Cool Obama

Not covering his politics ... there is lots of it ... and I haven't been following it ...

This is about his cool quotient ...

Came across the piece on his physical condition in news ... here's dugout news for you ... seems like Obama is a real cool dude ... resting heart rate of 56/minute and BP of 105/62 ... both the numbers are impressive ... when Obama gets worked up both his heart rate and BP are expected to rise ... but since the rise will be from a very low base he would still remain cool for an increasing amount of (for the lack of a better word) "agitation" ... very cool thing to have if you are in a position where calm and rational thinking (of whichever shade of political thought) is extremely important ... some might say US President is a job which may not require one to have calm and rational thinking ... the previous President can be sited as a supporting artefact for this line of thinking ... leave "calm" and "rational"... he was accused of having done no thinking at all ...

Coming back to heart rates ... for comparison- an average person can expect a heart rate in the 70-80 beats/minute range ...my resting heart rate would be somewhere in the 75 to 85 beats per minute range ... and Lance Armstrong's resting heart rate would be around 32 (reported here) ... which probably explains why I haven't been winning any US President's elections or Tour de France lately...