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Barry?
« on: May 09, 2008, 04:32:11 PM »
Whats the Barry reference to Obama over?
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2008, 04:37:13 PM »
Barak ('mercanized) = Barry
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2008, 04:45:39 PM »
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Barry Obama decided that he didn't like his nickname. A few of his friends at Occidental College had already begun to call him Barack (his formal name), and he'd come to prefer that. The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: no more Barry.

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Re: Barry?
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2008, 07:18:39 PM »
Rush Limbaugh has taken to calling him that.  I don't know if he does it more to annoy Obama, or in response to all the indignity over the use of Obama's middle name. 

I prefer Mark Levine's tactic of calling him Barack Millhouse Obama.   laugh
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2008, 01:27:00 AM »
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I prefer Mark Levine's tactic of calling him Barack Millhouse Obama.   laugh
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2008, 03:35:07 AM »
Quote from: fistful on May 09, 2008, 06:18:39 PM
Rush Limbaugh has taken to calling him that.  I don't know if he does it more to annoy Obama, or in response to all the indignity over the use of Obama's middle name. 

I prefer Mark Levine's tactic of calling him Barack Millhouse Obama.   laugh

I was thinking Barack Marx Obama.
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2008, 08:54:54 AM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on May 10, 2008, 02:35:07 AM
Quote from: fistful on May 09, 2008, 06:18:39 PM
Rush Limbaugh has taken to calling him that.  I don't know if he does it more to annoy Obama, or in response to all the indignity over the use of Obama's middle name. 

I prefer Mark Levine's tactic of calling him Barack Millhouse Obama.   laugh

I was thinking Barack Marx Obama.


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« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2008, 10:49:31 AM »
Barack Dictator-for-Life Obama
Barack The-Glorious-Leader Obama
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2008, 11:30:31 AM »
What is on the man's birth certificate?
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2008, 12:54:54 PM »
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What is on the man's birth certificate?
Barack Hussein Obama Jr, I think.
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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2008, 01:00:33 PM »
Quote from: Headless Thompson Gunner on May 11, 2008, 11:54:54 AM
Quote from: Waitone on May 11, 2008, 10:30:31 AM
What is on the man's birth certificate?
Barack Hussein Obama Jr, I think.

You can't say THAT!
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2008, 05:12:00 AM »
Quote from: Bigjake on May 11, 2008, 12:00:33 PM
Quote from: Headless Thompson Gunner on May 11, 2008, 11:54:54 AM
Quote from: Waitone on May 11, 2008, 10:30:31 AM
What is on the man's birth certificate?
Barack Hussein Obama Jr, I think.

You can't say THAT!

The accusation is that by emphasising the Hussein, those on the right are making him sound Muslim and pandering to people's basest fears.
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2008, 05:22:58 AM »
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I prefer Mark Levine's tactic of calling him Barack Millhouse Obama

That's freakin' hilarious.  laugh
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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2008, 02:49:34 PM »
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Barack Millhouse Obama

I don't get it.  'Splain, please.
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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2008, 10:13:33 PM »
Well, I believe it's supposed to be a reference to Nixon's middle name, but when I hear it, I think of Millhouse on the Simpson's which is just way more comical to me. Smiley
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2008, 07:16:57 AM »
Why would anyone care about a tenuous, specious connection Obama might/might not have to Nixon?

Some sort of campaign espionage happen with Obama?

I'm still in the dark on this one. undecided
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Re: Barry?
« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2008, 12:13:04 PM »
I think he just picked "Millhouse" because it seems very "white" and bland, even a little upper-crusty.

A lot of radio talkers (and maybe others) have been hassled for frequent use of Obama's full, actual name, "Barack Hussein Obama."  Just using the man's middle name has been branded as anti-Muslim fear-mongering, racism, or an attempt to make him sound like a Middle Eastern dictator.  Naturally, conservatives have seized upon such comments for further mockery.   laugh

I haven't heard Levine actually explain this, but I think he is just making light of the whole issue by giving Obama a middle name that is associated with a white, Quaker, conservative president.  As if to say, "What, you don't like 'Hussein'?  Fine, we'll call him 'Millhouse.'"
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