Parents naming kids Obama

People are inspired worldwide…

By his own admission, Barack Obama was “a skinny kid with a funny name,” but that isn’t stopping proud parents from Romania to Indonesia from naming their newborns after the U.S. president-elect. Romania’s downtrodden Gypsies—once enslaved, like African-Americans, yet still struggling to overcome deep-seated prejudice—seem particularly inspired.

“When I saw Obama on TV, my heart swelled with joy. I thought he was one of us Gypsies because of his skin color,” said Maria Savu, whose infant grandson—Obama Sorin Ilie Scoica—was born in the central Romania village of Rusciori.

- from here