Middle names, and the transparent, disingenuous appeal to prejudice

Posted on Thursday, 28 Feb 2008 by obamesque

Excellent assessment by Eric Zorn in the Chicago Tribune of the “odious appeal to prejudice” that has been Bill Cunningham’s and Ann Coulter’s obsession with Barack Obama’s middle name. Alan Keyes was cautioned against invoking it for much the same reasons Karl Rove echoed to a private gathering of Republican state executive directors last month according to Marc Ambinder in The Atlantic: that “Barack Hussein Obama” would sound like a rallying cry for bigots.

Which, of course, it is.

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