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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.
  • good strategy

    actually I think this a very useful piece. And it points out the exact way in which Obama should address this non-isssue issue. He should embrace his name and explain (in much less detail) what Juan is talking about here. Direct confrontation is all the right wing crazies respond to. Stand up to the bullies and you remove whatever power they may have.