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'Bird Legs' for president?
12/12/2007 13:40 - (SA)
Washington - Meet the US presidential candidates by another name - Barry, Bird Legs, Coyote Bill.
These were their childhood nicknames.
Several of the candidates go around today with names altered in their youth. Mitt Romney, for example, was named Willard Mitt Romney. In a twist from the usual nickname progression, Fred Thompson actually was named Freddie, and John Edwards was named Johnny.
Rudolph Giuliani is running under the less formal Rudy, the name by which his friends and close associates have known him for decades.
Behind those modest alterations are a few truly fanciful monikers. They emerged when AP asked them about their childhood nicknames in a series of questions about their personal side. Thompson's campaign, in response, indulged in a touch of whimsical wishful thinking.
The candidates by their full names, and their nicknames:
Democrats:
New York Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton: No nicknames that stuck
Former North Carolina Senator Johnny Reid Edwards: John
Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama jnr: Barry
New Mexico Governor William Blaine Richardson: Coyote Bill
Republicans:
Former New York Mayor Rudolph William Louis Giuliani: Rudy
Former Arkansas Governor Michael Dale Huckabee: Mike and Huck
Arizona Senator John Sidney McCain III: Johnny
Former Massachusetts Governor Willard Mitt Romney: "In high school, my friends called me Bird Legs. And how did I get it? Take a guess."
Former Tennessee Senator Freddie Dalton Thompson: Mr President.
- AP
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