Sunday, December 28, 2008

Top 10 Interesting Facts About Barack Obama


1.) Obama is the first ever president in the world to have an account on twitter.com with over 155,464 followers all together.

2.) He won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording. It was for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.

3.) He doesn’t like ice-cream. He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager. That’s where his distaste for ice-cream comes from.

4.) He loves playing Scrabble. He never commented on how good he is, though.

5.) He is bi-racial. He was born to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. In his book Dreams From My Father he writes that he barely noticed the racial difference between his mum and dad in his young age.

6.) He experimented with drugs. Back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine. According to his own words he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake as a young man.

7.) He smokes but wants to quit. After all, there is a non-smoking policy in the White House.

8.) He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mum when the parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper.

9.) According to his wife Michelle he is very romantic. He is not a door opener but he remembers every anniversary and brings her flowers all the time.

10.) Every night when he is at home he reads the Harry Potter books to his oldest daughter Malia.



3 comments:

  1. It was astonishing for me to know that Obama is on twitter too ... I think it is the place that is the internet world where he took an edge from mccain ... as far as I know obama also owned a web site for election campaign ... and there were many ads on different sites to support obama .

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  2. He is incredible, i just wonder how does he manage to take care of so many things at a time, of course he has people working for him but they also need some one to tell them what to do ...!!!

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  3. He has not kept his campaign promises. He

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