I understand this tactic of bringing up Obama's middle name is childish, but calling it "slimy" or "underhanded" or "insulting" seems awfully close to whining about the mean Republicans using the man's actual name. I'm an Obama supporter and I volunteer for the campaign as often as I can, but I'm not happy about the responses to the use of "Hussein".

Of course they should refute charges of anti-semiticism and other nonsense, but please, let's not make the Senator a victim. Do we really want our candidate to be asking, implicitly or explicitly, that people not say his middle name? Isn't that pathetic and absurd?

I'd like to hear some language about being a nation of immigrants, that we are not so easily frightened by a person with an unusual name.