Barak or Barack is a Muslim name.
Barak is a Hebrew name. It means lightning.
Who really knows about that one, except that the supposed Obamadaddy already had a wife in Kenya.
The actual name, Barack, the way it is spelled, doesn’t exist even in islam UNTIL obama named hisself that.
Before everybody wets their pants, it was most likely an unenforced law.
His name is probably listed as Barry Dunham.
barrack hussein obama... mmmmmmmmmm... mmmmmmmmmmm... mmmmmmmmmmm!
LLS
Call him whatever you like,...he’s just a P.O.S. to me!
I wonder if comrade zero qualifies?
It was in common use in England as late as the 1970s, I don't know about now.
I'm sure that's the sense in which the law was using it.
This law is from Hawaii: a large number of Hawaiian given names are Japanese, such as Hiroko, Taro, and Hanako. None of those are Biblical in origin, but they are all perfectly common and legitimate names in the Aloha State.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Barry?
Oh wait, Barrabas? The murderer they set free instead of Jesus ...
Barry = short for Barrabas ?
Wow. I didn’t realise so many Freepers were ignorant of basic English usage. Embarrassing.
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0's SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Obama 1964 Divorce Papers - 13 Pages - Missing Pg 11
24 Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
It looks to me as if this law is trying to regularize the naming of children around some standard. In Hawaii, I believe it was common for children to be given just one name. Like Kamahemaha. What they wanted was to include a “family” name to show descendancy. Probably for recordkeeping purposes it was confusing when some people didn’t have both a “first” and “last” name.
My .02
Who's the baby daddy? Frank Marshall Davis?
Also he was conceived out of wedlock...