# 50 Facts you might not know about Barack Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569 "2008-11-13T18:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/61 "2008-11-14T14:16:56Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Obama’s a _bacon_ man!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPw3QP8jl4) (One minute into the clip you can hear Michelle say she gets most of her protein from _bacon!_) baconbaconbaconbaconbacon!! Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/62 "2008-11-14T16:37:48Z")
Like **Gyrate** , I thought the list would have more items like: - Chuck Norris calls him _Mister_ President-Elect! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/63 "2008-11-14T18:30:31Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > If I remember correctly, in some interview or another he stated that he had read all of the books, out loud, to his daughters, Obama is half-black and Obama is intellectual. My guess: he read them aloud in a movie theater. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/64 "2008-11-14T18:32:46Z")
> [@sampiro](#): > > obama is half-black and obama is intellectual. My guess: He read them aloud in a movie theater. lol! :d ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/65 "2008-11-14T18:42:03Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > From [Newsweek](http://www.newsweek.com/id/167755/page/6): > > The guy is a total nerd. I want a picture of said buckle. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/66 "2008-11-14T19:22:22Z")
I call BS on the ice cream thing. First of all, Michelle said he convinced her to date him by taking her for ice cream. Second, his favorite flavor is supposedly mint chip. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/67 "2008-11-14T19:51:19Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Second, his favorite flavor is supposedly mint chip. Is “mint chip” some bizarre regional way of saying “mint chocolate chip”? If so, I somehow knew he was a devotee of The One True Flavor. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/68 "2008-11-16T04:48:32Z")
Originally posted by Gyrate: "He has seen the film Repo Man 147 times. His cousin Kwame runs a dairy in Kenya which produces the nation’s leading brand of blue cheese. " I like Repo Man and I like blue cheese. I am warming to this family already. Do you think we will hear more of them ? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/69 "2008-11-16T05:04:00Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > If he read the Harry Potter books, doesn’t that put him in league with the devil and witchcraft and sorcery, according to some fringe elements of the more informed of the religious fundamentalists? Yeah, but they would never vote for him anyways. Obama has never read the Constitution, he just stared it down until it gave him the information. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/70 "2008-11-16T11:25:10Z")
[He’s been immortalized in nano-scale art.](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081114200628.htm) > [@](#): > > A University of Michigan professor has created 3-D portraits of the president-elect that are smaller than a grain of salt. He calls them “nanobamas.” > > John Hart, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, made the mini-Barack Obama likenesses with his colleagues to raise awareness of nanotechnology and science. > > Each one contains about 150 million carbon nanotubes stacked vertically like trees in a forest. A carbon nanotube is an extraordinarily strong hollow cylinder about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569/71 "2008-11-16T12:51:01Z")
1. He did not have sexual relationships with that woman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-facts-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/472569.md?page=3)