Ants & Politicians

It's said that behind every powerful man, there's a powerful woman. Michelle is certainly the steady driving force to her famous husband Barack Obama. In one of her books published, she disclosed the incipient myth of her husband: rarely in good humour in the mornings, never takes out the rubbish, always leaving the plastic wrap of the bread open, and throws his underwear anywhere on the floor of the room ... Seems very much like most other men I would say.

Precisely. Her description achieved the effect his other potent assessors didn't - introducing the everyday life of the man in the middle of the utopia. She pushes up Barack Obama's popularity by putting him down a peg or two, to portrait him as a man that the public can identify with, more real and credible. A family man with ordinary family problems, with the plague of ants in the house included.

"I was at the Senate meeting , about passing the law to restrict the proliferation in the traffic of arms in the black market. I called my wife to tell her so." described in her book. Unlike John McCain and Ted Kennedy, he, had to stop on his way home to buy insecticide. A high profile politician with mundane and trivial duties and an ordinary home life. Ahh, but that also makes him endearing.

To put forth a revolution, a bridge needs to be built between cultures and social classes, to save the United States, reuniting and restoring ordinary but essential values, fighting once in a while if necessary with ants. He now appears very much like the John or Bob next door, that people feel they can get close to. Not like most politicians who endeavour to display only saintly virtues and hide secrets behind hermetic doors.

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