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Actually no. Obama did not attend the Olympics. He got a few boos was during a Kiss Cam at an exhibition basketball game for the men's Olympic basketball team before the Olympics. It had to do with not immediately kissing Michelle right off (not seeing the kiss cam right off), but then there were cheers when he kissed her.
Those who regard the Olympics as a "movement." I saw some get rather snippy in the 1990s about the attention that the Redneck Games attracted. And if you haven't heard of that, it was inspired by a Jeff Foxworthy song. That one was centered at / near a town about halfway between the games and the yachting competition. It opened, best I recall, with the lighting of the ceremonial barbeque grill with a torch made from light beer cans. And it wasn't appreciated at all by those really into the Olympics.
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Barack Obama was/is a fairly popular fella, so yes, his middle-name not necessary in a search, but that’s the way the man does it and that’s fine.ALWAYS? Really?
So, I did do a search.
What's striking is the ABSENCE of Barack Obama either referring to himself as Barack Hussein Obama or anyone else referring to him as Barack Hussein Obama or using his middle name.
The closest I can get is a 1991 interview/retrospective on his time at the Harvard Law Review that refers to him as 'Barack H. Obama', his Harvard Year Book, which is also 'Barack H. Obama' and campaign finance documents from the mid 2000s referring to him as either 'BH Obama II' or 'BH Obama Jr'.
He certainly wasn't using Hussein at the end of the 1980s/early 1990s when he was a student at Harvard and editing the Harvard Law Review.
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And he doesn't seemed to have used 'Hussein' in any professional category either - neither when he was a community political organiser, a lawyer or a teacher at the University of Chicago.
He seems to have been married as 'Barack Obama' in 1992:
He was plain old 'Barack Obama' in 1995 when he published Dreams from my Father as well:
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He seems to have been Hussein-less in 1996, just before he tried for Illinois senate. 'Hussein' is also totally absent from the little of the Illinois senate campaign documentation I can discover. On all campaign finance documents he's listed Barack Obama.
Hussein seems totally absent from his 2004 senate campaign material as well.
So, he ALWAYS used it. Except that he didn't seem to use it at all from at least 1988 to 2004.
I'm sure any follower of Yeshua Bin Yusuf will attest that there is nothing wrong with referring to people by their full legal name
I was trying to illustrate the irony of a christian trying to denigrate Obama by using his middle-eastern sounding middle name while simultaneously worshiping a middle eastern man named Bin Yusuf.Because the naming conventions of a different socio-cultural group speaking a different language 2,000 years ago have so much relevancy to modern attempts to disparage a politician through the tactic of guilt by association.
It went over well enough that I turned on my shortwave radio one evening and heard Radio Canada International end a segment with "Reporting from the Redneck Games..." I'm assuming it was just one segment and not an ongoing thing. But that sentiment wasn't shared, and I heard some who were quite miffed about it.
It's the same ol boogie man. Heck, they are resuscitating it again in Texas 2025:
