Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Hussein?

Really?
This is what it is coming down to? Making fun of a man's middle name?
This reminds me of a conversation I had with an older Republican man at a Rudy Guilliani town hall meeting. This man asked me if I supported a canidate yet. I told him that I was supporting Senator Obama. This man had to have been in his seventies, and was a WWII veteran.
He asked me, "Do you know what his middle name is?"
I replied, "Yes, but I don't know when a person's middle name has judged their charector."
He said, "Well I am just saying, why take the chance?"
I said, "Well who would consider the best President was, Ronald Reagan?"
He nodded.
"Well, what if before you voted for Reagan you found out his middle name was Adolf, and you did not vote for Ronald Reagan because of it?"
The man didn't know what to say, and changed the topic. At the end of Guilliani's speech we got up to leave and the man turned to me and said, "Son, I fought in World War II, and one of the first things I learned was to not take chances."
I have a lot of respect for this man, though I think some of his ideas are flawed. I fell that if the Terrorists were going to covertly take over the US government, the would do it a little more discretly the with Barack Obama.
My middle name is Paul. All that says about me is that my father's middle name is Paul. Paul does not reflect my charector, nor does it determine my future.
I think it is just plain stupid that people can actually use that as a reason not to vote for a man.

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