Obama Supporters Adopt ‘Hussein’ in Act of Solidarity


	Obama Supporters Adopt ‘Hussein’ in Act of Solidarity

wiccantexan

6-29-2008 1:10 PM

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6-29-2008 1:27 PM

Antara

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.

LOL! man oh man.......ty for the laugh

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7da39226-7819-4b7a-a0b9-45818342a7bb/3A366EB6-3697-48D0-833D-0A5EF80F2F8C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/159F55FC-01A6-4267-8CAB-8C32EED258F5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA">Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on <A title="More articles about Facebook." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Facebook.com</A>, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA"><P>“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA"><P>With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator <A title="More articles about Barack Obama" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Barack Obama</A>, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA"><P> “I am sick of Republicans pronouncing Barack Obama’s name like it was some sort of cuss word,” Mr. Strabone wrote in a manifesto titled “We Are All Hussein” that he posted on his own blog and on <A target="_" href="http://dailykos.com">dailykos.com</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29hussein.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1214759295-DChN+cbvUrGe/d4CKsVnzA"><P>So like the residents of Billings, Mont., who reacted to a series of anti-Semitic incidents in 1993 with a townwide display of menorahs in their front windows, these supporters are brandishing the name themselves. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A366EB6-3697-48D0-833D-0A5EF80F2F8C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>