Facts about Barack Obama

Facts about Barack Obama






Barack Obama is 44th president of the United States. He was the 27th lawyer to be elected president of the United States.

Barack Obama is primarily of Kenyan, Irish and English ancestry. Barack Obama is a Christian, but his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was an atheist, and his mother, Ann Dunham, was agnostic.

In 2005 and 2007, President Barack Obama was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Barack Obama is the eighth left-handed U.S. President. The others are: Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton.

Barack Obama’s youthful appeal, his social networking on the Internet, and even his texting both promoted awareness of his campaign and created a loyal following. His historic use of the Internet will likely act as a template for future presidential elections.

Barack Obama had more than a thousand videos on YouTube by the end of August 2008. His MySpace page boasted 459,000 friends.

Barack Obama admires Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Barack Obama is a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan.

Barack Obama admitted in his memoir that as a teen, he experimented with drugs. He said he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake of youth.

Barack Obama won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio version of his book - Dreams From My Father.

Barack Obama and his wife bought a house in Chicago in 2005. Back then, it cost $1.65 million. The house has 4 fireplaces.

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

Barack Obama loves playing Scrabble.

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.

Barack met his wife Michelle Robinson, a South Side Chicago native, while he was interning at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin.

Barack Obama took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film " Do The Right Thing" on their first date.

Michelle Robinson was Barack Obama's mentor and was not initially attracted to him--but after a two-year courtship, they were married in the fall of 1992 at the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Barack Obama and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) in a year, with much coming from sales of his books.

Barack Obama promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't.

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






Every night when Barack Obama is at home, he reads the Harry Potter books to his oldest daughter Malia.

Barack Obama's favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini.

Barack Obama collects “Spiderman” and “Coney and the Barbarian.”

Barack Obama's favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

Barack Obama was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball.

Barack Obama's name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili.

Barack Obama owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.

Barack Obama's favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars and his favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea. He doesn't drink coffee.

Barack Obama refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead while he was campaigning.

Barack Obama kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia.

Barack Obama's desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy.

Barack Obama's favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Barack Obama carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck

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

Barack Obama wears £952 Hart Schaffner Marx suits.

Barack Obama has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges £13.

Barack Obama was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers.

Barack Obama plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds.

Barack Obama's favourite artist is Pablo Picasso.

Barack Obama keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life.

Barack Obama is distantly related to Vice President Dick Cheney.

A video titled “I Got a Crush on Obama,” has become widely popular with over 12 million hits.

Tickets to President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009, were being sold online for as much as $40,000 each. Entry into an inauguration is always free though.

Obama’s schoolmates in Indonesia sometimes called him “Curly Eyelashes” because his lashes were so long and curly.

Obama was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991.

While at Punahou Academy, Barack befriended Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), a journalist, poet, and supposed communist whom he looked to as a role model.

Barack Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts of Reclaiming the American Dream, was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and became a best seller.

Barack Obama beat Keyes by the widest margin for a Senate race in Illinois history.

Barack Obama's achieved celebrity status after his speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, launching what has been called “Obamamania.”

Neil Young mentions Barack Obama in the lyric to his 2006 song “Lookin’ for a  Leader.”

Barack Obama's first car had so much rust that there was a rusted hole in the passenger door.

- By Sunil R Yadav

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