coincidences as far as the eye can see
calling them coincidences doesnt necessarily diminish them
Heh, just God’s way of remaining anonymous... to the completely blind, that is!
There’s a whole list of weird “coincidences” with that name. Furthermore, Obama is also spelled without a middle alef (e.g. see the wiki Hebrew page), making that total 500. Same gematria as the Greek letter phi, which represents the Golden ratio).
Compare the Obama signature (the big O with the line through it) to the Greek letter of the same value:
http://www.greekalphabeta.com/learn-about-phi-phi-500.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi
Also, without the alef, Barak Obama = 356, same as America.
Odd too, how the 501 and 500 “coincidences” revolve around the letter alef; i.e. “One”.