Keep on fighting those stereotypes

From Roy MacGregor's article "The Audacity of Obama", published in the Globe and Mail:

No wonder, then, that Peter Newman once suggested that "The quintessential Canadian hero may have been Mackenzie King, who ruled this country longer than any other man, enjoyed the sex life of a gnat, never took a political chance and was so fastidious that, on a 1949 visit to his good friend John D. Rockefeller, he brought along six spare shoelaces."