The difference is that, as much as I didn't care for der Schlickmeister, he did come off as a likeable good ole boy. Commissar Zero doesn't have that ability.
He was not a likable good ol boy to me...he came off as a grand conman in the American tradition. But at least he came off as an American. Obama comes off as a foreign entity. With little of the American experience living out in lala land Hawaii and 3rd world Muslim Indonesia. Even his blackness is fake, derived from a Kenyan who was just passing through. At least Bill Clinton was in the boy scouts and managed to shake JFK's hand in a well known photo. Plus he had a political hack uncle who mentored him.
BINGO.
Just listen to the guy. He's petulant, arrogant, petty, juvenile, and weirdly combative. He doesn't sound anything like a president. What comes out of his mouth most days, sounds like something you'd expect from a typical OWSer on a college campus.
How many adults living in the real world can relate to, or find that attractive? Precisely none, because the man's projecting to the lowest common denominator: the gimme class.
At least Clinton maintained a semblance of dignity in the way he spoke to the American people on most occasions. He at least tried to convince us that he was everyone's president, which wasn't true, of course, but not altogether insulting.
Obama, on the other hand, doesn't have the capacity to even feign affinity for the other side. He honestly despises us, and it comes across in everything he says and does. It's a challenge that breeds contempt and animosity towards him, from a very large segment of the public.
Frankly, the many doesn't have what it takes to win. It's was never in him to begin with. To paraphrase; Obama didn't win the last election. Somebody else won that for him.