Posted on 07/25/2015 8:15:32 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Now, a batch of Kenyan newborn babies will be called 'Air Force One Obama' in honour of US President Barack Obama's visit to the country -- with some mothers evidently hoping their offspring will be future high-flyers.
Already there are numerous young Barack Obamas living in Kogelo, the president's ancestral village, but soon after Obama touched down on Friday night two mothers in the western city of Kisumu took the unusual decision to name their sons after the president's jet, Air Force One.
"I have decided to call my baby Air Force One Barack Obama so that we can all remember Obama's visit to Kenya because it is a huge blessing," said Lucy Akinyi Okoth, one of the mothers.
Another, Lucy Atieno, decided to simply call her boy Air Force One.
"I have been told that it is the best aeroplane because it carries a very powerful leader of America who is also a Kenyan," she said.
The two Air Force Ones were among eight children born on Friday night at Kisumu Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referral Hospital and named after Obama, said nurse Dolphin Akinyi.
"Yesterday from 8.30 pm we had eight deliveries and all the babies are in a very stable condition," she said.
Three girls also each got an Obama-related name. One was named Michelle after the first lady, another was called Malia, after the couple's eldest daughter, while a third was named Malia Sasha after the two Obama girls.
"I could not call my daughter any other name," said Wilkister Anyango, who took both Obama's daughters' names for her child.
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Crowds of Kenyans cheer and hold a painting representing US President Barack Obama near Memorial Park, in Nairobi. Kenyans gathered in the city centre to watch Obama's convoy as it drove through Nairobi. (AFP Photo)
Are there any baby Baracks in this country?
Just wonder if the name Barack has become more popular due to Obama.
I heard that in the ‘90s, the name Hillary for girls became much less popular due to Hillary Clinton.
What happens when little ‘Air Force One Obama’ learns his hero is now ‘50 Years to Life Obama’?
smh!
To this day she empathizes that it's Hilary with one 'L'. :-)
Air Farce One is more appropriate.
That’s no more ridiculous than some of the names parents in this country give their kids.
I guess it’s understandable. It seems to me the equivalent of Nyquille, Vagisille, Female’ and the like. Popularity of that last seen before the “big event”......
I’m just waiting to see a good adaptation of feminizing Jerry or Maury - something very inventive.
I read an article about angst among some, who named their child after Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird. With the recent uproar over the new book in which Atticus is not liberal, some parents express remorse over naming their kid after a fictional character.
Where’s Tarzan when you need him.
They’ve also started a cargo cult.
Why are they so excited over a half-white, half-Indonesian Sodomite Marxist?
Beelzebub would have been more appropriate.
I don’t know hoe to break it to those poor dumb folks, but Obama ain’t no more Kenyan than Donald Trump is.
Think Frank Marshall Davis.
Barack H. Obama Sr. is just a cover story. And a pretty piss poor one at that.
“I have decided to call my baby Air Force One Barack Obama so that we can all remember Obama’s visit to Kenya because it is a huge blessing,” said Lucy Akinyi Okoth, one of the mothers.
Another, Lucy Atieno, decided to simply call her boy Air Force One.
“I have been told that it is the best aeroplane because it carries a very powerful leader of America who is also a Kenyan,” she said.
I assume someone very important named “Lucy” visited a few decades back.
I also see they KNOW he was born in Kenya. My ancestors were from Poland. That makes me Polish but it doesn’t make me a Pole.
Because his no-count, whoring drunkard of a daddy was a Kenyan.
I predict he will admit he was born in Kenya and that he is muslim either right before or right after he leaves office. IF he leaves office.
It’s sad that there are those of us who believe he might not leave office and know there’s not a damn thing we could do about it if he doesn’t.
Air Force ones are the popular tennis shoes that obama’s sons and daughters fight and murder over . . . just sayin’.
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