Picture: Sen. Barack Obama working in Chicago on a voter registration drive in 1992

[Playinghardball]

Sen. Barack Obama working in Chicago on a voter registration drive in 1992

Look, he's got dark hair...

Found on the Obama Diary

[msanthrope]

1. The Clinton campaign. nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Excellent article on that here

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/

[Sheepshank]

3. He looks like he might be 15 years old there.

not so much in 2014

[lamp_shade]

4. I have to say it... What a Hunk!!!

[riqster]

5. Why being the President sucks...

Look at a pic of the guy now. Wonder how he does it...

[Boomerproud]

8. I think he's forced to internalize everything.

Not healthy, but that's his nature anyway, I think.

[riqster]

9. Yeah, but pretty much all Prexies age rapidly.

Even a lout with a room-temperature IQ like Shrub aged fast. Plus, he wasn't really President.

I think the job just plain sucks.

[senseandsensibility]

17. Well, that picture was taken more than twenty years ago

It would be strange if he still looked the same. I think he looks good for his age now.

[freshwest]

10. Apparently he gets his sleep when he can, get up very early and does cardio workouts and leaves his

ego out of everything he does.

It is a lot easier to focus on doing for others than promoting oneself, as that always leads to intrapersonal conflict.

In this era, where hucksters and demagogues rule the airways and legislatures, the public has been trained into thinking the loud mouths are 'strong leaders' and quiet. long term thinkers are weaklings.

That's how fascists take over nations, in countries where the population has been reduced to infantilism and they go for all the words that incite them which they percieve as dramatic and powerful.

Just a couple of thoughts. We have been blessed to have him in office. We won't see his caliber again for a long time. I miss him already.

[riqster]

14. Agreed. He is a good man and is doing a good job.

But damn, look at the toll it is taking on him. Sure, we may be lucky he's where he is...but is he lucky to be there?

[Boomerproud]

6. I was sitting with my dad in a nursing home watching the 2004 Democratic convention

while a little-known senator from Illinois named Barack Obama gave the keynote speech and my dad said "There's your first black president right there." My dad passed away 3 weeks later.

[lame54]

7. Is that a joint he's hiding in his pocket?

[freshwest]

11. The roots of a man who still maintains his dignity through the fire. n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Heartbreaker,

in more ways than one.

[Aldo Leopold]

13. Amazing how quickly our presidents go gray.

[polichick]

15. Yeah, stress sucks.

[treestar]

16. that typewriter!

The olden days!

[ProSense]

18. That guy

became President.



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