What is Barack Obama's type?

[Jaguar]

As in what, the trend is your friend or you really like the sheeple effect?

 

[Zarathustra]

As in what, the trend is your friend or you really like the sheeple effect?

I just think that a lot can be learned from polling...

 

[Zarathustra]

I don't see an actual poll unless you want us to just state what we think?

Can you see the poll now?

Two people have voted so far...

Btw, is up with thinking that Barack Obama is an ISTP?!?

Is that a joke? Were you just trying to screw with the poll? Did you misread it and think that it was asking what type you were? Or are you one of those people who thinks everyone you like is the same type as yourself?

 

[Glycerine]

I see it now... I voted. I am a little unsure. ENXJ at least.

 

[Jaguar]

That's what you get for thinking polls are helpful, Z
ISTP. Lol.

 

[Zarathustra]

That's what you get for thinking polls are helpful, Z
ISTP. Lol.

Nah, but as n gets larger, the fools fall to the wayside...

I don't think polls are everything, just as I don't think markets are necessarily efficient (hence, why I pulled all my money out of stocks when the Dow was over 13,500), but I do think they can point to something.

Like, the poll on what type I am: close on ENTJ and INTJ, but INTJ is just winning out.

I think that perfectly reflects reality, as I've always described myself as an INTJ with well-balanced introversion/extroversion.

Same probably goes for the Hitler poll, in which ENFJ is just beating out INFJ (ok, I voted INFJ just to equalize the two ).

 

[KDude]

I voted ENFJ, but he has introverted qualities (then again, some ENFJs do that apparently). I'm not sure to what extent.. I just remember reading his book, and he sounded like a loner in his youth (NYC/Columbia years, I think).

 

[Nicodemus]

ESTP.

 

[mrcockburn]

ENFP. The "fe" style he seems to attempt using seems unnatural somehow, like he trained himself to be charismatic.

He seems to jump the gun and use a lot of value judgements, and he seems to be more of the non-planned "wing it" type. (P)

However, he was stubborn enough to force the health bill through, and he did win the presidency, which probably means good planning. A few J points for him.

 

[Nonsensical]

ISFP...

just cause everyone else is throwing out BS answers.

(enfj)

 

[bcubchgo]

I think he's an ENTP.

 

[Ginkgo]

Based on the picture of Obama swimming in Hawaii I would figure his somatotype is:

Endomorph 2.5 Mesomorph: 4.5 Ectomorph: 5.5

That would make him an INTJ according to the chart below (2,4,5) :

The chart's inconclusive and misleading.

 

[Aleksei]

I think he's an ENTP.

Nah, he's somes sort of Je-dom. Kennedy was an ENTP, on the other hand.

 

[Mal12345]

Typing Barack Obama

I'm not sure if this has been asked before here. I Googled around and saw various answers on other forums. Barack Obama seems like a hard-to-get-to-know introvert, "I had grown too comfortable in my solitude, the safest place I knew." An idealist, a thinker, and a perceiver. INTP.

I'm still in the process of researching this. He may be a 5w4 Sp-dom.

 

[Mal12345]

Posting this new thread brought up a couple old threads down below that to me look very useless in determining Obama's type. So it's just as well that I started a new one.

 

[Mal12345]

After reading parts of "Dreams of my Father" I'm going towards INFJ.

 

[Mal12345]

I'll just keep babbling on to myself here. The autobiography is loaded with descriptive phrases and replete with adjectives and metaphors. Is this a clue to type?

 

[JocktheMotie]

Hard to write anything without those things.

 

[gmanyo]

My first guess just based on intuition would actually be ENTJ. He talks like an ENTJ. But that's just because all I really know about his personality is what I've seen from him on talk shows and the like.

 

[JocktheMotie]

My first guess just based on intuition would actually be ENTJ. He talks like an ENTJ. But that's just because all I really know about his personality is what I've seen from him on talk shows and the like.

Don't think an ENTJ would have as useless a first term as Obama has had. His idealistic desire of bipartisan cooperation just doesn't work if the other side doesn't want to play ball and to keep trying just alienates his own support base. His style seems more NF.