SF Site: "Hail to the Geek: Obama, comics, and yearning for a superhero deep in the 'third act'"

So we are the cusp of, if not hopefully some great, or at least good, then at least sane things here in the U.S. (and by extension, whether we like the idea of empire or not, the world). At a minimum, some new things -- given our still top-down, hierarchical power structures (though whether those particular "structures" can hold remains to be seen). A sense entirely owing, top-down-wise, to a new occupant in the White House.

But much has been made -- and is unsurprisingly the subject of our column here -- of the new White House occupant's part-time geekiness -- or nerdiness. Which, in Bush era terms, could've simply meant "anyone who reads a book," or perhaps "knows six words in a different language."

With a certain Barack Obama, it means -- as the media has famously let us know -- that it also means he reads comic books. And more recently, thanks to a Christmas gift for the "first girls," plays video games. Particularly sports games, on the Wii that is now headed for the White House.

(That most of this should be past tense -- "read comics," "played video games" -- is duly noted, since after all, he has both collapsing monetary and atmospheric systems to tend).

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http://www.sfsite.com/columns/graphica288.htm

Literacy -- What a Concept!

--p!

:)

But I also suspect that's as far as he's capable of taking it.