During college basketball’s March Madness, President Obama was in the media seemingly every other day either filling out brackets or commenting on the tournament.

Let’s thank the higher powers that his outlook on soccer is apparently far more apathetic. Either that, or Joe Biden has brought to his attention that the President can stay busy without taking on a second job as an ESPN analyst.

Some might argue that sports and politics go hand in hand. The World Cup provides amiable competition where different leaders around the world can collaborate on a platform of sport as opposed to the constant, intensive issues of war, economics and differing government policies.

But World Cup matches don’t always bring countries together: just ask the former French center midfielder, Zinedine Zidane.

However, Obama has plenty to deal with on an international scale, such as having a stern talking-to with BP.

Or maybe he could skip all of the football matches (the ones where you kick a ball with your foot, not the sport we inaccurately named) that span from 6 a.m. to mid-afternoon every day, get on his knees and beg the American elite to stop hoarding their money. Instead, they could start spending it on all of the awesome stuff they dreamed of buying while they were slaving away in law school, or medical school, or brown-nosing their way into Capitol Hill.

The follies of American society go on, but I’ll get back to the point.

I will admit, it is reassuring at times to see a man in the White House as opposed to a distant figurehead who reads a conveniently placed teleprompter, creating the illusion that he is staring into the homes of viewers.

Obama portrays himself simply as a man and not as some self-entitled heir to the White House, but a common man who accomplished the American Dream by working hard to reach out and grab what he wanted, despite all odds. A man who spends hours either writing his own speeches or altering those of his speechwriters to better convey his own ideals. A man who likes sports. A man with whom we can relate when he invites two men into his backyard to settle their differences diplomatically over a beer.

And we can relate to a man who knew when to speak professionally with British Prime Minister David Cameron last week about a range of important issues including Iranian policy and the oil spill on the Gulf Coast but then had the lightheartedness to wager the best American beer against England’s best lager on an American win over England.

Let’s just hope this trend of beer drinking isn’t an uncovered harbinger of our President’s detrimental spiral into alcoholism.

All booze aside, I think we should view Obama’s placement of World Cup chitchat aside with hopeful eyes. Eyes that hope to see this man whom we elected sacrifice sports, and beer, and the vices so many of us use to escape from the blunders of mankind. Let’s hope that Obama can face these issues head on, as soon as possible, before March rolls back around and once again he too is consumed with how his bracket will play out in the office pool.