Barack Obama is left handed....

[flowomo]

just noticed that in a film clip on CNN. I wish he wouldn't use that "curl-around" motion when writing because it's painful to look at -- be proud, Barack, and smear some ink! But as a fellow lefty, I approve of this man.

[Richardo]

1. So is the Big Dog! and me!

:thumbsup: <-- and this smilie!

[flowomo]

4. haha... loved the late edit

n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. Me, too!

I'm proud to be a Lefty, in both senses of the word. :)

[LisaM]

2. Another lefty checking in --- lefty power!

I don't use the curl around method, though.

[XanaDUer]

3. I love left-handed men!

They are so sexy.

[Lowell]

5. Me too

but I'm not running for prez.

[Vox Acerbus]

6. So is Bush 41...

And so am I, for that matter...

But yeah, wear the ink proud!

[Richardo]

7. Trivia: All three candidates in the 1992 election were left-handed

Clinton, Bush, Perot. :D

[sss1977]

8. Lefty here too

I don't curl, I just smear everything in sight.

[newyawker99]

42. Hi sss1977!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[soup]

51. another leftie!

Welcome, sss1977! :hi: left-handed wave :)

[liberalnurse]

9. So am I......

so is Sherrod Brown,Ross Perot and Daddy Bush.

[SeattleGirl]

10. I just noticed that too, in that clip. n/t

[WhollyHeretic]

11. I've never understood how other lefties could use that curl-around writing

it looks uncomfortable as hell. I'd rather be comfortable and get a little ink on my hand.

[flowomo]

12. been smearing ink for years... it's like a self-renewing tattoo!

n/t

[skooooo]

17. heh I know what it's like going around with ink on the side of my hand too!

High five fellow upside-down writer!

[Solon]

59. I hated writing with erasable pens and pencils.

Every day at school I would have to go to the bathroom and get a paper towel, wet it down, and wipe my left hand. But I just refused to use the "curl around".

[rocktivity]

13. Actually, I'm ambidexterous.

But I consider myself a "natural" lefty because that's the hand I write and hold my silverware/drinks with! I curl around--which a young relative described as "doing homework upside down." Everything else, including playing guitar, I do right-handedly.

:headbang:
rocknation

[flowomo]

14. me too! it's a fine motor/gross motor thing for me.

e.g., I throw and bat right-handed.

[skooooo]

18. That's how I am...

I shoot pool left handed - everything else right handed.

[Kerrytravelers]

37. I'm ambidextrous as well!

I feel pretty comfortable with either hand. When I was in school, one other girl and I were ambidextrous, but our early elementary teacher made us write only with our right hand, saying it would make things more "normal." :eyes: However, I still practiced with my left hand, especially as I got older. I played the trumpet all through school and into college. When I dislocated my right shoulder, I was able to play with my left hand, without any interruption! It's nice being a teacher because no matter what side of the board I'm writing from, I can use either hand- and the kids think it's cool and try writing with their non-dominate hand, unless they, too, are ambidextrous.

[kath]

57. I'm the same - have to use left hand for writing, fork (but drink with either hand)

But I throw, bat, bowl, etc. right-handed. When I took figure-skating lessons as a young teen - my natural direction for jumps was in the normal "right-handed" direction, but I could only do spins the left-handed way.

[Warpy]

15. The nuns beat me into being right handed

but I use that curl around posture when I write with my right hand.

I'm surprised the religious nutcases aren't using his left handed writing as a sign of Satanic possession or something.

Ah, well, give them time.

[rocktivity]

22. When my sister took a fork out of her young daughter's left hand

and put it in the right, my mother handed her ass to her! She tried to defend herself my explaining that she always ate right handed, and my mother said, "If that's what she's meant to do, she'll figure it out for herself!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[soup]

52. My mom tried that method with me.

Apparently mealtime was a real workout when I was a toddler.

She'd put the utensil in my right hand, I'd transfer it to my left, she'd put it back into my right hand, and I'd throw it across the room.

over and over. (shades of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller)
Eventually, she conceded and gave up in exasperation.

It's a wonder I didn't starve. Not only am I left-handed, but stubborn as the day is long. :D

[Little Wing]

16. That's nothing,

I type one-handed

[flowomo]

19. but which hand?

n/t

[karlrschneider]

21. I use the hunt & peck method. My hunter's okay but my pecker gets tired.

:evilgrin:

[stevedeshazer]

64. Hunt and peck? More like search and seizure!

:hi:

[Kerrytravelers]

36. Is the other hand... *ahem*... busy?

:rofl: :evilgrin:

[Coexist]

20. Lefty here!!!

Love ya, Barack.
http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html
Did you know: when we had three Presidential candidates, all were lefties

Ross Perot, Bill Clinton, H.W.

[originalpckelly]

23. WOOHOO!! Lefty here as well!(nt)

[WernhamHogg]

24. Some of my best friends are left handed! ;)

My hubby is left handed along with some of my favorite people.

On the other hand, I see people are saying that GHWB is left handed, but I thought I read somewhere that his idiot son is also left handed?

[flowomo]

35. yeah, it's a good sign....

but other attributes must be considered. :)

[Darkhawk32]

25. Write and eat left-handed. Throw with either hand. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. My 5yo daughter is a lefty. First one on either side of the family since FOREVER!

I find this WAY cool!

[Left Is Write]

27. I'm left-handed too. No curl or hook for me, though!

[BlooInBloo]

28. All left, all the time. That'll teach my dad to try to force my hand - lol!

[ecstatic]

29. Is there a correlation between left handedness and charisma?

Bill Clinton... Obama...

My sister is a leftie too. She's very creative and a good speaker.

[VeggieTart]

30. I'm a righty, but I do the curl around.

I'm probably the only righty that does so.

[flowomo]

31. That is strange...

the curl is to avoid dragging the side of your hand across the ink -- why would you do it when you're always ahead of the ink. Is there a lefty in there struggling to break free?

[hughee99]

32. I've been saying for years...

that all things are run by a secret cabal of people from both sides of the aisle. It's not the PNAC, the Carlyle group, the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Skull and Bones, the Opus Dei, or the Freemasons. There's one group of people that you can find playing key roles in all of these organizations and moving them toward the common goal of a left-hand dominated world, the "Southpaw society".

No more shortage of left handed scissors, no more notebooks with spiral binders on the left. Their presence has been imbedded in some cultures for thousands of years, as they've been able to get entire civilizations to write from right to left so they don't get ink on their hands. Is it any coincidence that the three most common letters in the English language (E,T and A) are all on the LEFT side of the keyboard. Their dominance seems more than clear in major league baseball, the arts, and politics.

Their ranks include many members of the British Royal family, including Elizabeth II, the Big Dog, Poppy Bush, Gerald Ford, Ben Franklin, Nelson Rockefeller, Harry Truman, Ross Perot, Bertie Ahern, Napoleon, Caesar, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Ghandi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Michelangelo, Raphael, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matt Groening, Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, Tolstoy, J.S. Bach, the Allman brothers, Beethoven and Bob Dylan.

Is it any shock that Billy Ray Cyrus is famous? He's a lefty. So is Borat (Sasha Baron Cohen). Why are Fran Drescher, Dustin Diamond (Screech from Saved by the Bell), Joey Lawerence and Larry the Cable Guy famous? You gussed it, ALL Lefties. Even Ed O'Neil and Joe Piscapo rode the lefty wave to fame.

It's all a big conspiracy, WATCH OUT FOR THE LEFTIES!!!

:thumbsdown: :thumbsup: :hi: :headbang: (even these smiles are lefties (I think)!)

Hope you enjoyed this, now back to your regular discussion.

[VeggieTart]

34. Two more musical lefties:

Paul McCartney
John Flansburgh of They Might be Giants

[Mad_Dem_X]

50. Ringo Starr, too

Strange that the two remaining Beatles are both lefties.

[politicasista]

33. Another lefty here n/t

[blogslut]

38. Lefty here

Not a curler though. Wasn't anyone taught to tilt the paper to the right? Doing so sure helps keep my hand clean.

[Telly Savalas]

39. I have no problems voting for somebody left-handed

but I don't think America is ready for a left-handed president.

[Nedsdag]

40. Other lefthanded politicians include

George Pataki
John McCain

But the best surprise is that newly elected Virginia Senator Jim Webb is lefthanded.

(By the way, I'm a southpaw as well).

[Alexander]

55. You know both Poppy and Clinton were lefties?

Did you forget the :sarcasm: smiley?

[Telly Savalas]

58. Oh for Christ fucking sake.

It's a fucking play on all those racist fucks that post that "I'd vote for a black guy, but I don't think the rest of the nation would".

[Divine Discontent]

60. telly... breathe!!!!!!! n/t

[mtnsnake]

41. Both of my hands are left handed except for my right one

[mdmc]

43. Lefty!

Nice!

[WinkyDink]

44. Moi aussi!

[Jacklyn75]

45. I'm a very proud lefty! Glad to see so many of you are as well! /nt

[MiniMe]

46. Is this why we are called the "left"? LOL

[Murdock]

47. Wha?

No mention fellow Left-hander Al Gore here? I'm seriously surprised.

[annonymous]

48. I am ambidexterous

I have two left handed children. I do the curl around too.

[riderinthestorm]

53. Another lefty checking in

Both of my daughters are lefties too.

Group hug! :grouphug:

[Hard_Work]

54. Lefty here also

my son just turned 2 and hasn't decided yet. I've got high hopes for him, though!

[mountainvue]

56. I am a lefty as well. I always leave an ink trail.

My second grade teacher tried to get me to hold the pen like everyone else but it was painful for me to write that way. Clinton is a southpaw too.

[otohara]

61. And He's A LEO - like Bill Clinton

uh oh - it's fate!

[New Earth]

62. i'm a lefty

so is my daughter :D

[tenndem1]

63. Me Too

Lefty for most things - cannot use lefty scissors - can iron with either hand, but actually prefer right hand