Barack Obama.
We’ve seen him as a young co-ed. We’ve seen him without his shirt on. And, as of yesterday, we’ve seen him as the President of the United States of America.
But the same question is on everyone’s lips: where does Obama rank on a list of hot U.S. presidents?
Don’t worry. I have the answer.
Last year during Presidents’ Week, I started the tradition of ranking presidents and their first ladies in order of hotness. Before I reveal the top and bottom five of my list of hot presidents, let me first talk about my methodology. I wouldn’t want you–or, indeed, these lovely presidents–to think I’m not academically rigorous.
My rules:
- Judging is based off the hottest picture I can easily find of each president.
- The judge should make all attempts to be objective when measuring hotness, but will also be aware that complete objectivity is impossible.
- The judge will make all attempts not to be “time-ist.” In other words, just because almost everyone in the 50’s and 60’s had awful crewcuts and wore disgusting glasses does not mean all politicians from that era are necessarily unattractive. Conversely, just because a president from the late 1800s sports hot sideburns, it does not necessarily make him hot as a whole.
Presidents were rated based on the following scale, from most to least hot: Hot; Hot?; Okay; Ehh; and Not.
A final disclaimer: Yes, this post is written by the same person who wrote that article about feminism and how we should never judge female TV and film characters primarily by their appearances.
And now, the list…
A few of the writers from this blog spent a weekend together waterskiing and grilling red meat by a beautiful lake on the Connecticut Massachusetts border.
Lesser men might have taken time to enjoy the outdoors, the dying gasp of summer, each day’s all-to-brief reprieve from the rain that Ike sent up to the northeast — or the companionship of friends rarely seen face-to-face.
Fortunately, these were not lesser men. And instead of talking, relaxing, enjoying the setting and one another’s compny, such was their dedication to popular culture and you, their loyal audience, that they spent the weekend coming up with new ideas for their online store. The first of these you can see at right. The surprising conclusion of this t-shirt and a few more funny products (some decidedly NSFW), after the jump.
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