People think of his last name in a bad way.

clueless

Because they are fucking stupid and cant think of anything better to say. I guess when he was born he should have let the doctor clean him off then told his mom not to name him that. lol

Probably for the same reason they don't call the current incumbent George Walker Bush. People tend to be called by their first and last names.

Because of the idiots who MAKE (or try to) such a big deal out of it... You DO know there were a LOT of children named Adolph and Hitler, most of them simply named because it was a FAMILY name. Do we castigate all those named Dahmer? Donner? Bundy? Smith (the lady that drowned her kids)? No. A name is not the person. If that were the case, Hillary would NOT be where she is now... CLINTON... An impeached president, remember? GEEZE!

They want his true colors hidden.

If Obama or the public in general are ashamed of his name maybe he should consider changing it. I find many people seem to have issues with it, whichs is perturbing.

Because the media can't find anything else wrong with him. Which is why is has a very good chance of winning.

Maybe because no one even knows John McCain's middle name.

Because "Hussein" sounds way too "Arabic!" : )

Because he prefers to be called Barrack Obama. Senator John McCain also chooses not to be called by his middle name, as Governor Willard Mitt Romney prefers to be called by his middle name. You are the one who gets to choose what you are to be called in public, and we all should respect that, even if the name is Scooter. It's not that anyone doesn't know his middle name, it's just a non-issue.

I didn't know it was an issue. I see many people making it an issue to use the middle name, even going so far as to as to use his full (3 names) name every sentence. Not only do I think it sounds silly, but their it shows their motives.

I dont see it as an issue, McCains people tried to make it an issue, it didnt work. Most people dont use their middle name. Did Bill Clinton, say Hi, my name is William Jefferson Clinton

Seems to me the bigger issue is people insisting on using his middle name so that the gullible/paranoid folks will associate him with a terrorist. There are a lot of folks with the name "Hussein" who NOT terrorists.

Because people are afraid of being called "racist"

People don't make an issue out of that as that is his given birth name. People make an issue out of the biggoted and racists implications that go with it

1) "Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan formally denounced on Thursday the Tennessee Republican Party's use of Barack Obama's full name in a recent news release questioning the Illinois senator's commitment to Israel. "The RNC rejects these kinds of campaign tactics," Duncan said in a statement. "We believe this election needs to be about the critical issues confronting our nation." " Source and further information: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/28/tennessee.gop/index.html 2) "Responding to questions from reporters, Mr. McCain said he did not hear what Mr. Cunningham said, saying that when he arrived, Mr. Portman was on stage. “Whatever suggestion that was made that was any way disparaging to the integrity, character, honesty of either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton was wrong,” he said, “I condemn it, and if I have any responsibility, I will take the responsibility, and I apologize for it.” He called Mr. Obama a “man of integrity” and said he was someone he had come to know “pretty well and I admire.” He also said that it was not appropriate to invoke Mr. Obama’s middle name in the course of the campaign. “I absolutely repudiate such comments,” he said. “It will never happen again.” Mr. Obama’s middle name, which is Muslim in origin, comes from his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Kenyan." Source and further information: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/mccain-repudiates-hussein-obama-remarks/ 3) "Obama should be proud to be named Hussein" "I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama's name. It is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a blessed name. It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of General Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin. And denigrating that name is a form of racial and religious bigotry of the most vile and debased sort. It is a prejudice against names deriving from Semitic languages!" "Barack and Hussein are Semitic words. Americans have been named with Semitic names since the founding of the Republic. Fourteen of our 43 presidents have had Semitic names (see below). And, American English contains many Arabic-derived words that we use every day and without which we would be much impoverished. America is a world civilization with a world heritage, something Cunningham will never understand. Barack is a Semitic word meaning "to bless" as a verb or "blessing" as a noun. In its Hebrew form, barak, it is found all through the Bible. It first occurs in Genesis 1:22: "And God blessed (á¸?Ä?reḵÉ? ) them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." Here is a list of how many times barak appears in each book of the Bible. Now let us take the name "Hussein." It is from the Semitic word, hasan, meaning "good" or "handsome." Husayn is the diminutive, affectionate form. Barack Obama's middle name is in honor of his grandfather, Hussein, a secular resident of Nairobi. Americans may think of Saddam Hussein when they hear the name, but that is like thinking of Stalin when you hear the name Joseph. There have been lots of Husseins in history, from the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, a hero who touched the historian Gibbon, to King Hussein of Jordan, one of America's most steadfast allies in the 20th century. The author of the beloved American novel, The Kite Runner, is Khaled Hosseini. But in Obama's case, it is just a reference to his grandfather." Source and further information: http://www.ccun.org/Opinion%20Editorials/2008/March/5%20o/Obama%20should%20be%20proud%20to%20be%20named%20Hussein%20By%20Juan%20Cole.htm 4) Obama, like many people, doesn't use regularly his middle name. Just look at his own Web site: http://www.barackobama.com/index.php So if he choses to call himself this way, we should respect this. Nobody is talking all the time about "Colin *Luther* Powell" either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell