According to a Slate article which analyzed the personality types of the leading Presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton is an ESTJ (Guardian; "The Supervisor"), Barack Obama is an ENFP (Idealist; "The Champion), and John McCain is an ESTP (Artisan; "The Promoter"). No wonder I groove with both Clinton and Obama. I’m both idealistic and pragmatic when it comes to specifics.
For example, I like grand theories and inspiring rhetorics but I get bored with them without real world concrete applications. All things being equal, I learn more towards Idealists. But I’m skeptical of Idealists when confronted by the real challenges in a less than idealistic world of warring ideologies. That’s why I’m torn between Clinton and Obama. For me, the perfect candidate would be someone with the charisma and rhetorical flare of Obama and the experience and attention to details of Clinton. John McCain is a good candidate, but a Republican having similar Myer-Briggs type with GWBush is a bad sign.
So allow me to repeat my bold speculation. Whoever wins the Democratic nomination would be the next President of the United States. And that’s good enough for me, for now.
Thanks to Holons for the heads up!
Comments (6)
Good lord. As an ENFP myself, I don’t think I want one as president.
And looking at his followers, I can see that many of them are ENFPs that have floated over from the nearest Rainbow Gathering (and I love the Rainbow Family, but they act on pure emotion)
I heard him on CNN today calling for amnesty for 12 millions illegals and saying we should stop building a border wall. In addition, he said that American children “need to speak 2 languages” and he lamented over the “hate crimes” against Hispanics (never of course mentioning the THOUSANDS of Americans murdered, raped and robbed by Hispanics, both legal and illegal, over the last 10 years)
All this from a half-Kenyan named Barack Hussain Obama? Is this what the men of WWII fought and died for?
This guy should never have been let into the Senate, never mind President of The United States (ditto for George Bush by the way)
The fact that Ron Paul, the most sane, logical and experienced candidate by far would only get 3% of the vote tells me that 1) Either America is completely insane or 2) the vote is rigged.
I suspect both.
Good lord. As an ENFP myself, I don’t think I want one as president.
And looking at his followers, I can see that many of them are ENFPs that have floated over from the nearest Rainbow Gathering (and I love the Rainbow Family, but they act on pure emotion)
I heard him on CNN today calling for amnesty for 12 millions illegals and saying we should stop building a border wall. In addition, he said that American children “need to speak 2 languages” and he lamented over the “hate crimes” against Hispanics (never of course mentioning the THOUSANDS of Americans murdered, raped and robbed by Hispanics, both legal and illegal, over the last 10 years)
All this from a half-Kenyan named Barack Hussain Obama? Is this what the men of WWII fought and died for?
This guy should never have been let into the Senate, never mind President of The United States (ditto for George Bush by the way)
The fact that Ron Paul, the most sane, logical and experienced candidate by far would only get 3% of the vote tells me that 1) Either America is completely insane or 2) the vote is rigged.
I suspect both.
bannister, Your post is a little spooky. You object to Obama’s name? When you say, distainfully, that he’s half-Kenyan, your objection is his ethnicity or his nationality?
Barack Obama was born in and has lived in America his whole life [except for a stint when he was a child in Indonesia.] The manner and foundation of your objection to Obama is troubling. I wish you would reconsider your sentients.
As to Obama managerial abilities, I think that he will find excellent people to serve in his administration and that he has good judgment. Like you, C4, he is not narrowly idealistic. It seems to me he is very practical and realistic, too. Likely, Obama has been miscategorized.
– Tom
Tom -
I’m sorry that you find my honest appraisal of Obama “spooky” but let’s face an unpleasant fact: Tribal, racial and ethnic identity are a natural human phenomenon and I, you and everyone else on the planet are racially conscious whether we like it or not.
Yes, I DO object to a black man being shoved down America’s throat. It’s manipulation. He’s not qualified. He’s popular BECAUSE he’s Black. And the whole thing is fundamentally dishonest because, in fact, HE’S NOT EVEN BLACK, he’s an ARAB! (43.75% Arab and only 6.25% African, legally not black).
Why does this matter? Well, ask yourself that very question when Time, Newsweek, CNN, Fox, etc all refer to him as “America’s First African American President”. Not really the truth is it? And, maybe I’m just being picky, but
I kinda like being told the truth. Plus, it’s an insult to both African Americans and Arab Americans who are both being denied something by being told a lie.
The larger issue for me is the manner in which Whites themselves are being manipulated politically and emotionally to further the interests of the power elite. The idea that Whites (in both Europe and America) are supposed to “celebrate” the demographic transformation of their nation, their culture and their peoplehood is bizarre, unnatural, Orwellian, and, as you might say, “troubling”.
The whole thing is a giant scam designed to “guilt” Whites into being silent as their country is dismantled right before their eyes. Open borders and corporate endorsed “diversity training” are clearly a precursor to the American Union and the eventual world government that our elites are planning for us, a merging of the nations and a loss of sovereignty and self-determination for all peoples.
I don’t “hate” anybody, but I don’t like being manipulated either. Mark my words: Obama is an empty suit that works for the Elite. He will change nothing.
Please forgive my English; even though I was born American, I haven’t been living in the states for twenty two years.
I’ll address the first post first (Obama an ENFP, Clinton an ESTJ, and McCain an ESTP.)
Let me start by saying I am an ENFP myself. I don’t think a person’s personality type is the only factor determining whether he/she would make a good a leader. I’ll demonstrate by bringing two pairs of people, who both have the same personality types, and both seem to have very different effects and outlooks on the world.
John F Kennedy And George W Bush – both ESTP’s, both charming bulldozers, who power suits them like a new pair of gloves. One of them brought hope to the world and left a great legacy behind him. One of these two men put a man on the moon and took men’s hats out of style. The other, and this is me being nice (Idealists are nice people), is JUST A GUY.
Martin Luther King Jr. and our friend Bannister – Both ENFP’s both vary passionate about their beliefs, both speak of them as if there is no other truth people should believe in. One of them had ideas that spoke of a dream where there is equality without guilt and opportunities without prejudice. The other one is JUST A GUY.
Now I’m not praising either one of the candidates, nor ruling either them one of them out but I am asking you to consider this: whoever you vote for, make sure you are voting for someone who will represent your principles and act on them, and NOT JUST A GUY.
You may want to check out http://www.enfpforum.com there are lots of ENFPs that hang there. And lots of debate on who is what.
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