seems like it is very uncommon in recent History to use a presidents full middle name...
John F Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson
Richard M Nixon
Ronald Reagan ....don't know his middle?
George H W Bush
William j Clinton, Bill Clinton
George W Bush
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - used often especially in ceremonial and historical occasions
Ditto for Lyndon Baines Johnson
Ronald WILSON Reagan but for some reason the Wilson was very rarely used, not because there was anything wrong with it. It was probably because Reagan was already very well known when he was elected and the "Wilson" just didn't go with the name.
George Herbert Walker Bush was a well known name to just about everybody--even when the Democrats mocked him from the House floor as George Herbert Hoover Bush. . . .
And certainly William Jefferson Clinton was a commonly used name even though his full name was William Jefferson Blyth Clinton.
And George Walker Bush was not anywhere nearly as common as the "W" but it was used.
But with or without middle names, it was not considered disrespectful to call any President by his full name.
Until Obama.
Very true....
But if people were HONEST about WHY they are using his middle name, it is NOT out of respect, it is NOT because it was used for other presidents, but it IS FOR NEGATIVE REASONS (to associate Barak with Saddam Hussein, a muslim we executed)......you know it, they know it, I know it.
THIS is why there is sensitivity to it....To pretend or to act like this is NOT the CASE is just more politicking from the right wing, again in my opinion.
I won't deny that there is some of that. But it didn't have to be. If HE had been proud of his name and used it matter of factly and routinely, instead of he and Michelle making a big deal over it, the impact of any intended slur would have been blunted and eventually that sort of thing would have looked and felt lame to everybody.
Certainly King Hussein of Jordan is not ashamed of his name nor does anybody imply any kind of slur when they use it.