Yes, I see that picture them eating ice cream together. I have seen many pictures of them eating ice cream together. Doesn’t everyone find this very strange? Does that not count as food if during Ramadan in the daytime you eat ice cream but never go to a restaurant for a sitdown meal? I have kids — I never fed them so much ice cream in my life as he seems to feed his. I thought the Obama family was worried about obesity? They don’t seem to be worrying about it in this photo.
And by the way I have another question that I have been asking since 2008 — why do both of his children have Russian names?
And please don’t tell me that Malia is a Hawaiian name — when I first googled it in 2008, I found 10 pages of responses all telling me that it was a Russian name.
Now, when I google it in 2010, I can’t find a single hit telling me that it is a Russian name but, and oh what a miracle it is, it has now become a Hawaiian name. Isn’t that lucky? Isn’t that fortunate? I am still looking for a Russian to ask...
Sasha is a female and male given name. It originated in countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe as a diminutive of Alexander and Alexandra. It is also found as a surname, although this is very rare. Alternative spellings include: Saša (Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian), Sasza (Polish), Sashko (Ukrainian), Sascha (German), Sasja (Dutch), and Sacha (French).
This name is especially common in Europe where it is used primarily by males as a diminutive of Alexander, although females may also use it as a diminutive of Alexandra. Despite its popularity in informal usage, the name is rarely recorded on birth certificates in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, as it is considered a diminutive and not a formal name. Exceptions are Serbia and Croatia.
In Germany, the civil registry offices allow the inscription of Sascha in birth certificates as a formal name but only for boys.
In other countries, it is given predominantly to females. In the United States the name is almost exclusively used for girls, at number 369 in the ranking of U.S. baby names, although it didn’t gain popularity until the 1970s.
In the early period of Zionism, the name was common among male Jews in Ottoman- and British-ruled Palestine, reflecting the East European origin of many pioneers. It became less common in 1950s and 1960s Israel, but revived with the new waves of immigration from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and the larger wave of the 1990s.
Wow, you really have done a lot of work on the name Sasha.
Still, when I hear it, and most all other Americans also, they instantly think of a Russian name.
Why did he give a Russian name to his daughter? I am not the only one to ask that question.
Have you ever met an African-American who has given Russian names to his daughter — except for the ones who are radical communists and, like others in the Bill Ayers groups, such as the student for a Democratic Society and other bomb throwing radicals, who have on occasion named their children after Fidel Castro or Che Guevera ...
Maybe he just wanted to honor one of his KGB handlers?
Just kidding.
Or maybe not...