25 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT OBAMA

1. Barack Obama met his wife Michelle at work.
2. He was an intern and she was his supervisor.
3. In Swahili, Barack means "one who is blessed."
4. In high school, he was known as “O’Bomber” because of his basketball skills.
5. Obama scooped for Baskin-Robbins in high school.
6. When living in Indonesia, Obama had a pet ape named Tata.
7. Obama has read all the Harry Potter Books.
8. He loves playing Scrabble.
9. Obama hates the current trend of young men wearing their pants below the waist.
10. Obama grew up in a tiny apartment in Honolulu, Hawaii.
11. Before moving to D.C., Obama had his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber.
12. He's the ninth cousin of Brad Pitt and the eighth cousin of former Vice-President Dick Cheney.
13. Obama loves to cook chili.
14. Obama can bench press 200 pounds.
15. When Obama was a senator, he used a desk that belonged to Robert Kennedy.


16. Had he not been a politician, Barack Obama says he would have liked to have been an architect.
17. One of Obama’s favorite TV shows is “The Wire.”
18. Obama is related to Former U.S. Presidents George Washington, James Madison, Harry Truman, and Jimmy Carter.
19. Ben and Jerry’s created an ice cream flavor in honor of Obama’s campaign, “Yes We Pecan.”
20. From 1992 to 2004, he taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
21. Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
22. In December 2008, Time magazine named Barack Obama as its Person of the Year.
23. Although a smoker in the past, Obama has said he will not smoke in the White House.
24. Obama’s favorite musicians include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, and Stevie Wonder.
25. Obama was sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 2009.