Obama-esqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Obama +‎ -esque.

形容詞

Obama-esque (comparative more Obama-esque, superlative most Obama-esque)

1. Resembling or characteristic of Barack Obama (born 1961), American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
   • 2007 January 21, Chicago Tribune, 160th year, number 21, section 7, page 16:

     ‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?

   • 2007 March 7, quoting radaronline.com, “E-Opinion: The best of the political blogs”, in Daily News, page 27:

     John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman.”

   • 2008 January 2, David Brooks, “If Romney wins, so will Democrats”, in Intelligencer Journal, 214th year, number 168, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers Inc., page A10:

     [Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look.

   • 2020 August 22, Aaron Blake, “Democrats’ four big takeaways”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 140, page A5:

     After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus.