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50 things you should know about Barack Obama
Dallas Morning News ^ | 10/17/2008 | Compiled by John Riley and Talia Sampson

Posted on 10/19/2008 3:11:39 PM PDT by Kukai

1. Barack Obama's father was a black Kenyan and his mother was a white Kansas native. The two met while attending the University of Hawaii.

2. Mr. Obama grew up in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia for a few years. From age 10 on, he lived with his maternal grandparents in a Honolulu apartment.

3. He admits that as a teenager, he used drugs such as marijuana and cocaine to cope with questions of racial identity.

4. Mr. Obama played forward on his high school basketball team and was known as "Barry O'Bomber" for his left-handed double pump shot.

5. He wasn't the first in his family to attend Harvard. His father, Barack, also attended the university.

6. Mr. Obama has been a first black president before. He was elected president of the Harvard Law Review.

7. He stopped going by the nickname "Barry" in college after reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

8. He had a pet ape named Tata when he lived in Indonesia as a child.

9. Mr. Obama is only the third black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.

10. His wife, Michelle, agreed to allow him to run for president only if he agreed to quit smoking. But he recently admitted that he still has an occasional cigarette.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; obama; obamafamily
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1 posted on 10/19/2008 3:11:39 PM PDT by Kukai
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To: Kukai

So Newby! are you in the tank for THAT ONE! better known as the Messiah or Barack Hussein.


2 posted on 10/19/2008 3:14:09 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama stands for The New United Socialist Sta'te or "TNUSSA")
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To: Kukai
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3 posted on 10/19/2008 3:17:06 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama stands for The New United Socialist Sta'te or "TNUSSA")
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To: Kukai

“Mr. Obama played forward on his high school basketball team and was known as “Barry O’Bomber”...”

And his good friend is “Billy the Bomber”.


4 posted on 10/19/2008 3:18:01 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Kukai

6. Obama is mixed race. White mother, black father - yet he is referred to as black.


5 posted on 10/19/2008 3:20:21 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
His wife, Michelle, agreed to allow him to run for president only if he agreed to quit smoking. But he recently admitted that he still has an occasional cigarette.

Then he needs to drop out so he can keep his promise to his wife.

6 posted on 10/19/2008 3:22:17 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: nobama08

This list wasn’t all positive. I’ll give them that much.


7 posted on 10/19/2008 3:22:42 PM PDT by TheZMan (barack HUSSEIN obama)
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To: ncfool

Hardly - it made me laugh when I read it. Figured freepers could add to the list...


8 posted on 10/19/2008 3:25:02 PM PDT by Kukai
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To: Kukai

How about the fact that Obama HUSSEIN WONT produce a legitimate Birth Certificate??? Looks like he was illegally born in KENYA! the Country he tried to overthrow in 2006, a very highly Illegal Action for a stinkin U.S. Senator who had just taken the oath of Office!!


9 posted on 10/19/2008 3:25:58 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN is a Pathetic Puppet of Bill Ayers and Associates!)
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To: TheZMan

Even if that list was actually from the Dallas Morning News, I think I’m finally gonna cancel my subscription.

They have been in the tank for Obama so long they should be all blue and wrinkled.


10 posted on 10/19/2008 3:26:11 PM PDT by altura
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To: TheZMan

Probably because truthfully there isn’t much postive about Nobama. The more I learn about him, the more serious concerns I have about him.


11 posted on 10/19/2008 3:26:47 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: TheZMan

Probably because truthfully there isn’t much postive about Nobama. The more I learn about him, the more serious concerns I have about him.


12 posted on 10/19/2008 3:26:47 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: Kukai

>>he used drugs such as marijuana and cocaine to cope with questions of racial identity.

Yes, I just drank a couple beers to cope with my racial
identity. Had nothing to do with getting relaxed or “high”...


13 posted on 10/19/2008 3:27:12 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Kukai

Welcome to Free Republic.


14 posted on 10/19/2008 3:27:23 PM PDT by Dasaji (On a beach somewhere in my head...)
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To: Kukai; All
Re: Item #1... Barack Hussein Obama is NOT half black.

Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.

While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro).

All the blacks supporting him because they think he is black...... they were lied to.

15 posted on 10/19/2008 3:27:58 PM PDT by CaraM (Faithless is he who quits when the road darkens.)
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16 posted on 10/19/2008 3:29:35 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama stands for The New United Socialist Sta'te or "TNUSSA")
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To: CaraM

Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side.

So what does his birth certificate say he is? Oh wait.....


17 posted on 10/19/2008 3:34:30 PM PDT by millerph
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To: Kukai

http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/


18 posted on 10/19/2008 3:35:49 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Live from Wasilla, Alaska and saying NO to Barack HUSSEIN Obama)
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Do a google search Do a google search for GROVE PARK which is failed 8 year old housing project by Obama in Chicago.

Watch the link from the Boston Globe newspaper on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnESx4KDeQI


19 posted on 10/19/2008 3:37:18 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama stands for The New United Socialist Sta'te or "TNUSSA")
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To: Daniel Ramsey

thx... lol


20 posted on 10/19/2008 3:38:35 PM PDT by Kukai
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