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Barack Hussein Obama
I lost all respect I had for someone when he said he can't trust Obama because "Obama...Osama!".
yeah this is nothing new, I heard this for eight straight years. It's the same shit, different pile.
That came out and was controversial in the first year of Obama's term. Republicans held it against him since Saddam Hussein was still fairly fresh news, and everyone else saw it as a sign that the US constituency might actually be lightening up and becoming tolerant.
We believed it at the time, even as Mitch McConnell and the Republican campaign machine were quietly plotting to block his every move and assure he was only a one-term president. They were really sore that a black man dare run as president and win.
Who is "we"? Obama was born before Saddam Hussein got any kind of political power.
I'm not sure what you're asking. I'm pretty sure Obama's middle name corresponding to Saddam Hussein is a coincidence. But it was held against him by Republicans once Obama became a major political figure in the Democratic party.
I certainly did not fall for the propaganda as an American myself. As far as I know, most people didn't, and people who didn't like Obama for trivial reasons such as racism already didn't like him regardless of the name "Hussein".
Republicans also complained about Obama eating dijon mustard and wearing a tan suit. This is because the Republican party actually agreed with his policies for the most part. Obama called himself an 80s-era Republican around the middle of his tenure.
To be fair, there was a lot of fluidity between Democrats and Republicans in the early eighties. We were still used to Democrats being racist, and the new Southern Strategy suit was still freshly donned by the GOP and being adjusted for fit. Reagan was definitely racist, but it was coached in dog whistles that the present-day SCOTUS would not understand, like welfare queen or urban crime. And according to the How Money Works on Reagan, he had bipartisan support for a lot of his policies that turned the economy K-shaped.
The Southern Strategy transition was complete by Clinton, and his policies were pretty Republican as well. By that time, corporate lobbyists dominated federal politics, and were already not just asking for legislature, but actually submitting clauses pre-written in service of the companies who hired them.
By the time of George W. Bush, politics moved so far right that even progressive Democrats were more right than Eisenhower-era Republicans. Both parties had been completely captured by commercial interests.