Whoever said that Barack Obama would be Wii if the presidential candidates were video game consoles was right. President-elect Obama is now the proud owner of a Nintendo Wii.

Obama told the New York Times that his daughters received the Wii on Christmas and he's played it a few times to sharpen his bowling skills. If you followed the Democratic primaries at all, you may remember that Obama is terribad at bowling (which we were told, at the time, was somehow relevant to the election). He says that he's better at it on the Wii. Then again, who isn't?

The article doesn't note who purchased the Wii for his daughters. His daughter are still sort of young so it's possible he bought it and is just working the whole "oh, Santa brought it!" angle. Good thing he didn't buy a 360 or PS3, though - we wouldn't want the man holding the codes to our vast nuclear arsenal to transform into a violent criminal because he tried Gears of War or Resistance.