# Resolved: Obama has the best smile... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019 "2011-05-06T22:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/1 "2011-05-06T22:23:27Z")
of any president whose smiles we have records of. And probably the best smile of most other world leaders and political figures. I’m sure the haters will say his grin is ridiculous in some way but c’mon…the guy has a fantastic smile. Easy to caricature, for sure, but that’s the charm. And that’s my HO. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/2 "2011-05-06T22:33:23Z")
I gotta go with [Teddy Roosevelt](http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0606/topener_0624.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/3 "2011-05-06T22:35:44Z")
he does have a great smile. it is very close to his grandfather stanley’s. we don’t see it very often because he knows that being president is serious stuff. however his wife did mention on oprah that he has a great sense of humour. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/4 "2011-05-06T23:03:57Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I gotta go with [Teddy Roosevelt](http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0606/topener_0624.jpg). AAAAAHHH! Can’t sleep…Teddy Roosevelt will eat me…Can’t sleep…Teddy Roosevelt will eat me… ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/5 "2011-05-06T23:44:21Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I gotta go with [Teddy Roosevelt](http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0606/topener_0624.jpg). I don’t think that’s really a smile, he looks like he’s laughing. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/6 "2011-05-06T23:44:38Z")
My vote is for [Eisenhower’s](http://www.baby-gear.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/baby-smile.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/7 "2011-05-07T01:43:10Z")
Agree, Obama’s is the best ever! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/8 "2011-05-07T08:57:12Z")
This thread is useless without a picture of Obama’s smile! [http://igs.berkeley.edu/images/obama\_smile.jpg](http://igs.berkeley.edu/images/obama_smile.jpg) FWIW I agree. A google search turned up tons of images, and pretty much all of them looked genuine. He’s obviously got a politician’s mind, but he seems more real and accessible than the average old white dude. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/9 "2011-05-07T09:13:53Z")
W.'s “heh-heh-heh” smile was pretty good. Didn’t he look great smiling during his “I don’t really care all that much about Bin Laden” news conference? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/10 "2011-05-07T16:51:34Z")
Of course, Jimmy Carter was famous for [his smile](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_js-HA55zFzY/RvHelROEDrI/AAAAAAAAACE/XOM1C5amSBw/S660/the+jimmy+carter+smile.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/11 "2011-05-07T17:49:01Z")
It’s a shame the photography of the time couldn’t capture Lincoln’s grin. You can look at his face and know it must have transformed it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/12 "2011-05-07T18:06:17Z")
Jewel Staite for President! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/13 "2011-05-07T18:10:57Z")
My mom always thought that JFK had a pretty killer grin. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/14 "2011-05-07T18:54:17Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > he does have a great smile. it is very close to his grandfather stanley’s. > > we don’t see it very often because he knows that being president is serious stuff. however his wife did mention on oprah that he has a great sense of humour. That proved to be true at the [White house correspondence dinner](http://www.eastportlandblog.com/?p=11723) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/15 "2011-05-08T00:01:48Z")
Yes. Not only does Obama have the best smile, but I think he’s the hottest. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/16 "2011-05-08T02:55:55Z")
Another vote for [Eisenhower](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/eisenhower-illustrations.jpg). Nixon’s smile, on the other hand, looked a little [forced](http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/Nixon%20Laughing.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/17 "2011-05-08T03:09:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Another vote for [Eisenhower](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/eisenhower-illustrations.jpg). Eisenhower looked a little like the Joker when he smiled. [here](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://media1.corbisimages.com/CorbisImage/170/12/25/2906/12252906/U1117779.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/U1117779.html&usg=__YuiytWsIx7BKruOox1yGFw_45ZU=&h=170&w=121&sz=5&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=u5cLo4sHxD7-DM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=96&ei=RAfGTdmCDIqDgAfJz_DNBA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Deisenhower%2Bsmile%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1130%26bih%3D839%26tbm%3Disch0%2C171&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=593&vpy=148&dur=280&hovh=136&hovw=96&tx=106&ty=70&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0&biw=1130&bih=839) or [here](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/50325070.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DIWSAsset%26k%3D2%26d%3DE41C9FE5C4AA0A144A05D5DF85F4AB165B392F07EB753159954696060105F924B01E70F2B3269972&imgrefurl=http://www.life.com/image/50325070&usg=__0J6Bfcng9Y4pSbgVQIj0LLOR6J4=&h=408&w=594&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=oN9rKR88uTZs_M:&tbnh=151&tbnw=202&ei=RAfGTdmCDIqDgAfJz_DNBA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Deisenhower%2Bsmile%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1130%26bih%3D839%26tbm%3Disch0%2C171&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=129&vpy=289&dur=2361&hovh=186&hovw=271&tx=173&ty=119&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&biw=1130&bih=839) or [here](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://themoderatevoice.com/wordpress-engine/files/2009_December/6a00d834b22f0669e200e54f760e2d8834_800wi.gif&imgrefurl=http://themoderatevoice.com/55083/liking-ike-a-memorable-evening/&usg=__fcJUh0JieRK9Ga542sx7VuhGXFs=&h=369&w=304&sz=73&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=weWUxK51yCsyfM:&tbnh=166&tbnw=183&ei=RAfGTdmCDIqDgAfJz_DNBA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Deisenhower%2Bsmile%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1130%26bih%3D839%26tbm%3Disch0%2C57&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=320&vpy=40&dur=293&hovh=247&hovw=204&tx=50&ty=127&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&biw=1130&bih=839) [FDR](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://grovesapush.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/fdr2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://grovesapush.wordpress.com/&usg=__QHk7Gl3jKbjB8kBYpBuE7AGkAtQ=&h=1147&w=1303&sz=81&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=G6cdNBTayMLbiM:&tbnh=167&tbnw=220&ei=XwjGTZuxK8XUgQeEvr3NBA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfdr%2Bsmiles%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1130%26bih%3D839%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=565&vpy=104&dur=486&hovh=211&hovw=239&tx=63&ty=137&page=1&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0) was pretty famous for his grin. Reagan does that thing where he smiles with half his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/18 "2011-05-08T03:19:52Z")
Not sure, but when Obama walked out all cool and serious to make his acceptance speech, he cracked about the best shit eating grin evah. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/19 "2011-05-08T15:21:27Z")
Nonsense, Reagan had a better smile than Obama’s. So obviously he was the better President. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019/20 "2011-05-08T15:56:07Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I think he’s the hottest. Well, c’mon, who doesn’t? Is anyone else even a contender? Of the many ways American presidents can be described, “fuckable” isn’t even on the list, is it? In my own opinion, the only remotely sexy presidents (aside from Obama, who is decidedly sexy, not remotely) are JFK (Okay, pretty damn sexy) and Clinton. Reagan may have been a movie star, but I never could figure out why, since he had zero sex appeal. FDR? Not really. Eisenhower? Truman? Hoover? Teddy R.? Johnson? Jimmy? The Bushes? Reaching futher… Grant might have had it goin’ on when he was younger. I think LIncoln was sexy, but I think tha’ts just a fetishy thing with me and very tall thin men with great bones structure. (I think Howard stern is hot.) Ditto Andrew Jackson. Jefferson might have been a looker when he was young. And that’s it. But maybe Obama is setting a new standard, especially in these shallow times that only get shallower, and hottitude is going to become more of a factor for future presidents. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-obama-has-the-best-smile/581019.md?page=2)