Just another fad, I suppose, but I really worry how little context in history these people have when they subscribe to this kind of thing.  There is a whole lot more to understand about history and the enemies of this country than just a name that sounds “fun” for one’s children.  Then again, many liberals don’t think any further than themselves anyway.

Slight correction: In my previous comment, I didn’t mean giving one’s children that name.  I meant giving onesself the name, as the article says.

Of course, there are some really mean people with the name “Joe”, or “George”, or “John”.  Perhaps it is just the recognition that a name is a name, not a symbiotic relationship between evil and the real world, which is how “Hussein” has been trumpeted by certain media channels.

Was not it Sadam Hussein that this Iraq war that the liberals hate so much was triggered by.  Maybe it is Sadam that they want to imortalize with the changing of their names.  After all libealism is a mental disorder.

Frederick…why would you say that.  There is nothing in this story that would indicate that they want to “imortalize (sic)” Saddam Hussein.  Specifically they are declaring “solidarity” with a man who has NO affiliation with a former leader of Iraq.  My point is that its just a name, and there area also good people who have had that name.

TM,

Is a name “just” a name?

How many people you know named Benedict or Judas?

Sometimes a name is more than “just a name”, for example, names are given to children at birth or at Baptism or taken at Confirmation or when one has a change of state in life to encourage the person to live up to or model one’s life on that of his or her namesake.

(For example, Benedict XVI)

Yes, a name is just a name.  First, who was Saddam Hussein when Barack Obama was born and given that name?  I won’t address superstitious fluff regarding “namesakes”.  And the namesake is most likely not named for someone else…not the evil incarnation of Satan.  My point is that the whole “Hussein” thing is stupid, and doesn’t deserve the attention it gets in the media…including the topic above.

I’ll agree with TM that this subject really didn’t need to be brought to the media.  Isn’t that really what these kids are looking for anyway?  Anything to get them attention. 

Hussein in an Arabic name.  I would think the parents might stop their children from adopting it in view of the fact that we are at war in the Middle east right now, and that we are disliked as Americans. 

Whether it’s about Obama or just being ‘different’
parents should teach their children what’s going on in the world around us.  Plus, Joe, John and George are good old American names and hopefully we live with pride in good old America.

This phenomenon is evidence of liberalism/socialism/communism’s mind-blinding and mind-bending influence upon their advocates. Each is especially effective with the impractical ideologues whose attachment to a charismatic
leader is basically non-rational, highly
emotional, and can be all-consuming. It is the desire for “shared populatiry” through extremely close identification. The young and socially-ignored are especially drawn to such associations to bask in the “star power” of another. It is
possibly the oldest form of Identity Theft. But why they want to be called the name of a murdering
tyrant escapes me. But I am anti-all three. I hope and pray they soon will be also. If so, “hope”-fully those young Americans will “change” their minds and names, then put Obama and Hussein in the “trash bin of history” where they both belong.