50 facts you may not know about Barack Obama

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

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

• 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

The rest... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html

now that's so elitist of him.

...poodle, perhaps?

My friend from Taiwan has had dog several times and she said the best tasting is normally the Black dogs more like Dobermans and Rottweilers. The worst dogs to have on the list are light haired/brown haired dogs like collies and such.

My friend told me it's normally by hair colour. Black haired dogs are best while brown ones are on the worst taste list.

Everyone! Run in circles, screaming and pulling your hair!!!!


:rofl:

Her oldest daughter had brought home a Harry Potter memo pad. The mom was going absolutely berserk, running around yelling and acting neurotic. One of the younger daughters told me through the fence, "My mom is crazy."

They hate it. It's not all that welcome in the Catholic Church in certain strict senses. It's considered sacrilegious really. However, I knew several Christian (not Catholic) Black Americans who would never ever let their child talk about Harry Potter let alone read the book or see the film.

reading lists for every Catholic school in my area and the series received high praise from the Ministerial Alliance, the association of Black Pastors. The series is used in the Urban League after school reading program in my area.

• 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 kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

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

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

• 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

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

• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother

• 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

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OK, I speak Spanish, have a Degree in Architecture, have an Apple Mac Laptop and a hybrid, and people call me "Bar".

No wonder I love the man.

But I never had a pet ape. :P

• He can speak Spanish

That more than anything else is enough to wind the Wingnuts up - he speaks the language of the illegals.


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

Kind of shows why I will not get anywhere, I refuse to watch Sports channels.

• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

He debated it many years later



• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

I have been to Starbucks branches in Chicago and they are not the same as New York and London, so no wonder.

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

Wow, he is the Messiah. Maybe Hillary was not being sarcastic or misspeaking.

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

Yippee. Make them legal.

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

Not any more.

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

Nor that.

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

Nor this.

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

Not sure it is that any more.

• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
Now he has to deal with certain Senators who if justice existed, would be street urchins.

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
Long live the next 16 years of Democratic rule.

And he's gotta protect that egg.

We shall take over the world!

EDIT: Also,if you'll pardon the 'net slang:

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

LOL

EDIT #2: Oh, one more thing. He likes The Wire. Cool.