Interesting Things about President Barack Obama

Interesting Things about President Barack Obama

Obamarama goes from politics to fashion (Obama’s face on shoes, shirts, bags!) to songs. So, it isn’t quite surprising if everyone wants to know who really the president is. Here are 15 interesting things about Barack Obama you might not heard of yet.

1. He won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording twice! He won his first one in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir Dreams from My Father, and his second Grammy in 2008 for the audio version of his book The Audacity of Hope.

2. In an interview with Access Hollywood, his daughter Sasha revealed he doesn’t like ice cream, but loves pies especially pumpkin pie.

3. In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama revealed that he was race blind when he was young: he hardly noticed the racial difference between his Kenyan father and white American mother.

4. He’s got Hollywood, baby! Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Hayden Panettiere, Robert de Niro, Scarlett Johansson, Eddie Murphy, and Tom Hanks endorsed him during his 2008 campaign.

5. Commonly known as Barry in his youth, he admits to having experiment with marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol when he was a teenager.

6. He was born in Hawaii, but spent 4 years in Indonesia with his mom to live with his stepfather Lolo Soetero. There he was introduced to exotic foods including snake meat and roasted grasshopper.

7. Barack Obama is the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

8. Barack’s father was a Kenyan who was raised a Muslim, but turned out an atheist. His mother was an anthropologies who was interested in the different religions of the world but was an agnostic. Obama is a Christian and attends the United Church of Christ.

9. The books he reads to his daughter Malia are the Harry Potter series.

10. Barack Obama is the first President to have come from Hawaii.

11. He was named by Time magazine as one of the “I00 Most Influential People in the World” twice--- in 2005 and 2007.

12. His first name “Barack” comes from the Arabic word which means “blessed by God.”

13. He plays basketball and is a die-hard fan of the Chicago White Sox.

14. The movie he and his Michelle watched on their first date was “Do the Right Thing.”

15. Barack Obama’s father was the very first African student to have attended the University of Hawaii in 1959.