In case you forgot, Barack Obama picked North Carolina to win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. And they did. He also picked the Steelers in the Super Bowl and the Phillies in the World Series. Granted, I picked both the Steelers and the Phils, but still, the President’s got a groove. At the same time that he’s attempting to reprioritize education, scale back one war, escalate troops in another, overhaul health care and energy policy, along with combat a recession that has no equal in several decades, he’s also probably winning every office pool he enters. It makes you wonder if all sports are rigged to fall in the president’s favor.
But it’s not enough that he’s guessing right on sports teams, he also happens to be the coolest guy around. Just as I was perfecting my Brad Pitt mustache, Pitt shows up in Washington (sans mustache) as if to send a signal that, hey sorry, I got nothing on this new guy. I mean, he threw a party at the White House and had Stevie Wonder play. C’mon!
President Obama’s set the bar ridiculously high for the rest of us. While we can’t all expect to be president, it’s no longer enough for the regular guys to skate by on our looks or our smarts. No, now we have to look good and have a nuanced opinion on Hezbollah. Oh, and that’s not enough either, because the president also balls. So we need to be athletic as well. Sure, every other president was charismatic, but not too many have had the total package like Obama. Watch him flirt with this reporter. Admit it: dude’s got game.
What’s next, getting Kumar to come work for you at the White House? What?!
Well thank you, Mr. President, for making me seem like the schlub that I actually am.
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