50-Facts you about U.S. President Obama:
Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995), known as Ann, came from an old American family. Her father and mother were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, respectively.
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
By August 2008, He had more than a thousand videos on YouTube
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
He has Jay Z and Ludacris on his iPod
He is a fan of show-tunes and gave an iPod full of them to the Queen of England
He loves playing Scrabble
He moved to Chicago and worked as a director of the Developing Communities Project after college
The top contributors to his presidential campaign include Goldman Sachs, University of California, Citigroup Inc., Harvard University, Moveon.org and Time Warner.
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 favorite show is “The Wire”
He and his wife donated $25,000 to the United Negro College fund
He changed his name from Barry back to Barack in College to assert his identity
He majored in Political Science at Columbia University
He was in the Black Student’s Union at both Occidental and Columbia
His old desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
His daughter Sasha’s real name is Natasha
He has seven half-brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father’s other marriages
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1991.
Obama achieved celebrity status after his speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, launching what has been called “Obamamania”
Obama once said the three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr
He worked as a summer associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago
He wears Hart Schaffner Marx suits
He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
He owns four identical pairs of black, size 11 shoes
He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
He is a family man.
He would have liked to be an architect if he were not a politician
His favorite drink is black forest berry iced tea
His maternal grandfather fought in World War II
He was only one of three black students at Punahou Academy, in Hawaii
His height is 6′ 1½”
“His first car had so much rust that there was a rusted hole in the passenger door” –Michelle Obama
He predicted UNC to win the Final Four
Obama met his wife Michelle Robinson, a South Side Chicago native, while he was interning at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin
Obama was the first Black President of the Harvard Law Review in 1990
I didn’t know President Obama won a grammy!