Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
~ BARACK OBAMA, speech, Feb. 5, 2008
1. 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.
2. He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
3. He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
4. He has read every Harry Potter book
5. By August 2008, He had more than a thousand videos on YouTube
6. He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream
7. His favorite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
8. He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
9. He can speak Spanish
10. He has Jay Z and Ludacris on his iPod
11. He is a fan of show-tunes and gave an iPod full of them to the Queen of England
12. He loves playing Scrabble
13. He moved to Chicago and worked as a director of the Developing Communities Project after college
14. The top contributors to his presidential campaign include Goldman Sachs, University of California, Citigroup Inc., Harvard University, Moveon.org and Time Warner.
15. He was given the code name “Renegade” by his Secret Service handlers
16. He was nicknamed “Bar” by his late grandmother
17. He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
18. His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
19. His speciality as a cook is chilli
20. He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were “street urchins”
21. He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
22. His favorite show is “The Wire”
23. He and his wife donated $25,000 to the United Negro College fund
24. He changed his name from Barry back to Barack in College to assert his identity
25. He majored in Political Science at Columbia University
26. He was in the Black Student’s Union at both Occidental and Columbia
27. His old desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
28. His daughter Sasha’s real name is Natasha
29. He has seven half-brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father’s other marriages
30. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1991.
31. Obama achieved celebrity status after his speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, launching what has been called “Obamamania”
32. Obama once said the three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr
33. He worked as a summer associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago
34. He wears Hart Schaffner Marx suits
35. He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
36. He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
37. He owns four identical pairs of black, size 11 shoes
38. He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
39. He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
40. He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
41. He is a family man.
42. He would have liked to be an architect if he were not a politician
43. His favorite drink is black forest berry iced tea
44. His maternal grandfather fought in World War II
45. He was only one of three black students at Punahou Academy, in Hawaii
46. His height is 6′ 1½”
47. “His first car had so much rust that there was a rusted hole in the passenger door” –Michelle Obama
48. He predicted UNC to win the Final Four
49. Obama met his wife Michelle Robinson, a South Side Chicago native, while he was interning at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin
50. Obama was the first Black President of the Harvard Law Review in 1990
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