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Title: Obama seeks Hanuman's blessing for White House race (carries a "tiny monkey god")
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URL Source: http://current.com/items/89011046_o ... _hindu_monkey_god_for_blessing
Published: Jun 12, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-06-12 10:00:14 by Jethro Tull
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NEW YORK: It's unusual. But, it's a fact. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic party's presidential nominee, is seeking the blessings of Hanuman in his battle for the White House. The 46-year-old senator from Illinois, who defeated his rival Hillary Clinton in an epic 17-month long electoral battle for Democratic party nomination, carries a "tiny monkey god" apparently representing "Hanuman" with him for good luck. A recent photo posted on Time's White House Photo of the Day collection shows the first ever Black-American nominee of a major US party for the Presidential elections carries with him a bracelet belonging to an American soldier deployed in Iraq, a gambler's lucky chit, a tiny monkey god and tiny Madonna and child. That "tiny monkey god," of course, appears to be a statue of the Hindu monkey god, Hanuman, says the posting but editors and the photographer has not identified it as such. -Snip
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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I didn't know monkeys had a god. The nut carries around a monkey god but doesn't wear a flag pin? Anyone that votes for this guy really doesn't deserve to be free.
God is always good!
He's Indian, he's Black, he's Jewish, he's anything except rural White, so monkey gods seem to be logical.
Has a certain symmetry to it.
Keisha Brown, 21, from Chicago, whose mother has a nightgown with a picture of Obama on it, said, “Everything will be different now.”
Probably carries it around because it reminds him of his ol' lady. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
That "tiny monkey god," of course, appears to be a statue of the Hindu monkey god, Hanuman
Lord Acton
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