Barry.
Does anyone know why conservative bloggers refer to Barack Obama as “Barry” when they want to be disparaging? Barry is a fairly common nickname. It was the name of conservative leader Barry Goldwater, an Arizonan that McCain counts among his early political mentors. From what I understand, it was a nickname Obama went by as a child and that he’s since shed, as most children shed their childhood nicknames. (My parents were Rickie and Susie as children, although neither goes by that now.) What’s so funny or degrading about it? It’s just a name.
See my entry on Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for a guess.
