In a rapid response blog post this morning, Hillary’s campaign refers to Barack Obama, whose middle name is Hussein, as “BHO” in a transcript of an Obama appearance on CNN that is rendered as follows:

ROBERTS: Senator, she suggests that you’re falling short here by mandating coverage for children but not mandating it for their parents. What do you say?

BHO: …[I] mean, if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house. the reason they don’t have a house is they don’t have the money.

However, the official CNN transcript labels him as “Obama,” not “BHO,” and never refers to his middle name. A Google search of the Fact Hub blog shows one other post referring to Obama as “BHO” in a transcript.

The problem, of course, is that people have used Obama’s middle name to promote the myth that he is a Muslim. As a result, even if their intent is benign, it’s a bit disconcerting that Clinton’s people are calling him “BHO.”