50 Facts About Obama

50 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT OBAMA

• Collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He was known as “O’Bomber” in his high school basketball

• His name means “he who is blessed” in Swahili

• His favorite food is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini

• Won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

• He is left handed –

• He read all the Harry Potter books

• He has a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

• He worked at Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor in his teens and now can not stand ice cream

• His favorite snacks are protein bars Chocolate Peanut

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

• Can speak Spanish

• On the election campaign, he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels instead of

• His favorite drink is iced tea, black forest

• He promised he would stop smoking before becoming President

• He had monkey named Tata, while in Indonesia

• He can bench press 200 pounds – impressive

• He was known as Barry until college, when he asked to be addressed by his full name

• His favorite book Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• He visited the Wokingham, Berks, in 1996, bachelor party for his half-sister’s fiancé, but left when a stripper came

• his desk in the office of the Senate once belonged to Robert Kennedy

• He and Michelle $ 4200000 (2.7 million pounds) last year, with many from sales of his books

• His favorite movie is Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nests

• There is a small statue of the Madonna and child, and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck

• He applied to appear on the calendar, while white and pin-up at Harvard, but was rejected by all the women of the committee.

• His favorite music including Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees The

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

• He likes to play Scrabble and Poker

• He does not drink coffee and rarely drink alcohol

• Would have liked to have been an architect, he was not a politician

• As a teenager has taken drugs such as marijuana and cocaine

• the ambitions of his daughters going to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)

• He hates the trend of young people killed in the back pants

• He has paid off her student loan is only four years after the signing of his book deal

• The house has four fireplaces in Chicago

• godmother of his daughter Malia is the daughter of Jesse Jackson Santita

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

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

• There is $ 1,500 (£ 952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits

• He has four identical pairs of black shoes size 11

• He has his hair cut once a week in Chicago by his barber, Zarif, who charges $ 21 (£ 13)

• Her favorite TV shows are fiction and Wire Mash

• E ‘was code-named “Renegade” for his intelligence handlers

• He was nicknamed “Bar” by his late grandmother

• It is planned to install a basketball court in the gardens of the White House

• His favorite artist is Pablo Picasso

• His specialty is a chili cook

• He said that many of his friends in Indonesia was a “street urchins”

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government