OBAMARAMA

The Washington Post’s political blog “The Sleuth” offers a unique portrait of Sen. Obama, martial artist:

The Illinois senator…took taekwondo classes in the early 2000s at the schwanky East Bank Club, whose membership includes everyone who’s anyone in the Windy City.

We tracked down Obama’s former instructor, David Posner, a financial capital planner who taught taekwondo at East Bank for eight years and still practices and teaches classes at another “dojang.” He remembers his famous student as “very disciplined, very diligent.”

…Posner couldn’t remember exactly which color belt Obama attained, but said it was a mid-level ranking — either white, yellow, purple or green. High enough, in other words, to pull the old beakya chagi (slap kick) on Hillary Rodham Clinton, or the gotjang chirugi (fist punch) on John Edwards, or maybe the doo bun chirugi (double punch) on Joe Biden.

…”I hope he becomes president so when I go to Washington and visit him, he can still call me sir,” Posner daydreamed. Plus, he said, “It’d be nice to have a president who can kick some ass.”

“Hi-YA!”