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Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison
netbuzz writes "David Kernell, whose prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, was today sentenced to a year and a day by a judge in Knoxville, Tenn. Kernell was convicted of misdemeanor computer fraud and felony obstruction of justice back in April. His attorney had argued for probation on the grounds that what Kernell did amounted to a prank that spun out of control."
What's the point in stating his middle name? I hear it all the time from conservative radio personalities, but hear it rarely elsewhere. You hear a lot about George W. Bush, but it's almost never "George Walker Bush." His father is regularly referred to as George Herbert Walker Bush, but only since his son was elected. Bill Clinton did use his middle name, often being referred to as William Jefferson Clinton, but a lot of people of all political stripes did that. I didn't even know Reagan's or Carter's middle names (Wilson & Earl, respectively) until I just looked it up, though that may just be because they were before my time. As I see it, however, no real convention exists for referring to a president by all 3 (or more) names.
As for Obama specifically, if you look him up, on either Bing or Google, you'll see that referring to him as "Barack Hussein Obama" is almost entirely the province of the right. So I ask again, why do conservatives insist on using his middle name when neither he, nor most others refer to him in that manner?
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
Why don't you try answering the question I asked before asking one of your own?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I'm a Republican and I wiped my hard drive last week. I'm not doing any time. Gooooo Team!
Conspiracy theories for teh win.