I know this is very shallow, and that a person shouldn’t be judged solely by their name but…
If there is one thing that will be a liability to Barack Obama in his run for the White House in 2008, it has to be his name, which sounds a lot like “Iraq Osama”. And then his middle name is Hussein? Hoo boy.
The U.S. presidency has had a 200+ year track record of being exclusive to white WASPy men (This country has only had one president who was neither Protestant or Anglo, and they shot him!). The transition from a President with a WASPY name to one named Barack Hussein Obama is a drastic one.
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