What Is Obama’s Vice?
The United States wrote history on Tuesday, electing the first black president in the nation’s history and — more importantly — electing someone who is promising to become a truly great president. I have been wondering, though: the guy must have some weakness. In my experience, most successful people are highly eccentric in one way or the other. Some manage to hide it, some don’t even bother.
Take Bill Clinton, for example. He is a political genius and was a great president but — as we all found out — he is also a sex addict. George W. Bush was an alcoholic, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer was a regular at a high-profile escort service, John Edwards cheats on his wife while she is battling cancer, Joschka Fischer was constantly oscillating between being obese and running marathons. The list goes on and on — and while these are all politicians, you could probably add successful businessmen, entrepreneurs and journalists, just that you don’t usually find out about them because nobody bothers to dig up the dirt.
Barack Obama, though, seems above all that. At least on paper, he’s perfect. He is athletic, good-looking, intelligent, religious, a family man, loves his wife, adores his daughters. He is patient, well-adjusted, listens to advice, but able to take decisions and stick with them. Sure, he used to smoke but his wife asked him to stop and because he loves her so much and has a will as strong as steel, he quit. Oh, and yeah, he is the best speaker the world has seen in years. What is wrong with the guy? He simply cannot be that perfect.
I am seriously curious: what will it be? Will he dump his wife and start an affair with Paris Hilton? Suddenly become obese? Become a coke-head? Or is he really perfect?
