Kenya maternities greet Obama and Michelle

[Starbucks Anarchist]

Source: AFP

KISUMU, Kenya (AFP) – Little Obamas and Michelles were coming to the world in maternities all over Kenya -- one woman managing both at the same time with a pair of twins -- as the party mood continued Wednesday in the nation where the US president-elect's father was born.

In the New Nyanza provincial general hospital in Kisumu, the capital of the region which is home to Barack Obama's ancestral village, Pauline Adhiambo gave birth to twins she named Obama and Michelle, an AFP correspondent reported.

At least eight other boys were named Barack or Obama -- or both -- in this hospital alone while maternities in the capital Nairobi and across the entire country reported new namesakes for the future occupants of the White House.

"I consulted my husband and we agreed the name Barack Obama would be ideal for our baby boy because the whole town and the entire world was very enthusiastic about Barack Obama, and we believe he is a great man," Josephine Anyango Anyango told AFP.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usvotekenyachildrenbirthsoffbeat

[eleny]

1. I've been waiting for this kind of news report

How cute is this!

[Miss Chybil]

2. Nice! nt

[glinda]

3. I am waiting for all the new mixed babies from here in the US!

Pretty!

[Indenturedebtor]

5. Mutts are hot :D

*disclaimer - I come from a long line of mutts and will soon spawn some of my own* :P

[olddad56]

4. I could get used to having a president that myself and the world can respect.

[OhioChick]

6. That's sweet.

:)

[Kittycat]

7. The question remains... What about that little girl named

Sarah McCain or some crazy thing like that?

[Beregond2]

8. She can take it up with her therapist in twenty years.

[Omnibus]

10. Sarah McCain? No problem.

By the time she hits grade school, none of her peers will remember either of them anyway.

[Omnibus]

9. It's gonna happen in the US, too.

In 10 years I fully expect to see "Barack" on one of those baby name lists.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

11. I remember reading in a book once

That in an impoverished village in Sudan during the late 1980s, shipments of food and aid authorized by the Bush Senior Administration arrived in the town. The gratitude of many of the locals ensured that many native villagers with newborns named their kids George Bush or Bush in tribute to the then President

I'd hate to be those kids, or rather young adults, today

This, on the other hand, is great news