Obama’s supporters rate him best president in history (employment, wages, borders)

[WannaliveinGreenville]

• 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 Fathe

• 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
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars



• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs



• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• His favorite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived
• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.



• His favorite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine



• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress.
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• His house in Chicago has four fire places
• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits


• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
• His favorite artist is Pablo Picasso
• His speciality as a cook is chilli
• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government.

Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know - Telegraph

[chad3]

I apologize if I am ever rude. But I have seen my brother, fall into this republican propaganda crap.
And I also greatly fear the children in my family, falling into this republican corporate propaganda fantasy land.

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by Leisesturm

As I understand it, Obama's approval rating is very satisfactory these days...

But lower than that of the NRA.

Originally Posted by Leisesturm

choke on it. No one asked me... they didn't need to. Now y'all have a choice... get with the program and admit that there has to be something to admire about an individual that so many well educated, highly paid and influential people think is admirable

The crease in his pants?

Originally Posted by Leisesturm

OR you can post whiny, inaccurate and meaningless twaddle to the entertainment of your Conservative brethren. Your choice. But please, wipe up this mess when you get done!!

Is the fact that he is a habitual liar, "twaddle?" Is the fact that he is a Marxist, "twaddle?" Is the fact that he agrees with "Rev" Wrights assessment of America, "twaddle?"

[Tilt11]

More reasons why people should have to pass some sort of basic test before being allowed to vote. Far too many stupid people vote. And the targets of the liberal get out the vote nonsense is always the stupid. The dumbest amongst us are the democrats target audience.

If you cant pass a basic common sense and knowledge test, you should not be allowed to vote. Period. People like Obama wouldn't have a chance if that were the case, because he'd lose many people like the ones in this video.

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

Obama will likely end up being in the top 3rd of all presidents, once his term is over and history passes judgement.

The fact that he causes so many on the irrational right to foam at the mouth is a point in his favor, actually.

Please. Is this the best you have to offer? Is that your total defense of Obama?

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Ridgewalker

Obama’s supporters rate him best president in history

Big deal. What would you expect? That's just like flies saying their latest horse dung is their favorite ever.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

Obama will likely end up being in the top 3rd of all presidents, once his term is over and history passes judgement.

Well, I guess they have to get the black guy in the top third...... affirmative action.

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

8% unemployment is an arbitrary number you GOP's came up with. If the number were 6% you would use that.

16 million new people are on food stamps because the level of income has not kept up with the cost of living, while corporations have record net profits. That is not an administration problem, that is a state by state problem based on job compensation. The states with the lowest unemployment rates also have the lowest poverty rates and on average higher minimum wage.

and LOL @ 1 to 2% growth in GDP. I would rather see growth in GDP, decline in unemployment than see 9% drop in GDP and and rising unemployment.

lets also not forget the time line for those people getting on poverty programs, the majority were added during the first year of the Obama administration when the economy was still in shambles.

and lOL @ most of which is government spending, that is true. spending on war and defense, its funny how you republicans believe every thing in government has wasteful spending except the military.

you should google the debt and deficit so that you can see how they are calculated and what are their main contributors since you want to blame president Obama. Educating yourself would help you and your argument go a long way.

It would be better for you to argue that Obama should have cut Bush's bloated spending by now rather than arguing that it was Obama who created that spending.

Are you for real? Maybe you should "educate yourself."

[chad3]

Originally Posted by Tilt11

More reasons why people should have to pass some sort of basic test before being allowed to vote. Far too many stupid people vote. And the targets of the liberal get out the vote nonsense is always the stupid. The dumbest amongst us are the democrats target audience.

If you cant pass a basic common sense and knowledge test, you should not be allowed to vote. Period. People like Obama wouldn't have a chance if that were the case, because he'd lose many people like the ones in this video.

Perhaps you should know that scientists say, liberals are smarter than conservatives.
Just like all of the democrat presidents, have (much) higher IQ's than republican presidents.

If only the people with the highest IQ's could vote, then democrats would win every election.

You might want to re-think your above ideas.

[orlandochuck]

Somebody remind me of his presidential achievements that earn him this distinction.
I believe if you give handouts to fifty percent of the people, then fifty percent of the people will love you no matter what.