{"id":197,"date":"2008-10-09T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-10-09T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:43:14","slug":"to-be-printed-and-distributed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"To be printed and distributed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old but another piece from Juan Cole worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2008\/10\/reprint-edn-barack-hussein-obama-omar.html\">reading<\/a> again.  If McCain was silly enough to speak in Philadelphia, I&#8217;d print it and pass it out to the crowd&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama&#8217;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!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He continues: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barack is a Semitic word meaning &#8220;to bless&#8221; as a verb or &#8220;blessing&#8221; as a noun. In its Hebrew form, barak, it is found all through the Bible. It first occurs in Genesis 1:22: &#8220;And God blessed (\u00e1\u00b8\u2021\u00c4\u0081re\u00e1\u00b8\u00b5\u00c9\u2122 ) them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now let us take the name &#8220;Hussein.&#8221; It is from the Semitic word, hasan, meaning &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;handsome.&#8221; Husayn is the diminutive, affectionate form.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old but another piece from Juan Cole worth reading again. If McCain was silly enough to speak in Philadelphia, I&#8217;d print it and pass it out to the crowd&#8230; I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama&#8217;s name. It is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To be printed and distributed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-3b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}