What can I say - this had my rapt attention - I just love being able to call Obama mine !

50 Things You May Not Know About
President 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 name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili

. His favorite 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 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 Fu gees

. 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 ye ars 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 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

. His favorite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

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

. He was nicknamed "Bar" 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 chilli

. He has said many of his friends in Indonesia we re "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

love it :loveya:


Wonder if it's like this Kenyan one?



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Has anyone checked to see if they're on the recall list?

What period of Picasso does he admire?

And what is his chili recipe?

How cool is he.