WTF? Mika Brez. saying "Barack Hussein Obama"

this morning on MSNBC. Just wondering why all of a sudden she started saying his middle name? I haven't been sitting here and watching all morning, but I did hear her say it twice (I don't know how many I've missed).

Just sayin'... :wtf:

I thought it was odd.
Then she said that her father had come out for Obama early (Jan. I think),
and that she has 1 brother who is working for Obama and 1 who is working for McCain.

of some kind of argument where he was chastizing her about continuing to promote the Primary.. it was just prior to the segment where she said Barack Hussein Obama. Matthews looked really pissed. The other stations seem to be in GE mode.

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:rofl:

Like the WV Clinton supporter who proudly held up the Barrack "HUSSEIN" Obama sign with a look on her face like she just knows it all and damn those who ain't figured it out yet.

Now who paid for this?

n.t.

:(

At the event in Houston, we couldn't take in any homemade signs. Not that it's probably the same everywhere, but these things are regulated in some manner, I'd imagine...

it was at the same rally.

The other, more professional one, I do wonder about that because there's no way to roll that sign up and scrawl a hasty message on it once you're in, like the pink one above. You just can't hide that on the way in. I would hope that Hillary's campaign people there might have grabbed the more obvious sign when they saw it because it really makes THEM look bad, never mind the unfair implications. I don't think that kind of thing would have been tolerated at the rally I went to for Obama and I saw no such smears there. It's just disappointing, to put it mildly. :\

My guess is that God asked him to make that sign.

Really playing up that "Hussein" bit, huh?

She's lost without the dead intern scabman.

when he disagreed with her analysis. She has relatives working on the McCain
campaign and admitted it.

Sounds like Dad is the progressive and the kids turned into repuglicans.

because she used his middle name?

pointing out the defeat of the Clinton machine...by a guy with the middle name of "Hussein" and with all the Rev. Wright conroversy. It was a whole "wow, he bested the Clinton machine even with all the "negatives" people tried or try to use against him1"

I watched the entire show, I really don't know how people jumped to the conclusions they did...she certainly doesn't come across as a republican, but hey, that's just my opinion.

this morning. I did see the video of Obama playing pool
and then they said Chuck Todd was coming on, who I like and has
been accurate, so I left it running. I turned it off after he
gave his analysis.

from my viewing experience, Mika doesn't come across as a republican, and she definitely likes Obama.

I'm not sure where Mika stands. I did find it odd that she referred to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama, but I'm not sure that definitely places her in the McCain camp.

because it will be used quite often in the general election. It is not a smear. It is his name. If Obama had embraced it from the beginning then he would have taken the smear element away from his opponents. He did not.

Anything to keep the focus off the issues. :(

air by their full name. To pretend the racists aren't using it for nefarious reasons is to ignore reality. But those that repeat it all the time unnaturally I hope will be seen as who they are.

Barrack Hussein Obama IS his name. He has acknowledged it. He'd been telling the "Black kid with the funny name" story for well over a year. Even as recently as last week. He ties it into his "only in America is my story even possible" message. Pay attention.

Oh, and "Barry" shouldn't be derogatory to him either. He'd gone almost exclusively by that nickname into his college days. But hey, if it makes his detractors feel better trying to latch on to something--anything--that's negative, then whatever...

Really, WTF? Maybe I need to write her another email.

felt it was not said in any negative way. I think that it is actually time to say his name out loud and take away the "OMG stigma" away and present it as an honorable name (which it is) and it is time to treat it as such. Say it....Barack Hussein Obama!! It has been my observation that when u have a winner in a presidential race, u sometimes first know it when the media begins to use all three of that persons name...JFK as the first example that i remember.

The first time was how you described...however, the second time was just in passing.

Weird.

That's a good, powerful name. Use it with pride....he's our next president!

She was pointing out how unimaginable it must have been for the clinton's to be beat by a man from no where with the name, BHO, who happens to be half-black. The entire conversation centered around the Clinton's inability to gracefully exit, their lack of coattails, and their misguided assumption of entitlement to the WH. Honestly, it wasn't at all a flattering discussion for Clinton, and more or less lifted Obama up. :shrug:

talking over everybody, babbling and parroting everything everybody else said. Tweety hates her, he can't even hide it.

Why are you embarrassed by it? :shrug:

in that manner.

basically, you are embracing rove politics acting as if there is not a reason they do this.

character is more important than whether your opponent is dissed, or it should be anyway.

I am an ardent Obama fan, and I gotta say STOP reacting to it.

It's his name, there's nothing wrong with it, and to allow others to get a rise out of you simply gives them a good reason to continue doing it.

YOU are the one actually validating the stupidity.

which i clearly stated in my post. it is indicitive of media and what any dem will be going up against. it is a much bigger issue than clinton winning or obama losing. for a dem to pretend they dont get why media and repugs do it is counterproductive to having media being responsible in the manipulations of our elections.

this is much bigger than a battle between dem candidates.

That he didn't reflects well on him, IMHO.

...but we've all read the "Obama is a Muslim" e-mails going around...and there is still a significant portion of the population that believe he is. Therefore, when his middle name get mentioned...there seems to be a bit more weight behind it as if his middle name is a bad thing, just because it is the same name of a former enemy. And the repubes have been using it with glee....Mark Levin says it EVERY time he says Obama's name...and says it with such nastiness it's scary. More fear tactics.

My argument is this...why is his middle name the ONLY one that has been used this ENTIRE campaign! As of this moment...I STILL do NOT have any idea what Hillary's middle name is...OR John McCain's. Now, I know that I could remedy this by looking it up...but I purposely have remained ignorant of what their middle names are...so as to see if anyone in the media would EVER tell me....guess what? I still don't know.

You seriously didn't know that?

McCain's is Sidney, if you'll believe that! :rofl:

(I read it here before but had to look it up again now. I just remembered it was funny)

I seriously haven't read a single "Obama is a Muslim" email, but that might be because I have good spam protection.

Hillary's middle name is NOT Rodham...that is her MAIDEN name! So try again!

That's how it often works. You never hear her being referred to as Hillary Diane Clinton, do you?

Diane. Thank you. I'm not going to argue the semantics here...because it's silly...Diane is her middle name..not Rodham. Thanks for finding it out!

...because without the middle name, someone might confuse him with that other Barak Obama, the one that plays in that jazz band. o.O

Whatever, it's not as if we aren't aware that we'll have an upward climb dealing with the...oh, a polite phrase to refer to that particular demographic...

:rofl:

at 20+ a pop while discussing how many times they got their memelettes into the stream.

As far as I am concerned they are all war criminals.

I watched the full 3 hours of Morning Joe, and what she appeared to be saying to me when she used his full name was how even with that name (that people try to use against Obama) and Rev. Wright, he still will be known as the politician that bested and took down the Clintons and their machine.

I didn't take her comments in a negative way at all, and I listened very closely the entire time. I'm in no way a Mika fan, but I feel she's being painted unfairly on this one.

and she hates Hillary.

for real.

in essence was praising Obama, not berating or belittling him.

Her leading, loaded questions are very pro OBAMA/ This a.m. She played a very anti-HRC EMAIL SEVERAL times with the effect of getting some very negative stuff @ HRC out there, by quoting an anonymous EMAILer. Pretty transparent if you ask me.

I think her days may be numbered.

look at Pat Buchanan.

the fights she has with numb nutz Joe.

She nearly wet herself when Axelrod came on, and PERSONALLY escorted him out after his interview... What's up with that....She needs to be a little more discreet with her position.

...in about a year, when you look at those U. S. Presidents historical charts, you be able to scroll down to the end, see Obama's air-brushed face and read below: "Barrack Hussein Obama, Jr. -- 44th President (2009- )." Pretty cool, huh? ;)

The middle name doesn't bother me at all. I'm sure it doesn't bother him, and it shouldn't bother you. Now if his detractors want to try to make hay over it, and make themselves look like idiots, well then that'll just have to be their problem, won't it?

Yes, she used his middle name, and so did Chris Matthews. However, in context, they were using it to suggest what a huge surprise this long primary season has been. On one hand you have a virtually unknown black man named Barack Hussein Obama who took down the biggest name in Dem politics. On the other side you have McCain who's campaign was essentially left for dead this past summer. I didn't find it offensive the way they were using it if you listened to the entire broadcast where they used it (only a few times over a span of a few minutes).

The imbeciles who won't vote for him because of his name, weren't going to vote for him anyhow. Move on.

George Herbert Walker Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
George Walker Bush
James Earl Carter
Richard Milhouse Nixon
Lyndon Baynes Johnson
Robert Fizgerald Kennedy

We know presidents' middle names. It's part of the legacy. America will have to adjust.

a repug...

and Mika, of course, is the daughter of Zbigniew a former Carter and current Obama adviser. But perhaps this is a way of "preparing" the crowed to what, no doubt, will appear in the Republicans ads.