O’Bomber Can’t Kick the Habit

Based on my dinner party chitchat last night, not everyone is up to speed on the President Elect.

Love him or hate him, but please know that he is no ball hog…

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball

• His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream

• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars

• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

• He can speak Spanish

• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead

• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea

There are about 40 more fun facts to read in the Telegraph..

By the way, if he is looking for a place to smoke, there is a galley kitchen that Martin Sheen made famous in “The West Wing”. There will be the devil to pay the first time he burns a hole in a carpet at the White House.

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Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know
Telegraph
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