I don't know about you, but I think this is pretty clever:
... a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name. The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.
Over at MyDD, former Hillary supporter Jerome "Hussein" Armstrong has joined in the fun. Which got me thinking, how about it Virginia Democrats?
Tim "Hussein" Kaine?
Jim "Hussein" Webb?
Mark "Hussein" Warner?
Jim "Hussein" Moran?
Bobby "Hussein" Scott?
Rick "Hussein" Boucher?
So, whaddya think? :)
That's funny!
But seriously, I already have a middle name. It is Lee, named after Robert E. My maiden last name was Ross and they almost gave me the first name of Betsy. So I would have been Betsy Lee Ross. That would have been difficult.
On the other hand it would have been a good name for running for public office in a southern state. All the bases would have been covered, the flag and the Confederacy. You can't beat that.
As it is I am named after Rebecca in the Bible. That would have worked well too come to think of it. The Evangelicals would have eaten it up.
As far as I know, this is all on Facebook. That is what the NYTimes article is about. From what I've heard, it was kind of spontaneous. The logic is great, however, and I am hoping that the story gets picked up by more national media and moves up the food chain.
Sign up for Facebook, go to the NYTimes article, help promote the story. Lets build a strong family on Facebook.