Barack Obama: The 51 facts you might not know

[kose]

• 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-Dick 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 SUV

• 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 "Bear" 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

 

[BenQ]

this is too much info

 

[EPDC]

nice read

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Interesting.

 

[SYDNEYSTREETZ]

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21

BY FAR THE WORST LINE UP IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY

 

[Cock Head Jones]

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21

BY FAR THE WORST LINE UP IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY

I don't know. John Adams wig was pushed back something crazy.

 

[stickmanX]

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

i didnt know chrysler made a 300 suv

 

[moblack]

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21

BY FAR THE WORST LINE UP IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY

Beat me to it. I could do better and I cut hair maybe 3 times a year. 21 dollar hell nah!!!

 

[TENT]

You sound like a 15 year old fag. Not everyone can have a perfect line. Better that than looking like Flo-Rida.

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21

BY FAR THE WORST LINE UP IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY

 

[master-ceo]

• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

Change

 

[Mad Genius]

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21

BY FAR THE WORST LINE UP IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY

You ain't lying. My man needs a barber...for real. Of all the times I've seen him, maybe only once or twice did I see him with a tight cut or decent edge up.

 

[GULLAH JACK]

I don't know. John Adams wig was pushed back something crazy.

 

[FatboySimms]

Some interesting facts and grown men in here discussing his hair line





somebody please make the gif of the part of pop champagne where dipset is pouring champagne on each other for faggotry times like this

 

[cocobeauty]

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

i didnt know chrysler made a 300 suv

Yeah I was thinking the same thing.

but very interesting facts.

 

[greygoose]

renegade has left the nest. copy that over. copy that over. clear streets for renegade transport. copy that over. that's a copy

 

[Cock Head Jones]

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

renegade has left the nest. copy that over. copy that over. clear streets for renegade transport. copy that over. that's a copy

 

[Wallochamp]

• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita

SO WHY DID JESSE WANT TO CUT HOMIE'S NUTS OFF?

 

[Spectrum]

Some interesting facts and grown men in here discussing his hair line





somebody please make the part of pop champagne where dipset is pouring champagne on each other faggotry times like this

 

[Cock Head Jones]

I guess we don't need to link the source now that we got a black president elected.

 

[chizzy216]

Good info

 

[LennyNero1972]

Good info. Sounds like one of your more well rounded Presidents. It's going to be an interesting presidency.

 

[kose]

I guess we don't need to link the source now that we got a black president elected.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ck-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html

 

[VegasGuy]

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

i didnt know chrysler made a 300 suv

I didn't know that either but apparently they do.
link

-VG

 

[hussla's paradice]

Good Shit

 

[dasureshot]

Some interesting facts and grown men in here discussing his hair line





somebody please make the gif of the part of pop champagne where dipset is pouring champagne on each other for faggotry times like this

C/S!
If you look at most black politicians and news anchors they don't get lined up they just get it cut. Its not like its something out of the ordinary.

 

[Manny Styles]

C/S!
If you look at most black politicians and news anchors they don't get lined up they just get it cut. Its not like its something out of the ordinary.

I never understood the fascination with having a straight line on your head anyway. That's why you can't tell the difference between some cats' forehead and head. Nothing wrong with a natural hairline.

Then again, this is coming from a a guy who hasn't had a haircut in 14 years.

 

[Duece]

You ain't lying. My man needs a barber...for real. Of all the times I've seen him, maybe only once or twice did I see him with a tight cut or decent edge up.

A ban is in order.

(signature)

 

[Deuterion]

I didn't know that either but apparently they do.
link

-VG

That's a Chrysler Aspen right there buddy.

 

[..oj]

the prez is so fucking bad ass

did you read that list!

 

[Blunt]

What's the source of this? A few "facts" are suspect.

 

[Turbulent]

for some reason i never liked having a lineup. that's why i always like the way my hair looks after a couple of days when the line loses some definition. Don't wanna get caught with a Steve Harvey. I think i'm gonna start cutting it on my own again and forget the line up. maybe a light line up with the regular clippers instead of the precision ones.

 

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[TENT]

What up Manny.
I know you got dreads. I remember when I had twists for a lil while and this dude at my college was like I need a line up. I was like ????

How you gonna have dreads and then a line up????

But now I see alot of dudes with dreads and a perfect line.

This line up thing is most def a BLACK AMERICAN thing.

I really dont think Obama has any real relations with black americans!

There I said it.

I never understood the fascination with having a straight line on your head anyway. That's why you can't tell the difference between some cats' forehead and head. Nothing wrong with a natural hairline.

Then again, this is coming from a a guy who hasn't had a haircut in 14 years.

 

[Dert Bagg]

Obama doesn't get the front of his cut lined.