Charismatic? Not a chance.
Only STUPID and DUMB people would be charmed by a poisonous viper. Not me. You can see what he is about with how he walks, talks, how he lives and lies. He's a hypocritical, greedy thug that has no boundaries.
He must be very boring...he tries to make jokes but only laughs. Bland personality.
You and I both do not view Obama as charismatic. Fortunately for him, we are not part of his target audience.
John Drew spent a lot of time studying charismatic leaders and speaks of Obama in those terms. My post piggy backs off his ideas.
That being said, Obama’s chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, is a specialist on running cult of personality type campaigns. While Obama may not appear charismatic to us, you can bet that David Axelrod spent quite a bit of time and money figuring out how to package him as a charismatic leader to others.
Here is a post that I did on a how Obama was packaged for single females (where he had an unbelievable 41 point spread over McCain):
http://johnquincy.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-new-math.html
Almost every study of a “charismatic” leader is obsessed with the conditions that led to their rise. It is this obsession that Drew has in regards to Obama. A certain set of conditions need to exist for these leaders to ripen.