Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterA president named Obama changes the name game (AP)
Published 11/29/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Zenas Ackah has heard it all his life: What kind of name is that? You must not be from here. You must be foreign. Actually, no. Born in the United States, the 22-year-old college senior with the Greek first name and the Ghanian last name grew up in Philadelphia.
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