Making an OS X Widget, need facts!
August 21, 2008 3:03 PM   Subscribe

Bararck Obama Facts. John McCain facts. How many can you come up with?

Pretend you're playing a game and get a point for each fact you can recite. They can be anything, so long as they are irrefutable. If you think either candidate would deny it, then I'm probably not interested in it.

Due to space considerations (explained a bit more below) none can be longer than the first fact.

The ones I have for Barack so far:

Barack Obama served for eight years in the Illinois State Senate.
Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein.
Barack Obama is black.
Barack Obama is male.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th 1961.
Barack Obama earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991.
Barack Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review.
Barack Obama's wife is named Michelle.
Barack Obama has two daughters Malia 10 and Sasha 7.
Barack Obama attended Harvard Law School.
Barack Obama taught constitutional law.
Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School.
Barack Obama is the author of two books.
Barack Obama is married.
Barack Obama is the father of two children.
Barack Obama vacationed in Hawaii in 2008.
Barack Obama is not a Muslim.
Barack Obama is running for President.
Barack Obama is a United States Senator from Illinois.
Barack Obama is a Democrat.
Barack Obama was born August 4 1961.
Barack Obama is smarter than you are.
Barack Obama is 47 years old.
Barack Obama has done drugs.

I am not trying to make any judgements, or be political, so if it's opinion, I could care less. I want actual facts. Humor would be helpful.

I am making a Barack Obama "facts" widget and a John McCain one as well, since you know, it seems like people are surprised by some new revelation every few days that is blindingly obvious. There is only a small area at the bottom of the widget to print these facts, so they have to be shorter.

The facts don't have to be cited.

All of the above fact were either taken from wikipedia, news reports, or the Barack bio on his site. I haven't started my McCain list yet.
posted by cjorgensen to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This really is pretty Chatfilter Meets Poll-The-Audience; you might be better off setting up a simple website to collect submissions and posting that to Projects, or maybe consider this for politicalfilter.com . -- cortex

 
Barack Obama loves chatfilter?
posted by electroboy at 3:10 PM on August 21, 2008


John McCain owns seven houses, and has had eight chatfilter threads deleted. This makes him a man of the people!
posted by scody at 3:11 PM on August 21, 2008


More like chatfilter loves Obama.
posted by moonshine at 3:11 PM on August 21, 2008


Fact: cjorgensen hasn't read the guidelines.
posted by desjardins at 3:12 PM on August 21, 2008


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