I only watched maybe 10 minutes total of the Dem debates, but one of my first introductions to 0bama was when he said to Hillary:
“That’s OK Hillary, you’re likeable enough.”
I’m not even sure he bothered to look at her; mostly I remember him looking down and scribbling like a bored student in class. I think at the time Edwards was still in it.
That was a classic moment of Obama dismissing another with no emotion. He looking down and it was like a “yeah yeah” answer we give when we simply don't care about something and want it to go away.
His coldness seems so much like I remember those in the Kremlin/communist leaders seeming when I saw them on TV as a child. Without a heart or compassion toward others. Scary and malevolent.