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Upon reflection, probably the best thing I can say about Obama is that he's so closely scrutinized that if he happened to be a really shitty person behind the scenes, we would all know about it by now, so he probably is a relatively decent person

This is the other problem I have with admiring people, we all only have parasocial relationships with our leaders and cultural icons, it's extremely difficult to trust them and their virtues knowing that so many of them are doomed to disappoint us in the end when we discover that they aren't as nice as the faces they put on for the public

Again, this doesn't mean that every public figure is an asshole, just that it's hard to keep expectations too high for any particular human being. Most of us are flawed to one degree or another, the truly saintly among us are rare, and they don't typically become President