Sunday, April 10, 2011

When Barry Became Barack (Newsweak runs interference)

When Barry Became Barack (Newsweak runs interference)

Newsweek ^ | March 22, 2008 | Richard Wolffe, Jessica Ramirez, Jeffrey Bartholet

Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:01:02 PM by E. Pluribus Unum

Barry Obama decided that he didn't like his nickname. A few of his friends at Occidental College had already begun to call him Barack (his formal name), and he'd come to prefer that. The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: no more Barry.  Obama recalls it slightly differently, but in the same basic time frame.

He believes he told his mom he wanted to be called Barack when she visited him in New York the following summer. By both accounts, it seemed that the elder relatives were reluctant to embrace the change. Maya recalls that Obama's maternal grandparents, who had played a big role in raising him, continued long after that to call him by an affectionate nickname, "Bar." "Not just them, but my mom, too," says Obama.
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