Go to Facebook. Type "Natasha" into the search box. Select 'People.' Then sit back in stunned amazement that there are a lot of young African American women named 'Natasha.'
Heck, arguably the most prominent young black superheroine in comic books is named Natasha.
But hey, if you'd rather fantasize that Obama is secretly a Russian spy who, as part of his cover, named his daughter after pop culture's most famous female Russian spy, knock yourself out. You can even claim that he was being extra sneaky because it's a name given to a lot of young black girls.
Because yeah, the Russian thing makes SOOOOO much more sense than 'Her parents liked the name.' It's not clunky or conspiratorial or unnecessarily complicated in the slightest.
Well, I will try to answer your sneering mocking post as politely as I can.
I repeat: many many people have said the same thing that I wrote here — why does this man have two Russian names for his daughters?
When I googled it extensively in 2008, for each name, I could find no other references except for Russian references. Now, the Internet says differently and in fact one of the names suddenly seems to be Sasha rather than Natasha.
It seems to me that he has an affinity for Soviet Russia.
You, on the other hand, seem to think that he reads and likes comic books — a character that I have never heard of, and while that name may be much more popular, now after Obama has become famous, I wonder how popular it was before — but you may indeed be right, he just may be stupid enough to name his child after a cartoon character.
Quote (paraphrasing now) “He thought the Soviet Union to be superior to the United States. He was sure that a Marxist revolution was coming, and that it would straighten out all the inequalities in American society, which was so unfair, because rich people have more money than poor people, and they got that money, by unfairly taking it from the poor people. He was an extreme, radical, committed Marxist”.
Many others besides myself, and also I myself, continue to ask the same question — why is it that he loved Russia so much that he must name both his children after that country? Isn’t it bizarre that both the children have Russian names?
Isn’t it bizarre that both of the parents met each other in Russian class?
You do know, right, that his first political job was chief of staff to Alice Palmer, Communist Party USA, who went twice to Communist international meetings in Moscow and came back singing Russia’s praises?
Can you name any other single politician in America, and his or her Chief of Staff’s name, where the above statement of fact applies?
Let me see: radical committed Marxist with two children with Russian names, where the parents have met each other in Russian language class — do you think it possible or likely that these things go together?
I certainly do.
But you could be right — maybe Malia is a Hawaiian name and maybe Natasha belongs to an unknown unheard-of black comic book superhero — it is possible, since no one can know what is inside another human being’s mind and heart.