Barack Obama
What’s My Name – Barack Hussein Obama
What’s My Name – Barack Hussein Obama
The political realities of the presence of Barack Hussein Obama will be front and center for the next coming months and possibly years. What may have started as a Democratic Party equity initiative has blossomed into a run for the Presidency. His first national sighting was at the Democratic National Convention, stepping to the podium is the first term Senator from the “Land of Lincoln” the great state of Illinois to give the prime time speech. Obama’s speech stirred a nation. From that moment on his popularity has increased.
His full name is Barack Hussein Obama. A family name, named after his father and grandfather, a descendant of his Kenya African heritage. Growing up his friends referred to him as Barry rather than Barak. The current President George Walker Bush, gets his name from the same desire to honor Father and Grandfather.Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.
As the attention to the Illinois Senator becomes a national debate, swipes have already been taken to associate his name with nefarious characters. Senator Ted Kennedy, Bill O’Reily Fox News, to likes of Rush Limbaugh have all quipped the Obama – Osama intentional slight of tongue Freudian slip. Limbaugh uses Barack’s full name in his broadcast, branding and ingraining the association if only in name, but with intent. The Illinois Senator is worthy of praise and represents a changing political tapestry in America.
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama is not interested in changing his name.
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