10 Things You Didn't Know About Barack Obama
1. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.
2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.
3. His childhood nickname was Barry.
4. Obama was the third African-American senator since Reconstruction.
5. He married Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, who supervised him while he was working as a summer associate in a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
6. As an Illinois state senator, he sponsored a bill to require the police to videotape interrogations in capital crime cases. Illinois was the first state to do this.
7. A school in his father's hometown near Lake Victoria in Kenya has been renamed the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.
8. He loves playing Scrabble.
9. Obama and his wife bought a house on Chicago's South Side in June 2005 for $1.65 million. It has four fireplaces.
10. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane.
Sources:
- Current Biography
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Chicago Tribune
- Associated Press
- Politics in America 2006
Reader Comments
Czarist Bureaucracy
BO and the hybrid socuialist, communist, Marxist, Facistis Democrats are taking apart our Democratic Republic, our Constitution and Bill of Rights and creating a form of governance that has never before reared its ugly head, a Czarist Bureaucracy that controls people and takes their money to pay for unfunded mandates.
The HC reform bill is 2,000+ pages long, our Constitution is 18 pages long. No bill should be allowed that is longer than our Constitution. BO nationalized banks, trading houses and the auto industry using tax money in the form of "bail outs" which implys that the problems have been repaierd, they haven't. Record taxing and spending and printing of money has brought America to its knees.
Barbershop theory has gone from "he's incompetent, to he's a socialist, to his goal is to destroy America as we knew it, a domestic threat to democracy and America. Judging by his actions, it is a methodical plan to destroy America and everything it stands for.
d-bag
These idiots who keep whining about the mess he inherited need to wake up. He all ready has spent more than EVERY president before him COMBINED! Black, white, whatever he is does not matter. He has openly criticized this country and his desire to "remake" it. That is not what presidents are for. If you are black and tired of hearing people complain about this d-bag using facts and quoting his own communist drivel, then LEAVE THE COUNTRY! Go sponge off hard working people in countries where that kind of laziness is condoned. We are hard working here and we hate laziness and whining, therefore we hate BO!
about Obama
Stop whining about what you inherited. If you were up on politics and history as you claim to be yqu knew what you were in for when when you campaigned, Niow please stay at home and take care of the United States problems.
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