<p>InterestedDad, </p>
<p>I had posed a question to you earlier and perhaps you overlooked it:</p>
<p>How come when you write John McCain’s name, you do not write out his middle name each time you refer to him?</p>
<p>I do not believe it is an ad hominem attack to express my opinion that I think certain terms are slurs. </p>
<p>An ad hominem attack would be to attack you personally and I am not. I am discussing the issue itself.</p>
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<p>Because I don’t choose to and, as I read the terms of service, I see nothing that requires a member to answer every question posed. We are free, I believe, to ignore posts as we please. Lord knows, I do.</p>
<p>Yep, soozievt. He ignores me all the time.</p>
<p>Sorry, yes, you are free to ignore the question. I wasn’t sure if you had seen it. </p>
<p>You are free to not post McCain’s middle name too. It is unusual for me to see people referring in dialogue to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama which is why I asked about using middle names in casual discourse for one candidate and not the other. You surely can refer to them any way you wish.</p>
<p>PS, for that matter, I don’t even know what McCain’s middle name is! Thanks for reminding us of Mr. Obama’s.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the use of Hussein is to tweak the liberals. As mentioned before it is an unfortunate break for Obama. Back to the point if it gets under a liberals skin and irritates them a little then it is having its intended effect. It appears to be working…lol</p>
<p>BTW, I’ll be happy to use McCain’s middle name if someone wants to tell me what it is…</p>
<p>Sidney</p>
<p>JSM, III</p>
<p>It is time for a reporter to ask McCain point blank “Have you ever committed adultery?” McCain has made "moral character’ a key issue of his campaign. He needs to answer this question, especially with Edwards in the news.</p>
<p>Thank you bz. For the record I shall now refer to John McCain as Sydney if that pleases the court. Please feel free to refer to Barack Obama as Hussein for equal time of candidates middle names…</p>
<p>The reason why Edwards is being so widely condemned is because he went out and admitted it, thus calling attention to it. McCain doesn’t really discuss it, even though he kinda did commit adultery. Edwards called the attention to himself by making a big announcement. Whether he deserves such singly directed scorn is another issue.</p>
<p>I would like to see someone point blank ask Sydney as well. If my perception of him is correct then he would give a straight up answer. If not then he’s just one of those politicians (I’m not fooling myself).</p>
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<p>“kinda”? How do you “kinda” commit adultery? He was in a relationship with his current wife while still being legally married to his first wife. How is that “kinda”?</p>
<p>If Romney were the nominee, it would be a big deal. But McCain? The social conservatives don’t trust him as it is. He’s the nominee so Republicans don’t care so much about the morals issues or they’re holding their noses. On the other side, Obama acts so religious but is economically liberal. Pretty interesting juxtaposition coming up.</p>
<p>On another note:</p>
<p>Why was Edwards in a bar (claims he met Hunter at a bar)? I can see going with a bunch of guys for a drink (I don’t drink so I don’t go to bars) but a married man going to a bar alone and getting chatted up by a lady? Seems to me that a lawyer would have alarm bells going off all over the place.</p>
<p>Did the job with the campaign come before Edward’s ‘met her in a bar’ or after? Do we know?</p>
<p>BCEagle, </p>
<p>I am a married woman and have barely been in bars for years. On some occasions, I have traveled alone and had dinner at a pub. If Edwards was traveling independently, he may have been at an establishment for supper that had a bar. I am not sure that is so terrible in itself.</p>
<p>I thought she got the job AFTER he met her in a bar.</p>
<p>More than $100,000. his campaign paid her to make 4 videos which were sort of like home movies - meant to be candid & unscripted.</p>
<p>I feel sorry for those who contributed to his campaign.</p>
<p>Maybe I should go hang out in bars. (for the $100k+ job part - not the affair).</p>
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<p>That’s funny. Republican blogs almost always include the Hussein.</p>
<p>I’m guessing that in Vermont they probably refer to him as Barack “OMG, he’s so dreamy” Obama. Of course, they like Howard “48-state strategy” Dean, too.</p>
<p>I believe I made a mistake above and am now reading that an affair began AFTER she was hired to make a documentary for the campaign. </p>
<p>For what it is worth. For some reason, I had thought she was hired after they met, but according to the article I just read on cnn, the affair began after she was hired. </p>
<p>Then again, maybe they met in a bar, then she was hired and then came the affair.</p>