Almost every damn tyrant in human history had "charisma"
Sorry, but those trying to sell me on Obama are going to have to bring more to the table than that. Or Art's starry-eyed gushing, which if anything, proves the point I made elsewhere about people projecting their own ideal visions on the fog.
Hint to Art: there is no power to be had as a "top-tier lawyer." It is a huge mistake to assume that it's about the money for those with political ambitions.
Nobody wants to look at the record (voting, academic, electoral, you name it) his experience, his "colorful" friends, and the principles and ideas he clearly stated for many years.
To use a "Serenity" term, he's "shiny," and apparently that's all a lot of people need.