Parents inspired to name kids Obama

By his own admission, Barack Obama was "a skinny kid with a funny name", but that isn't stopping proud parents from Romania to Indonesia from naming their newborns after the US president-elect.

Romania's downtrodden Gypsies - once enslaved, like African-Americans, yet still struggling to overcome deep-seated prejudice - seem particularly inspired.

"When I saw Obama on TV, my heart swelled with joy. I thought he was one of us Gypsies because of his skin color," said Maria Savu, whose infant grandson - Obama Sorin Ilie Scoica - was born in the central Romania village of Rusciori.