06-09-2008, 10:43 PM
<b>Obama seeks Hanuman's blessing for prez race</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It's unusual. But, it's a fact.
Barack Obama [Images], the Democratic party's presidential nominee, is seeking the blessings of Hindu God Hanuman [Images] in his battle for the White House.
The 46-year-old senator from Illinois, who defeated his rival Hillary Clinton [Images] 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 that 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, <b>a tiny monkey God </b>and a tiny Madonna [Images] and child.
That 'tiny monkey God,' of course, <b>appears to be a statue of the Hindu monkey God, Hanuman</b>, says the posting but editors and the photographer have not identified it as such.
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Barack Obama [Images], the Democratic party's presidential nominee, is seeking the blessings of Hindu God Hanuman [Images] in his battle for the White House.
The 46-year-old senator from Illinois, who defeated his rival Hillary Clinton [Images] 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 that 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, <b>a tiny monkey God </b>and a tiny Madonna [Images] and child.
That 'tiny monkey God,' of course, <b>appears to be a statue of the Hindu monkey God, Hanuman</b>, says the posting but editors and the photographer have not identified it as such.
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