Baruch Obama

Spotted in Berkeley:

Obama supporters get furious when anyone mentions that his middle name is Hussein — because it’s so obviously Arabic. But no one ever seems to point out that “Barack” is also Arabic — it means “blessed” and is a Swahili loan word from Arabic. The closely related Hebrew name “Baruch” also means “blessed” — which I suppose this bumpersticker would translate as (though in this case it actually just transliterates “Barack Obama” phonetically — it’s not a translation to Hebrew).

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