Okay, I am already working out a whole history for the Mafia!Verse Obama. I am thinking that his parents had ties to the Emanuel mafia, and he used to play with the Emanuel boys before his parents split up and they moved away.

He rediscovered this while studying in New York, because while the Emanuels are situtated in Chicago, New York is their alpha base, so to speak. Loooong history cut short, when Obama started making moves into politics, why who should show up with a devil's deal, but Rahm, grinning that fuck me very much grin.

The claws of the Emanuel Mafia run deep, and and they don't let their assets go easily. And Obama? Is one hell of an asset, and it was Rahm who realized this in 2002, when he told Zeke: "Barack Obama is the future of the Democratic Party." Barack's relationship to the Emanuels is uneasy at best, a tension-fraught mix of old-blood familiarity and resentment of his obligations and the apparent no-way-out clause, as well as the undercurrent of fear and threats that goes along with all and any dealings of the Emanuel Mafia.

Of course, he is badass, and can handle himself and weaponry with ease. He, in those college days in New York, actually helped out on a few 'jobs', which he enjoyed at the time but now calls his "greatest moral failure."

(See what I did thar? From wikipedia: As an adult Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine and alcohol, which he described at the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency as his greatest moral failure. Of course, in this verse, he keeps the mafia connections a tightly buried secret.)

DUDE. STEAK KNIVES AND MACHETTES AND BUTCHER'S CLEAVERS. THESE ARE MOTIFS OF THE MAFIA!VERSE.