Obama Baby Boom on the Horizon?

by Roger Sinasohn (Subscribe to Roger Sinasohn's posts) Jan 23rd 2009 1:01PM

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For some of us, the election of Barack Obama heralds the start of a new and better era, and his inauguration was symbolic of that new beginning. So what better way to celebrate than to get down and get funky? One commentator out of the U.K. believes that a lot of people on this side of the pond will feel that way -- enough to fuel a presidential baby boom.

Barack Baby Boom

This picture taken on January 21, 2009 shows a Kenyan baby named Barack Obama in the arms of his mother, Caroline Akinyi. The child was born shortly after the inauguration of the new US president. "I hope that one day he too will become a great leader if not like the US president," said the mother.

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Kenyan mothers Linda Omondi with baby Michelle Obama (left) and Caroline Akinyi with baby Barack Obama carry their newborns on January 21, 2009 in Kisumu City, a western lakeside town about an hour drive from the village where the president's father was born. They were born moments after the inauguration.

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This picture taken on January 21, 2009 shows a Kenyan baby Michelle Obama, named after US new First Lady, in the arms of his mother Linda Omondi, born shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama "I hope that one day he too will become a great leader if not like the US president," said the mother.

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Irene Anyango, 24, with her one-day-old daughter Michelle Obama Anyango at Marie Stopes maternity hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Anyango named her baby, born January 20, 2009, after the new U.S. first lady.

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Carolyne Aknyi Otieno, 20, with her day old baby at Provincial Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, photographed January 21, 2009. Otieno named her baby "Senator Barack Obama Otieno" to celebrate the U.S. inauguration.

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Lilian Osano holds her newborn son, Barrack Jeremy Obama, at New Nyanza Provinvincial Hospital in Kisumu, in November 2008. Mothers in Kenya have marked Barack Obama's historic win in the U.S. presidential elections by naming their newborns after him and his wife. More than half of the babies born in a Kisumu Hospital on the day after the election were named either Barack or Michelle Obama.

Claudia Scoica, 24, a Romanian Gypsy woman holds her son Obama Sorin Ilie Scoica, in Rusciori, Romania, Nov. 2008. Romania's downtrodden Gypsies - once enslaved, like African-Americans, yet still struggling to overcome deep-seated prejudice - seem particularly inspired by the new U.S. president.

"Consider that the mood sweeping America," writes Graham Smith in the Daily Mail, "is a potent combination of hope and optimism for the future and you have an almost certain increase in pregnancies." Makes sense. President and Mrs. Obama

Further fueling the speculation is the fact that the under-thirty (and overly-fertile) crowd voted two-to-one for Obama. Smith also notes that Obama himself was born a little more than nine months after John F. Kennedy was elected. He is one of that slim generation called the Kennedy Kids, sandwiched between the Baby Boomers and Gen X.

I can't speak for the rest of country, but you won't be seeing any additional kids showing up around my house next fall; three's enough for us. Still, I can certainly understand that our new president may very well put a lot of people in the mood for love.

What about you? Is the new temperature of the country heating up your libido?

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Melissa 1-23-2009 @ 1:55PM

same here! you won't see any extra ones in my house, and i'm in that "under thirty crowd" (until may anyway lol)

Sandyone 1-24-2009 @ 5:03PM

The most pro-abortion ever president is sparking a baby boom? That's
rich.

Also, wouldn't it technically be a "blob of tissue boom"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58K5Hc2Vv0

BlondeHandGrenade 1-24-2009 @ 8:00PM

I'm waiting until Obama is out of office before I start having kids. THAT will be a reason to celebrate.

txsgrl626 1-24-2009 @ 8:44PM

Wow! I can't believe there are still people out there like Joe McCarthy! Obama signifies change in a country who needs it...a world who needs it! I would love nothing more than to have a child and raise him/her in a time when positive change is happening and so many people have excitement and motivation about it! What a great time to bring a child into this world!!!

Sandyone 1-24-2009 @ 9:20PM

My link was bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c

watdafuk 1-24-2009 @ 9:58PM

Why is everybody so convinced that it is going to be a positive change? Sure he talks a good game but he would not be the first politician that was full of s it.Just another one of many.

CherMoe 1-24-2009 @ 11:41PM

Since he has only just been inaugurated and has inherited a country in crisis and disaster and failure, AND since you didn't even recognized corruption and failure caused by Bush ... how do you even think you're "qualified" to make a judgment?? Sounds like your past judgment stunk pretty bad, so nobody cares what you think now. At least President Obama is TRYING to do something rather than just sitting there doling out money to the rich cronies. After all, he can actually speak and reason for himself, which is a HUGE improvement over the last one.

Pam 1-24-2009 @ 10:54PM

No baby boom around here, this baby factory has been closed since before the second Bush administration. LOL Actually it was closed during the Clinton administration. The youngest is 13.

trice2878 1-25-2009 @ 1:37PM

That was such a stupid, ignorant comment. You are a dumd ass, and I hope you dont have any children.

AJ 1-25-2009 @ 2:07AM

In the surprisingly wise words of my younger sister: "change" is NOT the same as "change for the better".
Oh, and these last 8 years? The first 6 were okay (GREAT for some of us), its only been the last two that weren't.
If there is an obama-related baby boom, it won't be in my state.

Joe McCarthy 1-26-2009 @ 10:31AM

I never asked you for your approval, and how can FACT be attributed to ignorance ???

Joe McCarthy 1-26-2009 @ 10:39AM

Well then, that just goes to show what a brainwashed "sheep" you truly are. If the liberal media told the american people that "jumping off a bridge" was fashionable, half of them would do it just to be cool. The truth is, obama won mainly because the media was completely biased. The other reason is that the Repukes were too stupid to pick a real conservative who represented the majority of Republican voters.