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10 Things You Didn't Know About Barack Obama

Posted January 16, 2007

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.

President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama

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

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.

May Darwish........

I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAID. YOU SAID BO WAS A GREAT MAN....YOU MUST BE A PERSON OF COLOR CAUSE YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY TELL ME WHAT GREAT THINGS THIS MAN HAS DONE BUT RUN OUR COUNTRY IN THE GROUND IN ONLY 9 MONTHS. IF THIS HEALTH CARE (SO CALLED REFORM BILL) PASSES YOU AND I AND ALL OF AMERICA WILL BE IN THE POOR HOUSE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT. NOW, I HOPE YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO YELLED OUT AFTER HE WAS ELECTED.......HE'S GOING TO PAY MY HOUSE OFF AND I WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY AGAIN.

OMG OUR COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN IF HE CONTINUES IN THE DIRECTION HE'S ON. TRUST ME. IT SEEMS A LOT OF YOU WOMEN OUT THERE MELT WHEN ALL HE DOES IS SMILE. PLEASE WORRY ABOUT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN THAT. AND IF YOU'RE IN CA. YOU WILL BE GOING DOWN FASTER THAN THE REST OF US. YOU KNOW HE EVEN BELIEVES OUR COUNTRY IS MADE UP OF 57 STATES. IF THAT DOESN'T SCARE YOU I DON'T KNOW WHAT DOES. AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK HE'S A GREAT MAN. WOW THAT REALLY TOUCHED ME MAY D.

Negtive people will always exist

I think that the above people needs to go back to basic spellng it is ok to vioce your opinion that is the American way.I think OBAMA is doing a great job, due to the fact that the last President dumped all of the trash in on him.

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