While I have tried to keep up with the post, I believe it is important to determine whether Barak Sr. changed the spelling of his first name to Barack after he came to Hawaii. The reason is that the COLB and newspaper announcement use the Barack spelling. If he was proud of his given name, I find it unlikely that he would have adopted the Barack spelling. This is borne out in this post. If he continued to use the Barak spelling, then why do we have his first name spelled Barack on both the COLB and the newspaper announcements? Answer: the documents forgers forgot this little detail. Do we have access to any of his college registrations or other documents during this time period?
“...Do we have access to any of his college registrations or other documents during this time period?”
Not that I am aware of.
http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530&;
Tracing Obama Snr’s steps as a student at Maseno School
Published on 04/11/2008
By John Oywa
It would seem that the anglican school he attended until the age of 17 has his name as BARACK. Therefor I imagine any ID documentation in relation to previous education that followed him to Hawaii would also be in the name of BARACK.
But I really do not know. One would need to obtain the record the teacher in the above article speaks of...but don’t forget, at the same school his brother’s name was written as JOSPEH. The muslim name his father gave him would have been YUSUF.
If he was proud of his given name, I find it unlikely that he would have adopted the Barack spelling
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I agree. I want to see his records for the UofH but I’m sure by now they read baraCk.