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# Obama's lean and hungry look
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/obamas-lean-and-hungry-look/
- Published: 2008-08-04T14:08:42.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:20.000Z
- Author: openUSA Openusa
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

In a whimsical column comparing Obama to [Mr Darcy](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/opinion/03dowd.html?em&ref=opendemocracy.net), Maureen Dowd records one Texan voter's nervous appraisal of Obama's physique.

*“He needs to put some meat on his bones,” said Diana Koenig, a 42-year-old Texas housewife. Another Clinton voter sniffed on a Yahoo message board: “I won’t vote for any beanpole guy.”*

openUSA remembers its Shakespeare and Julius Caesar's wariness of his scrawny would-be assassin Cassius.

*Let me have men about me that are fat;* 
*Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:* 
*Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;* 
*He thinks too much: such men are* [*dangerous*](http://shakespeare.about.com/od/studentresources/a/juliusplot.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)*.*