Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know
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50 činjenica u Obami koje možda niste znali
Barack Obama ne pije kavu i rijetko pije alkohol, a probao je u životu marihuanu, kokain, pseće i zmijsko meso te skakavce; mrzi sladoled. Planira postaviti igralište za košarku u dvorištu Bijele kuće, 2006. je dobio Grammyja za audio verziju svojih memoara 'Dreams From My Father', a pročitao je sve knjige o Harryju Potteru. Prije predsjedničke kampanje obećao je ženi da će prestati pušiti, ali nije uspio, na kampanji je odbio gledati CNN i pratio je samo sportske programe, navodi Telegraph neko od 50 činjenica o Obami koje možda ne znamo.
• 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
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• 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
• He carries a klix Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• His house in Chicago has four fire places
• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
• 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
Apsolutno sam siguran da ce Obama biti dobar predsjednik. Narod puno ocekuje od njega i svi ocekuju cudo, ali puno, puno, toga zavisi od americkog naroda...Americi upravo ovim trenutcima treba neko karizmatican, cijenjen, ugledan. Narod je sikaniran zadnje 3 - 4 godine. Nista se lijepo nije dogodilo; gube se ratovi i mlijarde dolara mjesecno, dogadjaju se velike prirodne katastrofe, inflacija jaca, cijene rastu, ekonomija je stagnirala, i sve je veci jaz izmedju bogatih i onih manje bogatih. Obama je dosao kao kec na desetku. On ce zasigurno popraviti ugled Amerike, uvest ce vise discipline i reda u bijeloj kuci. Ali, na kraju, sve je u rukama americkog naroda, oni su ti koji moraju isplivati iz krize u koju ih je uvalio GWB, najnepopularniji americki predsjednik. 76% amerikanaca smatra da je country in bad shape zbog njegove politike, ima veci procenat od svojeg oca, Nixona, Cartera...83% amerikanaca smatra da je situacija losa u drzavi, dakle, samo 17% naroda misli da je ok...Obama nema druge alternative nego da bude 99.9% efikasan. Vidjet cete, sve ce doci na svoje...sve e to narod pozlatiti
