50 Facts About Our President

Got this list in an email ~ hope they're all true and they haven't been posted too many times.

• 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 favorite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguine
• 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 favorite 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 favorite 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 favorite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiance, 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 favorite 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 favorite 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 favorite fictional television programs 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 favorite artist is Pablo Picasso
• His specialty as a cook is chili
• 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

He has read every Harry Potter book

All that sorcery and everything.

:rofl:

thinks of it as a favorite, outside a grad student pretentious-fest (after they memorized the cliff notes)

20 pages describing the fuckin' difference between the anatomy of sperm whales & right whales? UNBELIEVABLE!

He must have been getting paid by the word, why use one when 10 will do?

...and fewer distractions.

It's credible that someone might actually read "Moby Dick" but NO ONE has ever read a James Joyce novel past the second page!

Ulysses is an effort, though.

I read the whole thing.. ( didn't care for it much). . I prefer Verne, Kipling, Dickens. .

Sometimes a lush vocabulary enhances the experience.

this isn't true.."He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream.

We've seen Prez Obama eating ice cream cones all over the place on the trail.. especially that one with VP Biden stands out where Joe had a cone in each hand. ~oO> ~oO>

he and the fam have taste tested that one.

“Everyone should like ice-cream…except my Dad!” 6 year old Sasha Obama

http://letustalk.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/obama-summer-jobs-used-to-work-at-baskin-robbins/

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070116/16obamafacts.htm

was being polite when on the campaign trail and someone offered him a cone.

The plot thickens..


Kinda like that cigarette thing..no one knows for sure.

I was never able to like their ice cream. If I had worked there, I might have generalized that I didn't like ice cream, but still occasionally indulged in any but Baskin Robbins ice cream.

Although I've never been impressed with BR's lack of fat content. I choose Haagen Dazs whenever possible because it feels like butta in my mouth.

Whoo-hoo. Can we get a calender now? Uh, never mind.

:kick:

I never knew that.

unlike his son.