Excellent points made. Which is why Obama appeals to the youth vote. They are more likely to buy into the warm fuzzies because of their idealistic naivite.
The other “hideous irony” here (as the author so felicitously turned the phrase) is that the Hildabeast also was selling only the warm and fuzzies, except . . . oops! . . . she was found out to be neither warm nor fuzzy.
Hillary had nothing but “vote for me because I’m a woman,” “vote for me because I was First Lady (what was THAT about ??),” “vote for me because I was wronged and stood by my man,” “vote for me as a way to get Bill back” and on and on.
I do think Obama is dangerous, but not as dangerous as Hillary/Bubba would have been. However, the question does remain open.