he lives in solitary moral grandeur and can see that sometimes you have to be unspeakably violent to be cool and moral. He wishes he didn't have to do it, but there it is. That's Nick Fury's burden and why he is really even more virtuous and heroic than The Avengers. So that's why Obama will win in November. Because he is so ruthlessly cool, only Nick Fury can play him in The Avengers . And because Mitt Romney is so uncool that only a dorky dork from Dorktown could play him. But there is no movie dorky enough for him, so he'll never be played by anybody. Not even one of the space-monkey-things. You heard it here first. 30 thoughts on " Obama's Hellfires " David Bromwich had an excellent piece recently in the LRB which dealt with many of the same issues. He wrote that: "Obama decided when young to offset the anxieties of mixed identity by seeing himself as a lucky convergence of opposite forces and tendencies: 'Caught without a class, a structure, or tradition to support me, in a sense the choice to take a different path is made for me... . The only way to assuage my feelings of isolation is to absorb all the traditions [and all the] classes; make them mine, me theirs.' So the stranger and outsider becomes in America the axial personality through whom all the cross-currents of national character must flow. It is a telling fantasy. As president of the