Biblical/Koran/Torah, or Old Testament related names and words found in the name:

Barack Hussein Obama Jr

ABIAH ABIHU ABIJAH ABIRAM ABRAHAM ABRAM ABNER AARON
ARRON ASA ANAISAMOS AMARIAH ASHER ACHAN BARAUCH
BARAK BARNABAS BENAIAH CAIN CAINE CARMI ENOSH ENOCH
ENOS ERAN ESAIAS ESAU HAM HIRAM HOSEA IRA JACHIN JACOB
JAIR JAIRUS JAMES JAMIN JASON JESUS JACOB JAKOB JAME JOHN
JEHU JERICHO JESS ISA ISSA ISSAK ISSAC URIAS JOAB JOACHIM
JOASH JOB JOHN JONAH JOSES JOSHUA JOSIAH MANASSEH MARK
MICAH MOSES NAHOR NAHUM NOAH OMRI SAMSON SHEBA SHEM
SIMEON URI URIAH ABIAH ABIJAH JERUSHA MORIAH NAAMAH
NAOMI NERIAH RAHAB SARA SARAH SARAI SHARON
KORAN BEN BAR ROMAN ROMANS CROSS CAESAR ASIA BRANCH
JONAH JOB SAMSON ARAMAIC ARABIC ARABIAN CHERUBIM
CHERUB CHERUBS HEBRAIC KOSHER SERMON
And he has many places in his name:
AMERICA ASIA CHINA CUBA IRAN RUSSIA ARABIA CARIBBEAN
EURASIA ROME JAMAICA SAMOA SUMERIA SUMNER KANSAS
And these:
KRISHNA KARMA BRAHMA

I am still working on his name.
It is quite complex!

More strange things. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300135,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...ml?hpid=topnews

And this Wright guy Obama follows is so Wrong! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA&feature=related
What a freak Wright is! Obama's mother was a WHITE ATHEIST WOMAN FROM KANSAS!
AND ROMANS WERE NOT WHITE, IT WAS VERY MULTI ETHNIC! AND HIS ANCIENT HISTORICAL FACTS ARE SO SKEWED IT IS AMAZING! :thumbsdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNEfEBYIZs
to hear an audio clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
More creepiness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg&feature=related


And more oddness...
Mabus then will soon die, there will come
Of people and beasts a horrible rout:
Then suddenly one will see vengeance,
Hundred, hand, thirst, hunger when the comet will run.
Century II, Quatrain 62

The antichrist very soon annihilates the three,
twenty-seven years his war will last.
The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled;
with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth.
Century VIII, Quatrain 77

Naval battle night will be overcome,
Fire in the ships to the West ruin:
New trick, the great ship colored,
Anger to the vanquished, and victory in a drizzle.
Century IX, Quatrain 100

A founder of sects , much trouble for the accuser:
A beast in the theater prepares the scene and plot.
The author ennobled by acts of older times;
the world is confused by schismatic sects.
Century I, Quatrain 45 http://www.mabus.biz/
Nostradamus Mabus Project
In search of the Anti-Christ

Mabus could be the anti-christ or the forerunner to the true antichrist. He or she is prophesied by Nostradamus in Century II, Quatrain 62.
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/05/22/mabus_to_advise_obama_on_middl.php
Mabus to advise Obama on Middle East issues
The SunHerald | May 22, 2007

By Emily Wagster Pettus

Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Clinton administration, is joining Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign as an unpaid adviser on Middle Eastern issues.

Mabus told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he'll also travel around the nation to make campaign appearances for the Illinois senator.

"I think that Obama, more than anybody else, has a chance to unify this country," Mabus said. "This country has been so divided, particularly by this administration, that I think (Obama) is talking about problems in a different way. I think he's a new voice from a new generation. That's what America needs now."

Mabus, now 58, was Mississippi governor from January 1988 to January 1992, serving during a slump in the state's economy. While supporters praised his efforts to move Mississippi's schools off the bottom of national rankings, opponents said he left a state budget that was stretched too thin.

Mabus lost his 1991 re-election bid to blunt-spoken contractor Kirk Fordice, who became Mississippi's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.

Mabus was governor when another young Democrat, Bill Clinton, was governor of Arkansas. After Clinton became president, he appointed Mabus to the ambassadorship. Mabus held the job in Saudi Arabia from 1994-96.

Now, Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, is running for president.

Asked why he's not supporting Hillary Clinton, Mabus said: "This is about being for somebody and not about being against anybody."

Political scientist Marty Wiseman said Mabus, who has been working in private business since returning from the ambassadorship, "may have been out of the limelight a little too long for just the name to contribute much."

"On the other hand, it doesn't hurt to have a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia advising on Middle Eastern issues," said Wiseman, director of Mississippi State University's John C. Stennis Institute of Government.

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Mabus will have "a leadership role in the campaign in Mississippi and across the nation."

Mabus serves on the advisory board for the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research group. He's also on the board of directors of America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc., a Washington-based nonprofit group designed to strengthen ties among the U.S., the Middle East and north Africa.

Mabus is not the only Mississippi politician to publicly endorse a 2008 presidential candidate.

Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering in February became the Mississippi chairman and Southern co-chairman for the campaign of Sen. John McCain of Arizona. In a news release, Pickering called McCain "a proven leader in national security."

Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, has said he'll wait to endorse a presidential candidate.

Mabus said he does not know whether Obama will make campaign stops in Mississippi, a state that last gave its presidential electoral votes to a Democrat in 1976.

I think it is to a person's great credit if they have real-life knowledge and rational thought that covers more than one religion, more than one race, more than one nationality or place, more than one world-view influenced by more than one experience or more than one culture. I greatly admire that about Obama. It's certainly something I've spent some of the energy in my life pursuing.

As for Wright, I expect that someone who wanted to see him for who he is could dig deep and find a real human person who no doubt has worked hard for a troubled community. But those who wanted to put together a 3-minute collage of his most assinine and offensive statements found what they were looking for as well.

Did you watch Soledad O'Brien's piece on the assassination of MLK Jr. last night on CNN? Andrew Young, John Lewis, some others on there, said some things that were so evocative of the reality they lived through. And the inflicted trauma of Kennedy - boom - King - boom - Kennedy - boom. The evil they lived through when the very idea of paying black garbage men a living wage instead of paying them an amount where they worked 40 hours a week for less than $40 -- the very idea of treating black people as worthy of caring about made people want to kill the most caring, nonviolent and dignified of the civil rights leaders.

Wright was from that era. What he lived through affects how he sees things, of course. Just like it does for you or me. That people like Andrew Young and John Lewis and other leaders from that era have survived and carried on is something I can only applaud as a person concerned about people as people, and that we treat each other well and give each other a fair shake.

That said, Wright is not Obama. Obama appears from his life story to be a person who can look at and hear and understand many perspectives from many cultural viewpoints. What he says about his own beliefs certainly comes across as sincere to many. The United Church of Christ is a pretty mainstream denomination.

That particular church is in the south side of Chicago and has programs that address a lot of human needs of a largely impoverished, largely segregated urban area. The afro-centric approach of that particular church (from which Wright has retired) is associated with a school of thought called Liberation Theology, which I studied in college in terms of how it was being used in South America. It's a way of seeing the Gospels as centered in your own community.

I suppose so much of understanding and communication is a form of translation from one person's experience or thought form or meme, as Greg would have said, to another's. And there are so many dialects that make it hard to hear each other. And actually, I think it's important to keep the dialects and not let them die out -- wonderful customs from different cultures, for instance. But it's cool to me when someone arises who's conversant in a variety of tongues.

I think that's something a lot of people see in Obama and it's a good thing. On the Hillary side, she has her own talents, for putting things into practical application and getting them done. I've defended her elsewhere on these boards before. But I think this whole Wright controversy, and all the racial issues that still fester in the land, are really important for people to talk about even though they're hard.

As for end-of-the-world stuff? I don't subscribe to end-of-the-world stuff. I'm confident all that's ending is the age, and it's having its transformation pains as can be expected.

Just my 22 cents.

Love ya,
Maria

Just food for thought mostly.
I do not subscribe to most either.
And
i have not had television in over a decade so in that respect I am out of touch with things.
No newspaper either.
Just news feeds.
As for who
I'd vote for...
totally not sure.
Its a mess in my opinion.
And yes...
Wright is a "product of his times".
Thanks for a thought provoking response!