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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:

Barry, Barack...

BARAKA

"In Islam, divine blessing that is normally associated with holy men or women, waliy, either in life or in death.
Baraka can be transferred from one person to another, or from a material item to a person. Common in Islam is baraka that comes from local shrines, but the strongest baraka is in Mecca, and then especially, at the Ka’ba. Pilgrims returning, are carriers of baraka, as well as bringing with them baraka in the shape of items from holy places. One of the more popular baraka-carrying items is water from the well of Zamzam.

The grandfather: Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Onyango had travelled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar, where he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein Onyango Obama. WIKI

Hussein Onyango Obama gave his son, Obama Sr, two muslim first names. The muslim names come from islam. Barak is blessing. I first came across that name in that context in a book by the name of ‘The Blue Nile’ written by Alan Moorehead, published in 1962.

Naming a child Barak might be similar to sentiment behind the name of a friend of mine, whose parents gave her the first name of 'Lucky'.

The school Obama Sr attended was anglican:

http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530&;

“Okanda removes a brown card from one of them. “This one belonged to Barack Obama Sr. He joined the school in 1950 and left in 1953,” he explains.

Obama Sr — Index No 3422 — joined the school with his elder brother, Joseph, who left in 1951 for unexplained reasons.”

No child of a muslim convert would be named Joseph. The muslim equivalent would be Yusuf.

Just as Cat Stevens became Yusuf Islam.

Obama Snr arrives in Hawaii with the names Barack Hussein Obama - knowing that the BARACK is not the intended arabic spelling. After a while, he reverts to the original, as his father intended. Kenya is independant now, anything inherited from the hated english, including the spelling of the name, is discarded. As for obama zero...his reasons for changing his name from one to the other after going to school as Barry...I really don't have any idea. Other than he's a schizophrenic.

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:
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