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Here in America, we allow people, with the exception of assassins or serial killers, to self identify. Gordon Matthew Summer, for example, is probably not a name familiar to most. Sting, however, is. Similarly, Cherilyn Sarkasian LaPier is not a household name. But, pair her up with Sonny, and we know about whom we are speaking.
Barack Obama identifies himself as such. His book authorship, his Harvard Law Review presidency, and his political campaigns have been under the same name. Friends and family called him Barry when he was growing up. The examples you mention all self-identified using their full names. JQA was JQA to distinguish himself from his father, whose middle name history does not use.
But it is disingenuous to suggest that there is no malicious intent to repeatedly using Obama's middle name when he himself does not. There are simple-minded and ignorant masses in this country who still think another person bearing the same name was associated with 9/11. They think this due to the deliberate mis-information provided by GWB and friends. And those using Obama's middle name in the media are well aware of the mistaken connection some people will draw- and INTEND just such a connection to be made. The intent isn't even hidden - it's readily available - just take a second to read a bit when one googles "Barack Hussein Obama." Vitriol regarding how the son of a Muslim is still a Muslim regardless of professed belief. Garbage regarding how if he is Christian he should change his name. Stupidity railing about other presidents who've used their middle names, so why should Barack be different? Quincy, unless you're from Boston, carries no connotation good or bad. Hussein CLEARLY has a cultural and present-day meaning in this country which isn't remotely positive.
If we had a country of intelligent people who thought for themselves, we could use everyone's full names. But BHO's middle name is being used ONLY as a way to connect him, erroneously and shamefully, with both Saddam and his islamic family history. The first is total B.S., and the second is shameful. We don't hold children accountable for the sins of the father in this country. Unless, I guess, we're really conservative.
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