Well, he's certainly organized and managed a political campaign in a pretty darn competent manner
plus Obama's correct understanding of the upcoming Iraq war back in 2003, that it would be a very costly, enormously counter-productive, harmful distraction from the real war on terrorism, and sadly a disaster for America's image and respect in the world, was dead-on right. Compared to George Bush's misguided search for non-existent weapons of mass destruction and his reckless, destructive invasion of Iraq, yes, Obama certainly does look like a genius! It's just a shame that more people didn't listen to him back in 2003...