The U.K. Telegraph compiles the “Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama.” The list includes such tidibits as:
• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
• His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini
• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
And…
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream
AND…
He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
Ah, there it is. List, consider yourself justified.
[h/t Avi Zenilman]
I've seen and heard much about this list recently. However, I'm concerned with the accuracy about some of rest of the items since one of them is so obviously incorrect.
It says that Obama can't stand ice cream. That's just not true. He and Michelle both acknowledge that their first date was to get ice cream and see a movie. Plus I've seen a picture of him buying and eating ice cream with Joe Biden on the trail.
This list must have been brought to us by the same top notch journalists who reported all that malarkey about what Sarah Palin did and didn't know about geography without verifying their source. It's embarrassing and it undermines everything else you write when a simple fact is so clearly inaccurate and unverified.
Posted by dkan71 on Fri 14 Nov 2008 at 06:30 PM
If he wants one of his Spiderman Cover comic books hes going need some green! I have been looking for one to buy locally but can only find them on auctions now and the prices are going up daily. Looks like they will be colletors items in no time.
These prices for these books are unreal http://niche-auctions.com
Posted by Obama Souvenir Collector on Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 03:35 PM
I have one of your amazing spider man books I will sell it for $2,000 you rock barack
Posted by Isiah thomas fedee on Sun 24 May 2009 at 05:02 PM