obama: so/sx. bush: so/sp.

http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=42&MMN_position=80:80

that web page has a problem if you try just going to www.ocean-moonshine.net. you can't go to that top level page. i found that site when it was in my google search results for information about the enneagram and the instinctual subtypes.

instincts that ichazo and others have described and how they affect the enneagram type:

so = social
sx = sexual
sp = self-preservation

here is my current theory:
obama: so/sx. bush: so/sp.

obama seems 'accessible' and 'human.' he wrote poetry a long time ago and shows signs of 'passion' or 'soul.' people comment about his loving relationship with his wife, and how they still show passion and intimacy with each other.

bush was more dry, inaccessible. after he went crazy, after the world trade center attack, people hated him and described him as soulless, like there was nothing alive in there, no self-awareness, no feeling for unique individual human beings. this is the so/sp at its worst. it's like he saw a huge, faceless mass of meaningless people, and they all were potentially a threat, a danger, a crowd of unpredictable animals and monsters who might rebel at any moment, who needed to be spied on, and tortured, and interrogated, in order to make sure they wouldn't get out of control.

so/sps are not always like that, but if something bad is going on, they become the 'soulless politician' much more than the other type does.

the so/sx has a stronger connection with people's individual souls. the sx instinct is said to represent passion and mystical feelings in addition to sex, the passionate love of life and your soul mate (or mates plural).

so/sx is described as 'big brother/big sister' and 'best friend to many.' i see albus dumbledore as probably so/sx as well. he isn't 'dry and inaccessible' or 'seeming inhuman' when under stress. he still knows that he's dealing with real human beings.

i would like to see some healthy role models for the other type, the so/sp. because right now, i'm giving them a bad rap, but not all so/sps have to be bad. george bush was definitely the worst case scenario for that type.

i think ayn rand described a healthy so/sp type in some of her characterizations. she sometimes talked about the businessman who was 'all business' and who was criticized for that. she glorified that businessman. the enneagram type eight so/sp is described that way when they become the CEO, and they make a very competent CEO but people don't like the 'all business' attitude that they show.

so/sp is described as the 'respectable business person' or 'respected pillar of the community.' there is a real need for these people and they can be healthy, so don't just think of george bush at his worst when you think of this type. many respectable, competent business people are this type but they are all very human.

so i don't know for sure if obama is so/sx, but it's a theory that i'm considering for now. i'll keep thinking about it. it would explain why he 'feels more accesssible' and 'acts like one of the guys' more than george bush did. since i don't have television, i can't get an impression of his behavior visually, but i have seen a couple speeches, and i felt 'passion' and 'charisma' in those speeches, which represents the sexual instinct, instead of a dry, all-business approach. again, just a theory for now.