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Facts About Barack Obama
Barack Obama took the American population by storm. Just before winning the Democratic nomination, he was hardly known. |
However, with hard work and perseverance, he became a force to reckon with and Hillary Clinton, the other Democratic candidate, had to concede defeat. There are several interesting facts about Barack Obama that people are not aware of and here are some of them.
Facts About Barack Obama:
In 2006, he won a Grammy award for the best spoken word recording and for the audio version of the book he wrote called “Dreams from my father”.
He was the first African American editor for the Harvard legal journal.
Barack Obama worked in Baskin Robin’s as a teenager and he does not like ice creams. He loves playing scrabble.
As a child when Obama was growing up he barely noticed the racial differences between his mother and father.
Obama as a teenager experimented with all kinds of drugs like marijuana, cocaine and alcohol and he had learnt a few lessons from those experiences in his life. He is not very proud of these facts though.
Obama smokes and also admits that he wants to quit. In the White House there is a non smoking policy.
Obama has tried some quaint dishes while living in Indonesia like dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshoppers.
Barack Obama’s complete name is Barack Hussein Obama and because of his name many people think he is a Muslim. However, he was never raised as a Muslim and always followed Christianity.
He likes reading Harry Potter books to his daughter Malia and he is also a very romantic person at heart. Every year on their wedding anniversary Obama, brings flowers to his wife.
Barack Obama will never be forgotten in the American history because he is the first African American President literally because he is half Caucasian and half African blood. Also, he is from a very culturally and religiously diverse background.
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