I think his original name is Barry Obama and he changed it to his father’s name while in college (his Malcolm x stage) I don’t know if that is a big deal. I think it will be to the average voter who is already not sure who this guy really is. And to choose that name is not really middle of the road, post racial and all that. Also to then act like the name you chose is off bounds makes him seem like a major jerk. I have many reason for this suspicion like his adopted name being his nickname - weird, the yearbook page being only your nickname - weird, but my biggest is an article I read about his father and how he referred to him as Barry coupled with some of his other sons names Roy, Bernard, and George (Roy changed his later to Obanga also Roy is the oldest why wouldn’t he be jr.) just a thought...
Yikes!! All this name changing has got my head spinning. Who IS this guy?
This is mostly a waste of time. I will say this...the most one will find...is that he was adopted by his Indonesian dad after Mom married him...and got his name changed over to “Barry”. He might have acquired Indonesian citizenship via some contrived method...but he still meets all of the general rules to run for president. Folks might not understand this name change....to “Barry”...but if you were some Indonesian dad...the last thing you’d want is some kid of yours named for some Arab. I wouldn’t blame the Indonesian dad at all...and would have done the same thing.
Obama Covers His Tracks
Barack Obama apparently wishes his two autobiographies to be the definitive record of his past. He has blocked efforts by others who wish to independently examine his past.
He won’t allow his transcript from his undergraduate days at Columbia University to be released.
He “lost” his thesis on Soviet nuclear policy (see “Where in the World is Obama’s Missing Thesis“ which might provide insight regarding his seeming lack of knowledge about Soviet policy during the Kennedy years).
He won’t answer questions about his days at Harvard Law School.
He “lost” his Illinois Senate records.
He will only release a simple one-page letter from his doctor on his medical condition.
He won’t release his application to the state bar, which, as National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes raises questions about whether he told the truth about parking tickets and drug use, among other issues.
He won’t disclose list of his clients from his law firm days or the nature of the work he did for them as a lawyer (his clients include the indicted political fixer Tony Rezko).
He walks away from uncomfortable questions about Rezko at a news conference.
His cultists try to shut down inquiry into his stewardship of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge by sliming a journalist investigating his days at the helm of that group, which blew through $100 million dollars with no discernible benefit for the schools and students that it was putatively designed to help (what does the constitutional law lecturer say to the chilling of free speech by his acolytes?).
He tries to muddle his long-standing ties with Pastor Wright by producing a version of his attendance record at Trinity Church that is sharply at variance with previous versions he has given (”Obama Re-invents his Trinity Church History“).
The Wall Street Journal joins the battle over Obama’s past in today’s editorial (”Obama’s Lost Years“):
http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/obama-covers-his-tracks/
I think his name is Barry Dunham and he has tried to hide the fact that his parents were never married, because his father already had a wife in Africa.
Michele sort of gave it away in an interview she did.