"Barack"

[M M]

He's right.

  If you recall, one of Israel's Prime Ministers was Ehud Barak....

  In both the Semitic languages of Hebrew and Arabic, the word "Barak" means blessed or blessing....


  Peace.


Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Did anyone else notice that Obama himself has said that his name means
"blessed" and not "lightning"? I don't know enough Semitic, uh,
Semetic, to know whether he's be right or whether his father made a
mistake.

-Wilson.
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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