Facebook: Katherine Hussein Miller? Not anytime soon.
Last week at some point, I noticed the Facebook adopt 'Hussein' as middle name thing with one friend of mine and thought that person clever, until I noticed someone else did it and figured it must be a trend. 
Anyway, I saw the update on Messiah Watch 2008 over at Bill Hobbs (aside: nothing will ever top the Obama fanfiction, nothing), and the link to this very sharp Althouse post. These two gentleman are far more level-headed than that one girl and I suspect have a healthy dose of irony mixed in with their fake names than that poor Ashley Holmes girl does. I don't particularly like the use of Obama's middlename; after all, it would be weird to insist on calling McCain "John Sidney McCain," and, in practice, Obama's name seems to be used only perniciously. But, it poses the question again: Just who's allowed to say 'Hussein' and who isn't?
Re Althouse post: Someone wrote that he would change his name to Anybody Else and run for president.
John McCain
Barack Obama
Anybody Else
He predicts he would win in a landslide.
Posted by: PDM | July 03, 2008 at 08:07 AM