…when “swagger” was a bad characteristic in a president?\u00a0 Why, it doesn’t seem so long ago.<\/p>\n
But everything has, <\/em>apparently, changed<\/a>; CNN has apparently hired a Swagger (or, as the stupid kids are spelling it today, “swagga”) consultant to analyze Obama’s…well, you know where this is leading, right?<\/p>\n Evidence of \u201cswagga\u201d offered by the panel included: Obama being corrected by his wife during an interview and accepting it graciously; and, Obama hugging people.<\/p>\n After the segment, fellow CNN anchor Heidi Collins Kyra Phillips (who\u2019d teased the segment by telling viewers, \u201cIf you look closely, you might notice the commander in chief has more swagger than Mick Jagger\u2026\u201d) asked Holmes whether any white American president has had swagger, to which Holmes replied:<\/p>\n Maybe it\u2019s one of these things you\u2019re not supposed to say, but you can go from Billy Dee Williams to Shaft to whoever you want to talk about and there\u2019s just a bit of a swagger that we associate with them\u2026<\/p>\n After which Collins Phillips and Holmes (really!) \u201chug it out\u201d and exchange a \u201cfist-bump.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0In the meantime, Mark Hemingway at NRO also asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n A reader asks, “Wasn’t it just yesterday that a swaggering president was a bad thing?” The answer to that is clearly yes:<\/p>\n White House Watch: Bush swagger could crimp domestic agenda<\/a><\/p>\n Obama rejects swagger of Bush for a sober analysis of economic crisis<\/a><\/p>\n Republican Convention Turns on the Macho Swagger, Misrepresents Bush Legacy<\/a><\/p>\n Bush’s Iraq swagger a distant memory<\/a><\/p>\n A Bit Too Much Texas Swagger<\/a><\/p>\n Lame Duck Bush Has Swagger, Not Waddle: President Continues To Do As He Pleases<\/a><\/p>\n