Beastie: The Senator from Illinois

His full name is Barack Hussein Obama Jr. He's a senator from Illinois, author of The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father. But don't be fooled just because he's articulate and bright and clean, as fellow Sen. Biden pointed out.

CNN mistakenly put his name as a caption on a story about Osama Bin Laden, so he must have a mysterious shadow side.

First, notice the strangeness of his name. It sounds almost foreign. Sure enough, “Barack” means “blessed” in Swahili. And that's not all. It means the same thing in Arabic. Ditto in Hebrew. It is also a Sufi term referring to a sense of "divine presence" or "charisma."


Charisma? Uh-oh. Already he's sounding like a certain Carpathian character in those Left Behind books.

In Berber areas, rings and amulets decorated with words or phrases from the Koran are thought to contain a "baraka" and are important in dealing with darker forces and curing illnesses. (Recall Sen. Obama's emphasis on health care).

There's more.

Baraka, according to the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, was the wife of the antediluvian patriarch Jared. And Obama is a city the Fukui Prefecture of Japan, the capital of the Obama Clan, where philosophers would compose waka (31 syllable poetry). These are unrelated bits of information, possibly planted to throw us off course. Luckily, we're used to malevolent misdirections. We'll ignore them.

I'm most troubled by the Senator's Mortal Kombat connection (see photo above, right).

Baraka is a character in the Mortal Kombat video game who belongs to a race of nomadic mutants, later revealed in Mortal Kombat: Deception as a crossbreed between vile Netherealm demons and denizens of Outworld.

In addition to all this, the senator if a smoker.

Are alarm bells going off for you yet?

By feeding his name into our gematria machine, we find that according to Caballistic numerology, the name "Barak Hussein" adds up to 666. Right off the bat. No need to even add in his last name.

Hmm. Such a nice Christian public servant, turning out to be the Antichrist. I think we all agree Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ, needs to at least give the senator a severe talking to about all this.

Voting for him, of course, should be out of the question.


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