just out of curiosity, have you heard of anything being made out of the fact that Obama is listed in the COLB As “barack Hussein Obama II, and his father is listed as BHO.
Wouldn’t Obama be a Jr. rather than a II, if he was named after his daddy.
How come we never see Jr or II following his name on anything?
It's true that JR. is properly applied to the son of a father with the same name, and the numerical designation is applied where the child is named after an uncle or grandfather or some such. But there's no law requiring parents to follow conventions of naming. I'd be surprised if this teenage mother and Kenyan father even knew about such conventions, much less cared. They could have simply thought "II" sounded more important.