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Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know
Telegraph ^ | 11-10-2008 | Jon Swaine

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 ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Humor; Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bho2008; obama; spin; trivia
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To: WatchYourself
His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini “ewww”

Not really a compliment to Michelle. The man eats dogs, snakes and grasshoppers, for pete's sake.

Wonder if the left will make fun of him like they did when Huckabee admitted to eating fried squirrel?
41 posted on 11/10/2008 5:07:37 PM PST by LostInBayport (The press and the Barackolytes view you as a miracle worker...so turn the economy into wine, Barry.)
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To: livefree0rdie
One thing I positively surely don’t know is how many terrorist friends this guy’s got. Mind telling me?

I started counting during the campaign...his fellow board members, international endorsements, college roommates... I stopped counting somewhere in the high double digits. I figured "lots" should suffice.
42 posted on 11/10/2008 5:12:04 PM PST by LostInBayport (The press and the Barackolytes view you as a miracle worker...so turn the economy into wine, Barry.)
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To: LostInBayport

Well, time to add the Grammy’s to the list of liberal award ceremonies. Pity, I liked to watch them occasionally.


43 posted on 11/10/2008 5:13:00 PM PST by jtranner
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To: LostInBayport

If his cabinet picks are any indication it looks like the USA is in for two to four years of unfettered liberalism at its most illogical extreme. That is why the quote “With great power comes great responsibility” seemed so apt to me.


44 posted on 11/10/2008 5:15:34 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Now, see, your reply is why I posted this. To punch some holes in all of the fawning worship the MSM is shoveling for this guy...with the genuinely sharp wit that is an FR hallmark!

We need at least a little laughter this week.


45 posted on 11/10/2008 5:16:24 PM PST by LostInBayport (The press and the Barackolytes view you as a miracle worker...so turn the economy into wine, Barry.)
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To: WatchYourself
“He has read every Harry Potter book”

That's some real deep literature there, yup.

Collecting comic books. Autographed boxing gloves. Working at Baskin Robins. He sounds like a slacker.

46 posted on 11/10/2008 5:19:04 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: allmendream

Actually, that quote is from Ghengis Khan.


48 posted on 11/10/2008 5:34:52 PM PST by tuff_schlitz (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: tuff_schlitz
yep. post #18. But I said it in reference to 0bama collecting Conan comics. My point in #18 was that both the most memorable line (from Ghengis Khan) and the most memorable scene (from the Hash Assassins) were taken from history. Good call.
49 posted on 11/10/2008 5:57:24 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: fishnuts2
what is his favorite brand of smokes?

Gonna be Kool or Newports...menthol, for sure.

50 posted on 11/10/2008 6:09:16 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Cuba got "Change"...in 1959)
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To: 6SJ7

There are a lot of Freepers who have collected comics and sports memorabilia, and who have worked fast food, including yours truly.

Criticize the man on his proposals and policies, not his hobbies and past jobs...


51 posted on 11/10/2008 6:11:59 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Jindal 2012, He'll fix Obama's mess!)
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To: allmendream

Well, the cult leader angle seems correct, that’s for sure.

And, AFAIC, he can kiss my Sumerian a$$.


52 posted on 11/10/2008 6:24:57 PM PST by mattdono (Only Lot will be left.)
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To: devolve
Some interesting things to add to your knowledge list devolve.

Obama kinda looks like a ‘spiderman’.

53 posted on 11/10/2008 7:30:41 PM PST by potlatch
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To: LostInBayport
He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

I'm sure he ate meat from a wider variety of fauna than this.
54 posted on 11/10/2008 7:33:26 PM PST by aruanan
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To: potlatch

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Ice cream shop - I believe for a couple of weeks one summer

Another was in a store where he quit

Very few known jobs

Little evidence he worked his way through college or law school at Harvard

His admitted lousy grades in HS and college (his book) did not justify an academic scholarship and he was not good enough in sports to get an athletic scholarship - his 6 basketball shot finally went in the bucket in Germany and unlike Governor Sarah Palin never made the shot that won the state HS Championship

hussein the creepy scored less than a 5 year old kid when he bowled this year - coccaine is not great for coordination and accuracy


55 posted on 11/10/2008 7:57:04 PM PST by devolve ( ____95%_will_get_welfare_bribes____)
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To: devolve
I do not remember political things like you do, had not seen any of these little tidbits before.

I recall reading that at one college he shared an apartment with two Pakistani’s. The article said that the apartment rules were strict and you had to show ability to ‘pay’ the rent.

The Pakistani’s were getting their money from ‘elsewhere’ and they all lied about jobs, etc. Wish I had saved the article.

No one remembers him at the one college, no students!

56 posted on 11/10/2008 8:04:39 PM PST by potlatch
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