Debate Day

Tonight is the final Presidential Debate before the big election. This morning Mike and Kate shared 26 things you might not know about Barack Obama and John McCain....

Barack Obama
1. His high school basketball team nicknamed him "O'Bomber" and he was favored a left-hand, double pump shot.
2. While living in Indonesia, his mother would wake him up at 4Am for three hours of English lessons before he went to school
3. While as a student at Harvard Law, he applied to be in the black pride pinup calendar. He was rejected by an all female committe .
4. On his first date with his wife, they had ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago.
5. His favorite movies: Casablanca, The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
6.He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Havard Law, but got a D in eighth grade French.
7. He is a good but cautious poker player who played with a group called The Committee.
8. His favorite music: Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Bruce Bringsteen, Jay-Z, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.
9. His good luck charms: gamblers lucky chit, a tiny Madonna and child and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq.
10. He has a framed original program from 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I have a Dream Speach.
11. He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.
12. He has promised his daughters a dog win or lose the White House.
13. He was born in Hawaii.
John McCain
1. He has a stuffed hamster on display in his Senate Office.
2. His favorite book is For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Earnest Hemingway
3. He was addicted to the TV Show "24"
4. He carries a lucky penny in his pocket
5. Favorite Movies: Casablanca, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and Mamma Mia.
6. His parents eloped to Tijuana, Mexico
7. At Christmas Time he supervises the lighting of 1000 luminaria candles on his property in Sedona, AZ.
8. His kids call a vacation with him, Camp McCain.
9. He is an early bird.
10. He is into fruit trees and bird watching. He keeps binoculars and bird books at the ready at his home.
11. His pet collection: two dogs, two turtles, a cat, a ferret, three parakeets and 13 saltwater fish.
12. His wife is super rich. They have a prenuptial agreement.
13. He was born in Panama.

See you tonight at Working Women's Wednesday at the Bulls Head Pub in Meridian on Eagle Road. Party starts at 6PM.