I just need to say again, now that he actually is the president, I totally love Barack Obama. He makes me weepy with happiness.
I am absolutely amazed that we managed to pull ourselves together and actually elect this man. Talk about going from the ridiculous to the sublime!
He’s my hero.
And he’s ridiculously hot. I mean, he started out a good looking man with a very sexy energy…but pile on all that intelligence, all the groundedness, the cool, the honesty, the wise, fair, goofy! emotionally available husband and father …then dip him in POTUS juice and man, you have a more fuckable* president than I ever imagined was actually possible.
Pardon me while I go s rewatch last ngiht’s press conference and swoon some more.
Yeah, I have a pretty bad case of it myself–at the town hall, when the guy was expressing how pissed off he was that the Cabinet appointees were having all these tax problems, and Obama just grinned and agreed that it’s ridiculous and we can’t have one batch of people who don’t pay their taxes when the other batch does, with no equivocation or ducking the question, well, it just brought it home to me how incredibly refreshing it is to have someone up there who just talks like a regular person, takes responsibility when it’s his to take and places blame where it belongs without a bunch of flimflammery. I’m also digging how his sense of humor is coming out in the open, now that he doesn’t have to couch everything in election-speak.
I also love it when he just says right out that if his policies don’t work he’ll be a one term president–when was the last time we had a POTUS who didn’t consider his second term to be a divine right? I am SO not having any buyer’s remorse!
This cynical, Republican-leaning Independent did not have high hopes for Obama, even though I voted for him, anything merchandised as heavily as Obama’s “Change” mantra was doomed to fail, doomed I tell you, DOOMED!! (must…resist…urge…to…sing…the…Doom…song!)
However…
Watching last night’s press conference, and tonight’s I have to admit that I may have been wrong
as stated upthread, it’s incredibly refreshing to have a President that is articulate, intelligent, honest, humble, and actually has a sense of humor to boot, he seems more like a “regular guy” (or “geeky freind”) than He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, you know, the last guy that was in the White House, the Moron in Chief
I’d feel far more comfortable sitting down for a beer with President Obama, and discussing the state of the country/world than I would with HWSNBN, President Obama just seems to be more approachable and intelligent than the previous tenant
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of the card-carrying Kool-Aid drinkers, and actually find the “messianic” hero-worship that seems to follow him around a little bit unnerving and disturbing, I’m hoping he does do well, but if he does screw up , I’d have no problem expressing my displeasure
If I were a reporter, I’d be overjoyed that with a President who took the time to use my name and media affiliation when calling on me to ask a question. To be respected as a professional rather than being given a nickname like some freshman frat pledge.
As an reasonably intelligent person, I’m ecstatic with a President who speaks not just in complete sentences, but in complete paragraphs. Jon Stewart said it so well “I don’t want a President I can have a beer with. I want someone embarrassingly superior to myself.”
I wouldn’t want his job, but I’m thankful he has it.
What startled me about the Presidential press conference is that some of the journalists actually appear to have done some research and used it to ask intelligent questions. Did they get their brains and spines handed back to them at the Inauguration or what?
I’m absolutely fine with his performance so far as a president, but the swooning and drooling just turns me right off. In fact, it’s that school-girl crush attitude that made me truly hesitate about him as president. It made me feel the same way I did during the Clinton years, when people were falling all over themselves to say how charming and charismatic Clinton was. It made me worry that the supporters were less objective than I would like someone to be. Like they were ignoring major problems because OMG!!! He’s so HAWT!!!
Could we please treat the man like an intelligent grown-up, and not some cute upperclassman who remembered our name and said hi in the hallway between classes?
And besides…he’s married, and my married switch is in perfect working order…he’s taken, he’s not for the drooling…that’s disrespectful to him and his wife and family. And stuff like that has turned other men’s heads enough to make them do stupid stuff. In their offices. With people they aren’t married to.
What I really like about the guy is that he’s such a straight shooter.
Cut to the chase, the bottom line is, here’s the deal, etc.
No hemming and hawing, wishy-washy answers where he talks circles for 10 minutes not saying a thing.
He’s so solution focused and wants the BEST solution to the problem, not a liberal solution or a conservative solution, not a solution that will appease this group or that group temporarily. No B.S. compromise solution that has no focused outcome.
A breath of fresh air he is.
While the topic of this thread is silly, if possible I’d like to prevent this thread from turning into yet another broad-based political tit-for-tat. It’s not like we have a shortage of those in GD or the Pit.
OK. But I would still like to know what papers President Obama reads. Well, at least which ones he read as a candidate and Senator - now he gets the job perk of a newspaper clip book assembled in the wee hours from various papers.
For me, the competence is what makes the drooling. There are plenty of cute idiots and I’m not swooning over them. The eloquence, complex understanding of issues, and the action to find the best, rather than the most politically expedient, solution (as Hampshire says) is more OMG HAWT than how fine he looks in a suit*.
Also, I’m fairly certain infidelity is not even an issue on the table, what with how clearly passionate the Obamas are about each other, and how Michelle could and would totally kick his ass.
