# Barack Obama...yep, he's just that cool. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310 "2006-11-21T17:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/1 "2006-11-21T17:51:25Z")
On top of his many other strengths, which have been discussed exhaustively on the SDMB already, and which I will therefore not rehash in this thread, we now find that Senator Obama has that rarest of qualities in a politican: [the ability to apologize sincerely when necessary.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0611210397nov21,0,1431380.story?coll=chi-news-hed) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/2 "2006-11-21T18:00:36Z")
[Here](http://www.henryherald.com/opinion/local_story_318220925.html)’s the original article and [here](http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/waitwait/obama.mp3) is the audio file of the call. And I gotta agree: very 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/3 "2006-11-21T18:06:05Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] [Here](http://www.henryherald.com/opinion/local_story_318220925.html)’s the original article and [here](http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/waitwait/obama.mp3) is the audio file of the call. And I gotta agree: very 🆒 [/QUOTE] Obama:coolness::Fabio:nipples ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/4 "2006-11-21T18:11:27Z")
He also said this… _“…But if she was that superficial, she wasn’t worth it.”_ Next he’ll be apologising to the woman. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/5 "2006-11-22T01:53:09Z")
He smokes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/6 "2006-11-22T06:46:08Z")
You know, I’m torn, because on the one hand, that’s a jerkish kind of a joke from Obama, and on the other hand, this guy is writing a column - one which displays no sense of humor - about it two years later? Jeez. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/7 "2006-11-22T07:32:01Z")
Huh? Are you joking? Our nation’s leaders need to be apologizing for “messing up” some dude’s chance of getting laid? Seems to me like he has a perfectly typical politician quality - not standing by a damn thing they say as soon as somebody’s poor wittle feelings are hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/8 "2006-11-22T11:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] He smokes. [/QUOTE] All the cool senators do. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-yep-hes-just-that-cool/381310/9 "2006-11-22T11:26:51Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] All the cool senators do. [/QUOTE] Yeah but like I heard he like was doing donuts in his Corvette outside the back of the Senate and Harry Reid was all whining like dude you’ll like get us in trouble, you’re getting the Dems a bad name bla bla, and Barak was like no man Cheney can go fuck himself and then he pulled out a gun and waved it around but it wasn’t loaded but man if Cheney had seen him he’d have whaled on him.