Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know

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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-####### 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 "Bar" 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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...icle3401168.ece

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

And to think, with "Dimocrats" and "Nobama", they actually forgot the jokes that can be made with this one!

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

Another in the club.

• He has read every Harry Potter book

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

Now this is blasphemy..

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

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

Oh, he will now.

• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker

Two great ones!

• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

Well, sort of similar here. I don't touch coffee and have drinks whenever I please.

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

Sounds like a teenager..

• His speciality as a cook is chilli

And I'm a sucker for chili.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

But he's not a VJ member.

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But he's not a VJ member.

or...... is he?

[pedroh 21]

you can run for president too SRVT!!

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you can run for president too SRVT!!

Free chili, poker, and left-handed scissors for everyone.

[pedroh 21]

don't forget tacos

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

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Are the first two even permitted (eh, I thought these were "haram") in that country?

[LoriLawless 0]

don't forget tacos

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

If he pushed that point alone, he'd have won more votes.

[maliciant 7]

I only saw two things on that list I'd consider that negative... he used cocaine and he also uses an apple laptop... oh yeah, and the whole smoking thing, but as a former smoker, I understand failing to quit... but the other two are less forgivable for me... the rest of the list I like

[doodlebugg 10]

how true is all this? I mean not for nuthin' but I just read an article that stated the Obama's favorite food is mexican. This says it's linguine .

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how true is all this? I mean not for nuthin' but I just read an article that stated the Obama's favorite food is mexican. This says it's linguine .

I smell a swiftburrito campaign.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

how true is all this? I mean not for nuthin' but I just read an article that stated the Obama's favorite food is mexican. This says it's linguine .

that's the linguini his wife cooks.