Favorite Obama Fact

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

ZOMG HES JUST LIKE ME!!

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins" choom gang.

I really wish he admitted to drinking more; I've had enough of goddamn teetotalers in the Oval Office.

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

This will give him and Arnie an ice breaker.

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

Good work subs.

Just cause you don't drink a lot doesn't mean you're a teetotaler, Alfred.

I drink about the equivalent of a six-pack of beer in a year, but I don't care how much anyone else drinks.

Obama facts not a patch on Chuck Norris Facts.

I must say I do like that Moby Dick is his favourite book, I can't imagine Gordon Brown having ever read any fiction. (Of course we all know GWB has - My Pet Goat)

Just cause you don't drink a lot doesn't mean you're a teetotaler, Alfred.

You're either with us or against us.

Moby Dick FTW--isn't Gore's favorite book The Red and the Black???

without hesitation - many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"

• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

From Newsweek:
Like a lot of Americans, Barack Obama says his favorite movie is "The Godfather."

WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?!!

O NOES CONTROVERSY

He doesn't speak spanish.

• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

^^ learning that he was a fan of The Wire was really like the first trivial fact about him that made me think "OK I really want this guy to be president"

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

^least favorite Obama fact

Let's hear it for the Wokingham!

Like a lot of Americans, Barack Obama says his favorite movie is "The Godfather."

WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?!!

― weatheringdaleson, Monday, November 10, 2008 3:17 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

In the Couric interview he rattled off like 10 titles.

• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.

probably one of book, music, Spike and Hartmarx but those maybe cancel each other out, so instead it's

• He was known as Barry until "university" when he asked to be addressed by his full name

xp, lol

Netflix bias!

Anyway, I voted M.'s shrimp linguini.

that sounds awesome

http://recipe.aol.com/recipe/the-obama-family-s-linguini-with-garlic-sun-dried-tomatoes-and-shrimp/84984

i kind of wish i hadn't read that list.

que i love u dawg

I'd really like to see his calendar application photos.

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

Good work subs.

lol

I'm gonna have Obama linguine on swearing-in night.

I can't imagine Gordon Brown having ever read any fiction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/jun/25/shelfassessmentwhatdogordo

He revealed to Mariella Frostrup that he "loves fiction", that biographies fascinate him because they tell us "what makes people tick", and that he was "surrounded by books" as a child.

Brown's all time top 5 books:
The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Britons by Linda Colley
Docherty by William McIlvanney
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse edited by Roger Lonsdale

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

This would be a good poll too.

• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside

:/

He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

Secret Mormon!

obama supports draconian anti-saggypants law y u forsaken me prez?

He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

^^i fear this is being overlooked

the word "hate" in that fact makes me wonder exactly what he said.

"I fucking HATE saggy pants!" --the prez

xxxxpost
I can't imagine Gordon Brown having ever read any fiction.

Really, I thought it was quite well known how much of a bibliophile Brown was... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article599721.ece

Yeah guys it has to be the pet ape called Tata. I don't understand how anything else should get a vote.

Monkeys and apes are scary and cruel beasts.

he surrounds himself with smart pets.

It's NOT the chili fact because I made the recipe the day after election day to celebrate the win, and it was pretty bland :(

Monkeys and apes are scary and cruel beasts.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, November 10, 2008 9:51 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YES

Tata the Ape speaks, E.P.A. listens

Not only is Obama a fan of The Wire, but his favourite character is Omar!

It's NOT the chili fact because I made the recipe the day after election day to celebrate the win, and it was pretty bland :(

― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Monday, November 10, 2008 3:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

god i knew dude was gonna disappoint me but this is ridiculous

I'm glad that he admitted to the coke and didn't make a big deal out of it, but even then he had to say something like "oh by the time I was 20 I was all grown out of that kind of thing".

So, no to heroin and weak chilli, what kind of a President have you elected!

I voted left hand due to absence of CHOOM GANG. Tata was a bit of a foist from his stepfather, says the book.

Baggy low trousers = symbolic of prisoners/prison 'punk' eg. 'bottom' in the original instance so I can totally see how someone who had read Adorno, Baldwin, Fanon and Foucault might be all 0_o about people half his age NOT GETTING IT. Mr. Obama, what is your opinion of 'Fix Up, Look Sharp?'

• He can speak Spanish

he can communicate directly with the 34 million americans who speak spanish as a first language!

It's as if he wanted to become president!

ITT-------> PICTURES OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE FIRST FAMILY (no shops allowed)

someone set us up obama

O'bomber

JOE BIDEN DOUBLE-FISTIN THE CREAMZ

joe-biden-dp-creampies.com

i'm shocked that email fwds never picked up on this angle:

WOULD YOU ELECT A PRESIDENT WHO ATE A DOG?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/478841217_0987552c9a.jpg
http://www.aracnet.com/~nobi/images/dried_dog.jpg
http://www.dailyyonder.com/files/u2/Obamaingreenwood.jpg

On September 22, 2008, on the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Princeton Professor and economist Paul Krugman commented that the proposal presented to the United States Congress concerning the federal bailout of failed financial institutions was the equivalent of United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson saying, "All your decisions are belong to me."

• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

not my choice, but I'm surprised we didn't hear more of this -- Limbaugh must've mentioned it. "They will BURN DOWN your pizza place!"

Yeah, that New Yorker piece on Spike a month or two ago was a little o_O, as it was.

I made that linguine, prawn and sundried tomato thing last night; it were gert lush.

I'm trying to figure out if "gert lush" is a good thing or a bad thing. LOL britishes.

Can we talk about choom gang for a second.

hey qunicie check out this website it's called GOOGLE ;)

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=EGLC,EGLC:2007-20,EGLC:en&q=gert+lush

Like you know the kids in your school who were like 420 KREW in the yearbook? Now imagine one of those dudes as president.

i dont know but my fantasy team is called the Choom Gang

seriously at obama rally in 2012 my sign will say WE ARE ALL CHOOM GANG NOW

when my HS yearbook came out one year it had a candid of one of my friends taken from about 50 yes away with a zoom lens. He was talking to another kid and the caption said something about them "sharing a serious moment." When the yearbook came out he loled so much because he was actually selling the kid weed.

that pullup picture (and many other pictures from Time) are all collected here:

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html (keep hidding the "show more images" link at the bottom). For some reason the picture of him ordering the ice cream isn't here (maybe she didn't take that), but one of him wiping up the counter afterward is.

^those pictures are awesome. i tried to post a couple in the Obama pictures thread, including the one of him wiping up the counter after himself. <3

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

first order of business

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

very interesting

great turnout!!! Congratulations USA!!!

lol

The ILC demographic really turned out for this poll.

He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

Ha! This from a smoker. :D

Even a hardcore smoker only smokes a cigarette once every twenty minutes or so.

He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside <------lllllllol

I should have read these more carefully before!!

kinda off topic, but I was so THRILLED when watching the election coverage I mentioned on that thread "YAY we finally have a prez who speaks English!!" So I found this pretty amusing: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/obamas-use-of-complete-se_b_144642.html

"Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can't really do there, I think needing to do that isn't tapping into what Americans are needing also," she said.

that is like dead-on something she would say

except not about talking with complete sentences

which I never do btw

http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=1506216

A new study discovered Obama has 28 living relatives sharing his Irish ancestry - but some of his newly discovered kin said they aren't eager to share a pint with him.

"I really don't like to claim a relationship to Obama," Roma Joy Palmer, 66, of Mulvane, Kan., told The Associated Press. "He is not my favorite President.

"I don't have anything against him personally, but I don't think we have the same agenda."

In the study, released to the AP by family history website Ancestry.com, genealogists traced the descendants of about two dozen passengers who came to America from Ireland on the ship Marmion in March 1850.

Another relative, 83-year-old Dorma Lee Reese of Tucson, said she wasn't about to dance the Irish jig over the news.

"I'm not a Democrat, so I can't say I clapped," she said. "I don't appreciate what he's done by any means, but I do appreciate that he holds that office."

Vietnam vet Daniel Dillard, 63, though, said he took pride in "being related to a President of the United States," even though he didn't vote for Obama.

My Dad knew his dad & my dad's 2nd wife knew him.
His dad was from the same tribe as mine and same area of Kenya. So they knew each other from school or college.

But they were worried during his tearaway years.

So playing Kevin Bacon I'm like 3 people away from him, or is that even 2?

my dad knows your MOM.

8. Obama thought the world would be a better place without clothes, especially when nice-looking ladies were around.
Allegedly stoned and drunk one night at Occidental, Obama and a friend stopped to talk to an attractive girl and "Barry launched into a riff on nudity, offering his theory that the human race would be better off if people did not wear clothes. This declaration was made with the urgency of someone ready to strip then and there. ... It seemed apparent that Barry was trying to seduce the woman right in front of" his friend who had a crush on the girl.
She appeared "sympathetic to the theoretical argument but not ready to put it into practice."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-nudity-drag-racing-write-20-details-maraniss-160159477.html;_ylt=A2KJjbwZhslPM0MAJRDQtDMD

hawaii boy

"I'm sitting on the porch in my sarong, sipping strong coffee and drawing on a clove cigarette, watching the heavy dusk close over the paddy terraces of Java. Very kick back, so far away from the madness."

i would hang w barry and just kick back, read some conan comics, talk about policy.

kind of a bummer to read this list now and remember how awesome he seemed, once

Can we talk about choom gang for a second.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:29 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like you know the kids in your school who were like 420 KREW in the yearbook? Now imagine one of those dudes as president.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:30 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favourite Obama fact is that my dad was at school with his dad and they're from the same part of the same tribe in Kenya.
Also that my dad's 2nd wife knew Barrack himself when he was college age and probably before.
Got to ask my dad when I saw him a couple of years back after a 20 year interval. Had thought that both him & Obama's dad being from near Kisumu might mean their paths had crossed.

Sorry, should have checked the thread cos i'd already said that.

would say twice

whiney very prescient about the dog eating emails