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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: tejek who wrote (53560)10/29/2008 9:32:07 PM
From: lorne4 Recommendations   of 224748
 
...."Barack Hussein Obama is a very old name in Africa. Barack means Blessed in Swahili. Hussein means good or handsome one."....

And obama means.....Obama is surname based on a given name from the Dholuo language spoken by the Luo people of Kenya. It is based on the verb "bam" meaning "bent", and probably refers either to an infant's arm or leg looking bent just after birth, or to the birth itself having been in the breech position.
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Maybe someone in Kenya witnessed the birth?
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