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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (29201)	5/28/2008 6:25:03 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

If the past is prologue, it's extremely doubtful anyone named Obama can win: >Jeff Greenfield on Slate has Barack Hussein Obama in mind when he notes "this undeniable historical fact: Americans have rarely elected, or even nominated, a presidential candidate with an unusual name. Run down the names of the 42 men who have held the office: From Washington to Madison to Grant to Wilson to Clinton to Bush, the names ring with echoes of Northern Europe, of Scotch-Irish or Dutch or German ancestry. Of all our presidents, only one bore a name that could fairly be called unusual: Eisenhower." Rarely are those with unusual names even nominated–save Michael Dukakis. "And that hardly went unnoticed. Comedian Pat Paulsen observed that the name of the 1988 Democratic nominee looked like the bottom line on an eye chart."<