Iowa Congressman Steve King is upset that when President-Elect Obama takes the oath of office he will use his full name. Obama says he is only doing it out of tradition.
This is not the first time that ultra-rightist King has dumped on Obama.
But Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who last March predicted Al Qaida would be “dancing in the streets” if Barack Obama were elected president, now concedes that the dynamic has merely “shifted” on the terrorist front. “They have made statements against Obama,” King acknowledged to Politico. “This thing has shifted and now I think Obama’s position of immediate withdrawal [from the war zone] has changed.”
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King is upset that during the election it was taboo to call Obama by his middle name and that now that he has won it's ok for Obama to use it. Of course the fact that it was used before was to scare people and appeal to prejudice does not dawn on the reactionary congressman.
While he was willing to concede he was wrong about the whole terrorist street dancing routine, King has moved on to the whole “Hussein” controversy.
He doesn’t like the fact that the president-elect will be sworn in using that middle name during Tuesday’s Inauguration.
After telling the Associated Press last year that Obama’s middle name was among the reasons Islamic terrorists would rejoice over his election, King says he’s since been careful to avoid using it. Thus he found Obama’s decision to allow it be mentioned on the steps of the Capitol “bizarre” and “a double-standard.”
It gets worse:
"Is (Hussein) reserved just for him, not his critics?” King asked.
“Whatever his reasons are,” King said, “the one he gave us could not be the reason.”
He continued: “The society is a little strange about this. If you’re speaking the truth and in an effort to be objective, there should be nothing off limits in a free society, [but] there are many biases building and clearly a double-standard.”
What do you all think? James Earl Carter used "Jimmy" at his inauguration, while Bill Clinton used the full William Jefferson Clinton.