Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041 next last
To: PROCON

Kenyans are used to finding out their political leaders are corrupt. They’ll just call the kid AFOO.


21 posted on 07/25/2015 8:45:42 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2

——They’ve also started a cargo cult.-——

LOL.....that would not surprise me....


22 posted on 07/25/2015 8:50:48 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki
"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'll be darned, I thought he was Indonesian.

23 posted on 07/25/2015 8:51:02 AM PDT by smoothsailing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: windsorknot
You sure?

Frank Marshall Davis

Orrrr....Mohammed Subud


24 posted on 07/25/2015 8:53:52 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

How many kids in this country have been named “Patriots Win The Super Bowl”?

It’s pretty much the same thing.


25 posted on 07/25/2015 8:56:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MuttTheHoople

Mohamed wins. So some Indonesian religious cult leader is Zero’s daddy? Spitting image.


26 posted on 07/25/2015 9:17:37 AM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: VerySadAmerican
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.

I've thought the same thing, but I think it will happen after he leaves office. After dismissing those who asserted he was born in Kenya as nut cases and conspiracy theorists all these years, the temptation to rub everybody's noses in it by admitting they were right all along will prove to be irresistible to him. Not only that, instead of realizing that he played them for fools also, his supporters will gloat right along with him.

27 posted on 07/25/2015 9:22:16 AM PDT by GreenHornet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

Hey Kenya! you love him so much? take him back!


28 posted on 07/25/2015 9:24:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GreenHornet

Wouldn’t that invalidate every executive action he took while in office?


29 posted on 07/25/2015 9:27:29 AM PDT by rabidralph
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

The idiots in his birth country are as bad as the idiots here.


30 posted on 07/25/2015 9:38:45 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GreenHornet; VerySadAmerican

He will either admit that or he will admit he is homosexual.

Heck, he might go for the big 3fer and admit all 3.

Toss in he will admit he is a communist/marxist.


31 posted on 07/25/2015 9:40:38 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: GreenHornet; VerySadAmerican

this all shows he is one serious messed up individual, but we already knew that.


32 posted on 07/25/2015 9:41:24 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

They are as children...


33 posted on 07/25/2015 9:43:16 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

34 posted on 07/25/2015 9:43:31 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

35 posted on 07/25/2015 9:43:54 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki
Average Kenyan IQ = 80
36 posted on 07/25/2015 9:46:34 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sukhoi-30mki

He is finally where he belongs.


37 posted on 07/25/2015 9:47:27 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MuttTheHoople

I’m not sure that his father wasn’t an extraterrestrial.


38 posted on 07/25/2015 9:58:10 AM PDT by windsorknot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: VerySadAmerican

I assume someone very important named “Lucy” visited a few decades back.

**********************************************************************

Lucille Ball?


39 posted on 07/25/2015 10:16:14 AM PDT by Graybeard58
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: VerySadAmerican

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.

************************************************************************

Take hope, it’s been said of every two term president since Roosevelt and probably even before that.


40 posted on 07/25/2015 10:18:48 AM PDT by Graybeard58
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson