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To: jamese777

Unfortunately, we’re wasting our breath. These guys are determined to believe Obama’s dad was of almost pure Arab ancestry.

After all, he has Arab first and middle names.

That he converted to Islam and chose his names accordingly doesn’t seem to make any difference to them.

Presumably a Luo tribesman cousin who converted to Christianity and adopted John David as his first and middle names is therefore of English descent. Or possibly he’s Jewish, since Hebrew is the original provenance of these names.

My first name is Scottish, middle name is Greek, and last name is German. I wonder what ethnicity I am.


25 posted on 07/19/2008 6:23:37 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan
Or possibly he’s Jewish, since Hebrew is the original provenance of these names.

the arab root of the name is BARAKA. In 'The White Nile', written by Alan Moorehead, published in the UK in 1960, baraka is several times referred to in the arab context as 'blessed, or he who makes great changes'.

34 posted on 07/19/2008 6:38:22 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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