The Rules: Barack Hussein Obama
By SusanUnPC on April 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM in President Barack Obama
If you enjoyed my article yesterday afternoon, “Barack Hussein Obama Plays the Muslim Card,” pay heed! You are to be apprised of the rules as laid out by Victor Davis Hanson and which clearly I violated, as did many of you. Shame on you and me. Given the urgency for implementation and the import of these rules, I am posting them immediately so that, from hereon out and forever more, we will know the protocol:
[Here are the] rules of usage with the name “Hussein”:
1) It is forbidden at home; any American who employs the tripartite presidential name does so only to fan religious, racial, or ethnic prejudice.
2) It is encouraged abroad both in Europe and the Middle East (cf. the al-Arabiya interview) both to establish our president’s multicultural fides and sensitivity to Muslims, and to distance himself from our past illiberal foreign policy and attitudes.
3) Rule #2 only applies to the president himself. Even liberal journalists abroad are not allowed to say “Hussein” even in the most progressive of contexts.
I think I know what happened yesterday to you and me. We heard the president use his full name, and we heard him introduced thusly, and we somehow assumed that we could hereafter do the same. How wrong we were.
How presumptuous you and I were. If only we had known …
For further analysis of the rules, please see Mr. Hanson’s “Rules of Usage” at the National Review.






















