Could you… take a peek in the sauna to verify if her breasts are real…?
This is not really much of a debate.
I’m sending it off to IMHO to let you all voice your opinions.
The SDMB’s collective ability to turn any thread into the setting for lesbian porn continues to amaze me. 
Well, I’m a straight guy too and I can’t tell either if another guy is handsome or not. My judgment of the male appearance is pretty much limited to “Are both his eyes at the same height? No hunches or unsightly growths?”
White female, 41, checking in.
I wouldn’t throw him out of the Lincoln Bedroom if he lost his way.
Hee, heee, I get it…the man is PACKING! 
At least, I HOPE that was your point, and NOT the old crap about how he was reading a book about current issues/politics.
OK, are we gonna go all Johnny Depp on the guy and have a crotch shot thread devoted to what he is “carrying”? :rolleyes:
Hey might help…Johnny’s got MY vote any day! 
They blew up the unimportant part of the picture. That red box should have been up and to the left.
Unfortunately even a good crotch shot leaves a lot to the imagination. We need some good nude shots to be sure.
I’ll be eagerly awaiting the Obama sex tape. Hey I can dream…
It’s so cute when heterosexuals pretend they can’t see whether someone of their sex or gender is attractive or not.
It’s cute in kids. In adults its kinda pathetic.
The man’s Howdy Doodie grown up and with a tan. So, NO.
Isn’t there a rule anyway that you, if male, have to be no better looking than plain to make it in politics? Even the best looking ones are qualified with “…for a politician.” Well, except for Franklin Pierce.
I think Obama is at least average in looks, even for TV. The presence of lots of above average folks on the tube skews my perceptions though.
Add in being well spoken, a direct gaze, in being in good physical condition. His ears are minus points, but I think he’d do well in most pick-up bars.
Isn’t this the year or decade or something for inter-racial models? They are on billboards and in magazines every where I look. Not intended to be a racist comment.
Walt
Zheesh guys. :rolleyes: I don’t know why this is so hard to believe or some sign of immaturity. To add to some of those above, I’m perfectly secure in my sexuality, and I know I have a very difficult time telling what guys the average women will consider hot and what guys are not. I mean, sure, I could generally tell if a guy is ugly or not but, invariably as I have learned, guys I think are very attractive, women tend to find average. Lots of guys women find hot, I find average. So, I guess that means I just have different tastes in men.
Anyhow, to me, Obama looks quite handsome.
I think he’s handsome. He’s not young and perfect, but he has a lot of charisma, and that goes a long way in my opinion. He has a nice body and a good smile that goes to his eyes.
I probably wouldn’t find him attractive when I was younger, but tastes mature.
I think he’s definitely good-looking.
But I’m with elfkin. He’s got nothing on Franklin Pierce.
Not to further the hijack, but the only reason I know George Clooney is better looking than Steve Buchemi is because people have made a big deal about their respective attractiveness levels.
Some people can tell, some can’t. I have no idea what the split is on something like this, but the attitude that someone is somehow lacking because they can’t tell is a little on the baffling side.
OK, I’m RTFirefly and I’m pathetic. 
Oh sure, I’m not going to mistake a handsome guy for an ugly guy or vice versa, but in that large gray area in between? No, I can’t tell the difference between who women see as a 3 and who they see as a 7, or between a 5 and a 9.
Case in point: my very own son.
I find him cute. But I’m his father; of course I find him cute. But it’s been clear since shortly after his second birthday that this kid really has ‘got it’ in terms of appeal to women and girls. He’s the one that the girls will be calling all the time, starting in junior high (if they wait that long). But I can’t see what it is about him - why does he have this magic, and not some other reasonably attractive kid? It’s like not being able to see a planet, but knowing it’s there because of its effect on some other planet’s orbit.
So I’ll confess that I can’t really distinguish a way attractive guy from a middlin’ one. I just can’t. I’m blind there.
Straight male here.
I wouldn’t say handsome (he keeps in good shape thought), but I guess once he started talking he’d be getting lotsa tail.
Heterosexual male here who has no trouble rating men on their looks.
Obama? Pretty good looking. Trim and athletic, kind of a cute mischievious boyish face. I’d go for him if I was a chick.
He’s well hung. You betcha.
Oh yes.
He looks just like my old high school boyfriend, only darker of skin. Very desireable.
(Have you seen the hottie pictures of Obama from his college days?)