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Quote Of The Day: Obama: Who Would Vote For A Guy With My Name?
“If somebody goes into a polling place and they see the name ‘Barack Obama’, I probably won’t get their vote, but if we sat in their living room and talk...”
-- Barack Obama, acknowledging the political limitations of his name in a new interview today with the New Hampshire Union Leader
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Solution: Run as 'Barack Hussein Obama'!
December 8, 2006 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
So now we got 2 of them running with the same strategy of personally meeting every voter: Edwards and Obama.
It reminds me of a photo on the front page of the NY Times on the day of the '92 New Hampshire primary. Its in a coffee shop or diner and Bill Clinton has this earnest expression, looking at an older gentleman who is looking in his coffee cup, like he's decided not to vote for Clinton but here he is face to face with the candidate.
December 8, 2006 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barack was apparently called by his nickname Barry earlier in life. Barry Obama?
Dick also always seems to work well as the first name of a politician. Maybe Dick Obama?
December 10, 2006 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Based on his book Dreams of My Father, this is what his maternal grandparents called him. I got the impression that this was a way of Americanizing his ethnic name and basically represents a cultural disconnect on their part. In other words it is similiar to folks changing the name Goldstein to Gold.
December 10, 2006 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink