‘How Obama is like Joan Jett’

Steve Sailer locates a 2008 piece by rock musician turned lawyer Jackie Fuchs:

Act like a rock star long enough, do it unfailingly and well enough, and you become one. …

When I met Barack Obama, in our first year of law school, he had already put on his big-time politician act. He just didn’t quite have it polished, and he hadn’t figured out that he needed charm and humor to round out the confidence and intelligence.(…)

Obama didn’t just share in class — he pontificated. He knew better than everyone else in the room, including the teachers. Or maybe even he knew he didn’t know, but knew that the leader of the free world had to be able to convince others that he did. Looking back now I can see that he had already decided that he was a future president, and he was working hard at filling that suit.