Post: **President Obama Facts**
05-26-2010, 08:35 AM #1
Alekz
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• Barack Hussein Obama is named after his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982). “Barack” means “blessing/blessed/to bless” in Swahili and Semitic languages, and “Hussein” is a Semitic word meaning “good” or “beautiful.” Swahili was Obama Sr.’s native language.

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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
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• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn’t

• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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 “Bar” by his late grandmother
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• 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”
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• 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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And ending this one with a big FAIL of the former President.The biggest comedian ever: (Hairy) Bush!

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Thanks 4 reading!!
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07-14-2010, 08:11 AM #38
Alekz
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Originally posted by koolkarpet View Post
HAHAH, no man I was distracted.. Couldn't pay attention to what she was saying.

That pic is hilarious lol


Thanks!!!:p
07-15-2010, 03:29 AM #39
So Obama was a pot head in high school? Never would have guessed Happy
07-15-2010, 09:20 AM #40
Alekz
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Originally posted by iDelete View Post
So Obama was a pot head in high school? Never would have guessed Happy


I think he stil smokes the green stuff every now and then..Winky Winky


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07-16-2010, 09:37 AM #41
Alekz
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07-19-2010, 10:11 AM #42
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07-22-2010, 07:59 AM #43
AnTiz
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Original Gangsta OBAMA !
07-22-2010, 08:00 AM #44
Alekz
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Originally posted by AnTiz View Post
Original Gangsta OBAMA !


Yes he is...Winky Winky
08-14-2010, 07:03 AM #45
Edgardo678
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You need to make a new one filled with funny pics of George W. Bush
08-15-2010, 07:28 AM #46
Alekz
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Originally posted by Edgardo678 View Post
You need to make a new one filled with funny pics of George W. Bush


I already made something like that..Check my other threadsWinky Winky

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