[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Please don’t spell it Baraq. While the transliteration from the Arabic is inexact, the spelling “Barack” is generally accepted and most closely resembles the proper Arabic pronunciation. And it is a matter of respect. Barack, you see, was the name of the prophet Mohammed’s magical winged horse, with the breasts of a woman and the tail of a peacock, who took the prophet for his evening’s visit to Paradise and back. Gotta respect the prophet’s horse.

Seriously, in all the hoo-hah over a radio talk-show host’s emphasis on Obama’s middle name Hussein, the origin and symbolism of his first name has gone totally unremarked. “Hussein” (and other variations of the H-S-N trilateral root) merely infers that one is a Muslim, but there’s something very special and symbolic to be named for the steed who magically conveyed the prophet to Paradise.

[Abathar]

Hmmmm... I read that it was spelled that way on his birth certificate, and he changed the spelling later.

I guess I better research before I do it again, you’re right.

[Candor7]

there’s something very special and symbolic to be named for the steed who magically conveyed the prophet to Paradise.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Baraq is not much more than a winged horse fart. His neocolonialism in Kenya ocassioned genocide. His religious views are anti-white, racist , and black nationalist. He pretends hope and change , and national unity? He actually represents the opposite of his bought and paid campaign imagry.

Horse pucky indeed.

May "Baraq"swiftly be put out to the pasture he so richly deserves.

Or even better, may he soon see the inside of a glue factory.