I am from the western Iowa district of Mr. King, and I will tell you that he is a perfect representative for the majority there. Oddly enough, this man was a civil rights agitator!

I think representatives should be impeached for really stupid comments. Unfortunately, I can't be certain that was a stupid comment because I don't really know what it means.

We'd all like to hear is irrationale for that position.

And I love 'my Crazy to English translation guide'...Thanks.

Obama will be using his middle name as a code word to mobilize all the Islamo-fascist-socialist-terrorist-Hitlerites into action!!! Run!!!

It's the whole crypto-Muslim bugaboo.

See, O didn't run with his middle name on all the yard signs, because he was hiding his allegiance to Islam, but at the very instant of inauguration, he'll mobilize his plan to force us all to convert, beginning with the brazen trumpeting of his middle name!

You're welcome.

It's quite simple. Rep. King is very, very angry that he and his buds were criticized for using Obama's full name (you remember: "Barack HUSSEIN Obama this!" and "Barack HUSSEIN Obama that!") when it wasn't relevant to do so and when there is no recorded instance of any of them ever having said "John SIDNEY McCain."

So now Mr. King is arguing that if he can't use Obama's middle name in sophomoric attempts to denigrate the brown guy to our less informed fellow voters, Obama shouldn't get to use it to be...sworn in as president of the United States.

Crazy little bastard, ain't he?

I'll take a stab at it and suggest this: Obama, in King's mind, is pro-Muslim; uttering the name "Hussein" on his inauguration day is intended to gladden the hearts of all those Muslims (or extremist Muslims; whether King distinguishes Muslims and extremist Muslims I wouldn't presume to say) with whom Obama is in cahoots.

King is also annoyed that Obama can say "Hussein," when conservatives have been criticized for stressing Obama's middle name. I infer from this annoyance (though not only from this) that King is not very sensitive to context.

Over the past couple of years, I've learned some conversational crazy, and what he's saying is that Obama is a SECRET MUSLIM and that such people don't have a right to use their given name.

We're talking compounded stupidity and ignorance here.

Crazy little bastard, ain't he?

Why do we have so many crazy little bastards in Congress?

In Mr. King's mind, Obama is an embarrassment. It's an embarrassment to have a black man presiding over what should be a white government, it's an embarrassment for a Democrat to have won over the Republicans, and it's an embarrassment to King's entire conservative philosophy that...well, the entire conservative philosophy *is* an embarrassment, and Obama is a symbol of that.

So to King's mind, Obama is going to say his middle name loudly and proudly with the intent of causing further embarrassment to the United States of America. It's an embarrassment that the resident of our highest office happens to have the name of our of our greatest boogeymen, you see.

King (R-Iowa) -- a #1 seed in my bracket for Most Offensive...

I'm glad you envision a playoff, and not some crazy computer-driven match up at the end of the year. Would it be a conflict of interest for Joe Barton to introduce a law?

It is obviously code to the sleeper cells. I'm staying in the bunker on Tuesday.

Article I, section 9 says that no title of nobility shall be granted by the U.S. So what right does this so called "King" guy have to even be in Congress? Unless he was sworn in without using his last name.

our names on some level are our destiny, and mr. king -- taking a page from huey long -- obviously has his own nom-de-issues (as does that blowhard from staten island, and lucky for us martin luther did, too).

on the other hand, steve's right... we're gonna git whitey as soon as the inaugural stuff is done... that umteen hundred billion dollar bail out for banditos amerika is just a smokescreen.

really, it is wasted effort trying to decode King's crazyspeak.

the better explanation comes from watching a pressure cooker. you know how every so often it gets so full of steam that the safety valve opens and steam has to escape?

now imagine Steve King's head, full of crazy-steam. every so often it gets so full of crazy some just has to come out!

The right wingers used Barak Hussein Obama's middle name frequently during the campaign to suggest to voters he had terrorist sympathies. Now they don't want him to use his middle name during the inauguration. Do this. No do that -- no, I mean . . . Why all the flip flopping?

Good thing the GOP isn't in charge any more. Our country's leadership needs vision and constancy, something these petty nabobs of negativism don't seem to understand.

King thinks Obama's use of his middle name is part of a secret message. I think it is OVALTINE, but can't be sure without King's decoder ring.

One question for Rep. Joker: how often have you used the middle names of the current president, his immediate predecessor and his immediaate predecessor in normal discourse?

I thought so.

Still trying to determine King's middle name. It is either ChickenHawk or Subsidies. Chickenhawk for leaving Northwest Mssiouri State after spending one grueling year in '68 and learning how to operate a bull dozer, instead of heading down to Ft Leonard Wood. Of course, in '68, we were in a time of peace, eh? Huge supporter of the Iraqi War.

Or, for Subsidies, in the $1.15 Billion in farm subsidies brought into his 5th District.

Perhaps, it should, simply, be PigIgnorance for saying DC was safer for his wife to walk the streets than walking the streets of Baghdad. Is there any intelligence on the east bank of the Mizzou across from Omaha?

So now Mr. King is arguing that if he can't use Obama's middle name in sophomoric attempts to denigrate the brown guy to our less informed fellow voters, Obama shouldn't get to use it to be...sworn in as president of the United States.

This.

really, it is wasted effort trying to decode King's crazyspeak.

And yet it's so much fun. We are moths to the flame.

Wait, wait. It was just a few short months ago that you left-wing wackos (redundant) cried to the heavens that it was racist, racist I tell you, to actually refer to Obama (blessed be his name) by his full name!

Does this make Obama (blessed be his name) a racist???

And just 4 years ago there was a huge left-wing outcry over the expense of President Bush's inaugural. Now it turns oput that Obama's (blessed be his name) will be the most expensive ever. And that the carbon foor print will measure in the millions of tons. And this, as the left's criticism said "In a time of trouble".

Where is the outcry from the left now?

Hypocrisy anyone??????

His reason is "Because I say so."

King's comments about Obama's middle name are no different than a white guy complaining over why he can't say the N-word but black people can.

Mike

Actually, I hope Obama continues to use his middle name. It will dilute the negative connotation his crazy opponents try to give it.

You know, the use of the name "Hussein" has always been curious to me. It was my understanding that we called Saddam Hussein "Saddam" because we didn't want to confuse him with another *good* Hussein, The King of Jordan.

Fred T. take a powder, boy. Bush's liberry will be open soon whar yew kin perpeturlurly drink frum duh font of incompedunce.

"a #1 seed in my bracket for Most Offensive Member of Congress"

In recent years, the competition has been fierce. The Republican caucus has some really strong contenders. Any one can win. I always pulled for my local House member, Marilyn Musgrave, but she's out now. Even so, the Republican bracket is strong.

All that, and also the fact that Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein is a well guarded secret. There's been practically no mention of it throughout the campaign, but once he's inaugurated and there's no going back, he's finally going to drop the mask.

(Hmm. Given that these are same people who thought getting a blowjob was an impeachable offense, it probably wouldn't be much of a stretch if they wanted to impeach Obama for his middle name.)

Rep. King is a dunce. A partisan hack. But he's right: there is no tradition for incoming presidents to use their middle name in their swearing-in.

But he's right: there is no tradition for incoming presidents to use their middle name in their swearing-in.

Which ones haven't?

The funny thing is to imagine what Rep. King would have said if Obama *didnt* use his middle name.

Breaking from tradition! Trying to hide his true colors from the American people! He's ashamed of his roots! etc, etc.

Since Obama didnt give him ammo for that salvo, King is left with this bizarre complaint. Poor fella.

King doesn't have to have a secret reason in mind. His listeners' imaginations will fill in the details themselves. Actually, not "details" so much as "vague sense of concern", but that's what King is after.

Think of it as a form of advertising (propaganda). Its goal is to create an cloud of emotion in its listener's mind, not to work at a rational level.

This is very simple to explain. Republicans think they are entitled to the "middle" of everything. If you find a box of Oreos missing the creamy middle, you know a Republican has been there.

They like using the middle finger to avoid foul language.

They think they own the middle of the word Democratic, and Democrats, so they just use Democrat.

They own certain characters on the typewriter and insert them into the middle of otherwise apt descriptions of their f***ed up stupidity.

And, of course they like using the famous underpants theory of success, often repeated here:

Sell Crazy Idea, such as up is down...
A f***ing miracle happens!!
Republicans get re-elected.

Fred T -
The shambles which George leaves, one could hardly argue that the $40 mil. spent on his inaugruration was well placed. Not to worry for me or any other "liberal" the funds were from private subscriptions, and had no effect on anyone other than the contributors.

fred t.,

No hypocrisy here. It's intellectual consistency. Months ago, during the campaign, use of his middle name by his detractors was meant to imply he was Muslim and that was somehow bad. It was an attempt to impugn his race and origins.

That is precisely what King is doing here by denouncing its use, and he's quite deliberately set up this high, slow lob so sycophants, like yourself, could get a little chub while pounding your fat little digits against the keyboard with delight at your erroneous gotcha. Please wipe the spittle from your monitor.

You and King have all the maturity of a child who was told not to touch their sibling, who then proceeds to protest that warning by putting their hands as close to their sibling as possible. Predictably, like that petulant brat, here you are shouting 'But I'm not touching him.'

And this won't be the most expensive inauguration ever per capita.

It's pretty obvious folks.
He's a monarchist - just look at the name - and has delusions of grandeur.
He needs to be involuntarily committed and/or deported. We don't need his kind here.

Clark has it right. The western edge (Iowa's 5th district) has always been poor. It also trails the state overall in things like literacy.

I've always joked that it has something to do with breeding stock. You have white settlers who got to eastern Iowa, found it was fertile, with some handy rivers, and stopped. Then you have the folks who pushed on t0 Nebraska and built houses of mud. After the rains washed all those houses into the Platte Rivers, they got really stubborn...

Dear doubtful:

Thanks for making my point. The intellectual shortcomings of leftists are always a delight to see.

As for fat digits- 6'1" weight 170. Not as fat as your intellect.

Missmudd- see above. A childlike attempt at humor remains just that -childlike.

Why does anyone pay any attention whatsoever to the permanently-prepubescent of the Republican Party?

fred t, successful parody requires not overplaying your hand in every single sentence. You have to let the really wild stuff just peek out of the middle of more credible fare.

DON'T YOU GET IT! Potus Barack Hussein Obama. 23 letters. He was elected on 11/04/08. Add the digits together. 23. He will be sworn in on 01/20/2009 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Add the digits together. 23.

It's so obvious, I can't believe you don't see it. Everything comes down to the number 23.

As for fat digits- 6'1" weight 170. Not as fat as your intellect. -fred t

Out of my entire comment, that's what you choose to rebut. Something about 'doth protest too much,' comes to mind.

"Which ones haven't?"

Shortstop, check out this great YouTube video to see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhWtRW-KKA

Perhaps it's a whistle only King can hear, a taunt aimed directly at him, echoing across the Mall and over the airwaves: "Who's sane?"

Wherever he's squatting, King will squirm, recognizing the taunt but confused as to its meaning. It's clearly a boast by a cocky winner, but is he posing the question regarding King or himself? Obama seems to imply that he knows the answer, yet King can only answer for himself: "I'm sane! I'm the only one who heard the question! Wait a minute: I'm the only one who heard the question? Am I insane? The more I think about it, the harder it gets. My head feels like it's growing softer and larger. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Happy Inauguration, everybody.

King is a lot like those white people who get upset because they can't use the word "nigger." "Chris Rock says it all the time in his stand-up act," they'll say. "Why can't I say it? That's a double standard!"

Similarly, King is upset that the president can say "I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear. . ." but he can't use it to imply that Obama is secretly a Muslim-communist-foreign-homosexual sleeper agent infiltrating the highest levels of government. That's all the use of his middle name by conservatives is about. It's a wink and a nod that "He's not one of us, you know. Not a real American."

The constituents of his district would be so much better off if they elected Forrest Gump! At least unlike King, Gump can hold an intelligent conversation! -Kevo

This is quite sad actually, for reasons related to one of Steven's other posts from today. I'm referring to the one about the much improved attitude of, in that case, Europeans towards US citizens.

What Mr Kind is doing, is aligning himself with an unfortunately not insignificant minority of Americans, namely those, who, while knowing very little of the world outside of the US of A, are nonetheless quite sure that everything Muslim is evil, as all Muslims are islamofacists.

That view of Muslims of course makes speaking the Muslim name Hussein in an official act of state an unacceptable offence.

The really sad thing in this is not the appalling stupidity of Mr King, that aspect one could laugh about, but the fact that he is saying this stuff as a member of Congress, i.e. an elected representative of the American people. Muslims all around the world will hear this crap and understand full well how it is meant.

Should help America's standing in the Muslim world.

Sorry, that should have been 'islamofascists'

Crazy, huh?

Just watch Obama's eyes during his inaugural speech. As he speaks platitudes to the chumps who were duped into electing him president, you can be damned sure he will also be addressing his al Qaeda masters by blinking in morse code.

Steve King: Crazy like a fox.

Good one, Ron. But the secret message is "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" IIRC.

You know, some of these people on the right are just plain stupid. They think that just because Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, he's an Arab also, but they forget he was born in INDONESIA, so he's actually an Indonesiac Muslim and not an Arab who is someone from the Arabic peninsula also.

You guys are cracking me up.

Having to share the country with people like Steve King is so much more bearable when we can laugh at them from our position of victory. As we plan the caliphate.

170lbs and 3 feet 5 inches tall?

has anyone pointed out to these wackaloons that our very first president has the same first name as the king we fought the revolutionary war against? so whats the issue here? ugh...

I'm going with shortstop's "crazy little bugger, ain't he?". Occam's Razor and all.

"Now, I realize that Steve King is a couple of crayons short of a box, "

I think he ate all his crayons. Except for the one in his ear.

"a #1 seed in my bracket for Most Offensive Member of Congress"

In recent years, the competition has been fierce. The Republican caucus has some really strong contenders. Any one can win. I always pulled for my local House member, Marilyn Musgrave, but she's out now. Even so, the Republican bracket is strong.

Another strong contender who's gone now is Chris Cannon of Utah. He was so offensive that the Republican primary voters in the most Republican district the entire House voted against him in a landslide

Secret reason?

To emphasize his "funny sounding" name so all the racists of America might remember that people other than George, James, and William can make good presidents.

Without racism, a key plank of the modern GOP gets a healthy dose of termites.

For the record, Hussein is a very common arabic name, even before Saddam Hussein, and Hussein the Grandson of Mohammed. It simply means "handsome man". People need to grow up.