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

[sociocanuck]

More fun facts, please ^_^

[thefooligan5]

wait, so he still smokes? i knew he had smoked occasionally on the trail but i didn't think he was still a 'smoker.' i am a little surprised if this is true.

[Takae]

If he smoked occasionally, he's still a smoker. :/ There are different smokers, aren't there? Social smoker, 'drunk' smoker (only smokes when drunk), regular smoker, heavy smoker, chain smoker.

[fan4truth]

He's geeky & yet he's still hot...

Go figure.

[bsonawane]

Congratulation Sir Obama for the historic victory. My Billions best wishes to your dreams u will certainly make the ' world of humanity'. All the best.

[dannydonovan]

Yay! Comic books for Obama! it's funny because in the Spider-man comics Stephen Colbert was running for president along with Obama and McCain, and they had announced Colbert was the winner, until they remembered Spidey was supposed to be set in the real world so they posted a "late edition" of the Daily Bugle saying Obama had won the Electoral College and the Presidency, even though Colbert had won the popular vote.

So Obama gets represented in his favorite fictional world. ;)

And being a left handed comic book writer I approve of Obama's geekiness. :)

[slowhand0728]

Oh man kind of makes him sound Geeky. Thinking of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons....

[MajorKong]

At least his favorite band isn't Abba.

[thelegacymaker]

Lol @ Obama dusting his shoulders off. The dude is sooooo cool =)

[realtalknow]

He read all the Harry Potter Books to his kids, which is just so cute!

[Adam11]

when i read 1year ago he had just paid his student loan. i was sold.

am left handed and i approve this message.

[DebofMD]

I can't believe he got rejected for the calendar. He's a hottie.

[allonfla]

I'm sure he was a lot skinnier then.

[fan4truth]

If he was skinnier then than what he is now, then he must have looked sickly.

[GoVeg]

Obama use to eat dog-meat and grasshoppers.lol

[sean6886]

Props for the comic books. I love 'em too! Although I'm partial to Batman and Superman.

[mrcontinental]

Marvel all the way man!

[sean6886]

I do dig the Captain America

[MistaKurtz]

It seems to run strong in the legal profession, about 1/3 of lawyers are left handed and about 1/2 of judges.

[TruthfullyYours]

so true. :)

[canucklivinginUSA]

Call James Dobson, Obama is a witch! He likes to read Harry Potter

[tora]

McCain was also left handed.