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Kenya names its babies 'Air Force One Obama'
AFP ^ | Jul 25, 2015

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforceone; barackobama; kenya; name; names; obama
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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)

1 posted on 07/25/2015 8:15:32 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


2 posted on 07/25/2015 8:18:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sukhoi-30mki

What happens when little ‘Air Force One Obama’ learns his hero is now ‘50 Years to Life Obama’?


3 posted on 07/25/2015 8:19:26 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
 

 

  smh!

 

 

 

4 posted on 07/25/2015 8:19:56 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Let him be their President.
5 posted on 07/25/2015 8:20:28 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Dilbert San Diego
My daughter's name is Hilary, born before the Clintonistas took power.

To this day she empathizes that it's Hilary with one 'L'. :-)

6 posted on 07/25/2015 8:21:09 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Air Farce One is more appropriate.


7 posted on 07/25/2015 8:21:37 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

That’s no more ridiculous than some of the names parents in this country give their kids.


8 posted on 07/25/2015 8:21:37 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


9 posted on 07/25/2015 8:22:49 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: GreenHornet

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.


10 posted on 07/25/2015 8:23:22 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Where’s Tarzan when you need him.


11 posted on 07/25/2015 8:27:13 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

They’ve also started a cargo cult.


12 posted on 07/25/2015 8:28:15 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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You too can meet White American women, impregnate them, leave, and with them grow up to be President! </sarc>
13 posted on 07/25/2015 8:29:20 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Why are they so excited over a half-white, half-Indonesian Sodomite Marxist?


14 posted on 07/25/2015 8:30:53 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Beelzebub would have been more appropriate.


15 posted on 07/25/2015 8:34:56 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


16 posted on 07/25/2015 8:35:04 AM PDT by Tupelo (Corrupt politician McCain trumps war hero McCain.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

“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.


17 posted on 07/25/2015 8:39:03 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: MuttTheHoople
Why are they so excited over a half-white, half-Indonesian Sodomite Marxist?

Because his no-count, whoring drunkard of a daddy was a Kenyan.

18 posted on 07/25/2015 8:39:58 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


19 posted on 07/25/2015 8:41:49 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Air Force ones are the popular tennis shoes that obama’s sons and daughters fight and murder over . . . just sayin’.


20 posted on 07/25/2015 8:44:50 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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