Obama seeks Hanuman's blessings in race to White House

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*Obama seeks Hanuman's blessings in race to White House*

 

Link: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080052436

 

Press Trust of India

Monday, June 9, 2008 (New York)

It's unusual. But, it's a fact. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic

party's presidential nominee, is seeking the blessings of Lord Hanuman in

his battle for the White House.

 

The 46-year-old senator from Illinois, who defeated his rival Hillary

Clinton<http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080052436#>in

an epic 17-month long electoral battle for Democratic

party

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,

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 in the race to the White House

carries with him a bracelet belonging to an American soldier deployed in

Iraq, a gambler's lucky chit, a tiny monkey god, 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.

 

Obama, whose father was a Kenyan and mother a white woman from Kansas, spent

initial days of his life in Indonesia where Hinduism is a popular religion.

 

In addition to a lucky penny, Republican

candidate<http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080052436#>J\

ohn

McCain carries a lucky nickel, and a lucky rubber band, which he wears

around his wrist.

 

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