April 28, 2011
20 Entertaining Facts about President Obama
Now that President Barack Obama has cleared up the issues with his birth certificate, check out these other facts "Extra" found out about our 44th president!
Now that President Barack Obama has cleared up the issues with his birth certificate, check out these other facts "Extra" found out about our 44th president!
Pres. Obama is primarily of Kenyan, Irish and English ancestry.
Pres. Obama is the eighth left-handed U.S. President. The others are: Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton.
Pres. Obama is a fan of the TV show "The Wire."
Pres. Obama is the first U.S. President born in Hawaii.
President Obama has a half sister, Maya, born to his mother and stepfather in 1970.
Pres. Obama is a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan!
In 2005 and 2007, President Obama was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World."
Pres. Obama enjoys playing basketball and poker.
Pres. Obama quit smoking before his campaign for the Democratic nomination — at Michelle's suggestion.
During President Obama's childhood in Hawaii, his classmates knew him as Barry. Now, he goes by the nicknames Bama and Rock.
Pres. Obama attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review.
In 2006, Pres. Obama won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. The award was for the audio version of his autobiography "Dreams from My Father."
The President and First Lady went to see "Do the Right Thing" on their first date.
President 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.
Every night President Obama is at home, he reads the "Harry Potter" books to his oldest daughter Malia.
Pres. Obama is a Christian, but his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was an atheist, and his mother, Ann Dunham, was agnostic.
President Obama's first name comes from the word that means "blessed by God" in Arabic.
Pres. Obama was the 27th lawyer to be elected president.
President Obama is related to actress Park Overall.