Allure of hot Presidents

By Kariuki Muthui

No one ever won an election simply because they were good looking. This is not an issue that usually exercises the tops of voters’ minds.

There is a blog however that aims to change all that. So it has ranked the current leaders of the world according to hotness.

US President Barrack Obama 15th hottest leader. Photos/Courtesy

It’s packed with men, most of them quite old and, quite frankly, who lumber around with the obesity of age. I never saw it before, but now I realise that we’ve been short-changed.

If the world is in such an awful state, it’s because there are too few women in authority. Why do we underestimate the political usefulness, indeed the power, of beautiful women?

Cleopatra protected Egypt by seducing a powerful Roman General. And Delilah single handedly took down the strongest man in the world, Samson, whom even whole armies feared to confront.

Imagine if Esther Passaris, the siren of Embakasi, was our President.

Our famously randy MPs would probably fall over themselves to please her. In a flash, a new constitution would be enacted, Mau forest replanted and the creed of tribalism recanted. Anything she asked they would do, because they would all have a crush on her.

Unfortunately, chauvinists still abound. Dickson, an engineer with a local company pontificates over a bottle of beer that "the first time a man allowed a woman to exercise leadership, Eve convinced Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. The rest was disaster!"

That may well be what the Bible says, but you’ve got to let bygones be bygones. Especially when a country like Argentina strikes the jackpot and lands a President like Cristina Fern·ndez de Kirchne.

This Commander-in-Chief may have control over all weapons in Argentina, but she’s a sex bomb herself.

Back here at home

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, the hottest President in Africa

, the notoriously hard folks of Embakasi fell so hard for Passaris that her campaign slogan became ‘supuu’—a beauty. Even Prime Minister Raila Odinga joined the bandwagon and repeatedly chanted ‘supuu’ throughout the battle for that constituency.

Never mind that when VP Kalonzo Musyoka once lead him in the opinion polls he had acidly remarked that leadership is not a contest of handsomeness.

It’s a pity that Passaris lost. It’s too bad that up to 2012, we will be subjected to the stone throwing antics of Ferdinand Waititu.

Still, it could be worse. We could be North Korea where this article would never be published, probably because the ‘dear leader’, Kim Jong Il, is ranked the ugliest in the world.