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'Obama shaped himself like JF Kennedy for American presidency' | | President Barack Obama's striking similarities with one of his most iconic
predecessors, John F. Kennedy, helped him to get into the White House four years
ago, a new research has suggested. Highlighting the similarities between the imagery
of Kennedy and Obama, researcher Greg Frame, from the University of Warwick 's
Film and Television department, in his new study claimed Obama shaped himself
in Kennedy's image. "The American president is often captured in a way that makes
them more than just a human, and the two men that have achieved this perception
more than the rest, are JFK and Obama. The image which Kennedy projected was one
of perfection and would come to serve as the model for the popular conception
of the president as leader, superhero, and, subsequently, father," Frame stated
in his study. Greg said Obama, who would turn 51 this month, might look to the
political ideals of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, but it is to the
image ideals of Kennedy to which he turns in the presentation of himself. "In
terms of style, the Obama presidency is clearly indebted to the Kennedy legacy;
elegant, stylish, disguising an enormous intellect beneath the veneer of relaxed
sophistication," Frame said. "It is these ideals which are of such continued significance
to the cultural understanding of a vigorous, potent, and successful American presidency," he added. Frame based his studies on four particular images; the first is the
cover of Rolling Stone's March 2008 edition, which attempts to frame Obama as
a superhero. The second is a picture of Obama searching underneath his desk when
Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, comes to visit, demonstrating Obama's attempt to
recreate the third image, a famous Stanley Tretick photograph of Kennedy's young
son John Jr, peering out from underneath the table. The final image is one of
Obama gazing up at Aaron Shikler's posthumous portrait of Kennedy.
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