Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know

Woot! Poker player and Mac user!

Yes!!! Two of my favorite things... and we both hail from Hyde Park in Chicago!

I know one thing.  He breaks his word.

Are you or have you ever been a smoker?

The last reported question about Obama's smoking was in June, and he said he had slipped a few times and sneaked a butt, but that had been months ago.

There are no reports of continued smoking.

I consider this 'he didn't' inaccurate.  But of course, Joyce, you and your hate jumped RIGHT on it.

He broke a promise to start off with.  Accepting Public Financing for his campaign.  There are many more promises he is going to break.

Kim

Remember he is replacing his addiction to nicotine, to NICORETTE GUM.

But of course, Joyce, you and your hate jumped RIGHT on it.

First of all, why do you consider it inaccurate?  And secondly, what exactly do you mean by "hate".  Are you calling me a racist?  Oh, here we go . . .

Let's see how Mr. Obama takes all the criticism that is usually given to such a public figure (i.e., Mr. Bush).  Of course, we all know that Mr. Obama will be treated differently.  I guarantee that if we even think of saying half of what was said about Mr. Bush, we will be called racists!  

J.

And secondly, what exactly do you mean by "hate".  Are you calling me a racist

No, she was referring to you finding the one thing in the entire list that was negative and pouncing on it.

Give the guy a break!

Give the guy a break!

You've got to be kidding.  He got so many breaks during the last 2 years that he is now the President Elect.  It comes with the territory.  I didn't vote for him, I still have questions and until those questions are answered he will get no "breaks" from me.

J.

JoyceAA

That is the truth.  He got a break when he became State Senator he won pretty much by default.

Stop spreading the old campaign lies...that was all McCain propaganda. It's ok to tell the truth now. Their agreement was only to  meet and discuss/negociate the public financing option for the campaigns, once the final two parties made their nominations.

However;

Dec 2007, McCain stepped away from THAT "agreement"when he procured a loan for 2,000,000 to keep his sinking campaign afloat. The bank had demands to guarantee his success or ability to pay the loan back.

February, 2008 McCain AGAIN had to procure another loan of 1,000,000 in order to continue campaigning. At that time, the bank that gave McCain the loan worked with him on a deal that FORCED him to accept public financing or they wouldn't have given him the loan.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=02&year=2008&base_name=the_pete_rose_of_politics

It was at that point, PRIOR to Obama being named the nominee for HIS party, that McCain CHOSE to accept public financing on his own terms. WITHOUT negociating first. All of the other remaining candidates were able to sustain their own campaigns with donations from their own supporters

McCain, on the other hand, had to PAY himself to keep his hat in the ring, because he could not get supporters to donate enough. So, it was McCAIN, NOT OBAMA, that stepped away from their agreement.

Obama, was smart. Since he knew that he had created a gigantic donor base, and McCain had already committed himself months before, so Obama declined the public financing...WHICH WAS HIS LEGAL RIGHT TO DO.

McCain and his campaign were bitter of course. The republicans screwed up this election themselves by allowing McCain to continue, over others that were getting a LOT more primary votes & donations.

There is absolutely no comparing Bush to Obama.

Obama will rise above the criticisms as he always has.

Obama like all other politicians is a paid liar. He will make and break many promises. He will have to endure some pretty stiff criticism and no one will be a racist because of it. Why? He is the next President. Get used to it, the Obama-Koolaid is about to et really thin.

Well we can put the Bush years behind us.  Now the blame is on OBAMA who says he can "fix" the economy if he is elected President.  OK, now he has been elected President and he says it is going to take a while, maybe not in the next 4 years.  WHAT? Is he already running for 2012? 

 I saw a lady interviewed the other day, she said "Now I can buy gas and food and clothes, now thatOBAMA is elected President".  Can you tell me how he is going to help her afford to do something today that she couldn't do last week.  I guess she is waiting for her Tax break Check to come in the mail..

The Miracle worker, the Messiah has arrived, so far not even a good news conference, except a long talk about a family pet.

Nation you have been HOODWINKED.

First of all, why do you consider it inaccurate?  And secondly, what exactly do you mean by "hate".  Are you calling me a racist?  Oh, here we go . . .

(1) I consider the story inaccurate because it is not current. A report from several months ago about smoking months before that is not a 'current' situation. 

(2) I called you a hater because you hate Barack Obama. Don't know why. Don't care. 

(3) YOU said I was calling you a racist. I didn't call you a racist. I called you a hater. There's a difference.  Maybe you are a racist too. If I discern that about you, I will have NO PROBLEM saying so. But I called you a hater. And I stand behind that.

(4) False victimization as "Oh you're calling me a racist" is beneath contempt. 

I called you a hater because you hate Barack Obama. Don't know why. Don't care. 

And you know this because . . . ?

If you really want to know the truth, I hate (yes) but not the man.  I hate that America (including you my friend) has been manipulated into voting for a man that we know nothing about.  The MSM helped to do it, and now there is evidence that they are starting to have their own questions about Mr. Obama.  I hate that this man was voted into office for all the wrong reasons. 

J.

you sort of admitted it.

:)

J

HOODWINKED is right.  Farakhan, ayers, and Obama voted in the same polling place.  What a neighborhood!

Kim,

I keep seeing you calling Joyce names-I think that is a violation of the CoH.  If you disagree with her, that's your perrogative, but calling people names is childish and it's aginst the rules of Newsvine.

Spikgary,

I keep seeing you calling Joyce names-I think that is a violation of the CoH.  If you disagree with her, that's your perrogative, but calling people names is childish and it's aginst the rules of Newsvine

Thank you.  I was wondering if this was appropriate.  I really feel very sorry for Kim, though.  I don't know if she is really immature or just still under the Kool-Aid influence.

:)

J.

Kool-Aid?  Aren't we all kinda tired of that by now?

Kool-Aid...is a twisted reference combing a stereotype with the 'Flavor-aid' that was used at Jonestown to kill his disciples.  

Spikgary:

Joyce AA is a hater.  That's a fact.  If she finds it less than flattering, that's her problem, not mine.

I stand by my remarks. 

Kim

Go back and read your remarks and you will see the hatred that you have for McCain and Palin.  You think that if you don't for Obama you are a RACIST.  People have more against Obama than the color of his skin.

BB:

If you need to lie, do so. I'll be ignoring it. 

Stop throwing the word "racist" out there unless you really know what it means. I've seen it used twice so far, and both times they were used incorrectly.

Joyce, you have every right to dislike Obama, doesn't make you a racist and that's not what anyone was saying.

BB Kim is not calling anyone a racist.

Get over it! This is not about race. It's about a difference of policy, issues, character, etc. I dislike McPalin, and it has little to do with THEIR race.

Kim

I wasn't necessarily talking about this thread.  There has been a lot of anger and bitterness in this campaign and it shows in all postings.

brkfstclblvr

I know plenty about racism in all skin colors it is not just pertaining to blacks.  you shouldn't be saying McPalin either that shows very poor taste.  They both have names. 

 I do not agree with you, this election was based on RACE the moment Obama said," I do not look like the other Presidents on the dollar bills".

"I do not agree with you, this election was based on RACE the moment Obama said," I do not look like the other Presidents on the dollar bills"."

He didn't even know that only one President is on the dollar bill.... George Washington!!

He didn't even know that only one President is on the dollar bill.... George Washington!!

Only two bills don't have Presdients on them, $10's (Hamilton) and $100's (Franklin).

Technically, bills of any denomination are called Dollar Bills - as our currency is call the dollar, and their paper representation is called a bill.

KRich is correct. BTW - Salmon Chase is printed on the 10,000 Bill (which was pulled in 69 from circulation) and he was never president either.

Or maybe Don was being sarcastic and we just didn't get it.

you shouldn't be saying McPalin either that shows very poor taste.  They both have names

BB, I call Obama/Biden O'Biden. Does that show poor taste, too? Don't tell me I have poor taste when you are throwing around the "racist" card.

You show me one posting that I am being RACIST.  The only reason I am called racist is because I voted for McCain-Palin.  I have said it is not Obama's skin color that I am against.  It is him and his friends that I am against.  I don't like Obiden either.

Oh yes, nicotine---isn't that known to be the most addicting drug known to man???  Ever think of how much money you could save by not smoking.   One carton a week @ $35 for 52 weeks??  More than $1800 a year.  Invested (back when the markets worked) could pay, pretty much, for a college education !!  Barack needs to start saving for his daughters college education.

RET:

See above.

Also, Malia is 10 and by the time she enters college, Obama will be finishing up his second term.

It is easy to quit smoking. I have done it hungreds of times.

In the sixties I tried using Nicorette gum. I quit chewing gum.

Back then I quit speed. It was easy compared to smoking.

BTW. I found his movie choice interesting to take Michelle to.

I took my wife-to-be to Monty Python's movie "And Now For Something Completely Different".

She got someone completly different and we are still married after 35+ years.

With Obama, all of Spike Lee's movies are important to understand the struggles of people who are members of the minority.

They will get along great.

Barack needs to start saving for his daughters college education.

HA! I'm pretty sure this won't be a problem. Nice try!

Oh yes, nicotine---isn't that known to be the most addicting drug known to man??? Ever think of how much money you could save by not smoking. One carton a week @ $35 for 52 weeks?? More than $1800 a year. Invested (back when the markets worked) could pay, pretty much, for a college education !! Barack needs to start saving for his daughters college education.

Bahaha, there's so much wrong with that quote, where do I even begin.

Since when does a carton of @!$%#ing cigarettes cost $35? I buy my Camel Filters at $10.50 a pack, in Canada. And where, ANYWHERE, does it say "Barack Obama smokes a carton of cigarettes a week"? And why on earth do you think Obama and his family are somehow struggling for cash?

Jesus, get your head out of the sand, please.

Mike,

At the Tuscarora Reservation by my house, I was buying cartons for $27.75 per, up until 3 weeks ago-I started taking Chantax and have been smoke free since.  BTW, the res is about 10 miles from the Ontario border crossing at Queenston/Lewiston.

As far as I can tell from what I've read... Jesus never put His head in the sand.

In the US, BTW... you can buy a carton of smokes for under $35.  No one said they were high quality, though.

Besides, obama is going to give everyone a free college education. That would include his kids.

Free? No. Some help toward tuition in exchange for community service? Yes.

As far as I can tell from what I've read... Jesus never put His head in the sand.

Can I ask what the heck this has to do with anything?

Yeah, definitely not free. Thank you Kim.

It was my response to Mike's comment... voicing my displeasure with his use of the name of Jesus in such a throw-away manner.

People are so serious with such an enjoyable seed. Humor isn't recognized. (start saving for daughter's college.)

What really caught my eye was Moby Dick. I have one friend whose favorite book is Moby Dick. My daughter read it and they became fast friends.

I, too, smoked, for about 25 years - quit 15 years ago . . . after promising the man upstairs I'd quit (promise made five years before I did). Talk about guilt. Quitting was the most difficult thing I've had to do. Good luck to all those trying. (But please keep trying, they say the more often you try, the more likely you are to finally quit.) Bladder cancer is directly attributable to smoking - I know. (Five years this Jan and I can start giving blood again.)

No Ice Cream?  Life is so much more a happy place with a dish of Ice Cream!

I think he probably OD'd on it. I worked at a Dunkin Donuts for just a couple of months - had a blast with the donut holes and filler machine . . . gained 15 pounds. Didn't eat a donut for years!

You probably are lactose intolerance.  Seems that those of northern european descent are tolerant of milk, while those of southern europe descent are intolerant.  You have my pity.  Edy's Slow Churned French Silk graces my freezer as often as my diet will allow (have to watch my boyish figure, don't you know).

I am of northern european descent; northern Italy, Norway & Ireland (also some German and English).

I know I'm lactose intolerant. I didn't know it when I was a kid, I just hated ice cream. Didn't eat it between the age of 8 through 20.

If I do eat it now, I'll only eat banana ice cream and I have to have an acidophilus pill chaser! lol

Cheers!

yeah, being lactose intolerant sucks. I developed it after a really bad stomach virus and never really recovered.  Praise the lord for lactaid pills

I bet if Barak ate some Mitchell's Ice Cream or an It's It........he'd consider eating some from time to time!

:)

Rocky Road is a food group all it's own!!  Yaaaayyyyyy!

While in Kentucky in September, I had some Ice Cream, not sure what brand, sold at a Walmart Super Center-flavor was called 'Candy Store'.  Life can be much worse than having a bowl of Candy Store

Actually, by definition caffeine is the 'most addicting drug' known to man.

....I refuse to spend $5 for a papercup full of coffee I can get at work for free...with free refills!

I haven't read a good comic book in 50 years.  But I have read both of Obama's book (and McCain's also).

I quit reading comic books when they went up from $00.10.

Hi GGM!

Aren't most of us mutts? Happy Friday!

Cheers!

Hi Libra........

I dunno are we all mutts? ;)

Happy Friday 2u2.

Amor, Paz y Pesetas!

I KNOW I'm a mutt!

Im hispanic, german, italian. Add Japanese into the mix and that's my daughter.

Think I qualify?

Most definately, GGM!

Well, I'm white as casper's ass but euro mixed all over...

Casper has an ass?

;)

From the article:

His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea

Don't know what that is, but as an iced tea addict, I am most intrigued.

I'm sure it is some kind of elites drink. :-)

Black Forest Berry Tea

Oh it's an Honest Tea.  Those are tasty. I'll have to look for one.  Thanks Perry!

Not quite as impressive as Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny," but it's good that you know cars. :>)

Kori, get over it!

Enjoying artists like Picasso who were abstract......gives you an indication that Barak Obama is someone that can look at something and see many different things....takes perhaps a logical face value impression at first but then digs deeper......looks at things from many angles.

Picasso is hardly weird.

Picasso Rocks!  Along with my fave, Matisse!

I'm a Chagall girl, myself. But Picasso is brilliant. 

:) Chagal.

Dali, too!

libra,

Why are you harrassing Kori?  Does that sound like a good use of taxpayer money anytime?  How about when the economy is in the tank?

First of all, 'benching 200 lbs' can mean one time, or multiple repetitions. I'm 180 lbs, and I can (could before shoulder surgery) bench 305 lbs one time.  But I can only bench 205 lbs multiple times, but I've been lifting since I was 16.

Bench pressing is not a measure of muscular strength as much as it is of small muscle development and technique.  Consider a 180 lb man who can do 50 pushups..but can't bench 185 50 times ? Why? The muscle groups used are the same, with the addition of the stabilizer muscles, the pectoralis minor, and the anterior deltoids used to keep the bar from rotating on the lateral axis as the weights are lowered to the chest.  

It has to do with the proper technique.  Breathing, proper muscle recruitment, and hand placement provide the optimum amount of force to be applied on the bar to raise it above the body.

Last time I read, art is subjective.

Spikgary:  Thanks, man!  : )   I do believe building a basketball court at the Whitehouse should not be a priority at this time but there are many who think that ANYTHING Obama wants to do is perfectly acceptable and "devil be damned" to those who may see otherwise!

Sgt C:  I defer to your judgment as you seem knowledgeable on this topic.  However, I maintain that seeing is believing whether once, twice, or 20 times. 

brkfstclblvr:  you're right - in the artworld beauty is in the eye of the beholder! 

Thanks for your comments.

As she should be.  Once again he cannot speak without a teleprompter.  Watch out, let's see who else he offends before he's done! 

J.

Baloney..Nancy likes him..The Reagans hate McCain ..Plus it was funny

who cares if nancy regan is pissed at him she didnt vote for him anyway

and you know this how?

Don't know for sure about Nancy... but I know for certain that Ron Reagan voted for Obama.

The Reagans hate McCain

and you know this how?

Nancy Reagan was very upset at McCain for his affair because she was close with Carol.

You know one of my pet peeve's is when someone asks me to use my favorite movie, tv show, music or artist as a password question.  The reason you ask?  Because depends on what day it is.  My favorites are always dependent on my mood and what is my current events.

Well, whatever way that is, he better put them up on a teleprompter. By the sounds of his press conference, I'd say that without his teleprompter words have a way with him.

Well, whatever way that is, he better put them up on a teleprompter. By the sounds of his press conference, I'd say that without his teleprompter words have a way with him.

Such as? You try to memorize your entire policy speech at your first press conference after you've become the new president-elect.

Freakish NWO paranoia. That went out of style in the 90s. 

I'm fairly sure you don't even know what Communitarian is.

apparently you've never been in southeast aisa

lots of good chewy stuff there

jaywow67 - most of the people in this country have never been anywhere outside their own small towns and neighborhoods. That's why their concept of a world view is as narrow as a squirrel's butt crack.

Gosh, who has ever looked that close at a squirrel?

Gosh, who has ever looked that close at a squirrel?

In a strange and sick way, I suddenly feel compelled to do so.

Blizzy

didn't you know? american extremists who label themselves as "conservatives" don't read encyclopedias or do their own research. whatever people like them tell them, they believe.

true story.

____________________

How do you know unless you are a conservative. I am a conservative and I do my own research and I read encyclopedias.

I try not to judge other people until I have time to get to know them. Therefore I don't call them names. 

then you can consider yourself a non-extremist.

that was easy.

but it's easy to identify extremist behaviors - they tend to cling to labels and "isms" and make comments meant to make others think they're wrong for not feeling the same way they do. recognizing that not everyone will agree, extremists present their view differently from the rest of us.

I'm neither a conservative nor a liberal, I don't label myself because I could care less what the mob thinks.

Blizzy

then you can consider yourself a non-extremist.

that was easy.

but it's easy to identify extremist behaviors - they tend to cling to labels and "isms" and make comments meant to make others think they're wrong for not feeling the same way they do. recognizing that not everyone will agree, extremists present their view differently from the rest of us.

I'm neither a conservative nor a liberal, I don't label myself because I could care less what the mob thinks.

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I define myself as conservative due to my beliefs, not my political party. 
I always vote for the person, not the party. If they advocate my beliefs, then I will vote for them.
What someone thinks of me, means nothing to me. I have been called a lot of things in my long life. It just shows their lack of understanding of the English language.

Since you asked Ivmedical, let me give you some hints:

-Responsible for the death of over 3000 Americans on 9-11
-Invaded 2 countries looking for a bunch of guys with robes hanging out in caves
-Responsible for the deaths of Millions of innocent people since the start of all these 2 wars
-Enriched the wallets of a bunch of oil company buddies of his with record profits
-Has 35 Articles of Impeachment against him already presented to Congress
-Deregulated many big corporations and over saw the greatest collapse of the US economy since the Great Depression of 1929 to benefit the international bankers.
-Illegally detaining and torturing prisoners on Guantanamo bay in direct violation of the Nuremburg principles
-Used the staged 9-11 attack to strip Americans of their privacy aka 'the patriot act'
-Stood by and did nothing while 1800+ people lost their lives in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina

Now can you guess?