Super Obama, part II

Coming off the heels of my Obama as Super-Hero President post, I'm having breakfast when I see this week's edition of LA Citybeat. Here's the headline and adjacent photo.

TRUTH, JUSTICE and the new american way

President-Elect Obama in leaps and bounds

Now let's skip to the conclusion of the piece:

"Perhaps Barack Obama really wasn’t joking at the Al Smith dinner when he quipped he was Superman. Let’s not forget that Superman fell out of the sky over Dust Bowl-ravaged Kansas in the middle of the Great Depression, an alien from another world come among us, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound, but ready to restore truth, justice, and the American way in the era of FDR and the New Deal. Superman’s creators, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, had a definite left-leaning perspective and, in their early storylines, Superman battled crooked businessmen, corrupt politicians, and grasping slumlords. President Barack Obama is surely too calm, too cool, too collected, and too in control not to precisely calculate even his pop culture references, and, loath as I am to believe in any politician, I find that highly – if maybe irrationally – reassuring."

If any of you see other examples of Obama as super hero, please post them. After a decade of cowboy diplomacy, I am very interested in this new paradigm.

Note: This discussion of Obama as Super-Hero should not be viewed as a comment, one way or another, on his policies, ideology, or party affiliation. This discussion is about genre iconography and how it seeps into all aspects of our lives.