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The attacks on Barack Obama's middle name have begun, but the likely Democratic nominee joins a long line of famous Americans with Semitic names, from Benjamin Franklin to Omar Bradley.
  • What popular culture teaches us

    The reason William Jefferson Clinton was proud of his middle name was that it immediately identified him as our first black president. (Jefferson = George and Weezie.)

    And Sidney is indeed a homosexual name--it was the name of Tony Randall's first-gay-character on tv.

    I think if Barack H. Obama were to mention that to Sidney McCain in a debate, the vein in Sidney's temple would explode and take out the first three rows of spectators.