RE: Barak (Hebrew: בָּרָק‎‎, Tiberian: Bārāq, "Lightning; Shine") rather Barack

Barack doesn't always mean lightning, it also means blessings. Lightning in Canaanite (Kipare, Bantu language of people close to Mt Kilimanjaro) is ki-meleko, and that leads back to the god of fire, Molech. As for Obama, he stems from Abimelech, the friend of Abraham and a bit of a rival, or foe (especially at the time of Isaac). Obama (that is, O(f)-Abimelech, shortened, O'bama) is lifted in order to lift the curse on Canaan, so that the black man becomes the equal of others in the world, but was linked to Abraham (via a Jewish mother) for strategic purposes (one can only guess at issues here) for instance making it a point to go after Osama, and having a heart for Israel that isn't just foreign policy, as it could perhaps have been harder to be accepted across the US without that element.