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Explaining Why Obama is the Supreme Alpha Male

I was having a discussion with a world-famous blogger over Facebook.  I explained to his Facebook audience why Obama was an alpha.  One person suggested that Obama was not an alpha.  He was beta.  There is obviously a supreme misunderstanding of the alpha male persona.  What is an alpha male persona?  Here is how you spot an alpha male person: Stripped down of any socially constructed trappings of status in power, who would be the one people followed? You, me, anyone else you know, and Barack Obama will enter a room.  Who will leave with the most followers?  Only a pea-brained partisan hack (and aren?t they all?) would pick the wrong answer. An alpha persona gets followers. When the mouth-breathing majority of people in a room, and turn to look at you for solutions, you might be an alpha...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).