On: A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States

[vaksel]

the calmness factor is definitely a huge deal, you can't have a guy who shoots from the hip in charge of the red button

[thomasmallen → vaksel]

Teddy Roosevelt: Shot from the hip, and was the antithesis of a calm man. He had one of the greatest American presidencies.

[unalone → thomasmallen]

Obama's no TR. But I think that he has the potential to be great in his own way. And I'm slightly happy that it won't be in the "override Congress and do what I want" way.

Not knocking TR. The man had class like no other. But he wasn't exactly the most checked and balanced president we had.

[yters → thomasmallen]

Have any of our calm presidents been any good?