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WHAT'S IN A NAME?

LYNN SWEET, SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP/December 4, 2006
The scoop from Washington

SWEET BLOG EXTRA: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. BEHIND THE NAME.

Barack Hussein Obama. The biosphere and talk radio, even C-Span, has chatter about the middle name of the Illinois Democrat.

Obama never hid the name. Never highlighted it, either.

People are just starting to pay closer attention as Obama mulls a 2008 White House run.

He is the son of the late Kenyan economist Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. Hussein is a family name. His grandmother is Sara Hussein Obama.

At one point he was Barack H. Obama. That's how he is listed in the Harvard Law Review when he was the president of the publication. He dropped the H and dumped his nickname of Barry along the way.

It wouldn't make sense in Illinois to use Barack Hussein Obama as a ballot name when he started running for the state Senate in the late 1990's -- before 9-11 (Osama bin Laden) and the Iraq war (Saddam Hussein). Barack Obama was enough to deal with -- not so much because of anti-Muslim prejudice, which I am sure unfortunately exists, but the irrational preference Illinois voters have had for Irish and WASPy names.

Obama jokes that people at first thought he was O'Bama, a remark rooted in local political reality. Voters in Cook County elect judges with irish names. In March 1986, former Sen Adlai Stevenson's runningmat George Sangmeister lost an Illinois Democratic primary for it. Governor to Lyndon LaRouche Democratic Mark Fairchild and Aurelia Pucinski was defeated in Secretary of State primary by LaRouche unknown Janice Hart.

Things have improved on the ethnic name front: Rod Blagojevich was twice elected governor. The Hussein name prompted a C-Span caller last week to ask if Obama was a Muslim. Obama's father was born to the faith and fell away. Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.
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Comments:

Lynn,
One factor that has been overlooked by most pundits of the 2006 elections, which was a very significant factor in the landslide victory of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, as well as the Senate, was the increase of the youth vote (18-30) over the 2002 Congressional Elections. As James Carville, recently pointed out, this was a group that was the most solidly Democratic over any other age group. That factor in Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia, in particular, played a hugh role in the Democratic victory, and as Carville pointed out, those are the people you wan to have on your side to WIN FUTURE ELECTIONS as well.

Once again, Lyndon LaRouche was way ahead of the curve, as the LaRouche Youth Movement for about 6 weeks prior to the November 7th elections organized to get an increased Democratic Turnout on 75 College campuses in l7 states around the country with a bombshell pamphlet on Lynn Cheney;s role in attempting to suppress dissent against the Bush-Cheney regime throughout a "Campus Watch" type of thought police. The tactic succeeded.

In 1986, LaRouche Democrats won significant Democratic Party Primary votes in many states, including Illinois. Again, LaRouche was way ahead of the curve urging universal testing for AIDS (Hello Barack Obama) and to deal with saving the industrial economy of Illinois and the US, as well as putting the Federal Reserve in bankruptcy reorganization to stop the growing speculative activity and to return the US economy to a productive basis: all policies that are needed NOW MORE THAN EVER!!!!

So before anyone votes for people on the basis of their names, they should find out WHAT THE ACTUAL POLICIES the person stands for and NOT THE MEDIA SPIN OR SILENCE, which treatment LaRouche and LaRouche Democrats were afforded..................



I find this last paragraph worth writing again:

SO BEFORE ANYONE VOTES FOR PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF THEIR NAMES, THEY SHOULD FIND OPUT WHAT THE ACTUAL POLICIES THE PERSON STANDS FOR AND NOT THE MEDIA SPIN OR SILENCE,..........................................

Very one should read this paragraph very carefully, because the next president will have to deal with serious matters. We cannot afford to put a wanna-be in office we need experience. Some one that will stand up and deliver for us and will make decisions that will enable our country to recapture its good name throughout the world.