50 Fun Facts You Might Not Know About Obama

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jpeyton

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Comic book collector, Blackberry addict, enjoys watching The Wire (my favorite show as well), and prefers protein bars to ice cream.

And he won a Grammy? :shocked:

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? He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

? He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball

? His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili

? His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

? He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

? He is left-handed ? the sixth post-war president to be left-handed

? He has read every Harry Potter book

? He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

? He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream

? His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars

? He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

? He can speak Spanish

? While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead

? His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea

? He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president ? he didn't

? He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

? He can bench press an impressive 200lbs

? He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name

? His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

? He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived

? His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy

? He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books

? His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

? He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck

? He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.

? His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

? He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

? He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker

? He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

? He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician

? As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

? His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)

? He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside

? He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal

? His house in Chicago has four fire places

? Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita

? He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

? He uses an Apple Mac laptop

? He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300

? He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits

? He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes

? He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)

? His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

? He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers

? He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother

? He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

? His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso

? His speciality as a cook is chilli

? He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"

? He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

? His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
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DisgruntledVirus

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Sad that a positive article come from the U.K. and none originating from the U.S.
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Does this surprise you?
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No it doesn't because your Republican hero Murdock owns the media here.
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:laugh:

Dave you're hilarious. You claim that Murdock is my "Republican hero"? You're funny. Thanks for the lols :).
 
Born2bwire

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Sad that a positive article come from the U.K. and none originating from the U.S.
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It's a fluff piece. As much as I like Obama I wouldn't give this a second glance in a newspaper if I saw it in the States, it's like an article I would find in a teen heart throb magazine. Most of these were already discussed or mentioned in the many articles on Barack in the early stages of his campaign.
 
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alchemize

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" He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president ? he didn't "
Nice to know he breaks promises just as freely to his wife as he does the American People.
 
Mean MrMustard

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Originally posted by: alchemize
" He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president ? he didn't "
Nice to know he breaks promises just as freely to his wife as he does the American People.
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Apparently, you never smoked... or ran a campaign that defeated both the Clinton and Republican machines while trying to quit. Give the guy a break.
 
ProfJohn

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Some of these seem too much like what someone wants you to believe.

Such as his music choices. Miles Davis for the blacks, Bob Dylan for the 60s liberals, Bach for the intellectuals, and The Fugees for the younger crowd.
 
Muse

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Oh, cool. We have the same shoe size.

He can bench 200#! I once tried to bench 205 and never tried again (fucked up my elbow, ouch!). He carries himself like a guy who works out a lot. Agile, energetic.

Interesting post. Thanks, OP.
 
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Martin

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Also, he uses a BlackBerry 8700c. I should tell my former boss at RIM to send him a better one - an urban elitist liberal like him should only be seen with the newest swag.
 
TallBill

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Originally posted by: Martin
Also, he uses a BlackBerry 8700c. I should tell my former boss at RIM to send him a better one - an urban elitist liberal like him should only be seen with the newest swag.
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He does have a mac to make up for it.
 
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Originally posted by: Donny Baker
Originally posted by: alchemize
" He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president ? he didn't "
Nice to know he breaks promises just as freely to his wife as he does the American People.
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Apparently, you never smoked... or ran a campaign that defeated both the Clinton and Republican machines while trying to quit. Give the guy a break.
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If this tidbit is true, then:

He knew he was going to be under extreme stress. He still made a promise, that 99.99% of people would find difficult to keep at the best of times. He didn't say "I'll try" or even an "I'll do my best", but said "I WILL." And then he failed.

So basically, he made a promise to his wife that he knew he had virtually no chance of keeping.

Lying may be okay to you, but I hold the PRESIDENT of the U.S. to a very high standard. And Barack just failed before he even got started.

I suppose it's not all his fault. I've come to believe that lying is so endemic to the culture of our upper echelon politicians, that they don't even think it's wrong anymore.
 
Muse

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Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Donny Baker
Originally posted by: alchemize
" He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president ? he didn't "
Nice to know he breaks promises just as freely to his wife as he does the American People.
Click to expand...

Apparently, you never smoked... or ran a campaign that defeated both the Clinton and Republican machines while trying to quit. Give the guy a break.
Click to expand...

If this tidbit is true, then:

He knew he was going to be under extreme stress. He still made a promise, that 99.99% of people would find difficult to keep at the best of times. He didn't say "I'll try" or even an "I'll do my best", but said "I WILL." And then he failed.

So basically, he made a promise to his wife that he knew he had virtually no chance of keeping.

Lying may be okay to you, but I hold the PRESIDENT of the U.S. to a very high standard. And Barack just failed before he even got started.

I suppose it's not all his fault. I've come to believe that lying is so endemic to the culture of our upper echelon politicians, that they don't even think it's wrong anymore.
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How do you know what exactly he said to Michelle? I thought I saw him chewing gum last week. Maybe he's trying to quit smoking.
 
DrPizza

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Originally posted by: tk149
If this tidbit is true, then:

He knew he was going to be under extreme stress. He still made a promise, that 99.99% of people would find difficult to keep at the best of times. He didn't say "I'll try" or even an "I'll do my best", but said "I WILL." And then he failed.

So basically, he made a promise to his wife that he knew he had virtually no chance of keeping.

Lying may be okay to you, but I hold the PRESIDENT of the U.S. to a very high standard. And Barack just failed before he even got started.

I suppose it's not all his fault. I've come to believe that lying is so endemic to the culture of our upper echelon politicians, that they don't even think it's wrong anymore.
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LMAO!! I just watched my sarcasm meter and my moron meter both staring at each other. Finally, the sarcasm meter shrugged it's shoulders and pegged a 10. Please don't tell me I need to upgrade the firmware in my meters.
 
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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Some of these seem too much like what someone wants you to believe.

Such as his music choices. Miles Davis for the blacks, Bob Dylan for the 60s liberals, Bach for the intellectuals, and The Fugees for the younger crowd.
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I actually like all those as well :confused:

Were you expecting him to say Tupac, P.Diddy, Cash Money, The Game and NWA?
 
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