Where immigrants throughout the centuries have adjusted their names to fit in in America (Walid, who manages the local convenience store in my town goes by Wally, and an Albanian friend of my father, Bilbil, goes by Billy, for two examples), a guy who went by Barry as a kid's deliberate choice to use his full foreign name comes across as a deliberate rejection of America and its sensibilities.
It would have at least sounded Irish and Pro-American.
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I believe all news and research that supports my opinion, and dismiss the rest as conspiracy and lies.
I believe all news and research that supports my opinion, and dismiss the rest as conspiracy and lies.
NY Times reveals Obama's boyhood gay nanny. Glenn Beck's head explodes.
- 10/11/2010 05:24:52 AM
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The fact that he no longer goes by Barry is part of his problem.
- 10/11/2010 06:32:11 AM
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No matter how hard you want them to be, "American" and "English" aren't synonyms.
- 10/11/2010 06:38:54 AM
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Indeed, he's such a selfish prick, should have changed his name to Barry O'bama.
- 10/11/2010 06:46:55 AM
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Barry O'bama. HA! 
- 10/11/2010 01:24:04 PM
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- 10/11/2010 01:24:04 PM
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So his problem is that he has over estimated how tolerant Americans are, in your opinion?
- 10/11/2010 10:57:15 AM
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On a serious note, I'm genuinely surprised in regards to Indonesia's...
- 10/11/2010 07:05:17 AM
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This is going to get hard to keep track of
- 10/11/2010 10:59:51 AM
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You forgot nazi, communist, athiest and wanting to kill grandma by running her over with a reindeer *NM*
- 10/11/2010 12:36:56 PM
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and hunting colourblind retired people with a cutting torch. *NM*
- 10/11/2010 03:57:21 PM
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So did Beck actually comment on this issue? *NM*
- 10/11/2010 04:09:31 PM
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so did random thoughts get his feathers all up over a joke? 
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- 10/11/2010 04:34:46 PM
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- 10/11/2010 04:34:46 PM
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not at all it was a real question
- 10/11/2010 07:06:19 PM
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?? How in the world is that joke like a black face joke? *scratches head*
- 10/11/2010 07:37:02 PM
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I consider a lot of what passes for comedy these days nothing more then modern black face
- 10/11/2010 08:16:03 PM
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Seriously that is what Random Thoughts is
- 10/11/2010 10:47:45 PM
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and you are the resident bitch
- 10/11/2010 11:19:15 PM
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Yes I am the resident bitch, and I like being the resident bitch 
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- 11/11/2010 02:03:15 PM
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- 11/11/2010 02:03:15 PM
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