("Barack Hussein Obama) Lee County Sheriff Scott: 'I expect to be fully cleared of any wrongdoing'

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Lee County Florida: Sheriff Mike Scott issued the following public statement today, about the controversy caused after his using of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's "Hussein" middle name:

“Why” did I use the Candidate’s full, legal name of record? Despite varying inferences, interpretations, opinions, and extrapolations; the answer is; "because I wanted to".

From today's editions of The News-Press

One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked a national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott’s action was racist.

Meanwhile, Scott’s office has been inundated with more than 600 calls from people registering their support or opposition to what he said, and a record of more than 1,000 posts had been made to the developing story on news-press.com Tuesday night.

Opponents claim he was taking a swipe at Obama by attempting to falsely link him to Muslim terrorist ties.

[YDogg]

1. beyond that, it's the public campaigning in uniform.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Nice uniform you wore there. Illegally.

You can be thrown out just for campaigning for Palin in uniform, asshole, no matter what you said.