Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know
A53GG4
follow
0
11-16-2008 4:11 AM
140 views
tags:
politics
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Today's Top Clips
Navajo Code Talkers break silence for Veterans Day
One year in 40 seconds
Elderly Who Forget Age Remember Better
Fighting For The Welfare State
Is the Large Hadron Collidar Being Sabotaged by the Future?
How the US Funds the Taliban
Children Arrested & Jailed For School Food Fight
8 Stay young foods
Homophobic is a “made-up word”
Happy Dog and Returning Soldier
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
November 16, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3825ae55-1ca9-4467-a908-8adadf2cc98b/49625077-F0EC-4FB8-A7CA-3992EBF02DD7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><H1>Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><H2>Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> By Jon Swaine Last Updated: 3:40PM GMT 11 Nov 2008</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><div align="center"><embed src="http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/federated_f8.swf?flashId=flashObj0&servicesURL=http:%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:%2F%2Fconsole.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Famfgateway&cdnURL=http:%2F%2Fadmin.brightcove.com&playerId=1488655367&videoId=1904770245&autoStart=false&preloadBackColor=%23FFFFFF&width=460&height=375&externalAds=false&sendReports=false&buildNumber=587&ranNum=878654" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" base="http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" seamlesstabbing="false" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He has read every Harry Potter book </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He can speak Spanish </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • He can bench press an impressive 200lbs </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/article3401168.ece"><P> • His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/49625077-F0EC-4FB8-A7CA-3992EBF02DD7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks:
Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK