Unfortunately for your theory, I have one thing both John Wayne and Obama lack, an honorable discharge from the US regular army fir 3 years volunteer service from Oct. 13, 1961, through Oct. 7, 1964. Can you match it?

Actually I think Wayne deserved an Oscar for his role as Sgt. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima; took some great acting for a guy who took a draft deferment for a married man with children to play a Marine hero of World War II, appearing on screen with the three surviving Medal of Honor holders who participated in the flag-rasing on Iwo Jima. Especially when older and bigger stars like James Stewart, Clark Gable, and Glenn Miller volunteered for military service. And prettier stars, like Tyrone Power who like Stewart took civilian lessons to learn to fly before enlisting in the Marines and flying unarmed transports in the Pacific. Even Sabu the Elephant Boy became a naturalized US citizen in WWII and flew combat missions as a belly gunner in B-17s while John Wayne was fighting his movie "war"--and becoming a star--on the backlots of Hollywood.

My dad could have qualified for a deferment as married with children--me--plus employment in a vital industry, oil exploration and production. But instead he enlisted in the Air Corps and flew missions as a gunner on B-24s in the Pacific. Which makes my ol' man a hell of a lot braver than John Wayne.

By the way, I never knocked the real Davy Crocket who came to Texas like many others hoping to get rich in land speculation. I even like Jim Bowie, although he and his brother Ruben used to buy slaves from pirate Jean Lafitte in Galveston and run them illegally across the border into Louisiana when importation of slaves into the US had been illegal for years. Those are the simple facts of history, but that doesn't detract from the real bravery of the men who died at the Alamo (including those who were executed after surrendering) without Wayne and others hoaking it up to make a "better" movie. None of the men who died in that mission ever knew they were fighting for independence because they did not know independence had been declared. But they died fighting for the principle of self-government, even if only as a state of Mexico, which was the original goal.