Obama, Wooing Voters, Takes an American-Indian Name

[Chris_]

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  for not thinking of it first.   

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[Wretched Excess]

please tell me that he was wearing feathers, and that there were photographers present.

[Chris_]

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."

[Chris_]

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"