Hussein, Can You See?

During the Presidential campaign and following I have expressed outrage at detractors who would use our President's middle name, Hussein, as a derogatory term. It has been embarrassing for a conservative like myself. So I was surprised and a bit miffed when I heard the President say to an Arab audience that America was special to elect a man named "Barack Hussein Obama."

I'm all for being proud of your heritage. But I've been working vigorously to convince my conservative friends he's a Christian, he is not Muslim. But here it was as if he was saying to the Islamic listeners I'm one of you. Forgive my presumptiveness, but it is unfair to guys like myself for the President to exploit his name this way when considering it bad form when opponents do the same.