Nice article on Barack's name.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/20 ... 8/hussein/
Turns out lots of Presidents & other "Great Americans" had Semitic names!
Notably:
Benajmin Franklin
Omar Bradley
any of several presidents named James (Yakov) or John (Yochanan)
& espcecially
Abraham Lincoln!
Barack = Blessing, to bless
Hussein (diminutive of Hasan) = Handsome, Good
Hussein
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Re: Hussein
Here's another patriotic American who's Muslim: Zalmay Khalilzad, who's been our Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the UN.
And don't forget Paula Abdul. She's Jewish, but her father was born in Syria, hence the Arabic name.
And don't forget Paula Abdul. She's Jewish, but her father was born in Syria, hence the Arabic name.
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Jeff used to tell everyone that my dad looked like Saddam Hussein.VAdame wrote:LOL
Saddam = Crusher!
Crusher, but handsome? One of our nurses thinks Saddam Hussein was pretty good-looking (while still acknowledging that he was a bad guy!) We kinda spent a day or so singing "Jane's got a crush on Sadda-am!" just to pick on her
I think that he looked more like Tom Selleck.