I do think he’s smart. He knows how to play on the hopes of young people for a “better world”. He knows how to play on the stupid “guilt” of stupid white people.
But he’s not charismatic. His charisma comes entirely from a moronic leftwing useful-idiot press looking desperately for a Messiah... and he’s smart enough to step in and let them fawn on him.
(Vanity) Obama and the Press, or, Totus Ponens
Cheers!
I think that's valid, but I also thinnk that a lot of those stupid white people hate the country so much, feel that they haven't gotten their "fair share" even if it comes from redistribution of the wealth that they are rabidly supporting him. I think they've bought into the communist position that we deserve to be brought down and they see Maobama as the vehicle to achieve that end. They would support him if he were an out member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I'm sure you're right about young people. My daughter was doing some graduate work during the election cycle and stated many times that she encountered airheads on campus that would allow no counter discussion to the their perception of Zer0 as "the one".
Obama may indeed charismatic so were Hilter and Jim Jones and many other narcissistic, ego-driven fools who destroyed followers. I don’t see charismatic as complimentary. He seems to be another power mad charlatan.