted volunteer and supporter of our new president can do such a sudden about face that I'm talking about burying him after he's been in office for less than a month. If you ARE asking that question, then you're taking me too literally. I am not planning on burying Barack Hussein Obama the man. Frankly, I think he's doing a pretty decent job while being faced with enormous obstacles.



No, I am burying the use of the name Barack HUSSEIN Obama for good. (If only it was that simple.) I have few pet peeves, but one of them is people who, while in the act of criticizing something Obama has done, feel it necessary to spout out his full name and then act innocent and unaware of the connotations of what they are doing. "What's wrong with calling him that? It's his name right? If there is nothing wrong with the name then what is the big deal? I'm just saying his full name." (Because obviously we go around referring to people by all three names all the time...right?)



People who claim that they don't know what they are doing wrong are blatant, lying, intellectually dishonest phonies. (Wow. That was a liberating experience. I haven't been so blunt since becoming a moderator because I'm constantly feeling like I have to be extra careful to set a good example.) Nobody with two brain cells that they can rub together in their skull to create an idea can be ignorant of what is wrong with saying Barack HUSSEIN Obama in a derogatory way. People often claim that it is impossible to criticize Obama without being called racist. And there is probably some truth to the thought that there are Obama supporters out there who are a little too quick to see racism where none exists. That having been said, it is perfectly possible to attack Obama on policy grounds without being childish. Saying "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" is childish. But even more annoying than that is that some people think that by the very act of saying Barack HUSSEIN Obama, they are actually making an important argument. They feel that they are making a valid point by noting that the man's middle name is Hussein. When nobody seems to care, you can almost see them sitting at their keyboard, seething with anger and stuttering out loud: "His name is HUSSEIN! How do you idiots not get this? His NAME is HUSSEIN! What is wrong with you people that you don't understand how important that fact is?" Saying the full name it is a blatant attempt to associate him with being an arab, middle-eastern dictator. When you see clips like this one, it is an effort to play up Obama's being "different". He is the guy with the different skin color. He is the guy with the Muslim sounding middle name. He's probably not even a natural born American citizen. Would people be referring to Barack Obama by his full three names if the middle name was "Steve" instead of Hussein? Highly doubtful. Now...to this point, everything I have said has been pretty Liberal focused. What's a good conservative argument for dropping the "HUSSEIN" part of any criticism of Obama? Because people will actually listen to you and give you some measure of credibility! How much credibility will, of course, vary based on how good your argument is and how well you present it, but I guarantee you that I immediately start discounting anything someone is saying to me if they preface it with a snarling, uttered "Barack Hussein Obama" bomb. And the country needs a credible opposition to Obama. One-party rule without a credible opposition just isn't healthy. It leads to excesses and massive mistakes. The first six years of the Bush Administration were a VERY good reminder of that. Ideas get improved upon when they get challenged. Otherwise, the idea never gets tested to determine if it is a good one or not. So please, anyone out there reading this, can we bury Barack Hussein Obama? For the good of the country? (And the world when you get right down to it, because the world's economy is pretty heavily impacted by the U.S. economy.)