TNGOP Chair Robin Smith: Blame The Drama On Obama’s Momma
John Rodgers has his version of the Hobbsian Husseining of Obama controversy up with a doozy of a quote from Tennessee GOP Chair Robin Smith:
Asked today about the leading GOP candidate’s remarks, Robin Smith, the chairwoman of the Tennessee Republican Party, said presidents or presidential hopefuls are often referred to with their middle names included.
“I think I have heard Richard Milhous Nixon, Dwight David Eisenhower. I think I’ve heard Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, LBJ, on and on and on,” Smith said.
When asked if Obama’s middle name though – the same name as former Iraqi president and tyrant Saddam Hussein – gave off a different connotation than others, Smith suggested that Obama’s parents needed to be contacted.
“You can call his momma and daddy on that one,” Smith said.
Volunteers Voters attempted to contact Barack Obama’s parents for comment but was unable to cross over into the spirit world to reach them.
Barack Obama’s parents, of course, have been dead for quite some time. His mother from cancer and his father from an auto accident.
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on February 27th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Yeah, sure, you know, if they weren’t dead. Is this more of that compassionate conservatism we hear about?
on February 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Sounds like someone is having fun.
on February 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
So, why didn’t TNGOP refer consistently to “Freddie Dalton Thompson,” which was the name the former Republican Senator’s momma gave him?
on February 27th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I believe Obama’s paternal grandmother is alive, and as the Senator from Illinois was named after his father, perhaps you can call her and ask her why she would give her son a name which Islamaphobes would latch on to?
on February 27th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
This is a new low, even for William Howard Hobbs, as Sean has inspired me to refer to him.
on February 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Hussein is quite a common name in several parts of the world, from what I understand.
Not only was the former dictator of Iraq named it, so was the former king of Jordan — our ally.
And lots of people of whom you’ve never heard have this name.
I can’t believe I’m talking about this stupid meme.
on February 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Yes, because it’s the name of Mohammed’s grandson, who was an important early Islamic figure. Really, this is the equivalent of people becoming outraged because a Muslim candidate has Peter, James, John, or Paul for a middle name.
on February 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Volunteers Voters attempted to contact Barack Obama’s parents for comment but was unable to cross over into the spirit world to reach them.
Barack Obama’s parents, of course, have been dead for quite some time. His mother from cancer and his father from an auto accident.
ACK is developing some serious GOP hate.
on February 27th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Reality, it all stems from hACK’s mancrush on Harold Ford, Jr. It’s pretty predictable, really. When he can’t polish the knob of his current political savior, he’ll irrationally attack those perceived to be standing in that candidate’s way. He may be a lot of things, but hACK never fails to stand by his man. Kinda weird that his man is always a youngish-looking, tall, slender black gentleman with good oratory skills, but this probably ain’t the proper forum to discuss hACK’s closeted sexual peccadilloes.
on February 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Glad to see the folks on the right have learned their lessons about implying an opponent is ethnically offensive by then implying that a journalist who opposes that viewpoint is sexually offensive. And they wonder why folks pick on them.