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“I was not born in a manger,” he said, adding the name Barack, given by his Kenyan father, was Swahili for “that one.” He also had an explanation for his middle name, Hussein.

“I got my middle name from somebody who didn’t think I would ever run for president,” he said.

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“I got my middle name from somebody...”

Thanks, certainly a bit less odd that my misremembered “whoever named me”.

In point of fact, didn’t he chose his own name after Lolo Soetoro gave him up?

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“I was not born in a manger,” he said, adding the name Barack, given by his Kenyan father, was Swahili for “that one.”

Horse-hockey. It's a Arabic word meaning "he who is blessed," which is itself a corruption of the Hebrew word baruch, which means the same thing.