This is old, but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere except the Moderate Voice. who quotes Marc Abinder in the Atlantic:
No less an authority figure than Karl Rove has warned Republican operatives from demagoguing Barack Obama’s middle name.
At a closed door meeting of GOP state executive directors in late January, Rove said the safest way to refer to Obama would be to use his honorific, "Sen. Obama."
"The context was, you’re not going to stigmatize this guy. You shouldn’t underestimate him," one of the executive directors said. Rove said that the use of "Barack Hussein Obama" would perpetuate the notion that Republicans were bigoted and would hurt the party
For some reason, Joe Gandelman (yes, he still posts on his own blog, although it's hard to tell these days with the diversity of the authorship there) doubts the Republican Party will heed Rove's advice. If they don't listen, it would indeed "perpetuate the notion that Republicans were bigoted and would hurt the party" and I think survival is a priority for that party (I turned in my membership card recently).
Karl Rove, of course, is the so-called "evil genius" behind President George W's two successful presidential campaigns.
4 comments:
Gandelman? Is he real?
Al, I believe he is a real person, yes.
I heard he was a puppet.
I was one of the first people to link to him. In fact, I think he was one of the first people to link to me. Then he blasted off into the stratosphere.
al, if I am not mistaken, he is a ventriloquist, not a puppet! Big difference. Nowadays his blog has an 11-member editorial staff, and how many writers? 50?
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