Barack Obama as Alpha Male

He seems like a really cool dude.  He drove a rusted-out car for years; and lived in a crappy apartment, even as a U.S. Senator.  Check the interview out.  He's also a fitness buff.  While many of his ideas are disastrous, his inherent manliness might mitigate the worst of them.  Obama is the rare combination of high testosterone and high intelligence.  In sum, he's the perfect embodiment of manliness.  An alpha male like Obama can stomach only so much suckling of the teat.  At some point his testosterone will demand that he cast the mooches asunder.

And now that he is President of the United States, he doesn't have to pretend that he's something he's not; or to play ball with the corrupt people who helped elected him.  He can, for probably the first time in over a decade, "be himself."  It will be interesting to see who the real Obama-as-policymaker is.  I'm beginning to think he will be much less liberal than many suspect.

Comments

[NaniD]

You had me at "cast the mooches asunder." Rahm Emmanuel is a pretty interesting guy as well. If he hires Steve Jobs as his tech guy, the trifecta will be complete.

[SSFC]

Harry Truman comes to mind as a man who cast aside all of the baggage once he was President. On FDR's death many assumed that Truman would be the President from the Kansas City mob, because Truman had relied on boss Tom Pendergast's machine to get to the Senate. Instead Truman was his own man, gradually throwing out FDR's people along with the rest of the shady characters who'd helped him rise.

Not that I think Obama will prove to be another Truman, but there are worse things he could be.