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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Chris_ on June 02, 2008, 12:33:07 PM
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Obama, Wooing Voters, Takes an American-Indian Name
Crow Agency, Mont. (AP) - The purification ceremony isn't an everyday ritual of U.S. presidential politics.
The newly named Awe Kooda Bilaxpak Kuuxshish -- better known as Barack Obama -- faced east, the symbolic source of new life. His adopted Crow father, Hartford Black Eagle, prayed over him.
Afterward, they walked arm-in-arm with Black Eagle's wife, Mary, to a podium, where Obama promised to live up to the meaning of his new name: "One Who Helps People Throughout the Land."
"I want you to know that I will never forget you," Obama told the crowd, who had not seen a visitor of such political importance since Lady Bird Johnson came to the Montana reservation in the 1960s. "You will be on my mind every day that I am in the White House."
You just know that Hillary will :thatsright: for not thinking of it first. :-)
MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080602b.html)
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please tell me that he was wearing feathers, and that there were photographers present. :-)
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Afterward, they walked arm-in-arm with Black Eagle's wife, Mary, to a podium, where Obama promised to live up to the meaning of his new name: "One Who Helps People Throughout the Land."
Oops -- mis-translation. The real translation is: "One Who TAXES People Throughout the Land."
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please tell me that he was wearing feathers, and that there were photographers present. :-)
Can't find any...if he did he'd look like a member of "The Village People" :rotf: