SUPPOSE Obama were a woman…

He’s not, of course—and we might consider this a defect. But then again, “nobody’s perfect”—as the dim millionaire says in the last scene of Some Like it Hot, when his love (“Daphne”, who is actually Jerry) turns out to be a man.

Obama would be absolutely perfect if he could have been, or could become, female. Because even as he is, he is already a unique figure: he is a crossing of (various) identi