50 facts about Obama

[malaise]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html

• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived

• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy

• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books

• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

• He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother

• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso

• His speciality as a cook is chilli

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I'll forgive him is taste in movies.

[baldguy]

2. And his lack of interest in English strippers.

:scared:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. IMHO, both excellent but not my favorites.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. What's the difference between Casablanca and Titanic?

Titanic fans are too embarassed to admit they liked it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. lol! I can take or leave Titanic but Casablanca is so beautifully written and executed.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Umberto Eco on Casablanca.

http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_casablanca.html

[malaise]

8. I loved both

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest is one of the greatest movies of all time.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. One of the most overrated movies of all time.

Read the book.

[ailsagirl]

4. Maggie's Farm is his favourite Dylan song...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Great factoid! Great song! Now it's swimming around in my head. :) I named my

last dog Maggie and my younger son's middle name is Dylan.

[ailsagirl]

13. Cool! Good names :)

Interesting because of all the many Dylan songs, this one is about being fed up and just saying screw it and splitting!!

:)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I am very touched that he has Bobby's desk and the wood carving sounds wonderful

It's also kind of sweet that he walked out before the stripper came! (no offense to DU sex workers)

[amyrose2712]

10. Michelle always brings tears to my eyes.

[Elidor]

12. Moby Dick???

There's half of a great book in there. The other half, meh. He needs to read Two Years Before the Mast.

[ailsagirl]

15. Frankly, I hated that book. Ugh. But hey-- to each his own

:kick: