Obama Collects Comics? 50 Things You Might Not Know About The President-Elect

• 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

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Comments

[Leslib]

I prefer my President to collect comics rather than to act like a comic book character. He will be a welcome change after the past eight years.

[crysaria]

Hey, we've all totally seen him eating ice cream, and he's also said his favorite book is "For Whom the Bell Tolls". I know it's hard to pick a favorite book though.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

I was about to bite your head off as I am often want to do with apparent tro//s and then I realized--OMG! You're right! We DID see him eating ice cream on the campaign trail!!

Sheesh. Now I'm worried...

[bayside]

Working around a favorite thing all day does turn you off.. Doesnt mean you will never eat it, it means its not your favorite..

[DedicatedDiva]

I think he was just being polite. Remember the interview with the entire family on one of the entertainment shows? Even the girls said he doesn't like ice cream that much because when the family goes to get ice cream he usually gets something else. I can't remember what he gets though.

[sf girl]

Perhaps someone offered him ice cream on the campaign trail and he was being polite by not refusing it. Who knows?

[Lvm]

I think he said his favorite book was Toni Morrison's Song of Soloman. For Whom the Bell Tolls was McCain...H­emingway would make sense for him.

[3fingerbrown]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/eveningnews/main4557194.shtml

[Dystopic]

I hereby formally challenge Barry Obama to a Chili cookoff. I have competed and placed at the World Chili Championships in Terlingua Texas. My Brazos River Bowl of Red will dominate.

Only question is, .. is it REAL chili or does it have beans?

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

LMAO!!! Well done!

My only regret--that I wont be there to judge the contest!

[JustSpeakingMyPeace]

My only regret...i­ts RED not blue!

[ArmyCentrist]

Good thing those Harvard girls had the foresight to reject him from the pin-up calender, think of the stink that would've made on the 24 hr news cycle. It was probably b/c he is so skinny.

[KillBillV2]

Actually a think he was heavier back then.

[jamalc]

The one that weirded me out was "He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician­."

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

You too, eh? Yeah, those "Architects" with all of their "blueprints" have always given me the creeps!

[KillBillV2]

Why?

[popples]

I have great respect for any middle aged man who read Harry Potter, haha.

[blaharumph]

...to his children.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!! (O is also a Leo, just like Harry!)

SEE! I told you he was THE ONE!!

DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY LIVES!!

[citizenfirst]

Obama has read every Harry Potter book? Great. Now the Christian Right will start spouting off about that! (radical right-wing parents don't allow their children to read Harry Potter books!)

[realistnotsocialist]

lol true....by the way he read them to his girls.

[susou]

Yeah, I don't think he would have read them on his own. He read them to his daughters before they went to bed.

[boycottrightwingthings]

WOW Reagan, Ford, George HW Bush,, and President Clinton were all lefties too! Our current president is right handed, (after W, maybe right handed presidents should be banned, ha ha, LOL) President elect Obama is another lefty! That is cool, and yet ANOTHER thing that he has in common with President Clinton! Too funny!

[SailFree]

Way more than the population incidence are lefties in the presidency. McCain was left-handed, too, by the way.

[getoffthecross]

Not by "choice"

[popples]

I wonder why that is. Does that mean we value presidents who are more right-brained?

[boycottrightwingthings]

Casablanca-awww he IS a romantic!! : )

[Takae]

I'm certain that I'm one of a minority on earth that detests Casablanca. :/ Likewise for Brief Encounter. I liked Ice Cold in Alex, though.

[JJ30]

Uh...I think you may be in the minority here. OMG! How can you detest Casablanca! That is my favorite movie of all time. (My second close one is Imitation of Life).

[kid5rivers2]

One of the his two favorites films is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"!

No wonder he could so quickly read Mac and Sah?

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Heh!

[eden4barack08]

"He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't"

Not true! He has quit now.

[PuppaX]

Hmm....I wonder why he didn't tell everyone about his nickname during the campaign. ;)

[Bob H]

That's it... He doesn't like ice cream. Clearly there's something afoot.

[boycottrightwingthings]

I am sure it must be from working as Baskins Ice cream and eating too much of it! I am not a big ice cream lover myself, so I understand!!

[AllenFromAtlanta]

As a kid I remember my uncle working at a hamburger place; at 50+ years old now he still refuses to eat hamburgers.

[mannysilva]

"With great power comes great responsibility"
check out this image I made early on the trail
http://www.drawingpostcards.com/obamaspidey.pdf

O and left hand people are awesome.