Obama Senior used to drink at the Hotel InterContinental's Safari Bar, only it used to be called the Big Five bar back then. Big Five sounds like a corny name for a bar now, yes, but still a celebratory one in the '70s, no doubt.
"I bet Obama senior sat there, at the bar, rattling his ice cubes in his glass of whisky," Barnabas of The Hotel Intercontinental joked recently as he pointed withj his chin at the petite, but quaint, bar across the room.
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