[thecodont]

What would be BO’s motive/reason for changing his name from “Barak” to “Barack” after 2004, and even changing it in newer editions of his books??

[BP2]

As we know, Ann has many, many aliases. So does Obama Jr.

We "know" the spelling of his name in his parent's 1964 divorce is Barack.

As Fred Nerks suggests, Obama seems to have come back from Africa in the early 80s using Barak. Perhaps it's because his father spelled his name that way too when he first arrived in Hawaii in 1959.

Barak Obama (center) and friends at a party given by Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the early 1960's 

He went to Kenya to explore his roots in the early 80s. It seems that he "informally" used the spelling Barak vs Barack changed his name after he came back, at least in Chicago and with certain groups.

One has to wonder if the date of 08-19-96 on his Illinois driver's license record, nearly 4 years after he completed school at Harvard and was married by Rev. Wright in October 1992, covers up someone who briefly used Barak from circa 1982 to the early 1990s:

[BP2]

Lots of references to Barak campaigning for items dated 2006 and earlier ...

 Sunday, March 21, 2004

Congrats to Barak

Barak breaks the 20% rule. Superstitious about the 20% rule, I said nothing about my friend, Barak Obama, who has won (with a healthy 60% majority) the Democratic nomination for Senate in Illinois. Barak was an adjunct at the University of Chicago while I was teaching there, and then just as I left, became a regular professor. He is an astonishingly decent and bright forty-something star. Siva points to a great piece about the race. And keep your eyes on 2012: when he will no longer be known as the 5th whatever, but will become the 3d and 1st in one year. (Consider it the Lessig Sunday Puzzle). [Lessig Blog]

My father is a Chicago politician and gave me in the inside scoop on this election.  The old school Chicago Democratic party is still just as strong as it ever was concerning internal, local stuff.

But it's totally losing it's edge and control over statewide or national stuff.  They ran an old line cronnie who got hsi ass kicked by Barak.

Congrats to Barak.

I’m not sure what you mean by “3d”, but I assume “1st” is a reference to the first black President. I think Obama would make an excellent President, but I don’t think it likely that someone who’s name rhymes with Iraq Osama is likely to carry many more states than Illinois. Obama is very popular here in Illinois right now, but it may be prohibitively difficult to make a connection in the other 49.

Incidentally, I have heard at least two other commentators say they expect Obama to be President one day. Anyone who particularly wants to see a President Obama one day should probably start dropping his name in their writings now, and not stop stop until he’s elected. (Which, of course, some have begun to do.

» posted by Iain on Mar 21 04 at 8:18 AM

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[mojitojoe]

The answer to that question may be his downfall. Hint: faked documents.

[hoosiermama]

Help hide documentation of his life...What he hasn’t purged stays hidded.