You know, there are several members of my family who regularly refer to me by my full given name, but outside of my family I've never used it regularly and no one uses it.

The examples that were given -- Nixon and HRC -- are appropriate. Both of them regularly use(d) the full name. Notice that he did use Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton b/c that's not what she uses. Personally, it irritates me that so many national journalists have dropped Rodham from HRC's name. When I used it Arkansas, it occasionally got some eyebrows b/c HRC did not initially change her name when she married. And some of my readers saw me as some wacky feminist, but when I pointed out that Hillary Rodham Clinton was what she had on her letterhead at the law firm, they lived with it.

Some of the examples used by the radio guy that McCain straightened out yesterday where of people who regularly used their full name -- Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I would challenge him to tell me George Washington's middle name, or Abraham Lincoln's.

He pulled out William Jefferson Clinton, but failed to note that BC only used that as a signature and for special records. He was, and is, just plain ole Bill.

Barak Obama does not use his full name. That's his choice. My Aunt Nadine doesn't either -- her first name is Gladys. That's her choice. I think the appropriate thing is to respect that choice. After all, a person's name is one of the most valuable parts of their identity.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

state gop chair in a fight with gop presidential nominee

this puts a wedge between the right & mccain

this puts a wedge between east tn lincoln republicans
& the state party

this puts tn in play for democratic presidential nominee

anybody got any gas to put on this fire?

How? Hell, let Hobbs keep working at the TNGOP. We don't need to work against him. He's already doing a competent job in that regard.

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Tn voters apparently vote on wedge issues rather than what is good for them and the United States of America.

And that explains consecutive majorities in TN for the Democratic candidate in 1992 and 1996, um, how?

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Wait until Tennessee voters find out that Obama has fathered TWO black babies!

Robin Smith is wasting her obvious gift for dispensing sleaze, she should be an operative for the National GOP or the CCC.

Dammit! I missed it! I missed making fun of my favorite wingnut! Man, life isn't fair! I need to check in more often.

Dammit! I missed it! I missed making fun of my favorite wingnut! Man, life isn't fair! I need to check in more often.

Check in where? Your favorite ratf*cker and his massive, unchecked ego is making the news from Ann Arbor to Adelaide.

It's Leap Day, by the way. If he quits today, we'll only get to celebrate once every four years.

C'mon, Bill - hang in there!!!

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