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Obama could personally call any world leader and talk about taxes, privacy, regulation, etc. with authority.

He would also be generally pragmatic, likable, and qualified.

Objectively speaking, he would generally be considered likable by about 47.9 [1] of the voting public. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that the vast majority of employees of either Alphabet or Google would agree with your assessment, and indeed likely most in the tech sector. But I'm not sure any polarizing figure would be a good fit outside of those niches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_app...

47.9% (on average) approval rating by Americans for his job as President (and consequently positions his cabinet, Congress and his party took). It's a barometer of how Americans feel about the USG, too.

If you polled him right now across worldwide audience about his stature, it would probably be north of 70%.

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