Posted on 11/10/2008 4:02:45 PM PST by LostInBayport
• 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
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Personally, the first one breaks my heart. I learned to read with Spider-Man at age 3 and followed his comics until the mid-90s. He's always represented America to me in many ways. Apparently he didn't have that effect on the President-Elect.
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“To crush your enemies, drive them before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
"Kill them, Kill them all!
I’ll challange her shrimp linguini any day. If it is even close to as good as mine...it’s really good! (is the water for the linguini flavored with garlic, sweet basil and just a touch of crushed red pepper lightly roasted in olive oil?)
His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini
“ewww”
To help him do those 80 lb. curls? /s
“He has read every Harry Potter book”
If this were Bush, they’d be having a field day...
I’m just thrilled at at long last, the media is finally telling us the important things about who this guy really is!
One thing I positively surely don’t know is how many terrorist friends this guy’s got. Mind telling me?
If it is good, it’s really good!
How useful.
That used to be my tagline... actually,
“Crush the demoCRAPS, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags”
He can speak Spanish
According to candidate Obama, this is not true. He told us he does not speak a foreign language (but we should.)
He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
So he broke his first campaign promise before he even ran?
His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
Wow, two RFK connections! He also pals around with a guy who dedicated a book to Kennedy's assassin.
Hey, I read ever Harry Potter book. The first two (or three) are kid stories, the rest are at least “young adult”.
Very good books, page turners, a compelling story of good vs evil while the entire world wants to pretend that the evil doesn’t exist, could be negotiated with, and responded to with non violent means (wow, sounds so very familiar).
My response?
“Well ain't life a b*tch? You went and killed the one guy out there who thought you shouldn't spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.”
I wonder which character Obama identifies with?
The Conan movie also stole a scene from history when Thulsa Doom beckoned the young girl down from the wall. The history of it was that the head of the cult of Assassins (Hash smoking moonbats of the first order) who was being visited by a Crusader Knight who bragged about how many men he had. The Assassin lord just pointed to one of his men “Jump off the wall” and the man did so. He pointed to the next man “Jump off the wall” and that man did so as well. He was about to point out another when the horrified Knight asked him to stop.
Pray, tell me, what is his favorite brand of smokes?
OldSmaj: The one fact you might not know...
He doesn't give a rat's patootie about NO facts about Hussein, other than the one that he is a socialist muslim sympathizer.
Everything else is bull dodo.
'Nuff said.
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