his middle name is felix according to most online citations, but I didn't even know that till today as I've never heard anybody call him tah. Anyway Basso, you, a pretend language scholar at that, seem to be the only person to harbor the "Felix = Jew" stereotype, since I just looked up the name: LOL, yeah Felix is real Jewish-souding....It's just as hebrew as Patrick, Georg or Santiago Try again, BASSO (note, basso comes from Latin, and is not intended as anti-semitic)
Because, regardless of whatever you've said here to the contrary and regardless of how you might have felt or voted in the past, you are a died in the wool partisan Republican. You might not have liked Allen's irrefutable racism, you might not have liked his homophobic bigotry, but surely you would have voted for him over Neville Webb. Anyway, when I mentioned the jackasses on your side I was talking about the ones who think it's a good idea to try to plaster Kerry with Forbes and Obama with Hussein. I know you didn't vote for Kerry and I don't believe for a second you'd vote for Barack Chamberlain.
It took me a while to find a reliable source, but apparently George Allen's real middle name is Felix. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001965.html I don't understand the fascination either.
obama is the man. im voting for him, but he wont win cuz he's black nobody in jasper, texas or racist, mississippi will vote forh im
Wow. How vile a racist must he be that his own mother would fear he would stop loving her if he knew she'd been raised Jewish?
Obama will have to run through the Hillary smear machine (which will be well funded) before even getting to the general election, where he will run through Rove's even more fearsome smear machine. That' a tall order for a man whose middle name is Hussein and last name rhymes with Osama. He'll crack.
That's OK, you already have cracked if you really think that his middle name and the rhyming of his last name are substantive, legitimate things to attack him on. EDIT: Though I do commend you for admitting that the best asset the GOP has is "Rove's even more fearsome smear machine." I guess when you can't win on the issues, a "fearsome smear machine" is all you have.
As has been pointed out already, Allen's last name is really Felix. If I remember correctly, his opponents were using his middle name to goad him before his Jewish ancestry even came to light, because he reportedly hated that name. basso is the first person I have heard claim the use of the name Felix was to tar him as Jewish.
Darn. I was hoping Weslinder's post would end this thread because it was such an incredibly perfect retort.
If Obama runs against Giuliani, I won't care who wins. All I want is some integrity in the white house.
If this is the case and that's what you feel is most important, it should matter very much who wins. I for one have had enough of people with the public service committment and mores of Bernie Kerik.
Obama says `internal clock' kept him from N.H. -- until now By Holly Ramer, Associated Press Writer | December 8, 2006 CONCORD, N.H. --His clock is now ticking. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he wasn't ready to visit New Hampshire until now -- just over a year before the state will hold the nation's earliest presidential primary, and nearly a year and half after many of his potential rivals for the Democratic nomination made their first appearances. "The whole prospect of a presidential race for me is not something I've engineered. I was on a different internal clock," Obama said in a telephone interview. "It's only been in the last couple of months that the amount of interest in a potential candidacy reached the point where I had to consider seriously." Obama spoke two days before his first visit to New Hampshire, including a state party event for which all 1,500 tickets quickly sold. Obama won raves for his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, the year he won his Senate seat. He brushed off suggestions that he consider running for president until this October, when he said all the buzz had persuaded him to think about it. Obama has enjoyed a wave of publicity and drawn huge crowds as he has promoted his book, "The Audacity of Hope." He'll sign copies Sunday in Portsmouth before speaking at the party event in Manchester. That gathering is to celebrate the Democrats' sweeping victory in the state last month. Democratic Gov. John Lynch won re-election by a record margin, and Democrats took control of both houses of the Legislature, both U.S. House seats and the Executive Council, which reviews contracts and nominations. Obama's aides expect him to disclose his intentions about a presidential run within weeks. In the most recent poll of New Hampshire voters, Sen. Hillary Clinton was the favorite among Democrats at 31 percent, followed by former Sen. John Edwards at 19 percent. Obama had 7 percent in the poll conducted Nov. 1-2 by Research 2000 for the Concord Monitor. Should he decide to run, Obama said he looks forward to the rigorous questions for which New Hampshire voters are known. "I love retail politics," he said. "Though you never know whether you're ready for anything until you do it. I certainly enjoy sitting in folks living rooms, hearing about what's important to them." On one of the issues likely to dominate the campaign -- Iraq -- Obama said he approved of the advisory commission report released this week, particularly its proposal to engage Iran and Syria and begin a U.S. withdrawal. He said many of the recommendations were similar to views he expressed in a speech three weeks ago. "The analysis was fairly similar," he said. "I believe we can't make significant progress in Iraq without the initiation of a redeployment." U.S. troops will be needed to counteract insurgencies, he said, but the Iraqis must understand that "this is their country," Obama said. "We need to send a strong signal to the Iraqis that we are not going to referee a civil war," he said. "I don't think we can send that signal without a strong chance in course. We need to start that process." © Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company http://www.boston.com/news/local/ne...l_clock_kept_him_from_nh____until_now?mode=PF
Osama Giuliani? Yes, that immediately comes to mind. The dire threat from Italian/Saudi genes kicking in at a weak moment spells doom for a presidential bid by the popular ex-mayor of New York. D&D. Dumb and Dumber.
Yeah, I see it too, but I won't stop me from voting for the guy. I think Obama vs. Guliani would be a win-win situation for America. Boy would it be fun to actually have to figure out who to vote for again.
